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Blogging has redefined the way humans do just about everything.
At heart, a blog is an online journal or "Web log". According to a 2007
article in CNET ("Blogs turn 10 – who's the father?"), blogs typically
feature sequential posts "sorted by date, with the newest posts at the
top and the rest archived for future use". At some point in time, the
words "Web" and "Log" were combined into "blog".
Many blogs give readers an opportunity to respond to posts with comments
of their own. This quality has made blogging a whole new means of
communication, one that's not limited by social status, age or
geography.
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responses is easily done through Quick Blogcast's integrated dashboard.
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knowing a single thing about computer programming or html code.
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Top Reasons Why Your Blog Shouldn’t Be Using BlogSpot.com
Google Doesn’t Need The Help: Lets assume you have a your own website. This website is probably on its own domain (example: Johnsmith.com) By hosting your blog as a sub-domain on BlogSpot.com you’re basically depriving your primary website of any real search engine optimization. Instead, if you’re using blogspot.com, you’re kind of benefiting Google instead. Even if you don’t switch blogging platforms, get your own “real” domain now. At least this way, if you decide to switch later, you won’t lose all the search engine optimization (SEO) that you’ve built up.
Domain Lock-In: Technical people will tell you that the right way to move a website or blog from one domain to another is via what is called a “301 permanent redirect”. What this means is that you setup a clean forwarding address from your old site to the new site. By using this approach, you don’t lose any of the search engine power you’ve pulled together. Guess what: Google does not let you do a 301 redirect from your old site to anywhere else if you’re using blogspot.com as your domain. If you currently have a blog that is something like johnsmith.blogspot.com and you build a ton of inbound links to the site, Google does not let you redirect that SEO value to a new site (like your personal website). This is a Very Bad Thing.
Transferring Data Is Unreasonably Hard: Let's say you have 200 articles posted ont the Blogspot Blogger platform. And let's say you want to move this data over using an automated process. The problem is that neither of the versions of the API (application programming interfaces) that Google provides works completely. One version doesn’t let you migrate comments (an important part of many blogs). The other doesn’t let you move more than a few dozen articles – period. Basically, Google has seemingly made it intentionally difficult to migrate off of their platform. Then you end up calling specialists that end up writing a fair amount of custom code and jumping through a few hoops to get all of the data migrated over. But, this was much harder than it should be, and even for trained professionals. If you’re not a programmer, chances are you won’t be able to do this yourself. It shouldn’t be that hard.
Mediocre Feature-Set; Google’s blogging product (Blogger) is just not with the times when it comes to advanced functionality that is of value to today’s business and high quality bloggers. It doesn’t support things like article tagging, comment subscriptions and easy integration into other sites like Technorati. This is probably not such a bad thing for the millions of mainstream personal bloggers out there. But, if you’re a business or a professional blogger, and hope to be a power-blogger someday, we’d suggest that some of these missing features are important.
So, in summary, though Blogger is free – it’s not really free. The value of your time is much more important. If you’re looking to build a successful business blog that will help you find more clients and grow your business, you should find a professional blogging platform that is designed for your needs. (From a Post published on Blog.Hubspot.com)