Blog vs Build a Website

Is blogging better than building a website? Many would like you to believe that you can make thousands online by just starting your own blog instead of creating a site, but the sad truth is that only a few will succeed to earn the large incomes by blogging.

These differences may not seem like much, but in the grand scheme of things they can lead to your success or failure.

Blogs (also called weblog)

1. When you create a blog post, that post may shoot up to the top pages in the search engines, but once the date of your post gets older and older it could start to fall in the rankings because newer content replaces it.
2. You can place your posts into catagories, but trying to create hierarchical navigation (home page, tier 1 and tier 2) can be difficult
3. Blogging software (wordpress, blogger.com) does not give you a step by step process to follow.
4. Continually update with content to keep traffic flow.
5. Visitors ignore older posts
6. Best used for the latest news or a thought of the day
7. Do not meet the needs of most small business opportunities

Create a Website

1. Able to structure a theme based site and arrange the content logically
2. If you stop writing content on your site, traffic will continue to flow
3. Excellent resources to help you create your website step-by-step
4. Many more at home businesses are "created" using a website

These are just a few of the differences in using wordpress (or blogger) versus creating a website. Sure these don't look like a lot of differences, but creating a blog first can be more work than what it is worth in the long run. There are many more blogs that are given up on then websites.

This indepth article on blog vs building a website has great information on helping you decide which one would be better for you.

Yes, a blog is a website, it is just a different way to build one. Many people may not even know the difference when they are on your "website" that it was created using blogging software.

Professional bloggers that are making thousands have been at it for years and have a huge following. Their sucess was not created overnight and they had many trials and errors in their journey. Even the professionals may only use their blogs for quick posts to help generate traffic to their website.

Whether you create a website or build a blog it will still take time and dedication from you to make it succeed.

Additional Resources

How to create a blog - step by step tutorial on how to build your own blog.