WordPress Vs Blogger (2023)! – Which Is Better For Making Money?

Do you know you can’t be a blogger…

If you choose the wrong platform to make your website.

Blogger and WordPress are the two major platforms where you can make your website without writing a single line of code.

Many new bloggers still get confused that which blogging platform they should use to make their website.

So, to end this confusion, I have come up with this post on WordPress Vs Blogger – Which is Better For Making Money?

So, let’s get started.

Trend Of Blogger Vs WordPress

As I have previously told that Blogger and WordPress are the two most widely used CMS (Content Management System) in the world.

WordPress has been downloaded more than 35.6 million times so far.

Also, Of the top 1 million websites built using a CMS, 48% of them are using WordPress.

According to a study by BuildWith 95% of the site using WordPress are blogs.

Blogger is the second most popular platform for making websites after WordPress.

In the top 1 million websites, around 1% of them are built with blogger as per the same study by BuildWith.

So, to compare their popularity, I added both the terms “Blogger” and “WordPress” on Google trends to see the popularity graph of these terms.

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As you can see clearly from the graph that the popularity of WordPress rose and surpassed blogger in 2005.

What Is WordPress?

WordPress is open-source software that helps you to make any kind of website, be it an online store, a portfolio website, or a simple and sweet blog.

It has been started in 2003 and till now it is up and working for more than 18 years now.

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WordPress is a free CMS, however, you need a domain and hosting to start your website.

It helps you create a beautiful website from scratch without any prior knowledge of coding.

Types of WordPress

There are two types of WordPress:

  • WordPress.com.
  • WordPress.org.

Here is a demographic comparing these two types of WordPress:

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What Is Blogger?

Blogger is a free blogging service that gives you unlimited hosting and a free .blogspot.com domain with it.

And with this unlimited hosting, your website can handle as much traffic as you can.

It was started by Pyra Labs in 1999, and it was acquired by Google in 2003.

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You can also add a custom domain with your blogger website, which you can buy from any 3rd party domain provider.

Check it out>> How to add WebP images to WordPress [Full Guide]!

Criteria To Choose The Best Blogging Platform

There are many criteria to choose which CMS is best for you to make your website.

In this post, I will tell you the 11 most important factors to choose the right CMS for your website.

1. Ease Of Use

If you are a new blogger, then you might have zero knowledge about blogging.

Then it is very important that whichever CMS you use it should be easy to use, so you can get your hands on it ASAP!

Blogger

Simple and beginner-friendly blogging platform to start your journey as a blogger and learn new things in blogging.

You have to first create a Google account before start a blog on Blogger.

Then you have to go to the blogger website and start your blog.

Next, you have to select the theme for your website and then after adding the theme you can start writing your first blog.

After that, you have to fix some SEO settings and connect them with your Google Search Console and Google Analytics.

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However, to customize your blog you have to the fullest you have to be an expert in front-end website development as you can only customize the front end of your website.

WordPress

Setting up your WordPress website is a super simple process.

You don’t need any prior knowledge of coding to make a stunning website.

Because themes and plugins can do that easily.

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Also, on WordPress, you can easily customize your website without even writing a single code.

However, if you are new to WordPress, then you can find the process of editing and writing your blog somewhat difficult.

Writing your blog post on blogger is easy, but the customization is a hell of a lot easier on WordPress.

Winner – Tie

2. Ownership

Ownership of your blog is extremely important because if you are starting a blog that is not fully owned by you.

Then how come it is your blog?

Also, if you want to make your blog a sustainable business, then you should have full control over your blog.

Such as how your blog would look, how to monetize it, and when you want to close it.

Blogger

Blogger is a free CMS that lets you create your website free of cost.

Also, it is backed by search engine giant Google itself.

However, if your blog is hosted on Blogger, then the ownership of the blog goes to Google.

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It means that Google has full control when they want to close your blog if you don’t follow Google’s guidelines.

