07/11/13 | PreToPro Blogger

Which platform to choose - Blogger / Wordpress / Wordpress.org / Tumblr (Comparision Chart)

Kaushal Srivastava 1 Blog Platforms, Blogging Platform, Comparison Charts, PreToPro Blogger 23:43

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiqrt7uLZ8hcHsRmhSaSxFfccsobTVi8bvhMyVtmy2skhJ6qn4FCvW9hWECOw32DIXlRibN5HbQIh_WANwfP430De8evHSTEECwurJ6rw7g2i3uDj6ziagVmZjRCWwVWBOuiWYv2D-enP8/s1600/Blogging+Platforms-+Blogger+,+Wordpress,+Wordpress.org,+Tumblr+which+one+to+choose.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img alt="Which platform to choose - Blogger / Wordpress / Wordpress.org / Tumblr (Comparision Chart)" border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiqrt7uLZ8hcHsRmhSaSxFfccsobTVi8bvhMyVtmy2skhJ6qn4FCvW9hWECOw32DIXlRibN5HbQIh_WANwfP430De8evHSTEECwurJ6rw7g2i3uDj6ziagVmZjRCWwVWBOuiWYv2D-enP8/s400/Blogging+Platforms-+Blogger+,+Wordpress,+Wordpress.org,+Tumblr+which+one+to+choose.jpg" title="Which platform to choose - Blogger / Wordpress / Wordpress.org / Tumblr (Comparision Chart)" width="400" /></a></div>
<i><br /></i>
<i><br /></i>
<i>Blogger, Wordpress, Wordpress.org, Tumblr - these are the names of the four best blogging platforms. But Which One to choose from them. Confused... Here is a Comparison chart by Rachel ( <a href="http://parajunkee.com/2013/04/blogging-platforms-cross-comparison.html">http://parajunkee.com/</a> ) that can help you to short out the best platform for you.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>Note: </i><i><br /></i><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><i>Don't know what a blogging platform is refer to the article <a href="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.in/2013/07/what-are-blogging-client-blogging.html">here</a><a href="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.in/2013/07/what-are-blogging-client-blogging.html"> (http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.in/2013/07/what-are-blogging-client-blogging.html)</a></i></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<br />
<br />
<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 28px; width: 566px;"><tbody>
<tr><th align="center" colspan="5" scope="col"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Blogging Platform Comparison Chart</span></th></tr>
<tr><th bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" style="text-align: left;" width="116"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Features</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="middle" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img alt="Blogger Comparison" height="60" name="blogger" src="http://parajunkee.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/blogger.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="60" /></span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="middle" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img alt="Wordpress.com" height="72" id="blogger" name="blogger" src="http://parajunkee.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/blue-wordpress-logo.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="72" /></span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="middle" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img alt="Wordpress.org" height="60" id="blogger2" name="blogger" src="http://parajunkee.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/wordpress-logo-20.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="60" /></span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="middle" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img alt="Tumblr" height="60" id="blogger3" name="blogger" src="http://parajunkee.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/logoTumblr.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="60" /></span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="middle"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cost</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="middle" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Free</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="middle" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Free</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="middle" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hosting & Domain Fees</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="middle" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Free</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Stability</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While Blogger is the first blogging platform created, once they were purchased by Google they have been known to have a few hiccups. Blogs using the program have been known to go down for several hours, even days and when the software is upgraded there are usually a lot of issues. Also, if you are found in violation of Google’s TOS they will shut your blog down without any warning. There are not a lot of safeguards in place to prevent you from “breaking” your blog also. You will not crash because of traffic or bandwidth because of bigger host servers.</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">WordPress.com is generally thought to be a stable program. There are a ton of safeguards to protect you from breaking your blog, but it also highly limits your customization. The hosting company makes auto-updates to keep the site secure. You will not crash because of traffic or bandwidth because of bigger host servers.Again because of the free status of your site you are limited by their TOS.</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Depending on what host you use and if you regularly update your blog depends on the stability and security of your blog. You have total control over this. You are also not limited to your CMS’ TOS and a violation shutting you down. You will be limited to your hosting services TOS, but because you pay them, they tend to be limited and they contact you to find another host if you are in violation. Also, depending on your host and the bandwidth you choose will depend on how much traffic you can handle.</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tumblr is often accused of being unstable, naysayers have accused it of being down 30% of the time. Since then Tumblr has tried to increase it’s stability but depending on usage it does go down…kind of like Twitter.</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" style="text-align: left;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Domain</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not Standard</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not Standard</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not Standard</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" style="text-align: left;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">HTML             Knowledge</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">None</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">None</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">None</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">None</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">    <br />CSS Editing</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">None (can be upgraded for $)</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Limited based on template</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" style="text-align: left;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">User Friendly</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" style="text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">      Plugins/Widgets</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Limited</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Limited</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Amazing plugins available</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Very Limited</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" style="text-align: left;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Customization</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes(coding knowledge)</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Very Limited</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Very Limited</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" style="text-align: left;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Themes &   Design</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Large variety of available themes & Internal Theme WYSWYG editor</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Large variety of available themes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Large variety of available themes and can be customized to basically do anything you want.