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Web site or Blog

by govomg
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What do you guys suggest web sites with static pages or blogs for affiliate sites.
Thanks Mark
#blog #site #web
  • Profile picture of the author TheContentAuthority
    Govomg,

    A blog and a website are essentially the same thing. Really its just design differences but there are traditional static websites with blogs on them and then there are blogs with no static pages. Really you could do both but your goals will determine what you should do. For example if you will always be updating content and not having static pages a lot, then perhaps a blog setup is better. If you want to have some pages that don’t change a lot (like an about us or contact us page) you could have a combination of the two.

    Maybe you can find some more tips here,

    http://www.2createawebsite.com/prebu...r-website.html

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    • Profile picture of the author LaneB
      To paraphrase I think you are asking whether to create a blog or squeeze/sales page. The answer to this is to ask yourself, "what is my traffic strategy?" and "what is my paid traffic budget?"

      The static page won't do well (if any at all) in terms of organic search traffic like a blog.

      It's just as hard to conduct direct sales like a sales page on a blog without destroying your readership.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by LaneB View Post

    To paraphrase I think you are asking whether to create a blog or squeeze/sales page.
    Why did you think that, Lane? There's absolutely no mention of either squeeze pages or sales pages in the original post.

    On the contrary, in fact: it clearly specifies "affiliate sites".

    Originally Posted by govomg View Post

    What do you guys suggest web sites with static pages or blogs for affiliate sites.
    Hi Mark, I think there's less and less of a distinction between the two, these days.

    It's easily possible to make static sites from "blogging software", and just as possible to make "regularly updated sites" without it.

    The people who say that Google loves blogs are slightly misdirected: the reality is that Google likes regularly updated sites, and some blogs fall into this category.

    I use blogging software (not WordPress) for all my main affiliate sites but they have static home pages, and I think nobody looking at them would imagine them to be "blogs". So it doesn't matter much, to me.

    What matters is (a) that you're able to use a simple, clean, uncluttered design and make it look how you want it to look, and (b) that if SEO is important to you (it isn't, really, to me), you're able to allow for the appropriate on-page SEO in the design and construction of your sites. Whether or not they're made from "blogging software" isn't necessarily relevant to either of those matters.
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    • Profile picture of the author LaneB
      As a point of grammar I beg to differ....a static page....OR a blog FOR affiliate sales.

      Thus if a page is static...and it is attempting to sell something whether direct or affiliate....then that page would be a sales page.

      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Why did you think that, Lane? There's absolutely no mention of either squeeze pages or sales pages in the original post.

      On the contrary, in fact: it clearly specifies "affiliate sites".



      Hi Mark, I think there's less and less of a distinction between the two, these days.

      It's easily possible to make static sites from "blogging software", and just as possible to make "regularly updated sites" without it.

      The people who say that Google loves blogs are slightly misdirected: the reality is that Google likes regularly updated sites, and some blogs fall into this category.

      I use blogging software (not WordPress) for all my main affiliate sites but they have static home pages, and I think nobody looking at them would imagine them to be "blogs". So it doesn't matter much, to me.

      What matters is (a) that you're able to use a simple, clean, uncluttered design and make it look how you want it to look, and (b) that if SEO is important to you (it isn't, really, to me), you're able to allow for the appropriate on-page SEO in the design and construction of your sites. Whether or not they're made from "blogging software" isn't necessarily relevant to either of those matters.
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      • Profile picture of the author Niche Profit Online
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        I would advise implementing a blog within a website.
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    • Profile picture of the author GailTrahd
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post


      I use blogging software (not WordPress) for all my main affiliate sites but they have static home pages, and I think nobody looking at them would imagine them to be "blogs". So it doesn't matter much, to me.
      Would love to know which software you do use Alexa?

      For any of my sites I use blogging software because of the flexibility of what I can do with themes and plugins without being a coding genius - which I AM NOT. With very little effort on my part to remember code I can make the sites look and feel different. And do different things.

      On the other hand, sometimes a static page is what I want and in that case I might have a blogging software on the root url but upload an .html page for something I don't want in the blog. Works well for me. Mix and match
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by LaneB View Post

        Thus if a page is static...and it is attempting to sell something whether direct or affiliate....then that page would be a sales page.
        I'm an affiliate. I have countless static pages (including the home pages of all of my websites). Call me "sheltered and protected", but none of them is a "sales page" within any meaning of those words that I've ever encountered, myself.