Along with that, there are several instances where blogger blogs are terminated without any prior notice.

Also, it is possible that Google can terminate the whole blogger service like it had done with blogger.in and feed burner.

WordPress

To make your blog on WordPress, you have to buy hosting for storing the files of your website.

But you would have full control over your website, and it won’t get terminated automatically.

Also, you have full control over how long you want to run the blog?

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Along with that, you can easily move your whole WordPress website from one host to another.

But to make your website on blogger, then you have to make your website on blogger.com.

Winner – WordPress.

3. Flexibility

Another important factor to consider before choosing the CMS is its flexibility.

Can you fully customize your theme?

Can you add your favorite widget to your website?

Blogger

On blogger, you have very little flexibility to design your website.

There are very limited themes and widgets that you can use on your website.

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Yes, you can add third-party themes, but it is really difficult to find good ones.

But you can’t add any third-party widget to your blogger blog.

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Also, there is no way to add plugins to your blogger website which limits SEO and monetization opportunities on your blog.

Check it out>> How to create a micro-niche blog on WordPress?

WordPress

WordPress is an open-source CMS software, which means that you can easily add anything if you know about coding.

Not to worry, Non-Techies out there.

WordPress has a lot of plugins and themes which can literally help you add anything imaginable to your website.

Without writing a single piece of code.

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Some of these plugins and themes are free as well as paid too.

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You can add social sharing icons, pop-ups, single product widget to your WordPress website.

Also, if you are a coder you can make a plugin by yourself which is a great way to earn money as well.

Winner – WordPress.

4. Appearance And Design

You know, that first impression is the last.

And this same principle works in the blogging field as well.

If your website looks trash, then your user won’t think a second before pressing the back button.

It can cause less user engagement on your website and a higher bounce rate, which can throw your website out of Google.

But if your website looks like this, then you will get rankings ASAP!

Blogger

Blogger provides you very few themes that you can use on your blog.

You can customize it to some extent with the built-in theme editor from blogger.

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However, it is not that powerful, and customizing your blogger website by yourself through HTML is quite tough.

You can add some third-party themes to your blogger website, but they also don’t have many customization options too.

WordPress

WordPress consists of more than 7400 free and paid themes in the official WordPress.org directory.

Also, you can easily customize your website with the powerful built-in theme customizer in WordPress.

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But if you want to take your website to the next level, then you can also use page builders to customize your theme as well.

Also, if you buy a premium theme, then you can customize every bit of it.

5. Reliable Support

Reliable support is needed to make a successful website because it helps you solve the problem as soon as it appears on your website.

Blogger

As you know that blogger is a free-to-use platform, so they don’t give you one-on-one support that can help you fix problems that you are facing on your website.

Blogger has a set of guides that can help you fix some of the basic problems which you can face while using blogger as your CMS.

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You can click on the “?” button on the top bar in your blogger dashboard if you want to read the guides.

WordPress

WordPress has a forum where users are super active, and you can get the solution of your problem by just typing your problem in the search box.

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Along with that, you can also get help from your hosting provider in fixing the error you are facing on your website.

Also, there are numerous tutorials on WordPress which can help you fix errors on your website ASAP!

You just have to search your problem on Google or YouTube.

6. Updates

Regular update of the CMS helps your website to smoothly work.

The update helps you fix bugs in your CMS and also protects your website from hacking.

Blogger

It doesn’t get many regular updates.

Google rolls out a single update every single year for blogger which also doesn’t fix many issues.

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There are two major drawbacks of it:

  • Lack of customization and design.
  • A lot of bugs, which gives the opportunity for hackers to hack your website.

WordPress

Comes with a lot of updates which fixes a lot of bugs.

WordPress comes regularly with small updates and rolls every major update every 4 months.

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So, these regular updates give you a lot of customization options and bug fixes.

7. Future

Blogger

Google hasn’t given blogger a major update for 1 year now.