</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Large variety of available themes</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Monetization</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Google AdSense</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Limited</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Any 3rd Party System Avialable</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Limited</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Image Storage</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1GB</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3GB</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Depends on host</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No limit?</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" style="text-align: left;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Internal   Network</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blogger uses programs like GFC, but it is rumored that this will be cancelled in the future as Google pushes Google+</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Competent internal WordPress.com network</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tumblr is known for it’s great internal network and ability to “reblog”</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">      Statistics</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blogger Stats (seems unreliable) you can install Google Analytics</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">WordPress statistics</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All options open</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Limited to installations</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Import from another blog</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">None</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">None</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3rd Party Scripts</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Static Pages</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top" width="100"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Static Front Page</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Orginization</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tags</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Categories & Tags</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Categories & Tags</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Type of post & tags (cross network)</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Comment System</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Unstable standard with hard to use captcha as default with 3rd party installation upgrade</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Powerful standard commenting system with 3rd party installation upgrade</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Powerful standard commenting system with 3rd party installation upgrade</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">None default, available with 3rd party installation upgrade</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Private Blog Systems</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Limited to users (up to 100 Google Accounts)</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Unlimited Invited WordPress Account Holders</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Unlimited Invited WordPress Account Holders</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Password protected</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Password Protection</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">None</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Password protect individual posts & pages</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Password protect individual posts & pages</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Entire blog will be password protected</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Contact Forms</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Availbale with 3rd party installation upgrade</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just add page Contact & form will install</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just add page Contact & form will install</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ask questions setting</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Support</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forums</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forums</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forums</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Spam</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Captcha & Moderation</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Depends on 3rd party comments system</span></th></tr>
<tr><th align="left" bgcolor="#b3cbe1" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Level of Expertise</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Perfect for new bloggers and limited budgets that aren’t ready for a customized blogging experience and don’t need all the latest greatest features, but with the will to maybe do a bit of experimenting.</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Perfect for new bloggers and limited budgets that aren’t ready for a customized blogging experience and don’t need all the latest greatest features.</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Advanced bloggers that want total control of their blogging experience and get all the latest greatest software options and plugins.</span></th><th align="center" scope="col" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bloggers that want to make their blogging experience easy and accessible. A micro-blogging experience.</span></th></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Hope now you would have sorted out your platform and now are ready to start your new blog...<br />
Not satisfied yet check comparison list of some more platform<a href="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.in/2013/07/list-of-great-blogging-platforms-to.html"> here (http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.in/2013/07/list-of-great-blogging-platforms-to.html)</a></blockquote>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<i><b>Any Suggestions / feedbacks are welcome</b></i></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
</div>
<br>
<script type="text/javascript">
ch_fluidH = 1;
ch_nump = "3";
ch_client = "pretoproblogger";
ch_width = 600;
ch_height = "auto";
ch_type = "mpu";
ch_sid = "Chitika Default";
ch_color_site_link = "000000";
ch_color_title = "000000";
ch_color_border = "FFFFFF";
ch_color_text = "000000";
ch_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
</script>
<script src="http://scripts.chitika.net/eminimalls/amm.js" type="text/javascript">
</script><br>

