so you're thinking about starting a blog
but you're not sure if you want to go
with WordPress or blogger in this video
I'm gonna talk about the differences
between the two and which platform you
should use to start your blog
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of this video wordpress vs. blogger
which platform should you use to start
your blog first I want to talk about
WordPress WordPress is if you're in the
blogging sphere and all if you've heard
of it if you started investigating
blogging I guarantee you've heard the
word WordPress WordPress is a content
management system that is free to use to
build an online website slash blog so
with WordPress you need self hosting
I've got a ton of videos on my channel
that talk about where to find a domain
name how to get hosting how to install
WordPress all of the instructions you
can find here on my youtube channel so
make sure you go browse through those
videos to get all those instructions but
in my opinion WordPress is the best and
should be the only way that you start a
blog in 2019 let's talk really quickly
about blogger and why you might be
tempted to go the blogger route blogger
or commonly known as
spot was a platform built by Google that
was extremely popular in the early days
of blogging you know 10 or 15 years ago
it's free to use it's very simple
literally you just use your Google
account you set up a page and you just
blog people can come leave comments I
know a lot of people who still blog on
blogger and get a lot of traffic the
real nice thing I guess the only real
nice benefit of blogger is that it's
free so you don't have to pay for any
hosting you don't have to worry about
any sort of you know limits for traffic
and things like that but it is very
basic it is very limited as far as
design goes as far as what you can do
with it I do believe that it does work
with Google Adsense so you can't have
Google ads on your page to earn some
income but I just feel like it's so
limited in what you can do and I know so
many people who get down the road with
blogger or blogspot and they're to the
point where they're like ooh I realize
now that I can't really do everything
that I want to do now that my blog is
starting to get up some some momentumhow do I switch to WordPress and that is
just a big hassle there's a lot of work
that you do not want to go through
people who don't make the switch to
WordPress end up just being like well
darn I'm stuck here on blogger and they
just kind of keep going with the flow
because they're too scared to start over
and lose all the momentum that they've
gained so you know it is it gets very
technical as soon as you want to start
to switch from blogger to WordPress so
my recommendation is start from word for
start with WordPress from the beanie and
it's super cheap you can use SiteGround
Bluehost they're super cheap per month
it's like three dollars a month for
hosting which is affordable for anyone
just you know skip a cheeseburger once
next month and then you can pay for it
but it's the best way to start your blog
or website let me go into WordPress for
my blog to show you kind of justbasically how it looks on the back end
right here I'm I'm in WordPress signed
in to my blog over here on the left you
can see there's like a big menu of
different like features and settings and
things I'm just right here in creating a
new post so this is how you go about
writing a blog art of
in WordPress you simply just go in here
and just like you know type type out
your blog article format it however you
want there's all the formatting stuff up
here and then there's some different
settings over here on the right you can
add images whatever it's it's really
straightforward and there's a ton of
tutorials online to help you get started
my channel I talk a lot I do a lot of
WordPress tutorials it's very easy but
then let me I'll just show you what it
looks like so like this is what my blog
looks like if you were just reading it
on the internet it would look like this
right here I embed a YouTube video for
my channel and then there's all the text
and my Pinterest pinned and then people
can leave comments or whatever and it
looks you know like a website so this is
WordPress let me show you you see if I
can find a blogspot blog to show you I
kind of what it looks like oh I actually
oh I have a blogger for this account
okay so here's blogger hey guys blah I'm
just creating a new post I didn't really
know I had this account let's preview it
and see what it looks like okay this is
my blogspot blog powered by blogger so
it looks like your post you know be
written on right there Oh ads go here so
you can't put as write down there at the
bottom preview it's changed quite a bit
over the years but still just just very
limited like this is basically it pages
created a new page blogger is very
simple but it's just I don't know it's
so limited in what you can do and once
you start to gain some momentum and
really see that your blog can become a
business you're gonna be very limited in
what you can do with blogger if you do
plan on monetizing your blog more than
just using Google Adsense which is what
you're going to need if you want to make
if you do
plan on monetizing your blog more than
just using Google Adsense which is what
you're going to need if you want to make
like an income from your blog I highly
recommend you stick with WordPress now
right over here on my website learn how
blogging calm I literally teach you how
to set up a wordpress blog there's a
huge button on my home page that takes
you to this page with all the
step-by-step instructions look I got a
ton of videos on there to help you out
every step of the way to get your blog
up and running
literally everything to even click so if
you have any questions on starting your
blog with WordPress leave a comment and
let me know I'd be happy to help you out
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