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my suggestion would be this : It completly depends on the requirement, If your trading or selling products online then i suggest go with website . Get classy web site done from any of website designers or look for small business website design packages in search engines(google) you will get some good packages and compare and opt for one. Blog : basically sates about personal usage, You can even use blog site like wordpress or othe CMS for your website creation or use simply it for self. So it depends what are basically looking from website or blog .

A blog is a website.

It's all in the setup whether posts are used that archive in reverse chronological order or static pages (just like the pages on any typical website) are set up and a blog can either be incorporated or not.

Posts are categorized, you can use tags on them and will feed your RSS to notify followers when you have new content.

The site can have ecommerce, video, audio, a private members area and numerous other features depending on the plugins (applications) may of which are free, that you choose to install. It's also easy to optimize your own blog site with the use of the "All In One SEO" plugin.

Content can be added by the owner and by visitors (totally at the control of the site owner) so instead of the one way pushing out of information, your site becomes more of a conversation and visitors are generating fresh content for you to.

Most of the sites we build now use WordPress technology with either a free template from Wordpress.org or a custom design (theme) that we build for the client. Instead of rebuilding a site it's possible to change the look by changing the theme which is an economical way to freshen a site when it starts to look dated or tired.

We have a number of clients who struggled to rank in the search engines for years and never got anywhere. The new sites were on page one of Google almost immediately (for some of their main keyword phrases) when we redesigned/developed them using WordPress. If their old sites had been built to any kind of standards the improvement might not have been so dramatic.

Here is an article with more information: http://www.notabenemarketing.com/Blog-Websites.php

And some websites built using blog technology for you to look at www.fcns-caregiving.org www.personalimpact.ca www.mindfulmovementinc.com

Technology is always changing. Why limit yourself to something that may be more familiar but provides fewer benefits?

Nancy

You need both in my opinion, I never start a new ecommerce with without a blog or many blogs supporting it. Your site should sell your product and you should have articles on your site about using that product, directions, and any content that gives the customer value. Your blog should talk about the industry that your store is in, so you can be more general. You will talk about the industry, not try to sell stuff. People hate that, the idea is to build yourself up as an authority on the industry and gain a following.

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As for me the U'll succeed (if U've chosen an I-net way of promotion) if to combine blog and a website. Website for example will contain all the info about your business, goods and services and on the home page U may set a link to blog where customers could expres their opinion and wishes.

I really think so because it's very necessary to have a feedback)

Use blogs to generate more traffic to your website.