Do the blog and website confuse you? You are not alone. Since both two of them seem to perform same function, you may get confuses what is a website and what is a blog. Today, we shall discuss the differences between a blog and a website.
First of all, one thing to note is that blogs are more popular and easy to run than a websites. A blog is one that has posts/article or contents about two or more topics. The aim of a blog may be to educate people, inform them with latest news and happening, and more others.
Website which is on the other hand is a one designed as tool for solving a particular issues. They don’t post articles the way blog operator (blogger) post, if they do, they only post an article that is all about their products/services.
Here, we will show you different differences between a blog and a website.
Differences between a blog and website
A blogs have frequently updated content and websites tend to be much more static and is organized into pages. Sometimes, the primary source of earning from a blogs are through display advertising or sponsored posts.
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Now, some differences between a blog and a website are:
| Blog | Website |
|---|---|
| Regularly updated. | Non regularly updated. |
| Has tons of posts. | Has little or no post except contact us, about us, privacy policy, terms of use page. |
| Advertise other company’s product/service. | Don’t place advertisement. |
| Can be created by anybody for no purpose. | Purposely created for selling their products or services. |
| Less expensive to run. | May highly expensive to run. |
| Blogs are dynamic in nature. | Websites tend to be static in nature. |
Blogs are a type of website, the only real difference between them is that blogs are updated on a regular basis by an author(s) while websites don’t. Blogs are created with a goal of publishing content, hence, you will find a lot of different content on blogs compared to websites.
However, a bigger websites like www.themegrill.com can also have their blog page where they would use to post articles that relate their product or services, for example, www.themegrill.com/blog. Here, themegrill blog is a part of a website, in the form of a separate page and linked to the homepage.
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