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Article writing can be very lucrative but so can publishing other peoples articles. Which is better to base your website on. Articles and article marketing or a blog and blog posts?

I have no real preference as I have blogs, article sites and even a couple of forums. As you know, this site is based on articles that I got from Article Underground Content & Traffic System. My forums are at South Dakota Fishing Forum and another forum at Cynical People and that's about it for forums.



I've got blogs Anger Management, On Line Dating, Astrological Signs Compatibility, Alternative Energy Sources, Mind Power, Safety and securityand a Freshwater Fishing Blog plus article marketing sites like South Dakota Hunting and South Dakota Lakes Vacations so you can see I do article marketing, forums and blogs. I also have a few other sites but they are just that. Sites. No articles, no blogs and seldom updated.

To get back to the point, I was surfing and reading articles at an article directory and ran across one that said blogs are worthless and articles are the only way to go. He made a case for articles being more in depth than blog posts and that made them better for search engines and for your customers than an article.

Part of his premise was that blog posts are to short to be informative and replies or comments to blogs are even shorter. I don't believe that at all. Probably because I have blog posts I make that are longer than a lot of articles I've written. In most cases it depends on the subject.

I've also seen blog comments that are longer than some articles I've seen. Blog posts can be as long or as short as you want them to be. The man took one premise, twisted it to suit his purposes and then came to the conclusion articles had to be better.

Funny thing about the net. There seldom is one best way to do things. There are many, many different ways to accomplish everything. Article marketing to article directories is one way, writing articles to keep for yourself is another, blogs are, yet again, another. Making money is the goal. To make money using SE without paying for adwords or the like isn't that tough and it's even easier when writing articles of the internet.

Blogs will work, article marketing will work and static sites will work. Personally I like blogs and article marketing combined. If you notice on the mind blog it's a part of the site and the frontend of the site is articles and pages. SE optimized of course. You can find articles writeen on every subject you can think of and some you can't. What you find in article directories can be amazing or just plain silly.

What I want you to understand is try different things and then do what works for you or what you are best at. There is no law, rule or guideline that says blog postings have to be short. They can be as long as you want them to be. Same with articles. Nothing says they have to be 600 words, they can be as short as 100 words or as long as 10,000. Of course writing an article of 10,000 words would probably be a short story but I'll bet it would rank well for a ton of terms.

You make the rules for you. I update most of my blogs 3 times per week but some of them only once a week. The idea is to update your site often enough for the SE to keep returning daily to see if you have anything new. I've found 3 times per week to be the optimum, for me. I experimented with everything from 1 time per week to 14 times per week. 3 times gave me the best results with articles and surfers. & times per week was as good as 14 and better than 3 but not by much. So I put new articles up 3 times per week. No less than 2 times per week.

You can also use a blog to post articles or parts of articles. My anger blog is done that way as are most of my blogs. It just happened to work out that way. Writing articles isn't hard for me so it's an easy method for me to make money. You can write articles if you try. Just write like ya talk and then talk about something you like to talk about.

My conclusion is there is no best way. There is a way that works best for you but you'll have to try several different things to find it. Article marketing works well as does using a blog and landing pages to market things. Static sites also work well. Just make sure you enjoy what you're doing. If you don't you won't do as well as if you really do enjoy marketing articles or writing blog posts.

Here are a few samples of aritcle marketing articles that you can check out. Using articles to market products from blogs is working quite well and I plan on doing more of it. It's another thing to consider in your website design but writing articles does work well.

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