Comments on: Are Blogs Replacing Websites?

By: Tip Krimont

Tip Krimont — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:31:33 +0000

It’s true that blogs are becoming more popular and if set up correctly can get traffic easily using proper SEO in the blog settings. I don’t think blogging will ever completely replace websites but blogs are definitely effective and easier to set up than a static website.

The WordPress blog platform can be installed from cpanel, using Fantastico, in a couple of clicks of the mouse. There are many free templates and plugins available for WordPress and the Blogs can be set up with static pages like a website and still have the traffic generated from blogging.

By: Dwight

Dwight — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:45:46 +0000

Working in nj website design we’ve seen an increase in blogging over static sights. I think people like the format of an ongoing converstation.

By: Jon@Arbonne

Jon@Arbonne — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:36:43 +0000

I think we’re seeing that blogs have truly taken off the last couple years, but are far from replacing websites altogether.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:48:29 +0000

Blogs and websites serve two different purposes. Ultimately the object is often to increase advertising pa.

One is serves more static information, while the other is an ongoing roll of information.

By: Keith L. Jones

Keith L. Jones — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:39:13 +0000

Surely a Blog is a website! The important thing is to keep your content moving. Regular updates, news and views keep people coming back to your site and a Blog helps you do just that! They’re great, I like them and have them on all my sites.

Keep on Blogging!

Keith L. Jones
http://www.internet-business-toolkit.com

By: stew

stew — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:11:48 +0000

Hi
Can’t wait till I can into this BloggersPath members area. Blogging is what I want to do period. Rob Benwell is offering to take a blog to the next level for $29/month which I can’t afford. I hope you will be able to show us how to make a ton of cash with blogs in your new bloggersPath.

Stew

By: Kathleen Gresham

Kathleen Gresham — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:52:43 +0000

My favorite web-authoring tool, GoLive, is no longer supported by Adobe, and I hate Dreamweaver, so I’ve given up websites for blogging.

Besides, the SEO advantages are so great that I’m planning to eventually convert my two websites to blogs, too.

How much better is blogging? I started a blog 7 weeks ago that is already a PR4 with little or no promotion. I started it to serialize a long article I wrote a few years ago, and it just happened to be in a niche that people are searching for.

If I had started a web site instead, it would have taken me weeks just to build the site. With a blog, I was online in a day and building page rank.

I’m completely sold on blogging!

By: Alex- More Money, Better Life-

Alex- More Money, Better Life- — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:50:24 +0000

Question: Are blogs subject to the Google aging factor sometimes discussed pertaining to websites? If so, people like Mike (above) and me might actually have an advantage through those ‘dusty blogs’ we’ve had around for awhile.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:41:43 +0000

First, I think blogs would make MUCH better Support sites than those godawful automated things like Perldesk, et al. My experience with them has been so bad that I refuse to do any further business with anyone who uses them. To me, they are a display of disdain of the marketer for his/her customers, much more a customer isolation tool than a customer support tool.
Are they replacing other sites? Well, popularity with the SEs is great, much better than messing with SEO (or worse, paying $1000s to some company to mess with your SEO)…but I can’t quite envision hoe they might perform the actual ‘sales’ function (checkout & pay).
For the salesletter function, fast feedback, q&a they are great- for polls or market testing they might be great. I can see them being helpful for affiliate marketers- who could market one thing at a time (with an ad/link right alongside the sales- or review ‘letter’ and at the same time allow continuous marketing of previous products- without distracting the customer too much.
But for the question will they replace websites? I don’t think so in many cases…sometimes I just want to buy something- I know what it is and what’s a good price (commodity items) and I don’t want to spend any time discussing it- give me the best price now and take my money as painlessly as possible.
Also, most ‘real’ businesses (MegaCorps) will always have websites that they will continue to use ineffectively to stroke the egos of their CEOs, ‘marketers’, and IT guys. But most of them will never “get it” when it comes to selling through websites. I’ll bet even some guru marketers will hang on…
So come on, give me a good vision on ‘the money mechanics” and how they might be done and I’ll be right there with you.

By: Michaerl J.Ming

Michaerl J.Ming — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:44:50 +0000

After 16 months I’m still a “newbie”. However, after reading your “BLOG” I have learned an interesting insight into blogging. I will now have to work on my blogs which just sit there and gather cyberdust.