Which is your favorite blogging platform - WordPress or Blogger? A majority of bloggers answer that they started with Google's Blogger but have shifted to WordPress now. Well, that doesn't prove WordPress is a better blogging platform than Blogger. Invariably, the choice depends upon your requirements. Before you choose any of these two blogging platform, it's most important for you to delve into the key areas of blogger and WordPress and see which of the two is ideal for that purpose. As for us we see Wordpress take over Blogger in several features that reciprocates a bloggers needs. This is what compled us to provide 10 reasons to dumpBlogger for Wordpress.

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There's a common misconception that Blogger doesn't offer add-ons for social networking like Wordpress. Well, all you social bees with blogger/blogspot blog need to know that there are cool social networking widgets for your blog. Just by adding a snippet of code to the sidebars you can integrate social networking with  your blog. Share your Facebook, FriendFeed, LinkedIn from your blog you can do it all right from your Blogger page. After an extended googling session we dug out an assortment of social networking widget for Blogger/Blogspot blog. Here's our list of assorted top 10 social networking widget for Blogger/Blogspot blog.

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With Wordpress booming, the Blogger aficionados must be looking for excuses to blow off steam. Well, they can boast about the cool templates that have come to the scene lately. There are some awesome, new blogger templates that you can't take your eyes off. These Blogger templates can lend your blog a lovely and professional look, you had always craved for. What's more, you can customize these blogger templates according to your needs and use. Now getting an user-friendly and intuitive interface for your blog using a blogger template can be as simple as a piece of cake. The only concern might be how you pick the best ones from the assortment of new blogger templates. We went through extensive search for new Blogger templates, before listing the top 10 new blogger theme you will fall in love with.

1. Corporate
2. Personal Mag
3. Revolution Church premium template
4. Paperview
5. Cake Recipe
6. Revolution Elements Blogger Template
7. Transparency
8. Exotic Vacation
9. Zenmag Remedy
10. Tired Girl

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When I see bloggers desperate to build up Twitter following, it reminds me of the Pied Piper of Hamelin who would have the children follow his flute's tune. Well, the modern Pied Pipers, pop star Britney Spears, actor Ashton Kutcher  and the TV network in the battle for most popular Twitterati are striving to touch the million followers mark. Certainly, for any blogger, building upon the followers is one of the straightest ways to generate traffic to their blog. As blogger are getting more seasoned with Twitter, there has been an increase in the tools and apps for a better Twitter experience.  There are a whole lot of apps for the bloggers to enhance their Tweeting experience. I picked up the top 10 + Twitter apps for bloggers.

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With Blogger templates flooding the web, the users are being spoiled for choices. Just a few years ago blogger (aka blogspot) had a limited templates that could meet the need for clean and minimalist template.  With Wordpress introducing newer and better themes, Blogger was losing its popularity in the blogosphere After the Blogger templates were changed to the XML format they have become immensely popular. Now there's a wide array of fantabulous templates for blogger and a majority of them available for free.

What's more, the blog designers have redefined the essence of blog looks. The Blogger templates are no more restricted to two columns, and provides extensive layouts with added functionality. There are a number of websites that offer excellent templates for free.  Lot of are conversions from the Wordpress. Well, I decided to digg out the best websites who can give you hundreds of wonderful templates for free to choose.
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Watch out bloggers! Those of you with Microsoft's laptops gifts can keep them back. MIcrosoft had send Acer Ferrari laptops to 90 bloggers during pre-Vista-launch. They were supposed to be returned to Microsoft after the review. After a peek-a-boo over the bloggers on returning the laptops, the final verdict was in favor of bloggers. The New York Times read, Microsoft wants the bloggers to keep them back.

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Are you one of those with the new blogger beta? Still searching how to hide the blogger navbar? You known its a cross to bear for your visitors. Well, let me tell you that the new beta blogger uses different CSS tags. So your old CSS code fundas won't work. Get this trick done by the following method.
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Blog authors now have an exhilarating news with Google blog converters 1.0 being released. Blogger.com was allowing its bloggers to export all the contents of the blog previously. Now the Google Blog Converters project was announced by Data liberation team. The new Open Source project would provide options to move blog posts easily and comment from service to service and more.
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Twitter has become phenomenally popular around the world. So if you are an avid blogger and a twitterer yourself, then you must be wondering how to synchronize them both? Here is a simple trick that will add twitter gadget to your blog so that you can be updated on both in a single window.

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