It is about users characteristic and not about technical side. Yes, I write my opinion according users characteristic of two biggest free blog providers in the world, WordPress.com and Blogspot.com. My opinion is base on my blogging past experience in WordPress.com and Blogspot.com world. Of course, it is only for Indonesian users. For others country, I do not have experience yet so can not tell much. I write this article because I found that there is interesting unique characteristic for each WordPress.com and blogspot.com users in general way. Yeah, the uniqueness is always interesting.

The Difference

In my opinion, WordPress.com blogger is less aware of SEO technique than Blogspot.com users. It is because WordPress.com do not allow monetize the blog which make less point to care about SEO. The important point is only writing and commenting. Therefore, WordPress.com users are most as forum member which talk each others trough blog. This situation also makes the WordPress.com users do not care about link. They link what they like without any hesitation. I even found that there are some post contain very lot of link (almost 100 and more) in it.

That  different for Blogspot.com users. Blogspot.com users really care about SEO technique. It is because Blogspot.com allows blog monetizing which make SEO become one of many important parts in blog monetizing. There are many SEO technique do in blogspot.com blog. It is include link to others of course. Yes, blogspot.com users really care about link to others. Blogspot.com users really tend to exchange link as many as they can to build strong link development instead link others blog for free. They tend to count every link benefit so if there are no benefits for their blog — they tend to not link it even the content may really great.

I, my self, do over than 100 link exchanges in my blogspot.com blog and it make my Blogspot.com blog PR increase to 3 in two months. But, don’t ask about quality traffic, it not as good as my WordPress.com blog. Yes, my WordPress.com blog have more quality traffic. Quality traffic means that the readers come to blog because really want to read the blog and have discussion about the writing. And, that’s not happen in my Blogspot.com blog. It seems that the traffic only come because I already come to their blog or lure me to visit their blog.

Conclusion

So, I conclude that free blog providers features which make the blogger characteristic. Yeah, you can always choose the most suitable free blog provider features for your needs. If you only want share your writing with others and do not want to care the SEO and others blog technique for monetize, you can use WordPress.com. WordPress.com is more like a big forum than blog in my opinion. And, you should choose Blogspot.com if you want to monetize your blog. It is because Blogspot.com allows blog monetizing, allows JavaScript, and allows template customizing. You need all of those three for great earning in blog monetizing.




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