Blogs or Website? Which is better?

keionte1730 · 11-22-2008, 04:02 AM

Ok, Ive been marketing for about 14 months now. Mostly I concentrate on Youtube and list building.

I understand what people are saying about blogs and I have tried my hand at blogs, however, I feel that creating websites have benefit me far more then any blog that I created. (maybe because I attemped blogs early in my time on the Interent.)

My question to you guys is this:

How many prefer to work with blogs and why. I really want to know if blogs are worth attempting to learn.

On the reverse side how many prefer websites and why.

Needless to say I personally prefer websites. Maybe because I learned a great deal about them over the last several months. But if you guys say that blogs are better, then i may reconsider blogs once again.

Your help is great appreciated.

Gary

Chris_Willow · 11-22-2008, 04:22 AM

If it's a static page, leave blogs alone.
Use blogs only for dynamic sites where content is always updated.
It's just too much of a hassle to install and setup php blog system for a single page static website...

Chris

ems82 · 11-22-2008, 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by sarahjones

My vote goes for blog

its very easy to update and you can put quality content in your blog to make regular updates and hence maintain good position also.

Hi sarah,

ok lets say blog is better than website. now, if i choose to use a blog for marketing purpose which kind of blogs should i use ? should i use a free blog or a blog which is hosted on my registered domain ?

need your opinion in this regard.

With Regards,
Ehsan

cashcow · 11-22-2008, 07:53 AM

I resisted getting into blogs for the longest time simply because I liked the look of static sites better. Blogs were too "bloggy" and didn't seem "professional" enough.

But today, blogs don't have to look any different than a static site so I think they are much better for content sites. So much easy to edit and there are all those SEO plugins you can use.

I would always go with one hosted on my own domain because a free one can be shut down at any time (even if you don't do anything "wrong") so all your hard work of promoting it would be down the drain.

Lee

ThomM · 11-22-2008, 09:23 AM

Yep depends on the site.
I had a 3 page site in a small niche that was static and it did very well.
When I decided to add more pages to it I switched it over to WP and modified the theme to still look like a static site.
On that site I have no plans of adding posts, just pages.

11-22-2008, 09:39 AM

It depends upon what kind of site.. But it never hurts to have both.. Have your main site and use the blog for member / visitor updates.

Just make sure if you use wordpress that you get it secured..

James

todd wetzelberger · 11-22-2008, 09:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ems82

Hi sarah,

ok lets say blog is better than website. now, if i choose to use a blog for marketing purpose which kind of blogs should i use ? should i use a free blog or a blog which is hosted on my registered domain ?

need your opinion in this regard.

With Regards,
Ehsan

Definitely hosted blog. I just put up another post that addressed this. Hosted WP blog allows you to monetize (if you choose) Very dynamic and you can get content feeds to keep updated/fresh unlike static web pages.

I'm setting up 4 blogs now for 4 niches becuse of this. will have navigation, functionality, etc but much better to tie in w/ social media, long term better play in my opinion.

hope this helps
todd

iw433 · 11-22-2008, 12:03 PM

Why not have both? A static front page and have all of your other pages a blog in a sub-domain. With all of the plug-ins available you can make your blog do just about anything. That way you have the best of both worlds. You can also create a RSS feed for your static pages.

keionte1730 · 11-22-2008, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iw433

Why not have both? A static front page and have all of your other pages a blog in a sub-domain. With all of the plug-ins available you can make your blog do just about anything. That way you have the best of both worlds. You can also create a RSS feed for your static pages.

I thought of dong that. Not the tiein them together thing, but that is a every good idea.

Thanks

Gary

tiger325 · 11-22-2008, 05:49 PM

both are great..however I may be a bit partial to blogs considering they have made me alot of money

Graham Maddison · 11-22-2008, 06:17 PM

having a website is great, but adding content to it can be time consuming. If you host a blog alongside your website, when you post to your blog you are in the search engines eyes, in effect adding fresh content to your website.

So both in my book.

Graham

poweremploy · 11-22-2008, 07:38 PM

A blog is less expensive (often free), and less of a pain to work with.

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