Blogger next to Typoza: price, editor, newsletter and export
Your Blogger blog now needs code blocks, a newsletter or a team, and you want to know what paying would add.
Free to start, no card. You can export your posts at any time, on every plan.
What Blogger gives you
- Free hosting, on blogspot or on your own domain
- A rich-text editor with an HTML view
- AdSense in the dashboard, no newsletter
- A backup file in Atom XML
What Typoza gives you
- Free on a subdomain, your own domain from Collective
- Blocks for code tabs, callouts and spec sheets
- No ads, and a newsletter built in
- An export in Markdown and JSON
Blogger hosts a blog for free under a Google account, on a blogspot address or on a domain of your own at no extra cost. AdSense is built into its dashboard.
Its editor is rich text with the HTML underneath. There is no block for tabbed code, a callout or a spec sheet, so you write those in HTML by hand. Blogger sends no email when you publish, and its export is a backup file in Atom XML.
Typoza covers what Blogger leaves out. The editor has blocks for code in tabs, callouts, spec sheets, galleries, and embeds that load only when a reader clicks. Each post gets its own title and description for search engines, the Letter emails it to your subscribers, and the whole workspace exports as Markdown and JSON. The free plan runs on a Typoza subdomain; your own domain comes with the Collective plan.
Point by point
| What we compare | Typoza | Blogger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free on a Typoza subdomain; paid plans add your own domain and a team. | Free, with no paid plan at all. |
| Your own domain | Connects from the Collective plan, certificate included. | Connects for free, on any blog. |
| The editor | A slash menu of blocks: code in tabs, callouts, spec sheets, galleries, embeds. | Rich text, with the HTML underneath when you need it. |
| Newsletter | The Letter: a sign-up form, then each post by email or in a digest. | None built in. |
| Search engines | Title, description and canonical address per post; structured data, sitemap and feeds made for you. | A sitemap, feeds, and a search description per post once you switch it on. |
| Advertising | None, and no place for an ad script. | AdSense, built into the dashboard. |
| Working as a team | Invited members with roles and a review step, from the Collective plan. | Admins and authors on a shared blog. |
| Taking your content out | Markdown and JSON whenever you like, with the address of every image. | An Atom XML backup of posts, pages and comments. |
What Blogger does better
Every comparison has this section, and it is never empty. We lose on these points:
- It is free, with no paid plan above it. If your blog's budget is zero, that settles the question, and Typoza cannot match it.
- Your own domain costs nothing to connect. On Typoza it takes the Collective plan.
- AdSense. A blog that pays for itself with ads belongs on Blogger: Typoza shows no advertising and runs no ad programme.
- Theme code you can edit. Blogger opens its theme's HTML and CSS to you; Typoza offers one theme, set with colours, fonts and text width, and no code.
- Staying power. Blogger has hosted blogs for longer than any other tool compared on this site, and blogs from its early years still answer at their first addresses.
Moving from Blogger
Blogger backs up to Atom XML, and our importer reads only the WordPress export file, so no direct path joins the two. You move each post by copy and paste; start with the ones people still read.
What comes across
- The text and its structure. Copy a post from its published page, paste it into the editor, and the headings, lists, quotes and links stay in place.
- The readable end of each address. Blogger writes /2019/04/my-post.html; give the post my-post as its slug and it answers at /my-post.
- Your domain, if you connected one. It moves to Typoza on the Collective plan, and the HTTPS certificate is issued automatically.
- The old blog itself, if you leave it online. It costs nothing to keep, and links to it go on working.
What does not
- Automation. With no importer, every post is a manual copy, and a large archive takes real time.
- The dated part of each address. /2019/04/my-post.html becomes /my-post, so if your domain moves with you, add one redirect per old address in the workspace settings.
- AdSense income on the posts you move. Typoza shows no ads.
- The comments. Readers can comment on Typoza, but the conversations under your Blogger posts stay on Blogger.
- Your images, until you add them again. The editor keeps only pictures stored in your library, so you upload each one yourself.
So, which one?
Pick Blogger if…
Blogger suits a blog that must cost nothing, one that lives on AdSense, or an owner who wants to edit the theme's code.
Pick Typoza if…
Typoza suits a writer who wants blocks made for articles, a newsletter in the same place, and an export in open formats.
Questions people ask next
Is Google shutting down Blogger?
Only Google can answer that, and we will not guess. Decide on what Blogger does for you today: if it covers your needs, a rumour is no reason to move.
Why pay when Blogger is free?
For what hosting alone does not give: blocks made for articles, a newsletter, roles for a team, and an export in open formats. The free plan lets you try the editor, the Letter and the export on a subdomain. If none of that is worth a subscription to you, Blogger is the sensible choice.
Can I keep my blogspot address?
No. The blogspot address belongs to Google and cannot point anywhere else. A domain of your own can move to Typoza on the Collective plan. Without one, leave the Blogger blog online so that old links still land somewhere.
Can I earn from ads on Typoza?
No. Typoza shows no ads on your site, runs no ad programme and has no place for an ad script. If AdSense pays for your blog, stay on Blogger.
Can readers comment on Typoza?
Yes. Readers comment and react under each post, after confirming their email address the first time. You can close the discussion for the whole site or for a single post.
The post you keep putting off
Write its first paragraph today. The post stays a draft until you publish it, and no reader sees it before then.
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