Over the past few days I have been searching for literary blogs and found that the majority of bloggers are using the Blogger platform. Why has this happened? Do they not understand the power, flexibility, leanness and capacity of WordPress.org, not to mention that all of their content on Blogspot could disappear in a flash? Chances are Blogspot will not close its blogging platform without at least a warning but as for myself I would be petrified at the idea of losing all my content, not to mention that you don’t own the content because your blog is hosted by Blogspot. A few bloggers also had free blogs hosted on WordPress.com and Live Journal.
Here are some reasons why literary bloggers may still be using Blogspot:
- They did not want to pay for a domain and hosting. Maybe they thought their blog would never make any money and also that they did not initially start a blog as an income generating endeavor.
- Many writers, editors and creative writing teachers are not very tech savvy (at least in my experience) and may cringe at the idea of purchasing a domain, a hosting plan and then uploading the WordPress software to their site. While I can understand this possible reasoning the benefits seem to far outweigh the potential tech headaches. Most hosts also have a one-click feature for adding popular blogging software such as WordPress.
- A fare amount of literary bloggers started their blogs three or more years ago and therefore set the standard for future bloggers to follow. Newer bloggers may not be aware of the other blogging options available to them.
If you are currently maintaining a literary blog on Blogger what do you see as the possible advantages to using that platform?
Have you considered changing to a different platform?
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