Difference Between a Website and Blog
Written on October 23, 2007 – 9:53 am | by Shana Albert |
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I became a Webmaster in 2001. For nearly 7 years I have been designing and
maintaining websites quite successfully. In 2006 I started reading about Blogs
all over the Internet. I was aware that they were obviously some kind of website,
but I didn’t understand what made Bogs different from Websites. I have always
had a huge fear of something new coming along and eliminating my websites or
at least pushing my websites far enough down the serps to make my Websites unfound
by potential viewers. I went on a mission to find out what exactly Blogs were.
So, for those of you unaware as to the difference between a Traditional Website
and a Blog…. this post is for you.
Difference Between a Website and a Blog
Websites
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Blogs
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- Static - For the most part websites stay the same.
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- Current - Updated several times a week if not more
often.
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- Must have a bit of technical knowledge in coding
or a Webmaster at the bare minimum.
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- No coding knowledge necessary. There are many choices
of Blog Software out there to choose from that eliminates the need for
coding knowledge.
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- All your concentration does not go into the content, but part is spent
worrying about the coding and html.
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- Because you don’t need to know coding to run a Blog your entire
focus can be on the content.
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- Website pages are broken up by Static Pages and Categories….
Products, prices, articles, pictures, etc…
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- Blogs are written more like a journal that is broken
up by dates. Usually the most recent entry is on top.
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- When a Website is updated there is usually no feature that
automatically notifies your readers of the update. Yes, you
can put together a Newsletter, but that is generally something that
is manually put together
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- Blogs are usually setup with a RSS feed for viewers
to subscribe to. This RSS feed will notify your readers when you have
updated your Blog with a new post. This will keep your viewers coming
back for more.
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- Waiting period for Search Engine Spiders to spider your website.
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- Blogs can be easily setup to ping Blog Directories and search
engines when you add a new post or update your Blog. This is
one of the best features of a blog….This means your posts will appear
in Search Engines very, very quickly. Usually within minutes.
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- Static Websites do not track conversations between Webmasters
and Readers.
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- Many ways to notice communication between bloggers and readers.
- Comments – Readers can post their comments
and Blogger and other Readers can respond.
- Trackbacks - When another blogger mentions a
particular post and adds a link to that post a brief excerpt will
appear in your post’s comment section to let you and your
readers know that they could follow another blogger’s view
point of your post.
- PermaLink - When another blogger or website links
to a specific post they will use the post’s specific page
link…. This page link is called a PermaLink. This is a great
way for link building on your internal pages of your blog.
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3 Responses to “Difference Between a Website and Blog”
By lcabral on Nov 1, 2007 | Reply
I totally disagree with your comparison between websites and blogs.
Fist a website is NOT mandatory static. It might be the frontend to a database, a web shop for example.
The basic ideia is that a blog is an online journal that people can write on. Its dinamic status depends on the owner (as much as a web site would depend on its webmaster) s as far as I can be an example, a blog can be updated very rarelly (I do it every several mionths apart).
There are a lot of Blog providers were you can just register and make your blog without having to have a server, configure a blog software.
But if you feel that you hare clever enough you can do that (but it DOES require some understanding of coding or at least editing configuration files)
On the otehr hand to build a web site can be difficult if you build it from scrach or you can just use one among many websites templates that are already freely available.
RSS feeds are as common in blogs as they are in websites. RSS Feeds are not exclusive of blogs
The general idea is that a blog is just a personal Web journal or diary. It can also be used to documetn other thins such as projects and other stuff.
A Website can be… anything! Inclusive a Blog if you want. You have several types of sites:
blogs, forums, search engines, portals(companies, universities), online shops, magazines… you name it
By Rockstar Sid on May 23, 2008 | Reply
Their are also grid type designed blog which can act as a website