Which platform to choose - Blogger / Wordpress / Wordpress.org / Tumblr (Comparision Chart)

Kaushal Srivastava 1 Blog Platforms, Blogging Platform, Comparison Charts, PreToPro Blogger 23:43

Blogger, Wordpress, Wordpress.org, Tumblr - these are the names of the four best blogging platforms. But Which One to choose from them. Confused... Here is a Comparison chart by Rachel ( http://paraj…

Things You Need To Know About Guest Blogging

Kaushal Srivastava 0 Guest Blogging, Guest Posts, PreToPro Blogger, Writing Guest Posts 22:05

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrzFC_yjNqoF9Xgxds6TJyVQ10idsXnz_G9miDdPD3Q9yC4Htxgl4yXDiD4F5EdeZR2S4HNfRzO6xx0n6w8Di4yVu73uGbmOH3nljLsxDfYRC74xL_a_X-PLag8v7a-NDZz9IsEsDgIJc/s1600/guest-blogging.png" /></div>
<div>
<br /><div style="text-align: left;">
<i>Guest blogging is one of the prime methods for building backlinks, gaining exposure, generating traffic and enhancing relationships.</i></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<i><br />Guest blogging is a part of internet marketing strategy in which a relevant content with a link is published on the owner’s website. This content includes a short biography of the writer and his/her experience. It is usually placed at the end of the guest post. The author is allowed to place a back link to his/her website or a back link from within the content of the post if it seems appropriate to the content.</i></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">
<b>Guest Posting Strategies : </b></h3>
</div>
<div>
<b><br /></b>The first step is to locate the high quality websites for publishing your content. <br />You must select a site that publishes regularly <br />Write the content by keeping in mind that you are writing for their audience. <br />Avoid lots of anchor texts, as it will look like that someone is marketing your business. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ3BseOslBFUf3llcBMWlJvCzqQKgXAcsViNW8CR90avd5Zu3B0tYX0D54SAOlRAhVUY_xbdSovzIr0zPctaD4CLuMCYGDy4OpmLxafs702kt0LKHp6h3TKous3Fpc75zyjsOe5UNWoGg/s1600/benefits-of-guest-blogging.jpg" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<b><div>
<b><br /></b></div>
</b><h3 style="text-align: left;">
<b> Major Benefits Of Guest Blogging Are As Follows: </b></h3>
</div>
<div>
<br /><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>Get Quality Traffic:</b> The first advantage of guest blogging is that it sends the quality traffic. If the guest posts have been published on quality websites then it will increase at least 2 times the initial traffic. Here the traffic not only denotes the quantity of visitors but also the quality. </li>
</ul>
<br /><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>Building back links: </b>You can build the links to your new Guest blog posts which results in authority juice or link juice. </li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>Small business branding: </b>Make sure to use an email address which shows your picture besides your post. In this way people will be able to see you and know you better. </li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>Communicate:</b> Reply some questions in comment area on your blog post, for the comments you have got. Audience or readers to your blog are unknown and give honest opinion about you. This will help you to improve your work. </li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>Social Networking:</b> Guest blogging is an effective way to enhance your presence on social media which will increase traffic. </li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>Monetizing:</b> Some websites even give their guest bloggers/writers an opportunity to monetize their post by placing ads in between posts. But most of them allow a fixed  number of  ads to be placed in the post.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div>
<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">
<b> Following are the requirements that most websites usually ask from their guest bloggers : </b></h3>
</div>
<div>
<br /><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>Quality of content: </b>A neatly and correctly structured guest post without any grammatical errors will attract the audience. </li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>Quality of information:</b> The information of the blog posts must be accurate and relevant. Lack of accuracy reflects the knowledge about the subject matter. If the content is not correct, then it can create a wrong impression and hence affects the reputation in niche market. </li>
</ul>
<div>
<br /></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>Uniqueness:</b> You must present your information in unique and original way that can be learned and acquired. The unique content will be rewarded with enhanced reputation and online presence.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 10px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">Note : You Can Be Our Guest Blogger. Click On <a href="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.com/p/write-for-us.html">Write For Us</a> Page For Details...</ul>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<script type="text/javascript">
ch_fluidH = 1;
ch_nump = "3";
ch_client = "pretoproblogger";
ch_width = 600;
ch_height = "auto";
ch_type = "mpu";
ch_sid = "Chitika Default";
ch_color_site_link = "000000";
ch_color_title = "000000";
ch_color_border = "FFFFFF";
ch_color_text = "000000";
ch_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
</script>
<script src="http://scripts.chitika.net/eminimalls/amm.js" type="text/javascript">
</script><br>

