Blogspot and WordPress

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  bakemyfish · Member · Nov 10, 2008 at 12:49 am

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  I have a Blogspot Blog, which I loaded to WordPress. I am keeping them both updated. They are basically identical, but Blogspot seems to have more flexibility in the sidebar, with videos and graphics and allowing me to add widgets. The downside is it takes longer for the Blogspot blog to load. Is there any chance WordPress will be easier to use outside widgets in the future, for example Widgetbox? It just seems there are more limitations with WordPress. With WordPress I have to put the videos on individual pages.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Nov 10, 2008 at 1:00 am

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  If you use VodPod, you can have videos in your sidebar. (And if you are keeping identical blogs in both places, don’t. Here’s what staff said about that: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/bloggercom-using-wordpress-blog?replies=2#post-268759

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 10, 2008 at 1:29 am

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  Staff have requested that if your blog here is just a duplicate of a blog somewhere else, that it be set to Private instead. It will still serve as a backup, but that way it won’t negatively impact your Google Juice for the other blog. Google and other search engines hate duplicate content with a passion and their bots are set to scan for it.

  If SEO is a major concern, you’re probably better off dumping the Blogspot blog and going with WP.com. If, however, embeds and javascript functions are more important, then you should just set the WP one to private, because staff aren’t going to review that decision any time soon.

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  bakemyfish · Member · Nov 10, 2008 at 3:39 am

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  Vivian,

  I did not load my WordPress to Blogger. Blogger was my first born and I loaded it on WordPress. That works. But using javascript is not possible on WordPress. I have to rethink what I will do with BlogSpot. I may have to dump WordPress, because of its limitations.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Nov 10, 2008 at 3:54 am

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  Not sure why you said that. I was just passing along what staff said about having two blogs with identical content. Regardless of how you ended up with the same content in two places, it’s there and you don’t want that.

  I answered your query about videos in the sidebar, which you said you wanted to do. But if javascript is important to you, then WordPress.COM is not for you. Staff has been quite clear on javascript – http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/javascript-can-i-use-that-on-my-blog/ – in other words, it ain’t happening.