Some thoughts on TypePad

Being a fan of WordPress for it’s well written, and very active development community for code, plugins, and themes, and also because it is free and open source. I have always been a little mystified why anyone would want to use typepad, because it is missing many of those components listed above.

The big questions for me on Type Pad has always been:

1) Why pay for the right to use blogging software?

2) Why be  pour your blogging to a domain you do not own? To me that feels like remodeling a rental house on your own dollar.

So here is the answer:

The major benefit of using a service like Type Pad is ironiclly the same reason as the reasons not to. It comes down to this, if someone is paying a fee to a service to run their blog, then the content is likely going to be higher. All you have to do is look at all the lousy blogs on blogger and blogspot, etc…  You are not likely to find nearly the same ratio of quality blogs to spam blogs on a service like TypePad.

Any blog on typepad domain is likely going to get a natural boost for this reason.