Geeking Spree has it's own logo !
It's as simple as the whole design of geekingspree.com. Currently I'm using it only as a favicon.
The letter 'S' is a little off, which should make you feel anxious and intrigued just like reading my blog.
Why I chose blogger.com over wordpress.com as a blogging platform ?
Some time ago I switched from Wordpress.com to Blogger.com. There are three main reasons why I did that. If you consider blogging on one of these platforms, you should read it. In this post, I will also count what price you would pay for both if you wished to customize some settings of your domain and blog.
Reason #1: Free domain attribution at blogger.com
Let's say that you don't want to have your blog on yourfancyname.blogspot.com or yourfancyname.wordpress.com but on yourfancyname.com. First, you need to register yourfancyname.com domain at one of the domain providers (it's about $10). So you would pay for it and you would just need to go to blogger settings to add a new blog address (because adding a new address on blogger.com is free), while at wordpress.com it would cost you 10$ for a domain plus 12$ for assigning a custom address to your blog. 10$ is less than 22$, so you can save 12$. As you can see, you have to pay 12$/year just because you don't want to have wordpress.com in your address.
Blogger.com 10$/year (+10$/year for domain registration)
Wordpress.com 22$/year (+10$/year for domain registration, +12$/year for a custom domain)
Reason #2: No forced Ads at blogger.com
Ok, let's say that I didn't convince you in Reason #1. 12$/year (for nothing) is not an argument for you. You register your blog at wordpress.com and write your first post, that's great! Congratulations! But wait a second, you view your post and you see that at the bottom of it is an ad (which is not relevant to your content at all). Since you don't like these ads you want to turn them off. You go to wordpress.com store and you see that you can turn them off ... for only 30$/year (again paying for nothing). At blogger.com there are no ads injected by the blogging platform.
Blogger.com 10$/year (+0$/year, because there are no ads to turn off)
Wordpress.com 52$/year (+30$/year, because you don't want to serve wordpress.com ads)
Reason #3: A way to monetize your traffic
So if you are reading the third reason, that means you are still not convinced. Let's say that after some time you've written a few really good posts, you have a nice content and while days roll on, you have more and more people who want to read your content. Maybe you would want to monetize this traffic (of course you are a hobby writer but let's assume that your traffic is so huge that you can't resist to try to monetize it). You go to wordpress.com admin panel to see what you need to do in order to start viewing ads on your site. You see that it will cost you $3,750/month (you need to upgrade to VIP account) at wordpress.com and 0$ at blogger.com (Google Ads). If you want to have ads (for free) which are intended to make money for you at wordpress.com, then you have to apply for the approval. One of the criteria of a positive consideration is big enough number of visitors. What is that number? Plus, they can always reject your request.
Blogger.com 10$/year (+0$/year, because of no cost of displaying Google Ads to earn money)
Wordpress.com 3802$/year (+3,750$/month, because you need to upgrade to VIP account)
In my opinion free is not free and wordpress.com should not write that they are serving a free blogging platform, if you need to pay money for basic services.
Reason #1: Free domain attribution at blogger.com
Let's say that you don't want to have your blog on yourfancyname.blogspot.com or yourfancyname.wordpress.com but on yourfancyname.com. First, you need to register yourfancyname.com domain at one of the domain providers (it's about $10). So you would pay for it and you would just need to go to blogger settings to add a new blog address (because adding a new address on blogger.com is free), while at wordpress.com it would cost you 10$ for a domain plus 12$ for assigning a custom address to your blog. 10$ is less than 22$, so you can save 12$. As you can see, you have to pay 12$/year just because you don't want to have wordpress.com in your address.
Blogger.com 10$/year (+10$/year for domain registration)
Wordpress.com 22$/year (+10$/year for domain registration, +12$/year for a custom domain)
Reason #2: No forced Ads at blogger.com
Ok, let's say that I didn't convince you in Reason #1. 12$/year (for nothing) is not an argument for you. You register your blog at wordpress.com and write your first post, that's great! Congratulations! But wait a second, you view your post and you see that at the bottom of it is an ad (which is not relevant to your content at all). Since you don't like these ads you want to turn them off. You go to wordpress.com store and you see that you can turn them off ... for only 30$/year (again paying for nothing). At blogger.com there are no ads injected by the blogging platform.
Blogger.com 10$/year (+0$/year, because there are no ads to turn off)
Wordpress.com 52$/year (+30$/year, because you don't want to serve wordpress.com ads)
Reason #3: A way to monetize your traffic
So if you are reading the third reason, that means you are still not convinced. Let's say that after some time you've written a few really good posts, you have a nice content and while days roll on, you have more and more people who want to read your content. Maybe you would want to monetize this traffic (of course you are a hobby writer but let's assume that your traffic is so huge that you can't resist to try to monetize it). You go to wordpress.com admin panel to see what you need to do in order to start viewing ads on your site. You see that it will cost you $3,750/month (you need to upgrade to VIP account) at wordpress.com and 0$ at blogger.com (Google Ads). If you want to have ads (for free) which are intended to make money for you at wordpress.com, then you have to apply for the approval. One of the criteria of a positive consideration is big enough number of visitors. What is that number? Plus, they can always reject your request.
Blogger.com 10$/year (+0$/year, because of no cost of displaying Google Ads to earn money)
Wordpress.com 3802$/year (+3,750$/month, because you need to upgrade to VIP account)
In my opinion free is not free and wordpress.com should not write that they are serving a free blogging platform, if you need to pay money for basic services.
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