What is the Difference Between a Blog and a Website?

Blog

It really depends on how you look at it. From an administrative standpoint a WordPress Blog is a “dream come true”. Creating a webpage is no more complicated than writing a Word document It has a very user friendly user interface for you to create and modify your own web content instantly. Here’s what it looks like when you first login:

A Glimpse of the Users Interface

From this interface you take care of your website by adding web pages, blog posts, and videos, administrate comments, make your own, replies, and welcome new members. It is all controlled from the screen above, by you.

Website

Now, let’s examine a custom coded website. First, you will need some basic coding knowledge and probably need to purchase a program like Dreamweaver (recommended) Front-page or Live. You will need to learn how to use this powerful software along with connecting to a server (FTP) to upload and download content. Each time you want to add content it will have to pass through your html editor to FTP upload content. If you do not want to do all that stuff then you hire a webmaster and they administrate to your website on your behalf. The two main problems here are time and money. Your ideas that need to be published essentially will transfer from your brain to the webmaster’s brain to the web= time and money.

How do Search Engines Look at Blogs Vs Websites?

From an administrative standpoint the WordPress blog is the way to go but what about the search engines? Do blogs count the same as websites? Blogs are seen the same as websites with slight diffrences according to Matt Cutts (google Engineer). You can add certain SEO plugins to your blog to render web pages with Meta tags, descriptions, and custom page titles. This makes them just like any good hand coded webpage. With your blog you have SEO advantages like slugs and tags.

What is a Blog?

In a literal sense blog translates to a web log that is your journal on whatever topic you want to blog about. Your Journal is shared with other bloggers and people searching the internet that find it. It can also be found by other websites and blogs that link to it because it’s interesting.

So if blogs and sites are seen as equal properties why are all sites not blogs? A few years ago that question was easier to answer then today. WordPress started in 2003 and is opened source. That means lots of people in the world are working on the platform. It does have limits compared to the freedom of creating your own source code as it also has distinct advantages.

Make Your Website a WordPress Blog

For most of the businesses I know they could run their entire website through the WordPress software using posts and page features. Now you have full control over your own content, right now; subtract the monthly bill from the webmaster and you are way ahead of the game.

Here are a few nice blogs I have had a hand in creating:

Here are a Few Blogs I like:

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