In this article, we will explore whether Blogspot, Livejournal or wordpress is suitable for you when it comes to building your Blogshop or online boutique
Livejournal
The key advantage of Livejournal is the social platform solution where blogshop owner can create their social space within LiveJournal in the internet and meet their possible customers.
Pluses: As mentioned above,
LiveJournal has some many social networking features and communities where blogshop owner can advertise their sales item to the community. It is very easy to find and make new friends there and track their blogs. This is good when it comes to marketing your blogshop to the community.
Minuses: If you are thinking monetizing your blog, Livejournal will not allow that – all advertisements there are added by Livejournal company.
There is also limitation when it comes to modifying the platform to fit that of a blogshop as it is afterall a blog not build with ecommerce features in mind.
Categorizing your sales item is tough and the number of themes is limited. There are also no plugins at all.
More importantly when it comes to
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) The search engines don’t like
Livejournal. Take a test and type popular key words, it is unlikely you will ever be on the first page of Google. Something to ponder if you like to attract internet shoppers.
Blogger
IMO, Blogger is the easiet platform for anyone is starting off. Compared to Wordpress, it is much much easy. This is a platform for beginners, who just started off creating a Blogshop.
Pluses: Yes, you can monetize your blog with Adsense: the advertisements can be added in limited amounts and positions
Plugin is available in making your blog more entertaining, and more themes.
Another advantage is it allowed you to use your own domain (without blogspot) while using their template.
It is easy to design and configure as long as you follow the template closely.
It is your one-step in building a semi-professional blogshop.
Minuses: It is not
SEO friendly. Many beginners think that if this platform is earned by Google, then their blog will be in the Top 10 on every page of the search engines and have thousands of visitors every day. It is not true: Although there is a possibility to be on the first page of Google, it will take much more time to get there as on Wordpress.
The reason being of its lack of
SEO capability is due its lack of modification in its code. You can't really tweak the coding to make it more
SEO.
To some , Blogger doesn’t look nice: doesn’t allow to add categories which is vital for a Blogshop.
With the countless of theme available, It does help Blogshop who needs to create a professional image. However tweaking is limited.
Wordpress
This is the best solution for Blogshops who want to have professional and nice looking web-page for their blogshop. However be prepared to learn a bit more about wordpress as it is not as simple as Blogshop. Also for wordpress, you need to have your own hosting so it does take a little programming if you decide to choose wordpress.
Pluses: There are many professional themes and plugins, Code programming can be done with many plugins which is helpful for blogshop.
There are many things you can do out of the platform,
SEO, ecommerce plugin etc etc.
With wordpress, you can basically build a perofessional looking blogshop.
Most popular blogs in the internet out there are build based on wordpress. It is an amateur playground while blogspot is for beginners
Minuses: Hosting is required, the price is not expensive and can be covered by earnings from your blog.
Excellent platform for everyone who wants to build a professional image but a little knowledge of web programming is required
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02-25-2010, 07:25 AM
Sellers are highly recommended to list their sales items and prices by creating more posts.
