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Forums vs. BlogsAdrian Singer, 01-03-2007 |
To Blog or to (create a) Forum? That is the question.
Both powerful ways to build a loyal readership and repeat traffic to your site. While the underlying technology behind forums and blogs is virtually the same, each implementation is very much unique.
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Blogs = I speak, you listen
Blogs are a "one-to-many" medium, with the website owner writing the majority of the posts, allowing users to submit comments.
Blogs are often created to build authority in your niche, demonstrating your wealth of experience and knowledge in the target area.
Things to consider: Since you, as the website owner, will be required to submit posts on a regular basis to keep the blog lively and keep visitors coming, it is important to choose a topic close to heart and plan on allocating a certain number of hours every day/week for writing new posts.
Ghostwriters and filler posts don't work well in a blog environment. "Your voice" needs to remain consistent as you continually strive to keep your readers eagerly expecting your next post.
Blogs are often personal, whereby the owner will identify by name, post pictures illustrating his/her experiences and brand him/her self as a top authority in the field.
Forums = Collaborate with others
Forums are a "many-to-many" medium, where individuals sharing passion for the same topic, discuss among each other, posting public posts, replying to each other and sharing information.
Forums are created around a specific niche, in an attempt to build a high number of members who will communicate with each other and keep the forum active.
In a typical forum, you'll have 10% of the members engaging in 100% of the discussions, with the remaining 90% "lurking", reading messages but not posting any new information.
Things to consider: Once you achieve a critical-mass of posts and members in a community, a snow-ball effect will help in continually growing the forum
, with your primary job duty being keeping things under control - deleting spam posts and banning aggressive members.
From an SEO perspective, forums are usually better traffic-generation tools. The high number of posts (each post being a complete HTML page), lends itself to a higher number of indexed pages and more organic traffic. Blogs are good tools providing you can position yourself as an industry leader and secure a loyal readership.
Both powerful ways to build a loyal readership and repeat traffic to your site. While the underlying technology behind forums and blogs is virtually the same, each implementation is very much unique.
--
Blogs = I speak, you listen
Blogs are a "one-to-many" medium, with the website owner writing the majority of the posts, allowing users to submit comments.
Blogs are often created to build authority in your niche, demonstrating your wealth of experience and knowledge in the target area.
Things to consider: Since you, as the website owner, will be required to submit posts on a regular basis to keep the blog lively and keep visitors coming, it is important to choose a topic close to heart and plan on allocating a certain number of hours every day/week for writing new posts.
Ghostwriters and filler posts don't work well in a blog environment. "Your voice" needs to remain consistent as you continually strive to keep your readers eagerly expecting your next post.
Blogs are often personal, whereby the owner will identify by name, post pictures illustrating his/her experiences and brand him/her self as a top authority in the field.
Forums = Collaborate with others
Forums are a "many-to-many" medium, where individuals sharing passion for the same topic, discuss among each other, posting public posts, replying to each other and sharing information.
Forums are created around a specific niche, in an attempt to build a high number of members who will communicate with each other and keep the forum active.
In a typical forum, you'll have 10% of the members engaging in 100% of the discussions, with the remaining 90% "lurking", reading messages but not posting any new information.
Things to consider: Once you achieve a critical-mass of posts and members in a community, a snow-ball effect will help in continually growing the forum
, with your primary job duty being keeping things under control - deleting spam posts and banning aggressive members.
From an SEO perspective, forums are usually better traffic-generation tools. The high number of posts (each post being a complete HTML page), lends itself to a higher number of indexed pages and more organic traffic. Blogs are good tools providing you can position yourself as an industry leader and secure a loyal readership.
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Jeff Paul Forum, 10-09-2009 |
Great work! What is discuss here is one side of the coin, what about social media, isnt it a challenge to google
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Tax Foreclosure, 10-17-2009 |
Foreclosure properties are in high demand as the lenders are in troble and there are many tax foreclosure properties available
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Tax Foreclosed Properties, 10-18-2009 |
Very Informative blog. This is true, in real estate investment foreclosure properties under tax lien is big investment
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John Beck Tax Sales, 10-19-2009 |
Getting to know about the real estate investment starts with an understanding to worth of house / average worth of neighbours
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Free and Clear System, 10-21-2009 |
Nice post. The profit gain from real estate is enormous but on other side those who really wants to buy a house gets hurt
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Conciant, 10-25-2009 |
I like your post, it's a really good stuff, keep it up! Office Conceirge has another benefit that it is economic too
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