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In this guest post, Kasey shares her opinion on why WordPress premium services is a better choice over Blogger- the free blog publishing tool from Google.

I have been blogging for roughly 6 ½ years. In that time I have used both Blogger – which is powered by Google – and Word Press. Of the two, I prefer WordPress, because of their premium services.

While it may seem logical to prefer something which is free over something you have to pay for, allow me to explain why the premium services offered by WordPress is better.

I have two blogs on which I have purchased the right to alter the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for $14.97 per blog per year. That breaks down to $.04 a day, times two, so $.08 a day for this ability. On Blogger, this is free. Yet for that $.08 a day, I am virtually guaranteed that nothing will go wrong with my blog. Granted, it’s not explicitly stated anywhere on Word Press’ website, but when you pay for something, the company from whom you purchase it knows that if they don’t do their best to make things run smoothly, you won’t be paying for it in the future.

Google, through Blogger, makes little to no money on blogs. Sure, they have their tried and true stand by of advertising banners and text, but they allow bloggers to decide whether or not they wish to display these ads. Of course, for the most part, no one really wants unsightly banners or text ads cluttering their blog, so Blogger blogs are kept revenue free and ad free. So that brings us to the question of why Google should care what happens to Blogger. Why waste manpower on something that’s not profitable for your company? There are very few, if any, companies that will allocate workers to any aspect of their business which is free for an extended period of time. Google is growing by leaps and bounds and Blogger is left in the gutter, because it doesn’t profit them.

Of course Google isn’t the only company to have a free service which people complain endlessly about, yet continue to use, so I’m quite sure that this article won’t convince others to leave Blogger, en masse. Yahoo’s chat service is free and works like crap in the best of times, yet people still use it by the thousands. They just complain endlessly, as do Blogger users. This is just food for thought when it comes to blogging and why paying for a service is better than free.

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Kasey is an avid blogger. She is author of two blogs “Book Addicts Anonymous” and “Complex Fem.” When she’s not busy blogging she can be found assisting at bloggertalk.net, where she is a forum moderator.