Things You Need To Know About Guest Blogging

Kaushal Srivastava 0 Guest Blogging, Guest Posts, PreToPro Blogger, Writing Guest Posts 22:05

Guest blogging is one of the prime methods for building backlinks, gaining exposure, generating traffic and enhancing relationships. Guest blogging is a part of internet marketing strategy in which a…

SEO-ing Your Blog

Kaushal Srivastava 1 PreToPro Blogger, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Traffic Building 21:43

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8b4r-iF_4Xf345TlCCUN37b8eGTUPOXMnX8sJstA23yKZPLO3FoojpcEwN-cJ-7Q3lGxrwZhw3MlffBwXOqjw-n1celEEO5I1Xvsasvoh7X6xE1ZkvI8aIRmDBVSYB4S2k6HfNTr6RH0/s1600/SEOing.jpg" /></div>
<h2 style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; position: relative;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">    </span></h2>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">
<br /></div>
<center style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">
</center>
</div>
<i style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">A number of stupid articles and posts have been written about SEO (Search Engine optimization) but there are only a few discussing about the real concept of SEO. There are many things you can do to SEO (Search engine optimize) your Blog. First of all, let go of any illusion you might have that I am using Blogger and Blogger user are at an advantage just because Google owns blogger. The following tips apply universally too: </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i>1. Choose your blog and post titles appropriately. You'll need something catchy to grab readers to your blog, but search engines would prefer to include at least one word indicative of the post content in every post title.<br /><br />2. Update your blog regularly. Search engines like the ‘live’ Blogs that are updated with some new content regularly.<br /><br />3. Register yourselves on every blog listings as much as possible.<br /><br />4. Make comments on high traffic blogs (Not like please visit my blog: <a href="http://www.bloggerloads.blogspot.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://www.bloggerloads.blogspot.com</a> type.). Do not SPAM comment on any blog this would leave a bad impression. Start discussions with other bloggers; get yourselves blogrolled on as many blogs as possible.<br /><br />5. Stick to a general theme for your blog. By their very nature blogs are riddled with search keywords, and themed blogs more so.<br /><br />6. Wherever possible make sure that have a permalink of your every post. This would help search engines (like <a href="http://www.google.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://www.google.com</a>, <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://www.yahoo.com</a> etc.) to index them better.<br /><br />7. Always check that your blog is healthy or not by healthy I mean that it do not have any design mistakes, coding error, broken links etc. To check if there are errors in your blog or not; also if there are errors to correct them hook to a program there are plenty of available on the web ( I use Google’s publisher tools ).</span><br />
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h3>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Conclusion:</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /><i>Use your common sense. There is no any program or site that can increase your ranking drastically. Please do not use any underhanded techniques just follow the basic tips and see how your ranking improves.</i></span>
</div>
<br>
<script type="text/javascript">
ch_fluidH = 1;
ch_nump = "3";
ch_client = "pretoproblogger";
ch_width = 600;
ch_height = "auto";
ch_type = "mpu";
ch_sid = "Chitika Default";
ch_color_site_link = "000000";
ch_color_title = "000000";
ch_color_border = "FFFFFF";
ch_color_text = "000000";
ch_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
</script>
<script src="http://scripts.chitika.net/eminimalls/amm.js" type="text/javascript">
</script><br>

SEO-ing Your Blog

Kaushal Srivastava 1 PreToPro Blogger, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Traffic Building 21:43

