Three Differences between Blogspot.com Blogs and WordPress.com Blogs

BlogSpot and WordPress can be considered to be two of the most influential and useful blog services and Internet software in the world today. With these two content management systems, the power of the Internet was unleashed and handed over to anyone with a point of view. One did not need to have any great coding or graphical knowledge to set up a site.  If you have been wondering whether to opt for BlogSpot or WordPress, read on to know the three differences between BlogSpot.com and WordPress.com websites.
WordPress.com does not Allow Third Party Themes:
If you have a WordPress.com blog, you will not be able use third party themes. You would be able to install and use only the handful of themes that are available officially. BlogSpot, on the other hand, offers a rich inventory of themes for its users. All they need to do is to look for the templates that the want and download the .XML file, and then upload the contents of the file into the necessary tab.  Therefore, it can be said that the BlogSpot.com blog offers more flexibility and user freedom as compared to the services offered by the WordPress.com blogs.
No JavaScript:
This has been the bone of contention between WordPress.com users for years, and there still does not seem to be any solution to it. WordPress.com blogs do not allow the installation of javascript into their blogs, which takes out most of the contextual advertising services as well as some kinds of affiliate marketing services. So, WordPress.com blogs are definitely not meant for the blogger trying to monetize their blogs.  Technically, WordPress.com allows users to implement Javascript, but only when their blog has more than fifty thousand unique visits in a month.
BlogSpot Suffers from Bad Neighborhoods:
The truth be told, when something is given on a ‘free-no-questions-asked’ manner, people are bound to misuse it, and that is what has happened with BlogSpot. There are several inconsequential, sad and downright stupid blogs that are hosted on BlogSpot. These blogs are known as splogs, short for spam blogs and give a bad name to the entire blogging business. With a blogspot.com blog, you inadvertently become a neighbor to these blogs, and search engines do not have the tendency to look for lotuses in the muck, so you might have some serious pageranking issues if you are on the free BlogSpot.com service.
While these are the three differences between WordPress.com and BlogSpot.com blogs, keep in mind that there is a vast difference between a professional blog that you are trying to monetize and a personal blog that you set up as an hobby. We will discuss which blog service is best for monetization in the next post.