Plugins for blogger??

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 at 6:22 am

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Well it has been a while as I have been extremely busy with a few projects that have taken priority over posting here. (I know shame on me.) Back to questions today.

I read the report “Get your blog going” which was very interesting. You refer to several tools such as plug-ins with reference to WordPress. All my 8 blogs are in Blogger. I tried WordPress once but got stuck so went back to the easier Blogger. Can I still use these techniques in Blogger? If so, how?

Not that I know of. There are two reasons that I don’t care for Blogger for any primary blog. The lack of automation and customization of the structure of the blog.

I mean you can make them look unique and do some nice things with pulling feeds but…

(First I am not an expert on Blogger and there may be things to do this that I am not aware of) you can’t automate the pinging, create custom title tags and things that I feel are necessary to make your blog more powerful.

My other problem with Blogger (actually any site I don’t own and control) is that you can have your account disappear and have no recourse. You also don’t own the domain (yes I know you can forward to your own domain) and it takes work to create backlinks, bookmark posts etc and that can disappear with no recourse on your part.

Now before you get too mad Blogger does have some good things and can and should be used as part of your overall blogging just not for your primary blogs (in my humble opinion.) If someone that is more expert in Blogger blogs can let me know if I am missing things I would appreciate it as even Old Bald Guys can learn new things.

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Have a great day.