Blogging vs Articles?

by BoCRon
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I'm sorry if this is really basic. I'm totally new to website building and am doing it for my own purposes, not as a vocation. Something I've always wanted to do and decided there's no time like the present.
In my research I've decided that the difference between an article and a blog is that an article is a factual, informative writing whereas a blog post is more conversational and more opinion based. As a dog trainer, our site can support both types of writing but I wondered if either was better for helping our ability to be found by search engines and/or customers.

Just getting started on this and am excited to find this forum.

Annette
WolfBrook Dog Club & Park |
#articles #blogging
  • Profile picture of the author georgefuller
    Technically Yes, it drives traffic directly to your website. also it can give you an extra boost of SERP ranking if you user your keywords wisely and spread them over the internet.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by BoCRon View Post

    In my research I've decided that the difference between an article and a blog is that an article is a factual, informative writing whereas a blog post is more conversational and more opinion based.
    Well, it doesn't have to be so, but many people might agree, overall, with that assessment, I think.

    For article marketers, though, they tend to be exactly the same items, because all our articles are published (and indexed) first on our own blogs before being re-published anywhere else: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

    Originally Posted by BoCRon View Post

    I wondered if either was better for helping our ability to be found by search engines and/or customers.
    Why are you concerned about search engines? (Especially in this niche?). However you use your content, you'll do better writing for people. Writing for people inevitably makes for good SEO, in the long run, anyway.

    Publishing content only on your own site isn't really a traffic-generation plan. (That's not a criticism of it - I do plenty of it myself, but I don't expect just doing that to bring me any traffic!). Using content to get traffic is all about having your content published elsewhere, where the highly targeted traffic you want to attract is already looking.

    Welcome to the Warrior Forum, by the way, Annette. (You need to put that link of yours in a signature-file rather than in the text of posts you make here, please).
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  • Profile picture of the author guillaumejd
    Its easier to get followers if you have a blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author BoCRon
    Thanks all. My leaning is toward writing blog posts as I want to be more conversational. My husband, however, naturally writes in a more formal, journalistic manner so I was trying to steer him toward articles. I just wondered if it would seem opportunistic to have both. I've seen sites where you can tell they are writing just to get found but don't relay much real info and I don't want to come across like that.
    I'm concerned about SEO mostly from a competitive standpoint. There is a similar business nearby that gets tons of traffic and business because somehow they come up first in every conceivable search. We get many of their clients after they try them and then give up and search more and then find us. Usually through a referral, which we love, but we'd prefer just to get them to begin with . We actually have clients who tell us that we need to revamp the website to express more about us, that once people meet us and work with us they wish they had found us first.
    Hence this project and my new found obsession with blogs, SEO, social marketing and the like!

    P.S. I will create a sig. Is it considered status quo to put your website or not? I don't really care and mine is still in the building stage so not much to look at.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by BoCRon View Post

      P.S. I will create a sig. Is it considered status quo to put your website or not?
      Most people do. There are some rules about it, explained in this post.

      It's the only place in the forum you can promote anything without paying for an ad, and even then you're not allowed to draw attention to it in the text of your posts, or to start threads off in order to promote it (otherwise the place would turn into a spam-haus, with its 600,000+ members!).
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    Whether you are writing blog or articles, you would get traffic from both ways.. if you publish them on your website or article directories..

    But it should have good on-page optimization, you need to build some links too.
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  • Profile picture of the author fastservicespk
    blogs helps you more. as much I can understand the difference between a blog and article it is just that in the blog mostly we give opinions but article should be a very authentic piece of writing having all the aspects of the topic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Susan Richards
    Your right in differentiating both of them still they are good materials to use in getting traffic and backlinks for your website...
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  • Profile picture of the author MobiDev
    I agree that blog and articles are important. There are some differences in style, size etc. Both of them work well because they are providing high-quality information on specific topics. You can link your articles to your blog – together they'll work great for your SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author crescendo
    Articles can vary greatly in their length, usually consisting of anywhere between 500 and 2,000 (or more!) words.
    Articles are often meant to inform and are more formal in their construction.
    Articles are detailed, informative, and fact-based.
    Blogs are shorter and are usually 200 – 500 words in length.
    Blogs are more casual and provide a great way to personally connect with website readers.
    Blogs provide a personal, inside point of view.
    Blogs are (expected to be) updated more frequently than articles.
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