Blog or Website? Which is Better? [Video]

12 Responses

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   Danard Vincente

   May 28th, 2008 at 11:14 am

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   Hi Lisa,
   I really don’t know which is better, Websites are a blog…

   But Right NOW!…I’m going with my blog, because for the first time in my entire LIFE onLine… I ACTUALLY REcieved SearchEngine Traffic to my BLOG!!!!!…On May 28,2008. I found this out using google analytics, I read an article of yours expressioning that using google analytics. Is a good way to let google know when you updated your blog or website… There was only one visitor, which on may 28, 2008 (Yesterday!) From seo traffic, and this person stay over 4 minutes on my blog, viewed 3 pages of my blog and found my blog using two keywords…
   I’ve never been so excited in my LIFE!!!…So what should I do next to keep it COMING, and does this mean I’m Ranked and/or indexed in google search engines…

   P.S. I have about 14 about to be 15 post on One page for my blog…I do this because when someone visits my blog, i want to make sure they find something interesting in it…
   (What do you recommend!)
   Hmmmmm….I wonder if they click on my adsense ads??? =)

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   lisa

   May 28th, 2008 at 11:37 am

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   Danard, I think it’s great you are getting excited about your blog and are seeing activity. I would definitely add categories to your blog to make it easier to sort through the content, however. I know you want people to read everything but having everything on one page does not necessarily ensure people will read more. In fact it could overwhelm a lot of people.

   Don’t worry about trying to get everyone to see everything at once. If they like one post, they’ll likely search your blog for more. And if you have your content broken up into categories you may find your readership may increase even more. Always test… test… test.

   If you look at the most popular blogs they are always divided up into categories and make finding things easy.

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   Chris

   May 28th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

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   Hi Lisa,

   Thanks for the video explaining the pros and cons of blogging versus maintaining a website.

   In fact, just this morning I was wondering whether or not starting a blog might help to promote my websites, but after watching your video I think that perhaps I’ll wait awhile. I like the idea of using a blog as an extension of my website like you have done with yours.

   Also, the hat is fine

4. 

   Dianne

   May 28th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

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   Hi Lisa,

   Nice video. And I love the hat. Had many BHD’s myself.

   I think blogs would be easier but I couldn’t stand the pressure of having to produce something all the time. I’d probably be stressing out over while I was on vacation too. Kind of defeats the purpose. I’ll be sticking to websites for the time being anyway.

5. 

   Custom Logo Designer

   May 29th, 2008 at 3:29 am

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   Blogs are better for newbies but for the mroe experienced they may want to try a more powerful CMS such as Joomla! or Drupal or maybe even start a social network with PHPfox or some other script. Blogs are a bit more personal as well, you can’t avoid that but having a CMS can make it a little more impersonal and more business like.

6. 

   Julie

   June 1st, 2008 at 8:05 am

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   Hello Lisa,

   I want to 1st congratulate you on your huge success. I’m awestruck by your talent, success and very happy and proud to see the following that you have, especially as a young, African American woman! WAY-TO-GO!!!

   Lisa, PLEASE answer this with some guidance for me. I’ve been studying sooooo many programs, videos and reading over the past 2 weeks on BLOGGING, and last night I came across one site that completely through me for a loop.

   After everything that I’ve learned - this woman said that if you use WordPress - without OWNING it yourself - (downloading it onto your website) that they can SHUT YOU DOWN WITHOUT NOTICE and your entire site is gone! PLUS, WHAT REALLY SHOCKED ME was when she said that Word Press did NOT allow you to put GOOGLE AD SENSE ads on their blogs - this would be another reason for shutting your site down. I was stunned! This contradicted everything that I had learned over the past few weeks!

   So, I don’t know what to do! I am truly dedicated to building what I think has the potential for being a huge success but after hearing that about WordPress on someone who claims to be an authority - I’m confused and don’t know where to begin.

   PLEASE HELP ME!

   Thank you so much.

   Very sincerely,

   Julie W.

7. 

   lisa

   June 1st, 2008 at 9:48 am

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   Julie, any time you use a free host you run the risk of losing your site without warning. I know someone who lost their blogger account for an unknown reason.

   The reason you can’t host Google ads when you use a free hosted WordPress site is they do not support javascript so the ads cannot load. It’s best to use WordPress on your own domain name as I have here.

   So first register a domain then use a host like Hostgator because setting up a WordPress blog is done in a few steps with a host that has CPanel. Then you’ll own the domain (instead of relying on WordPress) and you’ll be able to host your own Google ads and won’t have to worry about your site getting shut down, etc.

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   Website Business Broker

   June 18th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

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   Nice video - will do like you have and incorporate a blog into my existing website for sale business broker listings so I can blog about current issues facing buyers and sellers and all sorts of topics that seem to be relevant and common in the website selling niche.

   david fairley

9. 

   Mark McKnight

   July 5th, 2008 at 10:15 am

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   I like the thought of having both. A website full of high quality content such as Lisa’s 2createawebsite and a blog attached to it with posts talking about or dicussing the different topics.
   The blog sends visitors to your main site, where your readers can get great value products based on your topic and earn you some income for your effort.

10. 

    Miley-Cyrus-Fan

    August 1st, 2008 at 10:57 am

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    hmm.. thank you very much. usefull information

11. 

    Michele

    August 25th, 2008 at 9:53 am

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    Lisa, I’m hopelessly confused. I was on 2planawebsite and it linked me to 2createawebsite (which I’m almost all the way through by the way!) with regard to creating a blog. You say that you use Hostgator. Is that where your sites are hosted? Just your blogs? Both? Yikes! Thanks for any help you can give me.

12. 

    lisa

    August 25th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

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    Hi Michele

    This blog is hosted at HostGator but you can also use Website Palace (their regular hosting, NOT Website Tonight). They finally started allowing “one-quick blog installs” on Website Palace so setting up your blog is now just as easy as Hostgator.