Unlike the original open source program, Wordpress.com doesn’t require the publisher to already have a hosting service. There’s no installation and no documentation to read through before you can call yourself a “Wordpress expert.”
Like Blogger, it’s just a matter of signing up, choosing a template, writing your content and having the pleasure of seeing it online right away.
There are also no ads. At least, none for the publisher. Wordpress.com supports itself and pays for the hosting by placing ads on its publishers’ sites but it doesn’t allow those publishers to support themselves by putting ads on their own sites.
If you’re getting 25,000 views a month, Wordpress.com will let you split any revenues 50/50 — so they’ll let you keep half the money your successful site makes. If you want to become a VIP member, you can put on all the ads you want in return for a cool $15,000 to $150,000 a year. I can’t imagine that there are even many big firms willing to pay that.
Wordpress.com is really for small-scale bloggers who don’t want to make money from their websites. If it offers any advantage at all over Blogger, it’s that it lets you play around with the site without paying so that you’ll be ready to dive right in when you want to move up to Wordpress.org.
Otherwise you can do exactly the same thing on Blogger.com, and get paid for it.
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