subject: Blog or Website? Which One To Choose? [print this page] Are you interested to flourish your business by promoting your product all over the world? Or want to inform all about your hobby or passion on the Internet? But confused to make a choice between blog and website? Then first of all you have to clearly understand what are actually mean by web site and blog and its purpose.
Website: From the very early days of Internet, website remains most popular part of Internet. It's a collection of some web pages containing write up, pictures, videos or any other forms of media. It is much difficult for a normal person to update or upload something on a web site. That's why it is a much static form.
Blog:
Blog or web blog is also a type of web site. But it is more than a form of journal or you may say a dairy. The content of blog is more personal than web page. You can call it more dynamic because you can update your blog or add content as many times as you want. It is more interactive basis and frequent.
Advantages of Website:
As every website contains an index menu, site map, listing of available pages it is easier for the user to navigate all the topics and pages. The blog usually contains links for other web pages instead of menu list. The web site has more relevant and useful information because it can be updated only by the owner. For easy access blogs are often full with irrelevant and unsuitable content and comment.
Advantage of Blog:
A blog is a more powerful medium for selling products, sharing any opinion and discussion of any point. The most important advantage of blog is that you can post written text, video or whatever you want without being a web master. There are some simple content management systems for adding, updating or editing content of blog much better than the complex HTML and web coding software for editing a web site. Another big advantage of blog over web site is that the whole process of blog is very time consuming. You can post and publish your content within a minute whereas it takes almost hours to update web site. Blog is much search engine optimized than web site. Whenever you update your blog, there is a ping on the update service. In this way search engine keep visiting your blog site whenever it gets the notification. Blog creates a space of credibility on the mind of the browser as there is scope of interaction with the reader by commenting.
In a nut shell, it can be said that blog is a place for informing about any product or event and the web site is for detail explanation about the product or event. The best way is to have both blog and site if you have any product to sell. You can interlinked the two and people can see your product from web site and then link over to the blog to know more or vice versa.