Recently Blogspot.in and feed burner is closed by Google.

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So, the future of blogger is in the hands of Google and if you want to make business through your blog then you can’t rely on blogger.

Straight!

WordPress

WordPress has been on the rise in this game of CMS since 2005 crossing blogger in terms of popularity.

Many big branded websites are made on WordPress.

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It captures the majority of the market share in the niche of CMS.

And all these stats that there is a very bright future ahead of WordPress.

8. Transfer

Blogger

Moving your blogger website to any other CMS is quite difficult.

A single mistake in transferring your blogger website can hurt a lot of your SEO rankings.

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Even if you remove all the content from your blogger’s website then it would be on Google’s server for a long time.

If you want to know how you can transfer your blogger website to WordPress then I have explained it at the end of this article.

WordPress

It is super easy to transfer your WordPress website to any other CMS.

With some clicks, you can export all your website’s content which you can transfer to any other CMS.

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Just you have to draft all your posts on your WordPress website to protect your rankings from Page Rank.

9. Pricing

It is bad if your blog is draining a lot of your money from your pocket.

Also, it is equally bad if you want to make your website without spending any money on it.

Blogger

Making a blog on blogger cost you no money.

Blogger gives you unlimited hosting which can handle any amount of traffic.

Along with that, you get a .blogspot domain as well.

However, if you are making a blog with blogger then I would prefer you to add a custom domain to it.

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WordPress

WordPress is totally free to use CMS but still needs a domain and hosting to start your website.

But the price you pay to start your WordPress website is completely justified because it helps you create a beautiful-looking website just with some clicks.

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Also, starting fast loading WordPress website is quite affordable nowadays with Hostinger which gives you hosting with a domain and an SSL at just $1 per month.

10. Monetization

Monetization is crucial in your blogging journey because at last blogging is a business and you want to earn money from it.

Blogger

It has very few monetization options on blogger because you get a handful of widgets on blogger, and you can only make static websites made of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Along with that, you can’t make beautiful-looking CTAs with blogger which is super important for increasing your affiliate marketing conversions.

Which makes it difficult to do affiliate marketing on your blogger website.

WordPress

There are a lot of monetization options that you can use on your WordPress website.

It comes with a lot of widgets and elements which can skyrocket your conversions and increase your affiliate income.

Along with that, you can almost any kind of website with WordPress such as an E-commerce website, etc.

11. SEO

SEO is an integral part of making a profitable website because it helps you get free traffic to your website.

If you drive traffic from your website with paid ads then this traffic comes until you pay for it.

But unlike paid ads, you get regular traffic to your website with SEO.

Blogger

On blogger, there are very few SEO settings that you can do.

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Also, there are no plugins on blogger which can automate your SEO process.

Most of the themes present on blogger are not very SEO friendly and also bulky which takes a lot of time to load.

WordPress

You can make your WordPress website SEO-friendly easily just with some clicks.

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Along with that, you get plugins on WordPress which can automate or make the SEO process of your website a lot easier.

You can add FAQ Schema, XML sitemap, robots.txt to your website easily on WordPress.

Along with that, the themes on WordPress are SEO friendly and fast loading which would help you get a higher Google ranking easier.

How To Switch From Blogger To WordPress Without Losing Google Rankings?

Made your mind to transfer your Blogger website to WordPress?

Then here’s the step-by-step process to transfer your website from Blogger to WordPress without losing your Google rankings.

A. Domain And Hosting

To start your WordPress website then you need a domain and hosting for it.

I have previously told you that WordPress is free to use but requires hosting space to host your website.

There are many hosting and domain providers which can help you start your WordPress website.

But many of them are super expensive and have a very slow response time which loads your website like a tortoise.

And here slow and steady don’t win the race!!!

GoDaddy is the prime example of the hosting provider which gives you super expensive WordPress hosting with a slow-loading server.

