So I've been blogging for a while over on Weebly and recently decided that I wanted all of my content to filter out from one
source (my website) to keep things more manageable, but I was still left with a blogging conundrum - should
I have a Blogger blog, or not?
My reasons to have one:
It integrates nicely with some of my favourite writing and travel related blogs
Greater exposure
Top SEO
My reasons against:
Weebly blog is well established and I want all of my content to feed from my website out to various social media streams
Having another blog in another location to look after will be too much to maintain
However, I have noticed some distinct disadvantages with Weebly blogs as follows:
You can't copy or save an archive of your blog posts to any where. So,
you will not be able to migrate. If you need to move to Blogger or
WordPress, you have to manually copy and paste all of your posts and
comments.
There are
no post tags. Post tags tell precisely what the post is about in five or six
words and search engines give priority to them, treating them as
subjects rather than words. With the post tag facility absent in Weebly,
it leaves your blog posts treated as generic content.
Thinking
about all of the pros and cons above, I finally decided to have a
Weebly blog and a Blogger blog and to copy and paste my Weebly content
to Blogger. It's definitely not efficient, but it's an adequate
compromise for now. I reasoned it was better to be a part of the growing
Google social media network, than to miss out altogether.
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