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Sabrina, I promote my Blogger blog here and on other groups devoted to blogging. I also promote my blog by adding links to the blog version of my review to my Goodreads review. Almost all my followers come from Goodreads. Other followers that I have are indie authors who are happy with my reviews of their work or who hope that I will one day review their work.
I prefer Blogger because the SEO (Search Engine Optimization)is better. Most of my views come from Google searches. My WordPress blog was practically invisible. Almost no one ever accessed it. I abandoned my WordPress blog and brought it to Blogger. It now has more views in six months than it had in its entire history on WordPress. Seriously, views are more important than followers.
I have a personal blog on WordPress and my editing blog on Blogger. The Blogger one was the first I'd set up, and I kind of wish they were flip-flopped, now that I've used them both.I definitely see more "real" traffic on WordPress, with real people following, viewing, and liking my posts. Blogger sometimes gets traffic and sometimes not, but the numbers artificially inflate, due to the odd bots like vampirestat and adsensewatchdog making it look like I've had bunches of views.
I do have links to each of them on the other blog's site, so people can cross back and forth, but I've found that the slow & steady growth approach is fine by me. I'd rather have a few people who want to read what I have to say than hundreds who "follow" but ignore two of every three times I post.
I think the best way to get people to notice your blog is to visit theirs, comment when you have something to say, and interact in general on places like GR.
I agree with both of your points. And Lynda, I do like the thought of having actual followers to interact with. Most times even when I do comment on someone's blog on Wordpress they rarely comment back. There may be connectivity, but there's not always as much interactivity.I've decided to set up a little experiment where I have one blog one Blogger and Wordpress that look as much the same as possible so only the differences I can't change will be left. I'm also going to be posting the same thing on each blog, except that I'll definitely be taking advantage of the free abilities offered by Blogger as I mentioned above. You can check it out if you want:
Wordpress:
http://sabrinagiles.wordpress.com/
Blogger:
http://sabrinagiles.blogspot.com/
I agree with both of your points. And Lynda, I do like the thought of having actual followers to interact with. Most times even when I do comment on someone's blog on Wordpress they rarely comment back. There may be connectivity, but there's not always as much interactivity.I've decided to set up a little experiment where I have one blog one Blogger and Wordpress that look as much the same as possible so only the differences I can't change will be left. I'm also going to be posting the same thing on each blog, except that I'll definitely be taking advantage of the free abilities offered by Blogger as I mentioned above. You can check it out if you want:
Wordpress
Blogger
Sabrina, the bloggers who don't respond to their readers' comments don't usually get more than one or two more visits from me. I understand some of them get a TON of comments, but there are those who only get a handful, and I always appreciate when they acknowledge that someone took the time to compliment, make an observation, or argue with them.One of the authors here on GR, Raymond Esposito, has a terrific blog, http://writinginadeadworld.com/, and he's the one who taught me about replying to those who comment. I'd said something once on his blog about commenting too frequently, and he replied that he welcomes the comments, because otherwise, he's just talking to himself. Since then, I've been careful to reply on my own blog, even if it's just to thank someone for stopping by.
I'd be happy to check out your blog(s).
I use blogger and have consistent visitors each day. I find it easy to use and have a variety of people coming in and reading. I don't have a word press account, so not sure about them.
I have both, and wordpress is a bit better, but I did not get much activity on there. Now on blogger I receive much more activity on my blog. Yeah no one really comments, but I get tuns of page views, and maybe a follower here and there. At least I know someone is reading my blog. Plus my blogger blog is new, so I have a lot of growing to do. So I like my wordpress blog, but I think I will stick with blogger.
I had blogger for a long time and switched to Wordpress a few months ago and prefer it by far! I love how it looks and how it works. The interface is tidier and uploading and placing images in posts is infinitely easier! I'm also getting really fed up with Google's obsessive plot to get everyone using Google+ so no Blogger for me...
I don't pay for Wordpress though so it is a little more limiting, I wish I could change the template colours but, alas, I won't pay so I can't.
I also like that people can 'like' the post, the number of comments using either platform is sadly decreasing nowadays...http://www.bekahcat.wordpress.com
I'll admit, that's something I don't like about Blogger. It's harder to comment, and there's no "like" button. Sometimes, I simply want to tell someone I liked what they wrote, but don't necessarily have a comment to add.
That's why I kind of left Blogger behind for a long time, but I go back to thinking about it every so often because Wordpress has its flaws too. With Wordpress you have to do an upgrade to upload videos, or at least more than one video, and I can't do any of my giveaways with the rafflecopter widget. I can't post gifs either, so that does limit the kinds of posts I can put on my Wordpress blog, which continuously saddens me because I've been thinking about making video blog posts. Not so with Wordpress.
Sometimes I really want to switch back to Blogger, but the connectivity thing makes me nervous. I don't know if anyone's had the same problem with that as I have, but I would really like to know how bloggers on Blogspot seek out other bloggers in their same category? Or any category? If I'm right in saying the connectivity between bloggers is a little harder than on Wordpress, then I ask how you did it. How did you get all those followers on your Blogspot blog?