BlogSpot and WordPress can be considered to be two of the most
influential and useful blog services and Internet software in the world
today. With these two content management systems, the power of the
Internet was unleashed and handed over to anyone with a point of view.
One did not need to have any great coding or graphical knowledge to set
up a site. If you have been wondering whether to opt for BlogSpot or
WordPress, read on to know the three differences between BlogSpot.com
and WordPress.com websites.
WordPress.com does not Allow Third Party Themes:
If you have a WordPress.com
blog, you will not be able use third party themes. You would be able to
install and use only the handful of themes that are available
officially. BlogSpot, on the other hand, offers a rich inventory of
themes for its users. All they need to do is to look for the templates
that the want and download the .XML file, and then upload the contents
of the file into the necessary tab. Therefore, it can be said that the
BlogSpot.com blog offers more flexibility and user freedom as compared
to the services offered by the WordPress.com blogs.
No JavaScript:
This has been the bone of contention between WordPress.com users for
years, and there still does not seem to be any solution to it.
WordPress.com blogs do not allow the installation of javascript into
their blogs, which takes out most of the contextual advertising services
as well as some kinds of affiliate marketing services. So, WordPress.com blogs are definitely not meant for the blogger trying to monetize their blogs.
Technically, WordPress.com allows users to implement Javascript, but
only when their blog has more than fifty thousand unique visits in a
month.
BlogSpot Suffers from Bad Neighborhoods:
The truth be told, when something is given on a
‘free-no-questions-asked’ manner, people are bound to misuse it, and
that is what has happened with BlogSpot. There are several
inconsequential, sad and downright stupid blogs that are hosted on
BlogSpot. These blogs are known as splogs, short for spam blogs and give
a bad name to the entire blogging business. With a blogspot.com blog,
you inadvertently become a neighbor to these blogs, and search engines
do not have the tendency to look for lotuses in the muck, so you might
have some serious pageranking issues if you are on the free BlogSpot.com
service.
While these are the three differences between WordPress.com and
BlogSpot.com blogs, keep in mind that there is a vast difference between
a professional blog that you are trying to monetize and a personal blog
that you set up as an hobby. We will discuss which blog service is best
for monetization in the next post.
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