Best SEO Blogging Software? 8
There are many heated arguments on the internet (via message boards, blogs, social networks, and other community type sites) over which blogging software can provide the best seo optimization features for your own blog.
Well first of all, you have several options. You can use a free hosted service (the most popular being Google’s Blogger), use blogging software you can upload to your own server and domain (the most popular here would be Wordpress, which also offers a free hosted version, but it lacks the customization options you will want), or using a CMS software to manage your post items and other integrated plugins that come with software like Joomla or Drupal.
Google’s Blogger is GREAT for creating and managing many blogs on a smaller scale. If you want to make a bunch of AdSense ready websites swiftly and with ease, I would recommend using this blogging platform. You can manage posts, themes, and advertisements from the Google Dashboard, and the new widgets coming in Blogger Draft look really appealing.
However, if you want to create one to a few really great blogs with decent traffic and authority, you should option for Wordpress. It’s a fine piece of software with many built in features that Blogger does not have. It’s easier to customize themes (in my opinion) and create your own modifications to the software (or use a user created one that already exists and is widely supported) as well as better for handling larger loads of traffic and spam comments. Speaking of comments, I believe Wordpress is better for user participation, when I moved to Wordpress, my comment rate increased five fold … sure the spam comments increased too, but Akismet has literally filtered them all.
I hope this gives you a better perspective on how to choose your seo optimized blogging platform.
Arrivederci!
Yes, Blogger is a good, sturdy platform, ideal if you’re starting out or have several blogs.
Wordpress is very advanced. However, Blogger is still pretty good. There are quite a few Blogger blogs that I see now that look as sleek and professional as Wordpress ones. So I think Blogger has made an effort in that regard.
I have a Blogger blog. It meets my needs at the moment. One day I might want to move it all over to Wordpress. But I can deal with that challenge when the time comes.
It’s really wonderful to use Blogger sometimes, for the sheer fact that it is free and so easy to set up a new blog. If I think I have a winnder idea for a new blog/site, I’ll make it on blogger, if I start to see some traffic or value immediately, I’ll go ahead and purchase a domain and move it over to Wordpress.
Blogger is basically my staging area for new projects.
I think Wordpress is one of the best. Its so easy to install and use. I do have a blogspot and but I feel a lot more comfy with Wordpress. Though I wish they had more features the way Joomla has. I think Joomla is more SEO friendly ( correct me if I am wrong )
I think if you have good manual for Joomla , you can start blog on Joomla without problem. I has made few sites on Joomla and ofcourse Joomla is better for me. But I now I can install and made blogs for my friend on WP also.
If you can’t spend any money, go with Blogspot.
If you can handle paying for basic hosting definitely go with Wordpress.
It is extremely easy to optimize with just a few plugins and the search engines (especially google) absolutely love Wordpress.
The plugins I first install are: All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, and Permalink Redirect
Another thing you need to do as soon as you install Wordpress is change the default permalink structure.
I should switch over to wordpress, most likely better than blogspot
I started my blog with a mission. Part of that mission was starting from scratch and with a 0 budget. For any other blog I’d use Wordpress in a heart beat. I’ve also had the chance to blog on other platforms. Wordpress is the coolest – provided that you get your own domain of course..
So I’m not trying to be too commercial here, but Compendium Blogware is designed specifically for Corporations and other Organizations with the overall ROI of blogging measured in SEO.
Thanks,
Chris Baggott
CEO/Co-founder
Compendium Blogware
http://www.compendiumblogware.com