What's the Difference Between Blogging and Article Writing?

Blogging and Article Writing: What's the Difference?

The Difference Between Blogging and Article Writing

The difference between a blog and an article is a subtle thing, but it is fairly important. A blog is a site where all of your most recent posts appear on the home page, one after the other, while an article is a stand-alone page, which only has links made to it on the home page or profile page. 

A blog can be better for SEO purposes in making back links to another site or article if the home page of the blog has a good page rank, otherwise, it doesn't really help at all. 

This blog for example, doesn't even have a page rank of 0, and I've been building back links to it for a long time, and posting regularly. 

Obviously I'm doing something wrong, and I think the reason is that I lost my Google Adsense account, and as Google owns Blogger, they rank my blog here lower, because it's only showing Amazon ads. 

Still, I have sold a few Amazon products through this blog, with the most successful being the books on SEO, but I'm still not gettting my blog posts on the first page of a popular Google search, and that's why this blog post is only being made as a back link to the real article on Factoidz. 

Take a look at the real article, where I discuss the SEO benefits of blogging and article writing, and whether you need to buy your own domain name, or whether you can find a free site to blog on or write articles which pays just as well.

Article Writing Versus Blogging

Blogging and Article Writing

This article talks about the difference between blogging and article writing, the SEO benefits of each, and whether you need to buy a domain name and have a hosted blog or website or not.

I talk about how you set up your own hosted blog on Wordpress or some other template building site, get hosting, and whether you should go for the blog format, or the article writing format on your site.

I compare the amount of money you can make from paying to get your own domain with writing articles and blogs for free on other people's websites, and whether it's worth all the hassle.

Personally, I'm quite happy writing articles on Factoidz, and doing my free blogs here and on Typepad. I've just started making money from Amazon ads, and I make about a hundred a month on Factoidz, and more from other sites.

It's rising fairly quickly too, because I've only been writing there for three months, and I have continually made more each month, so I am predicting that in a year or so, I should be making enough to pay all of my bills, when you add up all of the money I make from all of the article writing sites and blogging sites I write on.

Take a look at the article, and if you are a blogger yourself, you might enjoy blogging in bed on an iPad 2, which I am doing now.