Affiliate Marketing – Is a blog better than a website?

Sunday, February 25th, 2007 at 11:27 am

Well I am probably prejudiced so I will start with that caveat. I prefer a blog to a website for affiliate marketing. There are a variety of reasons for this but first and foremost is that the search engines at this point love blogs.

If you have a consistently updated blog and take the time to submit it to the directories to raise your backlinks a blog will get indexed faster and more often then a static web page.

Now if you use a CMS like Joombla that has an RSS feed built into it it may be a draw. However, I can put up and customize a blog much quicker than I can any of the CMS programs out there. Grab a theme, change an image or two and I have a unique site. With WordPress 2.1 I can even use the backbone of WordPress as a content management system and still have a blog but have it look like a website.

The key to any site for affiliate marketing will be to create content that people want and presell effectively. Content and how it is presented will ultimately decide the success or failure of your site whether you use a blog or a static web site.

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