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From my observation 80 percent of Nigerian blogs are blogger made while 20 percent use WordPress nd self host. Most top official news sites in Nigeria use WordPress. Most sites in Nigeria for free browsing cheats and cracks use blogger.
Blogger; most small Nigerian blogs or static websites use blogger because of its cost effectiveness, no hostings( 25k+/year). Though you can use redirect if you want a custom domain which cost 5K or less/year which makes it cheap in comparison to WordPress. So if you know you don't have much money to invest on a blog(30k plus/year) before it starts yielding returns don't venture into WordPress.
Meanwhile, WordPress is the absolute best! if you really want to get things moving fast, I mean real quick. Most top tech blogs, websites, news publishing sites ecetera, forum and more use WordPress because of its versatility and professional look. In Nigeria notable examples include: Techcabal, bella9ja, Pulseng, Naij, geek.ng, techloy, daikytrust, nd many more..in America the likes of mashabale, CNN, techradar etc.
So if you have the money to invest go for wordpress if you are starting really really small go for blogger and use redirect to point to your custom domain name. final note:
is not the same as WordPress.org. So all this while I meant WordPress.org.............
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What's is the difference?

techinfong:
Nairaland isn't a blog but a Forum

modelmike7:
. . from where?

From mile 12 garage I want to get to ferry terminal

Major diff is that Not everyone has 100% access to a blog but a forum you have 70% access to it e.g. You can create a topic,follow friends,register,even have your own profile but a blog the best you can do is to comment,like posts and submit a topic and that is if the admin allowed it

Christardor:
What's is the difference?

frankobaba:
As for me, I prefer Blogger due to its flexibility. Take a look at my beautiful blog I created with Blogger.

[size=16pt]www.itsfranklin.com[/size]

WoW!!! I give you 5stars.... Blog was awesome.

Thanks

techinfong:
Major diff is that Not everyone has 100% access to a blog but a forum you have 70% access to it e.g. You can create a topic,follow friends,register,even have your own profile but a blog the best you can do is to comment,like posts and submit a topic and that is if the admin allowed it

Rick9:
Is it possible to use html to redesign blogger.
And can you move your blog from blogger to WordPress

Yes you can move your entire blog from blogger to WordPress and still keep your Google ranking.

I did it for http://mowithaddy.com

Christardor:
Abeg,which one is NAIRALAND using?

Nairaland was hand written with a programming language called Python.

Despite the con that WordPress is not free. WordPress is more advantage than especially when it comes customization, plugins and a bit code snippets

techinfong:
Back to back when them no allow me put source?

The post was seized,i would have even made FP than this

Choi. U offend mod neh?? Beg dem o. Lol. Imagine how ur traffic 4 don boost ....

Blogger is good only if you know what you're doing...i won't boast too much just visit www.romanticpie.com it's currently locked but will be open this week...check later...

JeffreyJamez:
Yes you can move your entire blog from blogger to WordPress and still keep your Google ranking.

I did it for http://mowithaddy.com

your. Blog is beautiful

techinfong:
Yea you can convert from blogger to WP

thanks

Rick9:
your. Blog is beautiful

Thanks...Its not mine, I designed it for a friend and even inserted an Internet radio

JeffreyJamez:
Thanks...Its not mine, I designed it for a friend and even inserted an Internet radio

E fine oh

WordPress has no comparisons, even though some people like us can create something similar to that with little or no hassles

Rick9:
Is it possible to use html to redesign blogger.
And can you move your blog from blogger to WordPress

Blogger uses XML and yes, you can do that if you are into coding

webincomeplus:
If you describe Blogger with flexibility, then I bet you've never tried WordPress. Can you turn a Blogger blog into a business directory, price comparison site, e-commerce site, forum, classified ads site, social networking portal, online gallery, dedicated job board, review site, premium membership site, and so on?

Just so you know, a WordPress site can be converted to all those, with the power of plugins. And that's the true meaning of flexibility and versatility.

I agree with you but there are PHP Programs and CMS systems that can do all these which you mentioned apart from Wordpress.

A very huge advantage Blogger has over Wordpress is SEO! When your site is on the blogger platform, it is crawled faster and more accurately than Wordpress even with all their so-called SEO plugins.

Another thumbs down for Wordpress websites is their security which is so vulnerable and the tendency for database corruption which leads to malfunction if not update regularly. Blogger does all these automated.

prince3009:
I agree with you but there are PHP Programs and CMS systems that can do all these which you mentioned apart from Wordpress.

A very huge advantage Blogger has over Wordpress is SEO! When your site is on the blogger platform, it is crawled faster and more accurately than Wordpress even with all their so-called SEO plugins.

Another thumbs down for Wordpress websites is their security which is so vulnerable and the tendency for database corruption which leads to malfunction if not update regularly. Blogger does all these automated.

I never said only WordPress can do those things. I only stated that WordPress can also be used for those things aside its primary purpose (blogging).

Blogger has no SEO advantage over WordPress! Yes, a Blogger blog can get crawled or indexed faster than a NEW WordPress site that hasn't garnered much authority. But older WordPress sites are indexed faster.

More importantly, there's more to SEO than just getting crawled by search engines. The main purpose of SEO is to rank high in search results. Any blog can get crawled. But only well optimized sites get the top rankings after getting crawled. Because there are WordPress plugins that allow maximal optimization of permalinks and other SEO factors that matter, WordPress blogs rank higher. If you want to prove me wrong, think of any 100 queries and Google them. Then tell me how many of them have results in which Blogger blogs rank higher than WordPress blogs. It's not coincidence!

You already added a clause to the security problem in WordPress ("if not updated regularly". Of course, if you update your blog regularly (and stay away from mediocre hosts), you'll be fine.

What about the lack of control in Blogger? Haven't you read of Blogger shutting down people's sites?

I am using both WordPress and Blogger for the last 5 years. I started with Google Blogger when I was a beginner.
Becuase the Blogger is very easy to use and manage for a beginner.
But within a year I realized that I need to switch the CMS System now. Then I shifted to WordPress.
I love both WordPress and Blogger but I reccomend you to must try WordPress. Becuase it make your blog looks professional. And also you can enhance the functionalities of your blog by adding Third Party Plugins.
If you are Comparing WordPress VS Blogger both are best at their places. Both have Pros and Cons.