So which is the best? Since I have tried both I think I’m in a good position to decide which is the best. If you are just blogging in your leisure time and your not worried about your traffic and stuff then any of the two is fine, But if your looking to build readers and add functionality to your blog in various ways then I have to say Wordpress is far superior to Blogger. You can find different views and endless debates about this topic in the web but it finally comes down to the purpose of your blog.If its making money online then its self hosted Wordpress for sure.Below are few of the reasons why I’m saying Wordpress is better than Blogger.
- In Wordpress you get thousands of themes to choose from. While in Blogger your choice is limited. In one of my previous posts I mentioned how a simple change of theme increase my page views dramatically.I wouldn’t be able to do that if I was using Blogger. And if that isn’t enough there are contests where you can win professional looking Wordpress themes, I haven’t seeing a contest where you can win a Blogger theme.
- There are thousands of plug ins available in Wordpress where you can add functionality to your blog. For example plug ins like Recent comments, Popular posts , Recent posts are available where you can add them with few simple clicks. You can’t do that in Blogger.
- In Wordpress you have the time stamp option where you can write a post now and set the time stamp to a future date so the post will get published on the day you specified. This is especially useful when you know you cant blog for a while but want to keep the update frequency of the blog. Writing four for five articles in two or three days and waiting a week to write the next one is bad for your readers.
Only good thing I can think of Blogger is its very easy to integrate ad sense ads. But you can do it just as easily with Wordpress if you add a plug in like Adsense Deluxe, and it provides you better management of your ads as well. So if you are just starting out blogging and if you have chosen Blogger I hope you read this and change to Wordpress . All you bloggers using Blogger what do you have to say 
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Update : Blogger is now providing the ability to time stamp your posts , so now you can write posts and publish them automatically in a future date using blogger as well. Although free Wordpress blogs do provide support for some plug-ins to experience the true power of Wordpress you need a self hosted Wordpress blog.Web hosting is around 6$/month and if you cant earn more than 6$ a month you shouldn’t be trying to make money online.
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I also did sort of a ‘Inside Story’ on this. Check this, if you’re interested.