Blog Vs A Static Site
So you finally figured out how to make a website and learned what ftp stands for. Good for you. If you plan on making a website that is for you and your own vanity or to put photos or something up that doesn’t need to get good rankings in the search engines then a static site is fine. Have fun in the sandbox. Now don’t get me wrong we have plenty of static sites, so does this site it has a blog as well.
The way it works is a bot will crawl your site and see that you have new content and make note of it and that counts for something, because I heard someone say that google likes “new content” or something like that. I don’t know I wasn’t listening.
But the advantage of having a blog is that when your content is updated you can let the search engines know that it is updated RIGHT THEN. By Pinging them. Pinging is not only good for getting a bot to come crawl your site but it also gives information to all the blog aggregators. These sites are always getting crawled they are SO busy. Not only that but if someone is using RSS to follow your posts and or website they will be able to get an update to their reader IF you have a blog formatted site.
Nowadays there are blogs that look like websites. Which is neat and I think a little sneaky but I like the way they work. These are basically websites built from a wordpress base. Still give you the look and the functionality of a blog.
So to answer the question is a Blog better than a static website, the answer is yes. Usability, SE Friendlier, Readability is better.
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