Wordpress Vs Blogger Vs Tumblr, What to Choose?

Blogging is a best way how to spend time in internet, it connects people to people to share they thoughts, exchange knowledges, and even for business. There are about 200 million blogs showing their existence and important part of internet.

If you are going to start a blog and now in such dilemma which platform to choose, there are three top-leading blogging platform to pick: Wordpress, Blogger, and Tumblr.

Let us explain them simply what are best and worst part of them.

Wordpress

Wordpress is the most used blogging platform, this platform is a good choice for hardcore blogger and usually used by journalists. There are Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org which both of them are open-source. The Wordpress.com is hosted by Wordpress, meanwhile the Wordpress.org is hosted by its users themselves. Blog from Wordpress will seem like official page than a blog for an only entertainment.

What makes good:

• Simple, this platfrom is used by most bloggers and lots of official news pages.
• Lots of mobile devices support mobile-posting (post via mobile).
• Allow you to host the blog from your own server. 
• Supports auto-post via Twitter, Facebook. 
• Good for hardcore blogger journalist.

What makes bad:

• You need upgrade cost to customise HTML.
• Third-party plugins are not allowed on Wordpress.com
• The Wordpress.com blog may contain ads.
• You need cost to install a domain.
• The Wordpress.org is not suitable for beginners.
• The analytic and statistic provided are basic.

Blogger

This one is the most powerful blogging platform which is owned by Google. This platform gives you freedom to use your own creative to customise its appearance. You don't have to spend any cost to make your blog looks good. If you love to show off your creativity, Blogger is the right platform to be chosen.

What makes good:

• Freedom, anything you can do to customise its appearance.
• Its appearance can be customised via its easy-use layout editor.
• Third-party plugins are allowed.
• Rich of features.
• Since it is owned by Google, Blogger is easy to be integrated with other Google services such YouTube, AdSense, and Picassa.
• And also, Google Analytic works best for Blogger because of the reason above.
• More likely to appear on Google Search Engine and other search engines.
• Domain is free to be installed (as long as you already have domain).
• The dashboard (homepage) is user-friendly.

What makes bad:

• The terms and condition is quite strict, Google decides which is fit to post. They could delete any inappropriate post or even blog without confirmation.
• There is comment moderation page, but lots of spammers spamming moderation page is still disturbing.
• Export and Import is meant to the same platform.
• No suitable mobile application to mobile-post, there is Blogger application on iOS but it appears not so good.
• There is no post grouping/categorising, only post tag is available.
• Once you've written here, you can migrate to another platform as its export tool is only suitable for Blogger only.
• Barely integrated with social-networkings. There is a Facebook application called NetworkedBlogs to solve and tweak this one.

Tumblr

The top most entertaining of blog writting, this is more likely look like micro-blogging than an actual blogger, but it is the good choice for people who love to share picture, video, or small amount texts (yes, of course, you can write long text too, but it is usually not used much on Tumblr). And yet, Tumblr works like Twitter which people can follow other blogs and re-blog (re-post, or similar like re-tweet on Twitter). This platform is used by lots of teenage and used more to entertainment or just sharing simple things.

What makes good:

• Super simple, everybody can use it easily.
• You can customise some parts of its appearance by HTML editor.
• There are 'Love' and 'Re-blog' button, people would likely to appreciate people's creativity by those buttons.
• Installing domain is free.
• Available on Android and iOS as an application.
• Integrated best with Twitter and Path. 

What makes bad:

• Not suitable for hardcore blogger or journalist, it is not the best choice if you love to write things so long.
• Pluggins are limited.
• Rarely appear on search engine.
• No commenting box on each Tumblr post, but there is a third-party called Disqus to tweak this one.
• Not integrated to Facebook.

 Now let yourself decide what to choose, there are so many aspects to consider from what kind of post you will write, what kind blog theme you will use, how serious is your post content, and the rest. If you are prefer and love to write and if you are mobile like love to travelling, you might love to choose Wordpress.

 You'd like Blogger if you are hardcore blogger who love to write things a lot, or if you like to tweak your blog appearance and make it looks beautiful, or even earning money from Ads Publisher.

If you love to share pictures and videos, and make your blog looks like gallery, or you love to read people's post and actually looking for some interesting pictures and videos, you might like to choose Tumblr.