Blog Or Website: Which Is The Better Way To Go?

I'm sure that it matters upon the industry or what project you want to start, but are there any general rules out there about when to use a website and when to use a blog?

For instance, if you were doing a site marketing a weight loss product, do you make a blog with a bunch of article posts or a web site with a bunch of articles on different pages?

Taking this as an example, how would you know which one to use for your next project? And is there any reason why maybe you should take the time to create both a blog and a website for what you're marketing?

 

Can't answer your question as far as ranking, except the silly rumor that google gives blogs love.

I do know that the big downside Blog software is that you always need to be ahead of hackers by keeping backups, keeping your settings secure and keeping your software up to date. Real PITA if this isn't your main occupation.

Personally, whenever I can I make my own content management system with PHP/mySQL instead of relying on public domain software that hackers are free to take apart to find holes in.

 

I will tell you that blogs make getting content easy via rss feeds and there are plugins that can make your content appear unique.

 

I prefer working with blogs, seo is easy with a wordpress blog for example, extremely fast indexing of posts.

 

I will go with blogs. Blogs have lots of feature like Plugins, Uniqueness, Looks Good, Fast Indexing, Gets Good PR Soon Etc..

 

I think you should have both. I would create a site to display all of the products and company info/contact. Then create a blog and link to it from your site. Your blog can have articles that relate to your products and you can get feedback from your customers as well.

 

Personally I use both, but I have to admit, I like blogs more cause they're more friendly to the search engines, For example in 2 days I got a blog to the second page on google from 300.000 results

 

This is pretty much a bloggers forum. I still prefer ecommerce over blogging even though I do both. There is more financial investment required, but I think once it is going is very profitable.

 

Generally, google prefer blogs. The question is what is your new project? If you are planning to use it for commercial purpose probably it will be better for you to build a website.

 

Yeah, I'm basically interested in doing Affliliate Marketing. So with that in mind, what should I make first to market my product?

 

A blog would be much easier and less time consuming. If you have never created a site I would suggest starting with a blog.

 

I vote blog especially blogspot

 

If you have time to spare go with a website ... if your time is limited a blog would be a better option - its relatively quick and easy to set up and quick to update.

 

I would def say website, there is a program started in the last few days with 1000 members each churning out about 5 blogs a week on autopilot. Almost 25000 new blogs a month, each one highly optimised, now is a good time to develop a website, at least until they realise there are too many members and close the thing.

Also with Google making major changes to it's PR algorythms who know just how much of a trusted source blogs are now going to be. Blogs have made their money by good PR, Google changes the rules and we have to change our approach to counter it

 

Blog is better than site if you need, page rank and traffics. site is better if you need keyword ranking and traffics.

 

I have done both blogs and websites and I found blogs to be much easier to maintain. You can use a Wordpress blog on your own domain. If you don't have a domain you can get a quick blogger blog started with Google.

 

I would prefer setting up my sites using wordpress cms but that is just my personal preference. I believe that blogs are better because it is easier to update. search engine loves a website that is regularly updated, so... why not use something that simplify the updating process right?

 

So lemme get this straight...a web site is better if you're trying to rank for keywords? Is this because each page you create is optimized for 1 keyword inparticular?

* (BTW, I am a front-end web developer so I am able to work with either one very easily.)

 

I personally prefer a blog, it's just much easier to edit and maintain.

 

With the right plugins "All In One SEO Pack", I'm all for blogs. I'm not skilled enough like Mitch900 to create my own CM system, but great if you can. As to whether or not there is G love, I've heard it is true, and can say getting ranked is easier. I'm guessing this is based (at least partially) on the internal pinging system in WP. That and making the job of creating RSS feeds (automatic in WP) so easy, then submitting those feeds to the RSS aggregators for links.

I hand made sites with Dreamweaver for years, right now I changing most of my niche sites to blogs, a bit time consuming, but once done I can auto update the content, and/or easily change a theme if I want variety.