What are the pros and cons of using Blogger?

[Ravi Ojha]

Pros & Cons:
1) Its completely free.
2) But you'll get a domain/address like yourname.blogspot.com ( .blogspot.com makes it too lengthy)
So if you're planning to make it short you've to buy a domain & map it blogger blog (that's easy) Buying a domain may cost around $10 from Google Apps (mapping is free, you@yourdomain.com email is free, hidind whois lookup is free & many other free services)
3) You have full control over HTML of your blog, that means you can modify or apply any external template
4) You can also put any advertisement on blogger blog without any restriction & recover your investment of $10 on domain.
5) You can keep any kind of widget, social sharing buttons or whatever the widget you want..many blogger users are out there to help doing so.
6) You'll get free 1GB space on Picasa from Google. Hosting images upto 2048x2048 & videos upto 15 mins are free (unlimited) if size exceeds above than that then it'll count under free 1GB space.
7) These days Google has made Blogger SEO friendly. However you have to learn some SEO tactics to become some more SEO friendly.
8) You can create any kind of website with blogger.. website/forum/community or any other idea
9) There are lots of widgets & free templates available on internet to use on blogger blog. Because blogger itself doesn't have too good templates & widgets.