Blogger vs WordPress Comparison: Customization, Marketing, Pricing, Security, and More...

difference between blogger and wordpress

Google's Blogger and Automattic's WordPress.com are free blogging systems. Blogger, or blogspot.com, offers integration with other Google services and is relatively easy to monetize. WordPress.com, though less full-featured than its self-hosted counterpart, has more advanced features than Blogger does, better anti-spam measures, and numerous upgrade options. Because they are hosted services, both come with a number of limitations. Blogger also has a history of censoring (or considering censoring) its users, whereas WordPress.com has gone to great lengths to protect the publishing rights of its user base.

Comparison chart

Introduction	Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. Blogs are hosted by Google at the blogspot.com subdomain unless users pay for domain registration.	WordPress.com is a blogging service that uses the open-source WordPress script to power users' blogs. Hosted blogs are placed on a wordpress.com subdomain unless users pay for domain registration.
Website	blogger.com	http://wordpress.com
Developer(s)	Google	Automattic
Type of site	Blog Host	Blog Host
Site Registration	Optional, Free	Not required to read most blogs. Free registration for commenting or blogging.
Custom Domain Name	Users must pay for their own domain names, but it is free to add one to a blog.	Users must pay for their own domain name ''and'' pay for a plan to add it to a blog.
Monetization	Allowed. Easy to install Google's AdSense.	Not allowed for most all blogs. Affiliate links are permissible. Blogs with lots of traffic can request an invitation to WordAds.
Themes/Design	Design can be customized with free, Blogger-provided themes or premium themes bought off-site. Users can edit HTML and CSS.	Design can be customized with free, WordPress.com-provided themes or premium themes bought through WordPress.com. Users have many theme customization options but cannot edit HTML or CSS without upgrading.
Storage Space	Users can create up to 100 blogs, each of which can have up to 100 writers. Unlimited blog posting. 20 static content pages (e.g., About page). Posts/pages cannot exceed 1MB in size. Images upload to Google Drive, which has a 15GB limit.	Unlimited number of blogs with unlimited number of writers. Free plan has 3GB of space for images/files. Users can upgrade storage or buy a better overall plan.
Mobile Blogging	Yes. Support for Android and iOS.	Yes. Support for Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and Nokia.
Image Galleries	No support. Users must create them by hand using HTML and CSS or use an off-site gallery tool.	Extensive gallery support.
Video and Audio Upload	Users can embed videos from other sites, like Vimeo and YouTube, and audio files through Soundcloud.	Users can embed videos from other sites, like Vimeo and YouTube. Premium plans allow users to upload directly to WordPress.com's servers. Support for MP3, M4A, WAV, and OGG audio files.
Organization	Support for tags, which Blogger calls "labels."	Support for categories and tags.
Anti-Spam	Has anti-spam features, but more prone to failure. If spam is an ongoing problem on a Blogger site, users should consider using a dedicated commenting service like Disqus, which has more anti-spam measures in place.	Automattic owns Akismet, a popular spam prevention script, which it implements on all WordPress.com blogs. Akismet keeps most spam from ever being posted.
Analytics	Supported by way of Google Anayltics.	Has "Stats" tool. Less in-depth than Google Analytics, which cannot be added to WordPress.com blogs.
Plugins	No support.	No support. Self-hosted version of WordPress — WordPress.org — has vast plugin library.
Pricing	Outside of giving users the ability to buy more storage space for Google Drive, Blogger has no premium plans. The service is always free, but it is also forever limited to its default capabilities.	Various options: free for Basic; $99/yr for Premium; $299/yr for Business.
Self-Hosting	None. Users cannot download the Blogger script and host it on their own server.	Yes. Users can download the open-source WordPress script and host it on their own server.
Censorship	Censored in numerous countries. Google has been known to comply with this censorship. In 2012, the company began blocking/censoring certain Blogger content on a per-country basis	Censored in numerous countries. Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, has fought against censorship in court and does not censor content — including mature content — on WordPress.com.

WordPress.com vs. Blogger Features
SEO

Optimizing a website for search engines is easy on either service, as both allow nearly complete control over textual content. In delivering search results, Google does not favor Blogger-based blogs over WordPress.com-based blogs.