Daddycat’s a geek. In a nice way.
He’s become an ISP, which means he hosts websites and blogs and stuff, and he wants to buy me a domain name of my own, and install a wordpress blog there, for no other real reason than he’s a geek, and likes working in the machine room, and fiddling, so to speak.
I’m not sure though.. At the moment, I have lots of friends, subscribers and google followers and I fear that only some of them would be bothered to follow me to the new address?
But on the plus side, you have much more control over the stats and things, and this is the most popular thing he’s ever done on the internet ever, even with only 50 readers! 
And does Google favour blogger sites over other blog sites?
Is WordPress REALLY better that Blogger?
All these questions… Can anyone help?
In the meantime, here’s another funny(ish) picture that’s on lolcats.
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We doesn't has no geeks here but what we can tell you is that it's much easier to navigate and to add friends and to follow blogs with blogger. But, we do have lots of wordpress friends, too.
We were able to forward subscribers to Gemini's blog to our main blog at Chey's place when we left blogger altogether so you can get people to follow that way.
We wouldn't use anything but WordPress on our own domain. However we have our blogger account so that those cats who only have blogger and require that you have a google account let us comment and visit.
Computers are very hard, so I do not know which is best. But we would follow you wherever you went!
IDK….I'm kind of an ungeek. I just found out about blogspot last fall.
I've used both for years.
WordPress (installed) is much more flexible, and I think much better in some ways. It does have a fairly high learning curve, though, and there are often issues with cats updating their subscriptions and such.
Blogspot is easier to deal with but less flexible, and less control.
I believe Google does favor Blogspot blogs because they own the domain.
I'm not sure what you mean by control over stats, though. You can run google analytics on a blogspot blog too, or most any stats that you can put in to the template via HTML.
My recommendation would be to use WP installed for a new project and keep your current blog right where it is.
Note, though, that if you set up your domain name on blogger, you'll lose a lot of things too, as the URL will change. But you can have a URL to forward to your blogspot blog
~~Robyn
you can email me at catsnmom AT houseofthemostlyblackcats DOT com if you have questions
We use wordpress cuz we have our own domain but we thing blogger is okay too…mainly cuz it seems so many of our furiends use blogger…we know other cats that have switched to a .com and we can still find them!
Honestly, I liked Blogger better.
I was urged to take up WordPress, but I felt more comfortable using Blogger.
Blogspot is also a lot easier with connecting everything. The only thing I can’t do (yet) is check where the majority of my traffic is coming from, but I’m sure that there are programs out there to help the Blogger community. Also, WordPress is always one step behind Blogger, mainly because Google is such a large community.
All in all, go with what you’re comfortable with.