A number of stupid articles and posts have been written about SEO (Search Engine optimization) but there are only a few discussing about the real concept of SEO. There are many things you can do…

Blog Design and Content Guidelines

Kaushal Srivastava 20 Blog Content, Blog Design, Blogging Basics, PreToPro Blogger, SEO 17:18

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5W5JGHNP1MVqqBBihyoWShwNxFpDIbXavvdf4f-eg7nZm6HOrZ_I1tW9ck1O0zonRE473k-g1qz3j27cxbMYgTP8HohfDvOgpgRdYkzCVztGvaPFuabqvyYwAw4-ZCoWO96bchXaHuLW3/s1600/Blog-design-and-content-Guidelines.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Blog Design And Content Guidelines" border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5W5JGHNP1MVqqBBihyoWShwNxFpDIbXavvdf4f-eg7nZm6HOrZ_I1tW9ck1O0zonRE473k-g1qz3j27cxbMYgTP8HohfDvOgpgRdYkzCVztGvaPFuabqvyYwAw4-ZCoWO96bchXaHuLW3/s400/Blog-design-and-content-Guidelines.gif" title="Blog Design And Content Guidelines" width="341" /></a></div>
<b><br /></b>
<b>Here Are some basic but still important guidelines that you should follow while designing your blog and adding content to it :</b><br />
<br />
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link. (Clean and Simple Design)</li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Offer a <a href="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-are-sitemaps-why-and-how-to-submit.html" target="_blank">sitemap</a> to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map has an extremely large number of links, you may want to break the site map into multiple pages. (If You can't afford to make a page for sitemap make sure that your homepage has links to all the important pages)</li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number. (Search Engines like <a href="http://google.com/">google</a> don't like pages with more than 100 links)</li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content. (Stick to your niche) </li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it. (Well I don't know what it is called I call it keywording. If You know what it is called please let me know too..)</li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn't recognize text contained in images. If you must use images for textual content, consider using the "ALT" attribute to include a few words of descriptive text. (Write for the humans but also make sure that your content is readable to the search engine robots/crawlers)</li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Make sure that your <title> elements and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate. (The thing that influences your ranking the most is <title> Choose Your Title For the page accurately)</li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Check for broken links and correct HTML. (There are plenty of services on the web that will do it for you but if you can squeeze some cash out of your pocket.)</li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.( Remember making your Blog extra dynamic can decrease your ranking for except your content is exceptionally good).</li>
</ul>
<div>
<br />
<b>In This I pointed some Basic Guidelines that search Engines like google too agree with. Any Suggestions and feedbacks are welcome)</b></div>
</div>
</div>

Blog Design and Content Guidelines

Kaushal Srivastava 20 Blog Content, Blog Design, Blogging Basics, PreToPro Blogger, SEO 17:18

Here Are some basic but still important guidelines that you should follow while designing your blog and adding content to it : Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be …

Making Your Blog Visitor friendly

Kaushal Srivastava 0 Blog Design, Blog Posts, Blogging Basics, Post Design, PreToPro Blogger 03:42

