Comments on: Blogger or WordPress? Which is More SEO Compatible

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:41:00 +0000

Hi Manuel,

First off let me say I don’t have any issues with blogger, I have a few blogger blogs with customised templates and a unique domain. The reason why I prefer wordpress is down to simple functionality, you can do whatever you want with, create a directory, individual pages, clever plugins and java functions. Self hosting is more expensive but at the same time it gives you far more control, for example how would redirect a deep page on blogger??

Blogger is a good starter platform and if you have managed to get some rankings I wouldn’t recommend changing, however I think wordpress allows you to take your skills and professionalism to the next level.

By: Ubuntu Tips

Ubuntu Tips — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:13:33 +0000

I am still so unsure about all these. You know, I had my blog hosted in blogger and in three months I did managed to obtain a PR4. I don’t use the default blogger template and instead use a wordpress template ported to blogger(you can find plenty of them for free anyway). And I own my own domain name, which I bought through blogger itself, so that, I didn’t had to do anything after buying the domain. No playing with DNS or anything.
Google indexed my new domain name in days and within a month all my pages were re indexed. So even after changing domain name after posting so many content and getting a PR3, I still managed to get back all my google juice and PR in 2 months or so. And my blog looks as “professional” as any wordpress blog and all I spend is a 10$/year for my domain name. Why should I even think about a new self hosted wordpress blog??Boy I am confused. Tim, can you help? Thanks

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By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:55:54 +0000

Hi weeeeeeeee

No problem, thanks for dropping in and leaving a comment.

By: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:51:04 +0000

Very useful, I am thinking of starting a few blogs on blogspot and this is very helpful for someone who haven’t used blogspot until now.
Thanks a lot

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:13:56 +0000

@Iskander, You can perform SEO successfully on a hosted or self hosted platform. I have seen many free blogs do very well in Google and make plenty of money from it. Just check out Griz's Blog, ugly, free blogger template and sits at the top of Google for "make money" so you can imagine how much money is made from it, thousands every month. On the other hand if your looking for a more professional platform you really do need to invest a little, you can make money online without it but if you want to brand yourself and make your site user friendly you need to invest. Thats my opinion anyway.

By: Iskander

Iskander — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:03:08 +0000

Great post, lots of useful info. was wondering, do you need your blog to be hosted on your own site(www.yourdomain.com/blog) or can a person become successful with a yourblog.blogspot.com site? I have heard that having your blog on blogspot(or other free blog) makes people think that your blog is newbie-ish and unprofessional,and really hurts the traffic and profits. Has any blog like that achieved success monetarily? What do you think?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:54:13 +0000

@seo consultant,

I agree you with the whole flexibility of wordpress and the far superior technology, but I have seen Blogger blogs and WP blogs indexed equally as quick and seen results in the index to happen just as quick. One thing I would also add to the wordpress argument is that it gives a more professional feel and therefore allows you to grow your blog faster socially.

By: seo consultant

seo consultant — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:11:09 +0000

without doubt wordpress as you have the option of the web based version or the more flexible server based, which can be seo optimized and customized.

I have seen google pick up a fresh domain on a wp blog within 3-days of launch.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:13:11 +0000

Hi Audrey,

Don’t Panic. The W3c errors are nothing to do with your lack of traffic, all blogger blogs have them and it’s normally due to old outdated html attributes, don’t worry. The first thing I need you to do is apply Google analytics, visit http://www.google.com/analytics/ sign up for an account and paste the relevant tracking code just above your tag.

Go to you blogger panel, layout and edit html, expand all widgets and paste the code in.

Now you can really see whats hitting your blog without relying on adsense views. If Google adsense notices the same ip’s visiting over and over again it can actually stop showing them as impressions.

Anyway besides the above their are a few fundamental problems with your blog.

1 – You need to think about the keywords your targeting and have them in a title and sub title. Also think about the anchor text when you making links.

2 – You have no links so forget blog commenting, go out and write a few articles and publush them on ezine and go articles.

3 – Try to write your on your blog 3 times a week and link from your posts back to your homepage.

I would also highly recommend using Google webmaster tools, visit http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ and sign up for an account.

You will have to copy and paste a meta tag into the section of your blog. Once you do this confirm it on webmaster tools and submit a sitemap. The site map for your blogger would be http://florasfauna.blogspot.com/atom.xml.

If you do this there is no reason why you should not see at least some blogger referall traffic, you need to build more links to see search engine traffic. The main thing is don’t pay anyone to fix the errors because this has nothing to do with traffic.