Thread: Monetising: choose between a website or blog?

Hi all

If you had the choice, which would you do; start a website or a blog, if your goal was to make money from it?

The reason is that I'm currently making money off-line (about 100 euro per month) by recommending a service to individuals (in Ireland) and I'm getting paid for referring them. With a little more effort, I could increase that revenue by turning those offline conversations into either a website or blog - and I'm wondering whether people think I should start a blog about the topic - or create a more formal website - or somewhere in between?

I have a website and blog for another affiliated business, so I think I can generate enough content for either. Bit I'm not technically gifted. I also have databases (built up in the other affiliated business) that I can use for e-mail etc and cross selling.

Any thoughts?

I'd actually do both...

Have a blog along side your website. More personal interaction with a steady reference for people to have a look at. The site would probably be able to make more money because of that fact. The blog will be the interaction part.

I would go with one or the other. IMHO maintaining both is just too much like work. I would create a website usinga CMS and have a forum part ot it and let people create the information themselves. You can moderate it and make sure that it stays on track.

Do both if you want and have the time.... a blog does have that informal feel to it but if you want to make more money then I would go the CMS route.

Nah, you can do both, for example drupal (a cms) has built in blog module. You can build the website (with stories and articles) and blog around it, then let others to blog and post, forum later, take it step by step.

As the original poster, I should have mentioned how the site makes revenue.

It would make money through generating leads, which would be fulfilled offline or online. The site would not use advertising revenue as its model.

would that make a difference between the choice of website or blog?

This really is a matter of preference. Some people prefer to use WordPress, and others like to use HTML. We like to do a mixture of both. Heaven forbid that Google ever plays down on WordPress blogs, we still have our HTML sites, and vise versa. The trick is to not keep all your eggs in one basket.

I start a blog because google love blog, i think

Has anyone else noticed a strong dip in Adsense revenue over the past few months or is it just me?

It is easy to start a blog or a site today ...are allot of cms sites with good documentation!
the choice is yours!!!

I agree Google loves blogs even run my own site as a blog.