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After a rather thorough and taxing look at both Blogger and WordPress.com it's time to evaluate the possibility that some of you might want to switch from one service or the other. That or you floated in on a wave of search traffic, looking at whether this is possible. It's a rather simple operation, but one that requires a bit of testing to see how your content will look on a different platform.
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The two undisputed kings of the free blogging sphere are Google's Blogger and the content management system-turned-host WordPress.com. While both offer what every free-thinking democracy-guzzling thought-cannon wants – a place to express themselves – there are some core differences in each service. Both WordPress.com and Blogger are workable free solutions, but which is the right one for you? This detailed breakdown of each service should hopefully help you decide.
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Google is battling Facebook comments by bringing its very own Google+ comments to Blogger blogging service. Google+ comments are currently only available within Blogger blogs, but can be a very useful feature for bloggers that use Google's platform for generating their content, opening up some interesting ways to interact with their reader base.
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Seems like every other week now, Google rolls out new features for enhancing its social networking site, Google+, which it says over 40 million people have joined. This week it announced plans for allowing Google Blogger users to replace their Blogger profile with their Google+ profile, which essentially means tighter integration between both of the popular services and means of communication.
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Google has launched a brand new look for Blogger – Dynamic Views. These are basically seven new themes that are meant to revolutionize Blogger’s user experience. The new themes are built with AJAX, HTML5 and CSS, and are designed to create a new feel and look for both authors and users. The new designs should be easy to implement and quick to load.
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Alongside Google's hot social networking platform, the Mountain View based company has redesigned many of its products' user interfaces over the past few months in an effort to provide a cleaner and more streamlined feel. Most of these changes are totally aesthetic, but they are easier on the eye and make the Google experience much more pleasurable.
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If you are a Blogger user, you may have occasionally wondered, "How can I make one of those crazy-cool contact forms that all the other blogs in the world have?" Fortunately, if you are also a Google Docs user, this can be done with relative ease (and absolutely no pain).
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No blog will have a meaningful life without any visitors, so getting people to come and read your web writing is essential for your blog to survive. While getting many people to visit your blog is fairly achievable, turning them into loyal visitors is a bit more tricky. Producing great content is one way to achieve that. But you need more than quality content to keep your readers coming back for more.
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Google announced an overhaul of Blogger yesterday, which vastly improves the user interface for its many users worldwide. Google has been steadily improving Blogger’s service over 2010, adding features like template designer, comments spam filtering, web fonts and more, yet Google says the Blogger revamp is just the beginning of a big year of upgrades [...]
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Last week, our poll asked readers to vote on their favourite budget web host. Basically, the results gave us a showdown between GoDaddy and Blue Host. GoDaddy won by a very small margin on 23%; Blue Host got 22% of the votes; HostGator was third on 15%; iPage 6%; Web Hosting Pad 6%; Just Host [...]
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As the owner of a new internet-enabled phone, I have been looking at various ways I can update my favourite online services using the phone’s built-in email function. If I am out and about, and I want to update something, the easiest way to do it would be to send an email with any images as [...]
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As some of you may know for my previous post here on MUO about NaNoWriMo, where I set up a blog about me writing a novel in thirty days. Normally when I set up a blog it becomes like a new-born child to me ““ I nurture it, I take care of it, I fight [...]
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Many of us have blogs that we update regularly to keep family and friends updated, to act as a portfolio for a business or for the lucky few ““ to provide an income from advertising. I keep mine mostly for fun and to showcase my writing. However, I’d say somewhere in the region of 90% [...]
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At the present time, a lot of people have a blog (but if you don’t own one yet, you can grab yours here).  This is due to the fact that everyone’s point of views are entitled to be published on the web, and to my knowledge what better form of depicting your ideas on the [...]
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Let’s face it, the world of mobile technology is fast becoming more integrated with the Internet universe. I remember barely three years ago, when I walked into a cellphone store and begged the sales guy to find me a mobile phone that I could use to visit the eBay website while at antique auctions. I knew [...]
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