Blogger to Wordpress Migration - Step by Step Tutorial

I often see the Blogger domain of this blog and have a sinking feeling that I am stuck with this blogspot sub-domain. Believe me, there is nothing wrong in running your blog on a blogspot sub domain. There are instances of blogging successes on a blogspot domain too. It is just that with a custom domain and paid hosting, you have more flexibility and control over the various elements that comprise your blog. And for SEO benefits, it is advised to always run your blog on a custom domain - preferably using a blogging software like Wordpress - though Drupal would also make a good fit.Read more »

Wordpress upgrades free space for blogs to 3 GB

Wordpress.com is the alter identity of Wordpress.org, where anyone who is interested in blogging can start his or her own blog for free. What is more your blog can use as much bandwidth as needed; you could even host your blog on wordpress.com servers using your own domain albeit for a nominal yearly fee. Till date though, the free users availing the services of Wordpress.com were limited to using only 50 MB of space to save their photos. This meant that most users were forced to use third party tools like flickr to host their images and then link to them from their Wordpress blogs.

Not any more. Now Matt Mullenweg reveals that Wordpress.com has hiked the free upload space from 50 MB to a whooping 3000 MB ~ 3GB. More over, you are not limited to uploading just photos but can also upload and link to a plethora of files such as PDF, ppt, odt, MS Word and many more. And your blog still gets all the bandwidth you can use.

Now compared to this, Google's Blogger.com provides just 1GB space via Picasaweb.google.com which is tied to your account and allows you to upload only images. Of course 1 GB is still a huge amount. And if multiple people are contributing to a blog at blogger.com, I presume each person gets 1 GB space each.

If you ask me, I think Wordpress is a superior blogging platform and blogger.com developers can imbibe a trick or two from Wordpress.