Not only me but Sumit Sao from Blogging Lift has also mentioned in his post “How I Get My Site Load Time Under 1 Second?” that when he used GoDaddy hosting his site loaded in 8 seconds which is super slow.

So beware of these hosting providers!!

But there is one hosting provider which gives you fast-loading hosting for your WordPress website at the lowest price in the market.

And that hosting provider is Hostinger which gives you WordPress hosting at just 1$ per month.

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Along with that, you get a free domain and SSL which saves some of your bucks on the domain.

I personally host all my websites on Hostinger and here is the GTmetrix score of my website.

Get your best deal on hostinger from here!

Or you can read my Hostinger vs Chemicloud hosting comparison to know more Hostinger hosting.

Here is the step-by-step process of buying hosting from Hostinger.

First, go to the Hostinger website and scroll down you get the hosting packages Hostinger provides.

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Click on premium web hosting because it can handle more visitors and also helps you add more than one website.

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I personally use it and I have 5 websites hosted on it which loads superfast.

Then you would get redirected to the cart page.

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If you want to get hosting for the lowest price then you can get the hosting for 48 months i.e. 4 years.

However, if you don’t have that much money then you can buy the hosting for at least one year.

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Then click on check out and make your account on Hostinger if you don’t have one.

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There are a lot of payment options in Hostinger, so you can choose one according to your comfort.

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After buying you would get redirected to hpanel where you have to install WordPress on your website.

Scroll down and click on auto-installer.

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Then add WordPress to your website.

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B. Transfer The Blog From WordPress

First, go to your WordPress dashboard and then click on Import under the tools section.

After that download the blogger tool to import your blogger blog to WordPress.

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Next after downloading the blogger tool then you have to click on authorize.

After that, you will have to log into the Google account from which you have created your blogger blog.

You have to give access to your blogger blogs to WordPress then after that, you have to click on Grant Access to give the information.

Then you will get a list of your blogs.

Choose the blog which you want to migrate and then click on import.

Then you have to wait until all the posts, categories, and comments are imported.

At last review and check your categories, posts, and comments if it is imported right or not.

Some Important Tips

You can face two major problems which can drop your website’s ranking from Google while transferring your blogger blog to WordPress.

The first is the Permalink problem that you can face while transferring your blogger blog to WordPress.

Blogger has a default permalink type of xyz.com/year/month/postname which you have to set manually on your WordPress website before transferring the content.

Note: If you have any other permalink structure on your blogger website other than the one mentioned above then you can also change it with the method that I am going to tell you.

First, go to your WordPress dashboard.

Then go to permalinks under the settings tab.

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Click on custom structure and type “/%year%/%month%/%postname%”.

The second problem is the Google algorithm PageRank.

According to this algorithm, Google penalizes those websites which have the same content from any other website indexed on Google.

So, to protect your website from it then you have to draft all your current posts on your blogger website.

First, you have to set up your WordPress website and when it is fully ready then you can draft the existing posts, transfer them to your website, and publish them on your WordPress website.

You don’t have to delete your posts from blogger as you might need it if you do some errors during the transfer.

As long as the posts are in draft form you don’t have to worry about Page Rank.

Transfer Your Feed

Emails subscribers are super important because they can help you get your affiliate sales and traffic to your blog.

According to the campaign monitor, the average open rate of email is around 15 to 25 percent.

So, you should protect subscribers of your blog while going from Blogger to WordPress.

You can easily do it just by following these steps:

Go to your blogger dashboard.

Go to Settings > Site Feed.

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Click on Post Feed Redirect URL.

At last type your new website URL in the Post Feed Redirect URL.

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In this form, https://feeds.feedburner.com/questionblogging.

Bang you have protected your website’s subscribers.

Conclusion

Now I want to hear from you!

Have you made your mood to switch from Blogger to WordPress?

Or tell me how I can improve this article to make it better?

Either way, tell me in the comments down below.

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