Blog vs. website

The complications in understanding manifest when you see websites that include forums and blogs that look so much like websites. The thing is, both are still pages on the Internet, used for a multitude of purposes, but mostly for

earning money and trading.

Websites Vs. Blogs    

Setting up a blog is way faster and easier. You potentially start earning the moment you get done with the start up process, with good content comes good income. Websites take a longer time to get started, mostly because of the page building process. They also require money to start up and to maintain, while blogs remain free to a certain extent.

A blog is a basic Content Management System rather your Content Management. You can go and update your blog anytime you want to. A website does basically belong to you, but there can be problems whenever you want to update it. If you have a contract with a server farm, you will have to follow their guidelines.

Blogs dominate Google searches because they are rich in content, which is what Google loves. So blogs are always on page 1, the rest everywhere else. Not true. This is a myth that may feel true to you only because there have been a lot of blogs popping up from all around the globe, much faster than a website can. But that doesn't mean websites are weak. It is a common misconception to say that since Google likes to chew on rich words, they place blogs above websites. Well, content is the creation of the maker, not the site or blog.

Blogs get tons of functional themes that you can change anytime you want. Blogs also get all the plugins in the world at the click of the mouse. A website may be placed on someone else's server, but it's yours to create and change. It's all in the coding, and if you're good at it, you can make your site shine without any prescribed themes. The only place websites are weaker is large scale content modification. You pretty much have to strip down the site and build it up again if you need to make some major makeover.

If you need to put up content that isn't words as much as it's pictures, software and forums, websites win. They are much more flexible to accommodate the above three aspects and ones similar to them. Blogs don't have so much flexibility on that part. If you need intensive design ideas to be put up, with long and complicated descriptions of them in pop-up panels or something like that, blogs pretty much fail. Blogs are, however, much more adept at content modification than websites.      

Websites are much more stable than blogs. Content that's created on the website, stays there and keeps generating steady income for any trade or web traffic that comes your way. In fact, a website starts to get more hits if it stands up for some years, eventually starting to climb up the Google search ladder. Blogs do need content to run on. If you stop supplying content to it, your income pretty much stops. If you supply crappy content to your site just to keep it going, you'll get lower hits and consequently, lower income. It's hard for something like this to compete with websites that have solid content and that dominate search results.