        Originally Posted by GailTrahd View Post

        Would love to know which software you do use Alexa?
        I'm a non-WordPress person. I have a lot of affiliate sites at TypePad (which is technically a blogging CMS).

        Originally Posted by GailTrahd View Post

        For any of my sites I use blogging software because of the flexibility of what I can do with themes and plugins without being a coding genius - which I AM NOT. With very little effort on my part to remember code I can make the sites look and feel different. And do different things.
        Same here. But WordPress is beyond me.

        I did look into it, in great detail, at one point (over 4 years ago, now!), read the whole of "Blogging For Dummies" and "WordPress For Dummies" in their then-current editions, watched lots of online instruction videos, pestered experts like Istvan Horvath for his kind advice, subscribed to Elegant Themes, installed some sites, and then decided to use TypePad instead (for me, at the time, it turned out to be the right decision: it's not something I'd ever really advise anyone else to do, though).

        I also have some sites at Weebly (that's even easier than TypePad, but it isn't really "blogging software") and some HTML ones which I've outsourced.

        I now have a full-time VA who's brilliant with WordPress and itching to make me some sites, and am actually toying with having another try, for a new niche site ... but undecided about this, as yet.

        The board's full of threads asking apparently simple questions about WordPress which seem to me to have horrendously complicated answers relating to the kind of things that I can effortlessly do, in TypePad, in seconds, with virtually no technical skills at all. I must admit that "I'm so happy I don't use WordPress" is quite a frequent feeling for me, reading the forum. Whether and to what extent employing someone who's really good with WordPress is going to change that is an unresolved question for me. I'm not a "natural outsourcer", either, and it's too early to tell whether I'm going be a reasonable/productive employer, also. But I couldn't continue as I was, with no help at all - this much was increasingly clear.

        Originally Posted by GailTrahd View Post

        I might have a blogging software on the root url but upload an .html page for something I don't want in the blog. Works well for me. Mix and match
        Yes, I think I understand.

        Like everyone else here, you are way more technically competent than I am!
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  • Profile picture of the author alvinchua91
    Have your sales page as the static page. Have a blog behind it.
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  • Profile picture of the author ElaineBrown
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    I think you can have them both, like a blog embedded in your site. But it really depends on your objectives and your approach.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeffery
    @ Gail. Good tip Gail and well done.

    @ Alexa. You do not give yourself enough credit about the tech stuff Alexa. Been reading you for a long time and I think you are more competent than you give yourself credit for about techie things.

    What Gail is referring to is a very good idea and a common method in practice. She said she uses a HTML file for a static page in the root of WordPress. The way it works is very simple and not tooo techinical at all when you know that browsers will by design and default load .html files (.html and .htm for example) before all other file extensions (.php and .asp for example). Specifically, the index.html file.

    The WordPress file extension is: .php. So, if we place the index.html file in the root of WordPress then the browser will load it first. That is a common way to create a html static file as the home page that can have a link to the WordPress CMS blog.

    @ Gail. Gail you might also be interested to know that you can also create a static page as the home page in WordPress quick and easy. Just create a page that you would like to be the home page in WordPress. Then go to settings > reading and you will see at the very top of the page Front page displays. There are two options.
    1) Your latest posts
    2) Static page. In the drop down box just select the page to be your static front page (home page) and save.

    This allows you you to take advantage of all of the theme options and applicable WordPress options, i.e. SEO, private posts, etc. All in all it only takes about a minute.

    That works great on WordPress sites without a lot of existing html files. Sites with a lot of html files with a link to WorsPress only need to be careful of what search engines refer to as similar or duplicate URLs. However, that is easy to manage if you use Google Webmaster Tools (GWT). GWT will inform you of any URLs considered to be duplicate URLs and give you opportunity to make any necessary changes. It may not matter at all to some people, but contrary to opinion at least it is manageable and avoids the supplemental index.

    Jeffery 100% :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author george b
    What site would you revisit?

    - A static 5 page website, were once your gather all your information you are done.
    - A single page blog that is updated regularly with useful content.

    There is nothing to stop you having a "Standard" website, but I personally think you need some sort of blog roll, which you update on a regular basis's to keep them coming back!


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    • Profile picture of the author govomg
      Awesome point Goerge b one i'd never thought of, have to agree Alexa, I have also read you post for a long time and they are always informative, I also agree you don't give yourself enough credit, thanks heaps for you thoughts. Cheers Mark
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  • Profile picture of the author carnal
    I think it is a much better idea to own a website with various static pages along with a blog, but if that's too much work for you go for blog only.

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