Between Blog and Static Site Whicn One Better For Long Run

14 years ago

It depends on what you want and how much time you are willing to spend on it long term. The power in blogging is constantly adding fresh content, so if you don't want a long term commitment, go for a static site. they are easier to set it and forget it. However, if you don't mind posting content once or twice a week, and then building links to those posts, a blog is a great way to go.

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HarrisonJ

14 years ago

Google likes wordpress powered sites a lot, their spiders know exactly how to index them well. They also like other types of CMS's like Drupal and Joomla because the engineers at google have programed their spiders to interface well with the popular cms's so they can index them as easily as possible.

Any website that you update daily or weekly rather than never will do better in the long run, because the different pages of your site that you add over time will rank for keywords, and will attract links.

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Charles Washington

14 years ago

Bog all the way, BUT... Use the static page feature to keep your homepage static. This gives you the static page, plus all the stuff google loves about blogs.

With blogs, finding themes to change your site, or messing with the CSS is really easy. You could use wordpress to setup pages instead of posts. So, you would create 10 pages, and you would have a 10 page site.

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t3ch

14 years ago

mind telling me how to use the static page feature for wordpress.

Originally Posted by Charles Montgomery

Bog all the way, BUT... Use the static page feature to keep your homepage static. This gives you the static page, plus all the stuff google loves about blogs.

With blogs, finding themes to change your site, or messing with the CSS is really easy. You could use wordpress to setup pages instead of posts. So, you would create 10 pages, and you would have a 10 page site.

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Charles Washington

14 years ago

There is a button to select under "reading" I believe. It asks you which page you want to be static and which page to place your posts on.

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Billy Rey

14 years ago

both have their pros and cons. a blog is great, and the static feature is definitely a great way to make your blog act like a static page so Google can figure out exactly what keywords you're trying to rank for.

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Bill Corners

14 years ago

I think a good way is to use wordpress and change the permalinks to "/%postname%.html (or .php)" (without the quotes of course) so you can start with a blog but change to a static page in the future.

There's a software called artisteer that is really good in creating custom wordpress themes so you can make it look like a static site and not look like it's even a blog.

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michellegreen

14 years ago

I say go for a Wordpress blog. I'm usually able to rank my sites within a few days, and with regular content updates, I find I'm ranking on individual posts as well as the pages, so the more you add, the more chance you'll get found.

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bgmacaw

14 years ago

It doesn't matter from a SEO or monetization perspective. What matters for SEO is incoming links, preferably relevant keyword anchored links from related authority sites.

What matters for you will be the trade off between some of the automation and ease of use that WordPress offers vs. the poor security record and server overhead. What I've found is that if you're only running one or a few sites this isn't a factor. When you get to several 100 niche targeted domains, using WP is a major pain in the rump.

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Avdo

14 years ago

I'd say go for wp blog..search engines just love them, and it can look even more professional then the static websites, just find a perfect theme for your niche..on wp platform you can make a real authority site which is easy to edit and monetize

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gothic love

14 years ago

simple html is always the best solution, anyway it depends on you if you are not going to update your site frequantly than there is no advantage in using blog platforms.

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KristiDaniels

14 years ago

Why is that even the choice? Why not between a blog and a non-static site?

If a site never changes, then there is no reason to ever go visit it again.

You don't have to have a blog to have a dynamic, changing, evolving site with new fresh content though.

None of the most visited sites on the Internet are blogs or static sites. Google is dynamic and ever changing. So is Digg and Wikipedia. None are blogs.

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MichaelHiles

14 years ago

"Websites" in general are going to have to either change or die as more of the web becomes mobile.

RSS is the way to go.

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bgmacaw 14 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelHiles

RSS is the way to go.

That's narrow IM/Blogging thinking. People outside of IM/Blogging don't even know that RSS exists.
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- j0s3 14 years ago
  
  Blogs generally get indexed much faster tan websites.
  
  Using a popular blogging platform like WordPress can save you a massive amount of time when it comes to adding functionality to your website(s), as there are possibly millions of free ready-to-use components that take no more than a few minutes to install - anything from a contact form to a full featured gallery.
  
  In terms of SEO - blogs really work nicely when it comes to getting your content indexed. However, when it comes to ranking - particularly in competitive markets - you still have to put in the work (a blog with little or no marketing won't outrank a static site that's been marketed well, just because it's a blog).
  
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- MichaelHiles 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by bgmacaw
  
  That's narrow IM/Blogging thinking. People outside of IM/Blogging don't even know that RSS exists.
  
  Really?
  
  And here I've been thinking RSS enabled everything from Twitter to Facebook. Silly me.
  
  I mean, seriously, I thought all those non-IM podcasts on iTunes, and all those non-IM people that use Google Reader, Feed Demon, Feedburner, and the plethora of people that subscribe to every manner of the 57,000,000 estimated blogs under the sun, from Michael Arrington's Techcrunch to BoingBoing were underpinned by RSS.
  
  Hardly "narrow" and with that level of penetration and usage, very much wrong about people outside of IM/Blogging.
  
  Just ask the millions of iPod and iPhone users that sync with iTunes for their podcasts.
  
  [roll eyes]
  
  Your direct response to me is illogical because I am actually advocating that people look past blogs and traditional IM because the future is mobile convergence and that synchronization is powered with RSS.
  
  Podcasting alone has grown 55% in the past year.
  
  I am pretty sure that with more mobile, there will be far less "web browsing" as we traditionally know it.
  
  RSS enables regular updates of content via a subscription without having to visit a website.
  
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  bgmacaw 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MichaelHiles
  
  Really?
  
  Yes, really. Take the time to look beyond the insular world of the technically hip. There's a big, not-so-jaded, market out there.
  
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  MichaelHiles 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by bgmacaw
  
  Yes, really. Take the time to look beyond the insular world of the technically hip. There's a big, not-so-jaded, market out there.
  
  Oh, you must be referring to the millions of direct mail marketing pieces that I've done in the past 15 years.
  
  If you learn from studying the history of technology market cycles (like those discussed by Geoffrey Moore in Crossing the Chasm or by Bill Davidow in Marketing High Technology), you'll realize that in order to be a real market "player", one must be ahead of a technology shift.
  
  The first major ripples of one of these shifts are presently hitting the shoreline. The tidal wave is still some ways out to sea, but suffice it to say that in 5 years, the WWW as we know it may be a very different place.
  
  To a whole bunch of people, email is already this dead, cumbersome antiquated way of communication. I'm not talking about the tech community either. I am talking about the demographic of the average young person under 30 who incessantly texts and gets blog feeds on their smart phones.
  
  Web "pages", and even "blogs" served up in a browser are also going the way of the buggy whip.
  
  The present group of high school kids do not remember life before the internet. It always existed for them, and they have a faster technology adoption cycle than even GenY, GenX or Baby Boomers.
  
  Spend some time in a trendy coffee shop or riding public transit and observe.
  
  The point for me saying RSS is that if you start a site/blog now... at least your content can be syndicated and even ported to a mobile platform while the backside of the curve sets in.
  
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meldave

14 years ago

Google loves wordpress blogs. That being said I have both and with not doing much with the blog it is ranking higher in the serps or it was the last time I checked. I have backlinked my static site a lot more than the blog.

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