Last week TechCrunch ran a story analyzing the statistics on all the major blogging platforms. Still in the lead is Google’s Blogger software, but TechCrunch notes that although “millions of bloggers still use Blogger because it is easy, Wordpress.com is making steady gains and growing its aggregate audience in the U.S. at more than twice the annual rate of Blogger (40 percent versus 14 percent)”
The reasons in our opinion are simple - WordPress is a far more powerful and professional platform whose open-source architecture has fostered an incredible third party developer community that have created thousands of plugins and themes for the platform, and as bloggers become more experienced and see the limitations in Blogger, they are turning to WordPress.
Our own focus is on getting as many health related bloggers to switch from Blogger to WordPress and to grow that community through integrating social network functions around the core blog product. That is why we recently launched HealthBlogs.net which allows anyone to create a hosted WordPress blog within minutes. All the data can be imported from existing blogger blogs so there are no issues over migration of existing content.
If you’re reading this and still have your blog on Blogger.com, go over to HealthBlogs.net and open your new WordPress blog for free and let us know what you think. Most probably you’ll never want to go back to blogger again.
