Blog vs Website for your Online Presence

Blog vs Website explained

What is the difference between a blog and a website? A decade ago the Internet mostly had corporate websites made by web designers, Webmasters and programmers. The little guy like myself who wanted a presence online had to learn the ropes in order to be able to put a page online. This has changed considerably with blogs being used by individuals, but also companies.

Blog vs website: which one should you use? In my opinion, if you have a company and need a presence online you should have both. The website would be like a static brochure while the blog can be regular updates about what you are offering. If you are an individual, make a blog.

Blog vs Website

Website

A website is mostly static. This means that when it is built you are done. It is not updated frequently.

Building a website is difficult and lots of knowledge is necessary to have a site that looks professional online. If you want to build your website by yourself you will have to learn HTML, PHP and CSS at the minimum in order to have a website that looks the way you want it to look. Even more knowledge is needed if you want to be fancy: Java Script, Flash, etc…

Most companies hire the services of web developers to create their websites and this is very expensive. The webmaster who runs the show can then be in-house. Not only it is costly to have a website, but each update you want to make can be very time consuming as you may need the contribution of a web designer or a web programmer, or both.

The advantage of a website is that you can design it exactly the way you want and it will look very professional. It is like an online brochure you can direct people to.

The disadvantage of a website is that as it is not updated frequently, it is more difficult, more costly to rank well in search engines and keep it ranked on the long term. You also need expensive software to build the site.

Blog

A blog is dynamic. It is a work in progress as more content is added frequently.

Blogging is easy. Installing the software on the server and setting-up the blog can be challenging for beginners, but it is not as hard as learning programming… it can be learned. And there are solutions available where the blog is already installed and configured for you, and what you only have to do is blogging.

Posting on a blog is as easy as posting on FaceBook or writing an email on Gmail. You can easily post text, images, audio or videos on a blog. There are buttons like your familiar word processor so you can bold, italicize or underline the words you want. You can organize your content in categories and every post is chronological. You can also easily change the look of the blog by using themes and its functionality by using plugins.

The advantage of a blog is that you can easily run multiple blogs by yourself and it is very affordable. Search engines love blogs because they are frequently updated and interactive with comments and social media integration. Blogs rank much higher and much faster than websites.

The disadvantage of a blog is that you are limited in the look you want to give to the site and technically it uses more server resources and issues can arise when lots of visitors go on the site at the same time…

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