As Lisa mentioned one of the differences between a blog and a website are the date stamps on a blog, and the need to always be updated. Where as content on a website especially a tutorial site are somewhat timeless and don’t need to be updated at least not as often.

A word press blog whether installed on your web server or at wordpress.com has a feature under “reading” in the general settings section that allows you to create a “static” home page. This setting allows you to turn off the rolling feature of wordpress and because all other pages outside of the main “Home” page are static by nature. You will essentially have the foundation for a website.

With a bit of education regarding code you can rather easily delete the date stamp in the word press appearance section under “editor”. I’ve been coding website for around 10 years, what I like about wordpress even as a base for a website is that it allows you to focus on content writing and less time formatting html, css etc.

In fact many of the websites that you may come accross that appear to be traditional websites by nature are acutally word press. Take cnn.com for example, it’s completely built on word press.

Anyway just though that might help, just have fun no matter which way you go
Jason
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Have not made a dime,yet, but some impressions. Help!!!
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I’ve been following your blog for awhile and it has been quite informative and helpful. That was good advice to Julie regarding Wordpress but I’m not sure if everyone understands that there is a Wordpress.org and a Wordpress.com. The dotcom is like Blogger in that you have limited capability. The dotorg allows you total freedom to modify and upload files to the server of your choice.

BTW: I’ve been using Wordpress for websites AND blogs. Just set the software to use a static page for home rather than a blogpage. There are also numerous templates for magazine style sites. I have also used the template tags to put time sensitive copy in a sidebar and labeled it as news.

It’s an awesome platform that provides pre-programmed functionality for designers and pre designed layouts for programmers with as easy to use interface for newbies.
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There’s nothing wrong with wanting a blog to help build traffic to your site, but you should still have a strategy for your blog that will make it worth visiting. And if you are going to put all that time and work into developing a strategy for the blog, you might as well put that same energy into your website.

Read up on SEO and promotion. You may discover that the solution is to build up what you already have.

Thanks for the video. My website is a service based site that does not promote or sell products but rather time based consultancy in the aged care industry within Sydney, Australia. The site was created in 2007 and due to lack of knowledge and skill both by myself and the webdesigner I originally used, it is not google friendly and thus few if any visitors. Another internet marketer has suggested adding a blog to this website to increase traffic and gain more exposure. I am puzzled as to how this will work if the website isn’t attracting visitors how will having a blog attached to this website overcome this issue.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be most appreciated.

Kind regards

Sue

I’m going to begin a website but have a question for you. I’ve watched a bunch of your videos (thank you) and I see the advantage of purchasing a SBI site. However, since I do not have $300 extra money right now and I am not a beginner (I know dreamweaver, etc.) I can create a pretty good site. However, I’m worried about keyword and traffic which SBI has something built-in. My question is, “is there anything that you know of that I can purchase or a program that can help me with SEO and keywords, etc. that’s not $300? Because I’d really like to get started, but don’t want to pay that much just for the keyword feature.

Thanks
Marjorie

Yes, I now tweet about my video updates, and I also tweet about things I’m working on or interesting facts I find. So stay tuned!