Advantages and disadvantages of Blogspot domain

Advantages and disadvantages of Blogspot domain

Blogger is one of the most widely used platforms for blogging. You can easily create your blog in a blogger in a few minutes. 

Anyone who has a Gmail account can log in to the blogger and create a BlogSpot domain. Once the BlogSpot domain is ready, you can start publishing articles. 

I am using a blogger for the last 3 years and I have come to a few goods and bad features of it. I would like to share some pros and cons of using blogger.

Advantages of using blogger

Easy to use

The best part of the blogger is the user-friendly interface. Anyone can understand and use it. The dashboard is very simple and has only the features that are required. Also, the themes are simple which loads very fast. One can easily write and edit articles in a blogger.

Very fast to access

Due to its simple design and functions, BlogSpot blogs load very fast. If you have a handsome page speed of your blog, it will attract more readers and visitors. Readers don't like slow websites. Time is important for everyone and hence readers love to surf websites with good page speed.

No hosting required in blogger

Now, this is the best thing I love about bloggers. Unlike WordPress, where we have to pay for third-party hosting services like blue host, Hostgator, etc. in blogger it is not at all needed. You can go with the Blogspot domain or you can buy a custom domain from GoDaddy, which is enough to run your blog smoothly.

custom domain Blogspot, in blogger

Disadvantages of blogger

More Manual Work

Unlike WordPress, we don't have plugins in the blogger which carries a lot of work. As bloggers, we have to manually do a lot of work. For example, if you want to insert AdSense ads in between blog posts, you have to insert an HTML code of ads manually, while in WordPress you can use a Quick AdSense plugin to do it.

Similarly, even if You want to insert an internal link in the blog post, you have inserted it manually. So, all these processes consume time for bloggers.

Permalink of blog post

This is a very big con in the blogger. The Permalink of a blog post in blogger includes the month and year by default. Now, you cannot edit the month and year through a custom permalink. Now how it affects blog performance. 

Now, suppose I want to edit an old blog post. If I edit them with new updates and want to update them with the current date, I can't do that. 

Google always looks for updated content and hence it is important to have blog Permalink updated for Google indexing.

Suppose you edit and publish an old blog post with a new update and current date, Google will know that you have updated the new content and they will start indexing them. 

But, the old post with the old data will be deleted or converted into a broken link. In addition, posts with links to old posts will also be affected. 

So, your blog Performance will go down, since you have a lot of broken links because of just one change in Permalink. This is of great disadvantage to the blogger.

Final word

Blogger is fast and good at cheap prices, but if you want advanced features I would recommend going with WordPress for bloggers.