I listened to all the gurus say not to use Blogger. They said that Blogger could shut your site down whenever it wanted. That blog surfers could flag your site on a whim. That you have little control of your blog compared to the mighty WordPress. How frightening.

So, I stopped building Blogger blogs. I stopped posting to Blogger blogs already built. I ramped up my WordPress efforts. (Don’t get me wrong; with all the plug-in goodness available, WP blogging is fun, easy and enjoyable.)

But I discovered something a week or so ago. Blogger is pretty cool now. Yea, the “new Blogger” isn’t so new anymore. But it is to me. I changed over all my old Blogger blogs that were still available to me. The new features are pretty nice. I like the improved dashboard. There are new templates to use. The have tagging, which they call labels. Not sure what good it will do. I mean it ’s probably not as bad-ass as Ultimate Tag Warrior but it certainly can’t hurt.

So why am I bothering with Blogger? I use them to feed a little traffic to my WP blogs. I don’t generally put Adsense on them. I just make quick little (Blogger) blogs about my topic and post links to my (WP) money blogs. I don’t build thousands of Blogger blogs. Just a couple for each of my niche WP blogs. Why not? It takes 5 minutes to set up. Takes 5 minutes to post a little blurb about my topic. And no, I don’t try to write a 400-word article for every post. More like 100, maybe 200. Just a comment. A quick review. A link here.

I don’t figure it will make a difference in PageRank for my main blogs. But what I do hope is that with some carefully researched keyword phrase (Nichebot) use on the Blogger posts, I can get a little bit of long tail search engine traffic. Then direct it to my main sites. Every link helps, as long as it looks genuine and natural.

I like to blog. For those topics I care about it is not that hard to create these little mini blogs. I use Tumblr as well. They are quick and easy and I like using them. If they get shut down tomorrow it won’t mean a thing.

Yes, I know many of you are rolling your eyes about using Blogger. I just don’t think using Blogger is a bad idea at all. I wouldn’t build my money sites using it, if for nothing else you want to legitimize your game with a real domain name. But damn if I won’t continue using it to bring traffic to my site. And no, I’m not talking about spamming. I’m not talking about building anything more than 1 or 2 for each of my main blogs. What I am saying is that these Blogger blogs are ancillary to my main blogs.

I like Blogger.