If you want to learn more about blogs, and if you’re a total newbie, check out the link at the bottom of this posting.
What an interesting question someone posted a few days ago on my blog:
“Are Blogs Replacing Websites?”
The short answer is yes, definitely.
Blogs help you much better communicate with people worldwide and turn them into customers, quicker & easier than web sites.
How blogs replace web sites…
1. Blogs are interactive by their nature.Someone can post a comment or ask a question onto your blog in seconds and all your blog visitors could see it and give their feedback on it.
Moreover, blogs allow you to create polls, surveys, thus adding another element of interactivity etc.
You could easily build a large community of like-minded individuals that interact and share their interests all together.
The key is to talk about their interests and keep it simple.
Giving too much information at once or writing about boring topics (or in a boring manner) and you lost their appetite - FOREVER!
If you think a blog is no different than a web site. Think again, they’re quite different.
2. Blogs are easy to set up. All you need is a web hosting account with one-click installs that let you create a WordPress (WP) blog - which is my favorite (will tell you why I’m dead sure that this is the best option in an upcoming article).
You can install a WP blog in 60 seconds or less - only if your hosting has one-click installs though.
Adding a WordPress theme and searching for the right plugins it just a matter of playing with your WP control panel (it takes 2 or 3 hours).
Even if you’re not a tech person (I was a newbie at WP too!) you can install and create a nice looking WP blog within 3 hours.
It’s all about practising & testing.
That’s why only doers make money online, while dreamers spend (throw) money.
3. Blogs tend to get spidered faster than web sites if they’re updated frequently and with so many blog directories and catalogs online, someone can easily get laser-targeted traffic, at no cost, all within seconds.
Forget about any form of paid advertising. Blogs are going to give you a bunch of targeted traffic, all, at no cost, period.
With so many powerful benefits, don’t you think that you need to start blogging and forget about building sites?
Hint - creating a web site is much more difficult and costly than creating and running a blog, by the way.
If you’re into blogging, then you’ll have to…
Master blogging, which it’s pretty easy once you’re into it and you’re passionate about what you’re doing.
And check this out -
If you want to become a pro blogger, then you need to start with the basics first.
Keep it simple, that’s my motto, remember?
Learn 1-2-3.
Start with the terminology first. Forget about blog monetization and content writing. Forget about the latest blogging tools, plugins and templates for a minute.
Learn about tags. Read what feeds and RSS can do for your blog.
But before this, find out what blogs really mean.
Stop what you’re doing now and start blogging for a better lifestyle. Blogs help you generate ’unlimited’ wealth, just believe that YOU CAN DO IT!
Understand why you need to blog and how to go about doing do it. Learn why other people blog and learn from their experience.
Do this daily.
Only practice will help you achive a professional blogger status.
Reading about blogs, buying DVDs, or just dreaming about blogging, won’t help you at all, NEVER. Forget about it. And start doing it. Start blogging.
Stay tuned for more information. I’ll start a new blog about blogging alone at:
http://www.BloggersPath.com
This will be a project I’m working at with my partner Susan Lesica, which I’ll train her in the next 2 weeks to become a pro blogger.
Still not sure about blogging?
Everything will seem so easy once you truly understand the blog terminology and watch the video tutorials I’ll be creating in the next few days.
I’ll keep it simple, step by step, easy to learn & apply.
Stay tuned for more info. And always send all your comments, questions and suggestions in the “Comments” tab.
Regards,
Codrut Turcanu.
“Succeeding Against All Odds!”
P.S. Do not forget to read my blogging info-product especially if you’re a newbie! :):
http://www.HowToMakeMoneyViaBlogs.com/TrialOffer.html
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I’d have to agree that we are heading in that direction. I don’t know if blogs will ever totally replace the web site, but I do know that my most recent blog - www.GreatArticleMarketingBlog.com has shot up the Alexa rankings faster than any of my very best web sites.
Catch you soon!
Jeff
Yes Jeff…
Probably blogs won’t totally replace web sites, but the fact is that blogs are more effective, easier to create and profit from than web sites.
Cheers,
Codrut Turcanu.
I have noticed that my beauty blog gets more hits than the site its connected to! But I don’t think that websites will totally go away, not everyone enjoys the art of blogging and being interactive or know how.
A blog can drive traffic to a site, or be a site, depends on what the blog is for and the subject, and most YOU! What type of marketer are you? And if you enjoy writing or not, that helps as well.
I run 5 blogs along with 2 websites so I enjoy both worlds..
~ Kim a
Beauty Blogger!
It is true blogs are really bringing in a new Ideas to marketing and people sharing there Ideas. I am pretty new to it but I am pretty sure I will be doing more blogging in the future.
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.
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.
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.
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!