Arun | BE Folks´s last blog post – How to avoid get rich scam sites

Arun | BE Folks´s last blog post – How to avoid get rich scam sites

Four days ago, in response to Kim Woodbridge who asked her readers, “How Has Blogging With Wordpress Changed Your Life,” I commented:
I’ve managed my blog on a Blogger custom domain for about 18 months. I have a Page Rank of 4, which is a…

It really takes time and a lot of hard work to build a community – For the first couple of months that I worked on this site I didn’t really get that and my friend was about the only visitor I had.

Most of the commenters here are awesome and have great sites – and if you go visit and comment they will probably come and visit you too :-)

I think being obsessed with being in control lessens when you develop the awareness that control is an aspect of your personality.

What I DO miss about Blogger and MicroSoft Spaces was the built in audience. I am having to work a lot harder to find the people that think like I do. G.

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Thanks for all the info about the pros and cons of using blogger.

Since google just updated page rank would now be a good time to make the switch? – then you have time to build up again before they do the next one. In your case, I don’t think it would take too long.

I’ve managed my blog on a Blogger custom domain for about 18 months. I have a Page Rank of 4, which is aided by Google’s ownership of Blogger. This is good.

But there are many things about Blogger that are aggravating me to no end, namely the need to have specific plugins/widgets without finagling my code every time; the ability to do trackbacks which is near impossible without a Greasemonkey script when and if it works; the ability to have categories/tags that are seen across the platform and tie into Technorati and not labels that are blog-centric only; and the desire to have an open source blogging platform.

I’m leaning toward converting to either Wordpress.org (and get a cheap blog hosting provider) or something like Joomla or Drupal, though I don’t know how feature-rich they are like Wordpress.

At this point, one of the reasons I haven’t moved is the rising Page Rank which will likely drop some due to the Blogger-less platform; but I hope with the ability to have longer URLs (your title above would be truncated with Blogger), my SEO would increase.

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It seems like a lot of Blogger users eventually switch over to WordPress. They get used to blogging and want to try new things only to discover that Blogger doesn’t have that capability.

Yes, before WP I used the Blogger platform and I found it to very frustrating. Not so much for me, but for other people.

I like the flexibility of WordPress.