Transform your website into a Blog
Why Transform A Website Into a Blog?
So what possible reason would we have to transform a non-blog website into a blog-based website? After all, a blog is just another kind of website. What special advantages does the blogging model confer? Here are some reasons for making such a transformation:
1. Easy content management. Blogging systems are a specialized type of “content management system” (CMS) because they make it easy to create and update content. Many non-blog sites are managed by hand, which gets to be a pain when you have to update things like sitemaps (both the human-readable and Google-readable kinds), “what’s new” pages, menus, etc. A good CMS removes barriers to updating content, which is a good thing.
2. Better indexed content. There are directories and search engines who only deal with blogs and avoid non-blog sites. If you transform your site into a blog, you can get indexed/listed by these kinds of tools, i.e. Google Blogsearch.
3. Easy content syndication. Even though RSS and other content syndication formats predate blogs, many people associate them specifically with blogs. But you can create feeds for pretty much anything. Your non-blog site can have a “what’s new” feed that gets updated whenever you add content to the site. But if you have a blog, you get such automatically updated feeds with no effort.
4. Built-in interactivity. Readers can leave comments and trackbacks. You can even let (trusted) users contribute their own content.
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May 07 2007 / 3pm
Hi, good artilce and gr8 info. Another way of making your online presence felt can be done thru ur website itself, one can always use RSS (real simple syndication) and place it on the website. So whenever you make changes to your RSS news page, the subscribers automatically get fresh news abt ur company.
Regards,
Alex
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May 07 2007 / 5pm
Thanks for your great info, I have already started implementing it to all of my websites.
Pratheep