Part 4 in the series Dot Mom Blogs™

Today’s guest post is from “Bunnie” from Bunnie Blog and Goodbye Georgia. She blogs on Blogger and Word Press platforms. Today she talks about Blogger.

I started blogging in early 2007 at Bunnie Blog, which is on a Wordpress platform. I felt comfortable with it, mostly because I know a fair bit about web design, HTML and CSS. This year I wanted to start a new blog, but didn’t want to spend as much time setting it up and maintaining it as I do my main blog, therefore I chose Blogger for Goodbye Georgia.

A couple of months after my first Blogger experience, a friend of mine asked me to help her get a blog going. I knew she had no web experience, so I pointed her towards Blogger. I sent her an email with the web address and about three lines of instructions. She called me back within an hour to have me look at her fabulous, brand new blog. This is a perfect example of why Blogger is so awesome. There are so many people out there with something to say and share with the world, Blogger enables an entire sector of the population, with little web experience, to be seen and heard.

Blogger is the perfect (by the way, FREE!) solution for anyone with little to no web design experience or for someone who wants a quick and easy blogging platform. There is no need to download and install any software. You do not need to know how to FTP files to a server, in fact you don’t even need to maintain server space with a hosting company. The set up is quick and customizing the blog is very easy. Keep in mind that you will not have complete control over the blogs design, as you would if you used Wordpress, but that is kind of the point. I had Goodbye Georgia fully up and running in about a half an hour.

Now, don’t get me wrong, Blogspot comes with 16 basic templates, ready for you to use right out of the gate. However, if you do a Google search for Blogger templates, you are bound to find something that will perfectly suit you and your needs. Another quick Google search for Blogger Add-ons or Widgets returns a great varitey of links for further customizing of your blog.

One of the bigger advantages of using Blogger is the fact it is a product of Google, therefore the Google web crawlers like Blogger sites, which will afford you more traffic, stemming from Google searches. The only disadvantaged I have found is very minor. Your URL will be www.yourblog.blogspot.com. I personally prefer shorter URLs, because I want the web address to be short and easy for my readers to remember. This may have been more of a problem in the early days of blogging, but now .blogspot addresses are so common, it probably only makes a minor difference.

As an FYI, Blogger is also known as Blogspot and can be reached at www.blogger.com or www.blogspot.com, the names are interchangable.

Getting a blog started is much easier than you think it is, so get out there and share what you’ve got!

Bunnie is a, mother of two and wife of 17 years. Professionally she is an IT professional with a crush on the corporate culture of Zappos.She proudly served our country for 6 years as a member of the Airforce and currently is contemplating leaving Georgia for the bright lights of Vegas.

What blogging platform do you use? What advantages does it offer you versus another platform? Share your thoughts in the comment section.

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