The War Between Blogger, Tumblr and WordPress – Which one is the Best?

Made your decision of finally starting a blog? But still figuring out which blogging platform best suits your needs? Before anything else, I like to congratulate you on being confused between the best blogging platforms (WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr). To help you decide, we`ve given a broad-spectrum overview of all three with their exclusive features and regretted cons.

Blogger

The first blogging platform for many bloggers out there, Blogger is the earliest one. This platform comes with easy navigation and has come with exclusive features offered by Google. However if you want to customize your blog, you won’t be able to enjoy much as Blogger generally offers HTML. In order to back the dark side up, Blogger offers its users a wide array of widgets and the simplest set up process compared to others. Apart from that, Blogger offers the easiest post and publish options.

Pros

• Provision of built in Visitor Stats
• It is integrated with other Google Applications
• Easy to use, recommended for Amateur Bloggers
• Provides Fully Editable Templates

Cons

• Only offers limited Storage
• Doesn`t come with wide array of features with one basic blogging abilities

WordPress

Probably the most famous one these days, WordPress is now the platform to more than 60 million blogs over the internet. Ideal for both business and personal blogs, WordPress have proved itself to be the most versatile Blogging Platform. WordPress is also the home of great Plugins and themes which are specially designed by WordPress theme to provide their users the ease of operating a blog.

Pros

• Provides platform as a complete Makeshift Website
• Lets its users to assign administrator, editors and other contributors thus making it ideal for Multi Author Blog
• Comes with complex formatting control

Cons

• Free version comes with unwanted Advertisement
• Spam comments are welcomed even after Spam Blocker
• Advance enhancements comes with money
• Provides Non-Editable Templates

Tumblr

Perhaps the easiest one to get with, Tumblr is ideal for people who are not workaholics, but want to dedicate sometime for internet. Unlike its competitors (Blogger and WordPress), Tumblr widely supports media such as images, videos, music and text. However it’s not ideal for creating long posts as its Tumblr is a quickie. The best thing about Tumblr is it lets its user to share their content with each other.

Pros

• Easy to use
• Comes with good user interface
• Customization is even allowed with HTML
• Offers easy moderation capabilities for followers

Cons

• Doesn`t offer any analytic tools, this problem can be solved by logging into your Google Analytics Account
• Widely used in micro blogging and is unfit for long posts