Blogger.com or Blogspot.com is one of the most popular blog service providers on the Internet. If you have been blogging for quite some time, chances are you either used Blogger before or you are still using it now. The reason why many people are using Blogger is because it is FREE and very user-friendly. It's so simple that you can create a blog in 3 easy steps and start publishing your first post straightaway. Another factor is that Blogger is owned by Google, currently the biggest giant in the Web 2.0 age. Therefore, people tend to trust Google more than other blog service providers.In terms of English blog company, Blogger has got a very strong competitor and its name is Wordpress. Wordpress has got two different blog platforms, namely Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org. Some of my friends are using Wordpress.com to publish their blog posts. However, Wordpress.com does not allow the users to monetize their blogs. In other words, you cannot display any advertisements or affiliate links on your Wordpress.com blog. Otherwise, you are risking your blog for being banned or suspended.
If you are using free blog services, you have to publish your blog on subdomain and the blog provider actually owns your blog. Of course you can host your Blogger blog on a custom domain name, just like what I am doing now. But most of the time, a Blogger blog uses web address at yourname.blogspot.com and it is 100% owned by Google. So Google can shut down your blog any time without prior notification. Note, this happened to Chedet.com, a personal blog of Tun Mahathir.
Before this, I actually hosted Su Sheng Loong Dot Com on my web host and used Wordpress.org as my blog platform. Wordpress.org is not just a simple blogging software, but it is more like a powerful content management system(CMS). The reason is Wordpress.org is a free open source software whereby there are so many free plugins and themes online that you can use to empower your blog. For instance, by activating some plugins, your Wordpress.org blog will be very Search Engine Optimization (SEO) friendly. The only trade-off is that you have to pay for the custom domain name and web hosting account. Since you own your blog now, no one can shut down your blog except your hosting or Internet service provider.
My web hosting account in Malaysia is going to expire in late February. But I was too lazy to move Su Sheng Loong Dot Com to my web host in the United States because it would consume much time and effort. Hence, I decided to start an entire new blog on Blogger while keeping SuShengLoong.com as the custom domain name for my blog. Initially, I was not very used to Blogger as it was way too simple! It was only after a few weeks when I discovered that i could actually do many modification on Blogger by implementing some legal hacking methods. So far, I am satisfied with Blogger and I hope it will not shut down my blog in the future.
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