Blog vs Website....?!!!

A "blog" really is another name for a website. Wordpress is simply a content management system for websites that ALSO allows you to layout a basic blog style website or allows you to layout a corporate style website if you want.

This shouldn't be the spot where you're getting stuck. The best thing to do is to simply pick something and go with it. Imperfect action beats the daylights out of perfect analysis that never leads to action every day of the week and twice on sundays.

Hope this helps.

Use Wordpress. It all depends on the theme you use to differentiate it from a Website. Its both the same basically.

I think there are three options open to you:

• 1. Create a blog on another domain name, with hyperlinks connecting the two.
• 2. Add a blog to your website as a separate entity, e.g.,
  blog.MySite.com or MySite.com/blog,
  with hyperlinks connecting the existing site and the blog.
• 3. Convert the existing site to a blog.

The first option is technically the simplest, as it involves the least amount
of change to the existing site.

Options 1 and 2 raise the issue that it may be difficult to achieve a unified
look and feel between what already exists and what the blog will be adding.
Think about the user experience.

Option 3 is likely to incur more cost in time and money, but the end result
will probably be more satisfying and easier to maintain going forward.

Here is a very informative article that you should read before you decide what to do:
Migrating A Website To WordPress Is Easier Than You Think.

If you need help choosing or implementing the best solution, the Warriors
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Whatever you do, PLEASE maintain secure, redundant backups every step
of the way.

The person working on your website could damage or delete a database or
other file.

Your web host might go out of business tomorrow, and your entire internet
presence could be irretrievably lost.

Your computer might be stolen or destroyed by fire while you are attending
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personal data could be gone.

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people around you. You may spend days, weeks, or months in a hospital
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to the bed rails. You may feel as if you are dying of thirst, or that you may
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feeling, and the nurses will just smile and assure you that you are making
very good progress. The nurse call button may be just beyond your reach,
and your nose might be itching, or the urinary catheter could be causing
you pain, but even if you could call the nurse, how would you tell her what
you wanted? Didn't it occur to anybody to provide you with a pencil and
paper so you could write a note? Why didn't you anticipate that this might
happen, and discuss it with your primary care physician beforehand, so
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situation? Are your holographic will, your advance care directive, and all
your secret passwords carefully recorded and accessible to your heirs
and assigns so that they may take action as needed to pay the bills and
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Nothing wrong at all with having a proper website and adding a blog component to it. Check out any number of authority sites and the vast majority have a blog one can access directly from the home page.

Great for providing an outlet for comments, getting readers further engaged. Plus you then have the option of syndicating specific blog comments to get further traffic back to your site.

Hi, blog and website are different.

Depends on your goal.

Blog is like a digital magazine. It is usually designed to engage an audience with fresh content – just like a magazine. You educate, share info and build product image through your blog.

Website is like your digital storefront. You sell your product or provide services to your website.

It's better to optimize both and target your Blog to direct audiences to whom you can interact with. Your website should be the main driving page to sell your product.

What is a blog? Read: Blog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Blog is part of website.

I read your question and I am not sure what exactly you are asking....

If you ask "Why do I need a blog if I have a good site with great SEO on it" so the answer is:
- you need a blog to engage your audience
- you need a blog, because search engines love refreshing sites, and not static sites
- you need a blog because you want to target more and more keywords

But if you promote your site using other techniques, other than SEO and your strategy does not include social media and interacting with your customers - you maybe don't need a blog.

Originally Posted by msbfrnj Hi... I am totally confused as to what to do in my particular situation. In fact, its one of the main reasons I have never been able to go further. On almost every post here and on the net, everyone suggest creating a blog for your targeted keywords. Right now our website has our main targeted keyword(s) all through it. And, the targeted keyword is the main focus of our job - which is music. So.... what should I be using the blog for? Thanks for any and all help. MsBfrN (Brenda)

When I first started out in IM 4 years ago, I have exactly the same thought as you.

But then I realize that blog is more important as it enables you to build relationship with your subscribers through your daily posts of experiences and internet marketing tips that could be related to those and you feel helpful to them.

The last thing that I don't want and you probably don't want is just to create a squeeze page, get them to optin and then spam them with offer after offer without providing any valuable info.

Although you can write articles on normal html site, doing so on Wordpress is much better.

Evolution of the Blog
The lines that divide a "blog" from a "website" have become smaller as the web has evolved.

The word Website and blog nowadays can often be used interchangeably as meaning the same thing.

Look at wordpress...

Pages
you have pages that you create. These pages are usually information showcasing your product or information about your business, etc. Pages are what makes up your "website" area - typically information that isn't time sensitive/ doesn't change much.

Posts
You also have posts, where you "blog" about different news related to your niche, how to's, opinion, rants, etc.

SEO - "website" - pages
Now in terms of SEO (this is what I do on my e-commerce sites), you want to "silo" your pages and get a good website architecture for your visors and google bots, with good content and optimized pages for your best keywords.

SEO - "blog" - posts
Then with the blog, you can target more long tail terms (even naturally without doing research - just through good content and interesting posts) - or you can research and optimize for those long tail keyword phrases.

You may be hearing people talk about "blogs" or blogging because it offers fresh content, which is what people want (therefore it helps you with SEO - google's algo sees your site is fresh)

Blog is just a part of the website
So your nav menu may look like: Home, Shop, About us, FAQ, Blog (or whatever) - this makes up your whole website - the blog is just a part of it.

side note...I personally (generally) like the blog to be on the same domain (no subdomain) - but this depends on your particular situation/ seo tactics.

Good luck
-Jeff

Brenda, it is a bit confusing I know. You could start a blog where you discuss your music items or whatever it is you are selling on your website. Then add a link in the comments you make to an item on your website.

You can give away something from your blog to create a list of interested people who you can email

You can comment on other blogs if you have knowledge about the items you sell.

Make it simple... what is the goal of your website? Sell products? drive traffic? higher google rankings?

Everyone is going to give you advice on what they have done but really it's about what your main goal is.

-Trader

From my point of view, I must suggest you go with the blogs. But according to the website, you must focus on content and branding which should be convincing and approaching which raises visit on the website page. You must accurately follow keyword stuffing and mapping over a single page.

I would say it depends totally on what your goal is

You should have a website for selling and a blog for driving traffic to the website and keeping in touch with buyers etc.

Blogs are great to display authority/knowledge on a particular area, interacting with your audience, getting feedback, and making your audience feel generally valued. In addition to, of course, SEO, which to me is a secondary advantage of having a blog.

Ok, your website is music geared yes?
You would have your main page an intro to the company and a link to your blog where you talk about new music coming out, or shows coming to town, and include news about the music scene you cater to, etc. If you update at least once a week it will keep bringing traffic.

Try both, see what you like. They both require different personalities though. A blog requires you to be able to come up with new information about your topic constantly.

Not worth starting unless you LOVE writing about it.