Blog v/s Regular Website
Many people have asked me what is the best way to start making money. Should they start with a blog or a regular website. What are the benefits in each. I suggest different things for different people. Here are the main differences I see.
If you are a writer kind of person who loves writing, then I would suggest to go for a blog. But remember that people expect regular updated blog, else they will leave and never return. On the other hand, if you are a one time sort of person who wants to make money on a residual basis, but don’t want to write quite often, go for a website.
Remember that blog’s content is fetched by search engines and social media sites quite fast (as wordpress pings them), on the other hand, regular content may get some time to get indexed.
Blog can get you some links quick as the content is fresh and most probably related to what is the hot buzz around. It may be long before you get your first organic link to your website.
Even after all this, I say that the website will work better in long term for residual income and blog for regular (may not be residual) monthly income. You need not update it so frequently.
Which one I use to make money online?
I make regular websites for generic content like related to medicine, health, employment, sports etc., but I make blogs for news/views/gadgets type of content. Once in a while I create blog which looks like a website (eg: chemotherapy). The benefit is that, it is easier to update but still visitors don’t expect it to be updated regularly. It also get fetched quickly by search engines.
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Jim Karter on May 19th 2008 in Blogging, Business, Earning Money, Internet Marketing
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Edwin responded on 20 May 2008 at 12:10 am #
I used to build static websites myself (using notepad) but after finding wordpress and the benefits of it as it has so many plugins like xml sitemap, review, ratings, dripfeeding etcetc I started to use wordpress as a cms …not to blog but as a platform to build “static” that i build and forget. I must say it works and if you modify the theme you don’t even know it’s a blog unless you look into the code.
Gopal Tripathi responded on 20 May 2008 at 12:55 am #
Very good post Jim.
Specially for the beginners and those who cannot develop a code for the WEBSITE, can start with BLOGS or can use modified WP themes for websites.
I would like to add that, both have its own strong points in short and long term.
GettyCash responded on 20 May 2008 at 3:11 am #
Is Joomla good for making generic content website ?
Zak Show responded on 20 May 2008 at 6:18 am #
In my opinion, the best way to get started is to combine between a blog and website and try to connect them to each other.
Rockstar Sid responded on 20 May 2008 at 9:49 am #
Yeah 40% of the SEO is finished when a blog is installed.
@Gettycash - Use wordpress even joomla is good for blogging but little complicated
eddie responded on 20 May 2008 at 10:42 am #
Hi Jim,
Can you please share with us the modified version of wordpress that you are using for echemotherapy.com ?
Thanks,
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Ajinkya responded on 20 May 2008 at 8:53 pm #
yes i too love wordpress, but I love phpBB alot.
phpBB forum gives u really a more in touch with your users + daily traffic & increases.
my website started on 18th Feb 2008 & now in 3-4months i hv got 25,000 registered users + daily 5K users > http://warrock-hacks.com
just to let u guys know, but my earnings are very low than compared to the traffic.
Carol responded on 20 May 2008 at 10:39 pm #
You right, chemotherapy is more like website. I think this is an ideal example of combination of website and blog.
egk responded on 20 May 2008 at 11:52 pm #
In using wordpress for sites other than blogs what are the plugins or modifications that you use in order to eliminate the blog feel?
Bollywood Gossip responded on 21 May 2008 at 11:42 am #
Exactly.. I also looked a lot of cms and finally ended up with the award winner of best cms i.e.., Wordpress. I can say WP is the best for making a sites which needs to be updated now and then like my Bollywood Celebrities one.. and also for static sites it works cool.. and can be updated easily without writing any codes, just create a page and add content and u r done
as simple as that.
Chris Spring responded on 21 May 2008 at 12:57 pm #
Jim, thanks for the advice.
just to give you a heads up; there are a few gramma mistakes on your chemo website. easily picked up by proof reading. perhaps you should get your writers to look in to.
Adam Markley responded on 21 May 2008 at 4:19 pm #
I have to say even though I can code a “normal” website I find with all the time crunch I deal with that it is far easier to just throw a wordpress blog up and tweak the templates to my preference.
As stated above, wordpress is also remarkably easy for those with little coding experience to put together a great site. I found that alot of my php knowledge has come from tweaking the prewritten code in these CMS and Blog suites.
Manpreet Singh responded on 23 May 2008 at 1:51 am #
Nice Post their..I love your website’s template..Cool Simple and Nice..It gives the reader a feel of both blog as well a good established website.
Apoorv responded on 24 May 2008 at 11:29 am #
I love blogging, I would always go for blogging !
nineuro responded on 25 May 2008 at 2:00 am #
i made already e-bloger-template.blogspot.com is it ture?
Apoorv responded on 25 May 2008 at 3:52 am #
Are you trying to spam ?
nineuro responded on 28 May 2008 at 6:40 am #
oh sorry i delete that blog alread! sorry
david responded on 29 May 2008 at 2:40 pm #
I’m totally new in the webmastering world and i made my first site out of nothing, in three weeks, with Wordpress, and i’m really happy with it. http://www.jerecuperemonex.com. It’s french so don’t try to understand anything
Zak Show responded on 02 Jun 2008 at 5:43 pm #
@ david
Je parle français , mais ce n’est pas du Wordpress !
Halim responded on 05 Jun 2008 at 6:32 pm #
With my limited time for blogger, because of family and works commitment, i rather choose website style, writing blogs is too much time consuming. By now I’m still learn how to create website using wordpress? So, if you don’t mind, could you please post on how to create websites using wordpress by remove unneeded links.
david responded on 07 Jun 2008 at 4:30 am #
@ZakShow
Si! 100% Wordpress
Kelly responded on 07 Jun 2008 at 3:03 pm #
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Internet Business responded on 11 Jun 2008 at 3:59 am #
Well…I like to write blogs so I started my 2 blogs for now and will also start websites soon..Really I appreciate to read you blog.
rajesh responded on 20 Sep 2008 at 11:02 am #
What Shld i do I should open forum or blog for my upcoming projects?