Comments on: Comparing Blogger with WordPress.com – Hosted Blog Platforms and Custom Domains http://leadgenseo.com/2008/04/16/comparing-blogger-with-wordpresscom-hosted-blog-platforms-and-custom-domains/ Discussion of online lead generation with an emphasis on search engine optimization (SEO) as a traffic source and lead-acquisition channel. Fri, 25 May 2012 14:57:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: affiliateplex http://leadgenseo.com/2008/04/16/comparing-blogger-with-wordpresscom-hosted-blog-platforms-and-custom-domains/#comment-34 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:34:38 +0000 http://leadgenseo.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/comparing-blogger-with-wordpresscom-hosted-blog-platforms-and-custom-domains/#comment-34 You can use domain mapping for free @ Blogetery. http://blogetery.com/blog/free-domain-mapping-with-your-wordpress-blog-and-more/
Cool stuff!

]]> By: Gleb Esman http://leadgenseo.com/2008/04/16/comparing-blogger-with-wordpresscom-hosted-blog-platforms-and-custom-domains/#comment-30 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:02:55 +0000 http://leadgenseo.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/comparing-blogger-with-wordpresscom-hosted-blog-platforms-and-custom-domains/#comment-30 I totally agree with your principles toward pointing domain to hosted blogging platform.
Blogging platform always better for SEO than static homegrown domain. And of course – managing upgrades, updates, backups, hack attempts, and general technology and software babysitting is just so unproductive.
Also hosted blogging platform usually gets more respectable IP address in the eyes of google.

I was looking for best hosted solution.
I am more familiar with WordPress ORG-ing but for some reason missed the fact that they offer domain mapping at .COM
So I went to try Typepad.com but couldn’t take their weirdness of post URLs, inability to create hierarchy of pages (they all are at the same level) and inability to customize URLs. For example typepad converts “poodle t-shirts” to “poodle-t-shir-1.html” for posts and there is no way to argue with that.

I’d be glad to try wordpress.com hosted.

Gleb

]]> By: Jarrod http://leadgenseo.com/2008/04/16/comparing-blogger-with-wordpresscom-hosted-blog-platforms-and-custom-domains/#comment-8 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:33:43 +0000 http://leadgenseo.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/comparing-blogger-with-wordpresscom-hosted-blog-platforms-and-custom-domains/#comment-8 From a newbs perspective the WordPress system has an edge on the ease of use.

]]> By: whatsnewinmd http://leadgenseo.com/2008/04/16/comparing-blogger-with-wordpresscom-hosted-blog-platforms-and-custom-domains/#comment-6 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:08:34 +0000 http://leadgenseo.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/comparing-blogger-with-wordpresscom-hosted-blog-platforms-and-custom-domains/#comment-6 A great aspect of using WordPress.com is that it can be as complicated as you want to make it. So you have all the benefits of the domain and features if you want to use them, but if your client is a blogging newbie who just wants to write a post and be done with it, it’s easy to click Write Post, type a title and the post, and then click Publish. Once they get more familiar and addicted to it, they can experiment with adding links and configuring the design.

Side Note: What’s New in Maryland is already indexed in Google. It might have been as early as Friday. Yay! Lead Gen 101 too. Submitting to varioius blog sites help too as when you type “What’s New in Maryland” in Google feeds of the blog come up from those sites.

]]> By: jonpayne http://leadgenseo.com/2008/04/16/comparing-blogger-with-wordpresscom-hosted-blog-platforms-and-custom-domains/#comment-2 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:00:00 +0000 http://leadgenseo.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/comparing-blogger-with-wordpresscom-hosted-blog-platforms-and-custom-domains/#comment-2 Let me add two “pro’s” that I left out in favor of WordPress.com

1) I prefer the default URL format for WordPress which is /this/that/ rather than /this/that.html

2) WordPress has a pretty useful stats package already set up with the account. Might be less accurate in terms of measuring unique visitors, etc. than say Google Analytics, but seems to be more useful in terms of measuring visitor behavior within the blog b/c it uses post names, etc. rather than URLs and such used by third-party stats packages.

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