Savvy Affiliate

Memwg recently had a post about switching from a regular website to a blog.  I have recently made that switch myself.  I used to solely run the website www.SavvyAffiliate.com until I decided to start this blog and give it most of my time.

Memwg made me think about why I switched.  Here are the reasons that I came up with why the blog has been better for me.  It may make you decide to switch as well.

 1) Content Management - Simply put, a blog is a content management system.   The blog does this much better than I did it myself with my webpage.  I think that it would be fair to say that with my old webpage I used to devote 30% or so of my time to content management. I had to upload pages, make sitemaps, link between the pages, all by hand.  Now my blog takes care of that for me.  That is 30% more time that I have to write content and monetize my site.

2) Plug-Ins- My wordpress weblog has one thing that my website never had.  Great Plugins.  Plugins are one of the best features of wordpress.  They significantly expand the functionality of wordpress, without me having to do any work what so ever.  I simply upload the plugin, enable it and go.   If I wanted the same functionality on my static webpage, comments for instance, I would be stuck with researching AJAX, and enabling it.  This would be a time cost of over 10 hours.  10 hours to me means 20-30 posts.   Thanks wordpress. : )

3) Better indexing- My blog indexes my pages much better than I ever did.  It adds related posts at the bottom, which keep the visitors on my site.  It sorts things both by categories and by time.  These are all features which make it much easier to run a website. 

4) Blogging Community- I have found that since I have switched to blogging, my traffic has been going way up. why is this?  Because I have been able to join the blogging community.  Other bloggers are more likely to link to blogs than they are to link to a regular webpage.  Since the majority of my audience is bloggers, it made since for me to be a blogger myself.

5) Interactivity- Blogs have much more built in interactivity than static webpages.  The comment and track back feature of blogs makes interacting with blogs and readers a breeze.  You would not be able to do this nearly as well with a regular webpage.

So how bout yourself?  Do you blog or run a static page.  If so why?  Let me know in a comment.