Top 6 Reasons Why I Do Not Use Blogger
Blogger is seriously a very popular platform to learn about blogging and talk about simple stuff you want online. However there are many things people are missing out if you are using a blogger account.
Here are my top 6 Reasons Why I Do Not Use Blogger
1. I Get My Account Closed 3 Weeks Because Of Affiliate Links
Note that if you have a blogger account and you tried to use it sell affiliate products from clickbank blogger will detect it sometimes as spam links or porn links and will shut down your account until you reply then to activate back your blog.
2. You Cannot Sell Your Blog Away
Do you noticed that most successful blogs online never use blogspot? The reason is because if you work really hard to bring tons of traffic to a blogspot blog will you be able to sell it away in the future with a .blogspot.com as your domain =P
3. You cannot build good backlinks and ranking in Google
Although blogger is created by Google, most people create blogger account in hopes to get better ranking in Google. But Google know there are lots of people trying to do that to get ranking that is why now all blogs now appear only in a search called Blog Search.
Most blog post that is posted on blogspot appears there and also in Google searches but because your pagerank is determine by (something).blogspot.com . You may or may not getting good positioning on your SEO results. Even if you did.. there is a ignoring blogger bar on the top of your blog =P
4. Why promote Google when you should be promoting yourself!
By having a blogger account, you are actually marketing not yourself but Google’s blogger. If you noticed why does Google have a bar right on top of your own blog always? They want to get more people to use the blogger interface in hopes you guys will use the Adsense at the same time to generate more revenue for them =P
I am not saying that is not good but you should actually be promote your own domain rather then a blogspot domain =)
5. Limited themes and plugins adds on
One major reason why I migrated to hosted Wordpress in just 3 weeks was partly I got my account closed + I realized blogger do not have tons of themes to select from. There is way to actually change the design but you have to understand all the complicated theme codes to do that.
With wordpress, there are thousands of themes to choose from and also not forgetting all the powerful plugins you can add on to improve your blogging experience.
6. Professionals do not use blogger
If you are serious about making money online with blog, you noticed not a single one of them are using a blogspot account to do that. Why does that tell you? =)
I hope after you have read this article you would more or less got the idea why I do not recommend using blogger as your blog and should be using a hosted blog with wordpress installed.
Incase if you are wondering what I use. I use a simple hosting by Hostgator that is only US$9.95 per month for my hosting register a domain for $7.95 here to host my blog and of course using my Atomic Blogging System to blog =)
About your 1 point about back links, I have heard differently, blogger can provide back links. There is a difference between back link juice and traffic from back links. Not sure if the person I was speaking too meant blooger can give back link juice or traffic from. I was new to IM when I heard this discussion.
I agree too, Blogger is a good platform to get started with in IM. I see lots of blogger blogs ranking for long tail keywords.
This is seriously out-of-date. You can now use Blogger with a custom domain and simply use Blogger as the datastore. You can’t get any better than Blogger unless you create your own custom system from scratch.
I totally agree with Astralis. The new Blogger is a far cry from what crappiness it used to be. Sure it still has its cons, but consider all the pros it’s now jam-packed with! Blogger has indeed evolved into something better!!
You hate them maybe because you was banned by them but I must confess,Blogger have improved a lot.They No longer ban affiliates and there are powerful themes.The issue of limited plugins in obvious but Blogger Blogs have an edge over wordpress Blog in SEO.
take for instance,My Blog Is ranked first against even wordpress slf hosted blog with PR3 In the key word Internet Cash Blog
Ha Ha ! I have a post in mine on why I use blogger !!! But I will add a link on that post to your post because I’m an objective person and want to give any trickle of readers I get a balanced view !!!
BTW, I noticed your money has gone up !! Congrats !! How come you don’t look the same in the little icon that comes with your name ? Is that you too ?
Yeah. I have used blogger before, and now I am not manage it, because it’s limited themes and plugins.
but, for simple and specific posting to assisting your others blog I thinks that’s never mind use blogger.
i din have the same prob with blogger regarding affiliate links though..
BUT..i agree fully that all serious internet marketers should avoid a .blogspot.com for their biz. Looks very unprofessional anyway.
And like Alvin says..SEO is affected..to me..if SEO is affected..so is everything..haha..
lolx.. now you guys know why I hate Blogger so much
I experienced the same thing – Blogger deactivated my blog, saying mine was a spam blog (well yeah I had an affiliate link but it was just one). Was quite irritated. Seeing your comments, I’ll consider a switch now.
Cheers for sharing!
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Hearing your views, looks like I have to seriously consider switching to a wordpress hosted blog.