A lot of people laugh when I tell them that Blogspot is a fantastic platform for hosting your niche websites, they tell me you don't really own the website, that Blogspot isn't as functional as Wordpress, or that Blogger doesn't look appealing.
I disagree, for me Blogspot (or Blogger if you call it that) is a great platform, and it's just got better with the addition of pages, which I think are still in beta.
In the past if you wanted to give the illusion of pages on your Blogspot blot you'd create a new blog post then backdate it so it was so far back in your blog timeline that very few people would find it. The new beta pages alows you to create a page just like in Wordpress, and then select where in the template you want the menu displayed.
Currently Blogspot offers menu placement under the header or in the sidebar, and you can choose to enable a link back to the homepage as well. I have to say I'm impressed with this, it is several years late, but a lot of small business people start with Blogspot for their company website, and a lot of newbie bloggers do too.
What this means now is that it's possible for niche website creators to use Blogspot more effectively by putting their about, contact, and privacy policy into a page, and leave the articles for the blog posts, thus splitting things up just the way you like.
Whether you use AdSense or affiliate programs, Google's Blogspot is a great hosting platform because it's fast and reliable, and you can add your own domain to the site if you want. Sure you can't sell a Blogspot account, but you can sell the domain if you've bought one for your Blogspot, and if the site is a
niche site, then you can also sell the content.
All in all, I think pages has given Blogspot a new lease of life and I think this quiet revolution is going to transform Blogspot, and make it impossible for people to continue to ignore the service.
Texas Defensive Driving said,
Thursday, February 18. 2010 at 01:11 (Reply)
I do agree with John, since its a Google Product and i don't think Google will be calm against wordpress, EOD they will have to com up with new and fresh UI. Blog spot has now really got modified a lot. Feels Good to host my blog on it.
Andrew@BloggingGuide said,
Thursday, February 18. 2010 at 07:19 (Reply)
Dave said,
Friday, February 19. 2010 at 18:52 (Reply)
I also think it is funny to see how many of these less than stellar looking Blogspot based websites actually contain very useful information.
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