Many of you are already familiar with Blogger and any limitations that may be there. If you are frustrated with those options or just want to be able to do more with your blog, you have probably started looking at WordPress and TypePad. I’m going to compare some of the features and cost of both of these here.
For the purpose of this article, when I talk about WordPress — I am speaking of WordPress.org which is the free, open source software that is installed under a web hosting account.
In order to get close to the same features for WordPress and TypePad, you would need the TypePad Pro account. Some features are included in WordPress automatically, while the lower TypePad accounts limit what you can do. A few of the features I’m looking at are scheduling posts and customizing the design. I love being able to schedule posts. If you participate in a meme like Wordless Wednesdays where you just post a picture, you could pick out pictures and schedule them to appear on Wednesdays a month ahead of time or more.
As far as customizing a design goes, I’m sure everyone would like a special design. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of free templates out there for both WordPress and TypePad. There are a lot of designers who can customize a template for you for very reasonable prices. But in order for those designers to make certain changes, you may have to pay for a TypePad Pro account.
Now, let’s look at money. For TypePad Pro, the monthly cost is $14.95 unless you pre-pay for a year in which case you get 2 months free. Basically taking the price to $12.46 a month. My web host is DreamHost. Under my account, I can use their one-click install system that makes it super easy to install WordPress. DreamHost also has a great control panel that lets you manage everything for your account. Their one-click install system can install different software — not just WordPress if you ever wanted to venture outside the blog world. Their pricing is $9.95 a month if you pre-pay for a year.
If you know you want WordPress but aren’t sure of the web hosting stuff, check out Desperately Seeking WordPress Installations. Heather’s got some great packages whether you are already blogging or just want to get started. At times it feels like Heather and I share a brain. I was going to come up with packages, but since I haven’t yet, go check hers out!
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You need to put up packages. Seriously. Then I can refer people over here.
And I set up a blogger blog last night to see what I can do with it. You can autopost now.
As much as I love selfhosted wordpress, I have to admit, that if someone wanted something other than a self hosted account, I would tell them to use blogger and not wordpress.com. You can do so much more with blogger than you can do with wordpress.com… sad, isn’t it?
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I agree with everything you’ve said, but link ownership is a biggie for me. I can own myblog.com and myblog.com/mypost/whateverpostnameis. It’s mine. I can move it. I can do whatever I want with it.
myblog.typepad.com and myblog.typepad.com/mypost/whateverpostnameis is not mine. Sure I can get a “copy” of my posts and place them somewhere else, but I lose link juice, link love and the reasons why SEO on blogs is so great.
Actually you can own your links with blogger too. You can have them host your domain or you can have them ftp your blog to your host. In both cases you get mysweetdomain.com/link
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In order to schedule posts you don’t need the Typepad Pro account, Plus will do, at $8.95/mo.
The only difference between Plus and Pro is that Pro allows full customization of all template design elements and hosting unlimted blogs in one account, Plus only allows three blogs. Domain mapping is also available from the Plus level. However the real “killer” why I want to use Typepad is their File Manager where I can create directories and upload files. just like a regular hosted website. Cant’t do that at wordpress.com or blogspot.com.