Blog Or a website???????

[mmexpert]

Hey guys.

I have a website started it a long ago, and i have several blogs, i noticed that even my effort still focused on promoting the website and it has reached Google first page for a high competitive keyword, but after the penguin update i lost all ranking. but the blogs did not lose any ranking

do you think it will be a good idea to change the website from simple HTML site to a blog ?????? please give me your opinion

[Jively]

If you use something like Wordpress it's brilliant for tracking backlinks / pings etc. and has lots of SEO tools built in so you will probably have a better time managing the SEO of a blog than a pure HTML site (less code, more content).

[seosaroj]

I dont think so that using blog will be a better idea. Websites has their own reputation. You can optimize it in a good way in comparison to a blog.

[supertintin1]

Hi,

Actually website are usually on a single page and content does not change much so most of the big websites are effected by penguin and panda update because content is not going to change and you make back links to rank that main page.

But what happen in blogs? In blogs your content is going to be updated every other day and you usually do SMM instead of making back links !

So i would suggest you to stop making back links of main pages, Use Inner pages of blog and get traffic there and convert them into sales.

I hope this will help you.

Thanks

[mikesideas]

I would wait a while before making any major changes, I had this a few weeks ago i dropped to not in top 100, now it’s back in position one, all I did was left it and kept adding a daily post.

You could make a sub domain “blog.yourdomain.com” I would do this and I would use Wordpress I love Wordpress it’s easy to use so is Joomla both very good for what you’re looking for, when you create a blog your giving users a reason to come back they buy into you and what your writing about then they may share it with a friend and you get good natural SEO all you have to do is think of a popular site without a blog you find most sites nowadays have a blog it’s a good way to get rich content onto your domain.

[StarkSEO]

Blogs are rated differently as mechanics such as Wordpress automates a lot of the Search Engine Submission / Indexing process. I wouldn't change anything drastic yet.

[Carrieli]

I do not think this is a good idea. Actually website has its own advantages. You can do SEO work.

Frankly, after the penguin update, most of my sites' rankings decreased, but now they recover. And some of them even have better rankings than before.

[itravelcn]

In fact, the blog is also a website. you say the site is a portal?

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by mmexpert

Hey guys.

I have a website started it a long ago, and i have several blogs, i noticed that even my effort still focused on promoting the website and it has reached Google first page for a high competitive keyword, but after the penguin update i lost all ranking. but the blogs did not lose any ranking

do you think it will be a good idea to change the website from simple HTML site to a blog ?????? please give me your opinion

This just my opinion.

Have a blog makes it easier to update content fast and there are lot's of plugins to add features, SEO features then manually editing files to change stuff on a regular website.

The question is, how big is your website? Do you update content everyday on it? A rough idea what it is would help us give you our suggestions or maybe even tips to fix the website problems.

[DomCasas80]

Google loves wordpress blogs. A dull and boring sites won't do you good but a blog where you frequently update a new interest post tells search engine that you are active in the community.

[sujatakohli]

Do deep analysis of your website in comparison with your blog. Put your effort to create quality backlinks for your website because blog is updated regularly so it didn't need much backlinks but website require.

[henrykconrad]

A blog is more likely to be kept on track rather than a website. For blogs you only need to produce contents while on the other hand a website requires coding.

[Cole001]

i think you "as per my openion"

you should start both website & blog with some of the page with website & other with blog which helpful as well as very easy to update & maintain.

Thanks,

[stone]

Originally Posted by mmexpert

Hey guys.

I have a website started it a long ago, and i have several blogs...
after the penguin update i lost all ranking. but the blogs did not lose any ranking

do you think it will be a good idea to change the website from simple HTML site to a blog ?

Rather than switch the site over to a different format, I think I'd try to figure out what I'd done differently for the html pages, re: seo, linking.

I have a large site, when I added a blog, most of my efforts went into the blog. The html pages seem to retain relevancy for google, better than the blog pages...

For example... I posted an html page on spiderwort...
Last year I updated the information with a lengthy blog post about spiderwort.
Most of the visitors to the spiderwort blog post seem to come through the html page...

Add a blog to the site if you want, couldn't hurt... but... Converting the entire thing to a blog might be a wasted effort... Who knows what will happen with the next google update?

It seems far better to have a little of this, and a little of that...

I think I'd have a look at those html pages, and check the wording.
Do they read well? Ask a friend to read from a page, and tell you if they could understand the point of the page... Update as indicated.

[aruldave]

Actually the selection between the two is depends on how you are going to provide the information. For example how can you make your web portal information well organized for the products or services you are selling by using the blog software. In such cases the website will be working fine. If you add blog and adding content like product up-gradation, press releases and other product related information in the regular period of interval like everyday or every week that will be the added advantage to your website. I would say the selection is based on how and what we are going to provide in the web portal.

[businessservicesuk]

It depends on the nature of your business.

If you have a website that sell car parts you can hardly turn it into a blog

Blog > weblog > diary

[5593907]

Unless there's something architecturally wrong with your existing site, I doubt a platform change will be the answer, and a site conversion will come with it's own set of headaches.

I've got and manage both blogs (mostly Wordpress, but some Joomla as well) and more traditional static sites. While blogs are easy to set-up and offer tons of after market plug-ins to help with various site functions, I've always had a theory that Google has a different set of expectations for a blog in terms of content versus a static site. As blogs are an simpler mechanism for updating a site, I suspect that Google has an "expectation" of sorts that blogs will be updated more than a static site. No concrete evidence, other than expereinces to date.

Understanding that there are over 20o ranking factors in the big G algo, I've got static sites that were built 3 or 4 years ago, had minimal on and offpage work done, yet have ranked extremely well with little to no additional work. On the other hand, I've had WP blogs that had excellent content (in some cases better than the static sites), had more on/off page work than the static site, but weren't really updated in a regular manner. In some cases, the blogs struggled to maintain any decent rankings. Again, nothing concrete, just an opinion.

[action script]

I think comparing to website and blogs have more contents, regular updations, rssfeed, social networking sites links so your blogs get more visits ....create some new features in your websites also like blogs you will get some good response..

[ehacker]

I'm not entirely sure why you lost your rank, but I don't believe that changing your html will necessarily effect it for the better.

[Kaabi]

Originally Posted by 5593907

Unless there's something architecturally wrong with your existing site, I doubt a platform change will be the answer, and a site conversion will come with it's own set of headaches.

I've got and manage both blogs (mostly Wordpress, but some Joomla as well) and more traditional static sites. While blogs are easy to set-up and offer tons of after market plug-ins to help with various site functions, I've always had a theory that Google has a different set of expectations for a blog in terms of content versus a static site. As blogs are an simpler mechanism for updating a site, I suspect that Google has an "expectation" of sorts that blogs will be updated more than a static site. No concrete evidence, other than expereinces to date.

Understanding that there are over 20o ranking factors in the big G algo, I've got static sites that were built 3 or 4 years ago, had minimal on and offpage work done, yet have ranked extremely well with little to no additional work. On the other hand, I've had WP blogs that had excellent content (in some cases better than the static sites), had more on/off page work than the static site, but weren't really updated in a regular manner. In some cases, the blogs struggled to maintain any decent rankings. Again, nothing concrete, just an opinion.

That's an interesting theory about blogs vs static sites. It does make some sense, and Google has to have different content expectations for different sites. For example, a store with a set amount of products probably shouldn't have to update itself as much for good rankings, as its value comes from the existing products, not new content. For sites like these, links probably matter even more. And as your experience shows with the aged static sites, Google does place a lot of weight on time.