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZIqS8nG9Vz36qR9mtVusRrguQshtgpX39E9KnLZN1d_igSBXoSlZeBgRUIXgoXY3GVZ70FChVihni6KdQOEtrb9JRCVCde9Koaa7arG1MbUcFq_loXbbzxnCboe9mQmrphfYa6rPn4_8/s1600/VFS-blinking.gif" imageanchor="1" style="border: 0px; color: #878773; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Visitor Friendly Site" border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZIqS8nG9Vz36qR9mtVusRrguQshtgpX39E9KnLZN1d_igSBXoSlZeBgRUIXgoXY3GVZ70FChVihni6KdQOEtrb9JRCVCde9Koaa7arG1MbUcFq_loXbbzxnCboe9mQmrphfYa6rPn4_8/s400/VFS-blinking.gif" style="border: 0px;" title="Visitor Friendly Site" width="400" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><i>After going through many popular blogs I concluded that the most important fact that makes a blog a popular one is the visitors. Everything we write in the blog is obviously for its visitors and if the blog is not visitor friendly no one would like to come again. They will come only when your content is exceptionally great. But if it’s not anyone would prefer to haunt again… To understand what features constitute a visitor friendly blog I visited some popular blogs and I concluded following features to be considered as visitor friendly: </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px;"><i><br /></i><b>1.)</b> <b>Font Characteristics</b>: Fonts should be large enough so that the visitors may not have to squint to read the content. Font colors of normal and links should be different from that of the background to provide proper contrast with the background.<br /><br /><b>2.)</b> <b>Page Style</b>: Very much garishly pages are a put off; many may not like to read too much varied colorful texts. Avoid such texts. I am not saying that using colorful texts are bad. Colors can be used to depict the mood of the blogger. But it must be done carefully. If the bloggers mood is a happy one, using a gloomy grey text would make it difficult to connect with the reader.<br /><br /><b>3.) Page content:</b> Extraneous content can be blighting. A blog with a two line post and a hundred comments will not only take time to load but will also make the readers upset as they come to your blog to read what you write not what your readers comment . Reading he content will depend upon the reader’s patience. Many will even leave before waiting for the page to load. Also comment moderation is an important aspect. SPAM comments must be weeded out or else it would leave a bad impression on the reader. Using ad in posts is a conspicuous thing. While having many posts per page will make it slow to load again making the readers to read before reading the content.<br /><br /><b>4.) Page layout:</b> The reading experience should not be marred by the layout. Inserting ads in the middle of the posts is rather a bad idea. Have links to important pages at the bottom of the post is a good idea as not having them at all.<br /><br /><b>5.) Visitor Aids:</b> Visitors should have easy access to links for sharing the posts. They should also be provided with links to subscribe to blog feeds so that they remain updated about the changes to your blog. Visitors also like to voice their opinion or feedback. So, a comment box should be provided. They should not be made to wade through all the posts in search of a specific category post. So a search box along with a categorized post app must be provided. Easy access to previous posts or preferably an archive or calendar showing the post or the dates of the posts will not only save the effort of the reader but will also keep them engaged more on your blog. Again this can also be done by providing links of related posts at the end of the posts.<br /><br /><b>6.) Optionals:</b> A blog is known by its links. Proper links, whether of sources or extra information providing links must be given this will not only help the reader of your blog to find the information they want but will also improve your page ranking. Adequate apps must be in your blog. If you are adding apps/widgets in your blog always try to add the ones provided by the platform. Using external widgets in your blog can make your blog load slower. So to make your blog load faster use apps/widgets provided by the platforms.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><br />
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Conclusion:</span></span></h4>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br /></span></h3>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Making your blog visitor friendly is all about keeping your visitors haunt again and again to your blog thus increasing your daily traffic. Also you know better about the visitor that comes to your blog and for what do they come for. So, I leave it up to you; do what you want to do to make your blog visitor friendly. After all it’s your very own blog.</span></i></span></h3>
<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px;">
<i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> Any Suggestions or feedback Please Comment...</span></i></h3>
</div>
<br>
<script type="text/javascript">
ch_fluidH = 1;
ch_nump = "3";
ch_client = "pretoproblogger";
ch_width = 600;
ch_height = "auto";
ch_type = "mpu";
ch_sid = "Chitika Default";
ch_color_site_link = "000000";
ch_color_title = "000000";
ch_color_border = "FFFFFF";
ch_color_text = "000000";
ch_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
</script>
<script src="http://scripts.chitika.net/eminimalls/amm.js" type="text/javascript">
</script><br>

Making Your Blog Visitor friendly

Kaushal Srivastava 0 Blog Design, Blog Posts, Blogging Basics, Post Design, PreToPro Blogger 03:42

After going through many popular blogs I concluded that the most important fact that makes a blog a popular one is the visitors. Everything we write in the blog is obviously for its visitors and if t…

Advertise Here

Which platform to choose - Blogger / Wordpress / Wordpress.org / Tumblr (Comparision Chart)

Things You Need To Know About Guest Blogging

SEO-ing Your Blog

Blog Design and Content Guidelines

Making Your Blog Visitor friendly

Get FREE updates on your Email | RSS

Popular Posts

Comments

Blog Archive