Blog or website, which is best for starters?

[genuwine4532]

Thank you so much for your time, I really appreciate it.
Just one more thing, what do you think about a more general site, like for me I have 4 professions and so I can write about a variety of things, can a site work if it addresses several different areas in the forms of advice type articles? Does that make sense?

[positivecarry]

It sounds a bit difficult to monetize, but you may be able to, depending on what the 4 professions are and if you can find affiliate programs for them. I think you still need to think smaller for your first few sites. Just find some information about niches, and go small.

[genuwine4532]

LOL, this **** is really starting to drive me crazy, I mean I have spent the last 2 weeks literally looking at this stuff with maybe 3 hours of sleep. I think for me the worst part is the design of site and/or blog and seo. The design part is no easy task, especially if you are not a webmaster, I am pretty sure that at least 80% of the success cases in Affil Mark are webmasters.

I think I will go with a blog to start, I will probably have easier time in SEO with that.

I appreciate your help very much and if I ever become a millionaire I'll make sure and buy you lunch

By the way the three professions are Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor, Computer Applications Specialist and Small Office Network Manager.
LOL you think with all that I could find one niche to make at least a part living on???

I also have done some freelance writing for an Alcohol and Drug professionals journal and I tutor on writing for college levels....I just had an idea to check out

[Linda Buquet]

"I am pretty sure that at least 80% of the success cases in Affil Mark are webmasters."

Yep they are now, but at some point they ALL started where you are...
frustrated and trying to learn. If they can, you can!

[alley]

IMO, Blog is apporiate for me as I have started one as begineer and hope to get more into website market later on. And yeah also SEO and Affiliate stuffs.

[positivecarry]

Speaking to the easy comment, yeah in theory, it is easy, that is, as you have said yourself, if you have pre-existing knowledge of computers and web site design. So, that is really where you are stuck, with the design aspect, and building sites, and the jargon of the internet. I am just a few steps ahead of where you are at with the designing of websites. And the bottom line is you just have to go do the research on how these things work. And those career niches are still too big IMHO. That small network business thing might work, and there are affiliate programs for that kind of stuff, but it may even be too saturated. You need to really start thinking super small. But then you have a dilemma, because usually small means smaller payouts, and therefore you need to drive some volume to compound the payouts. I think this is were everyone is at in today's market. You just have to think for a while and ideas will come.

[genuwine4532]

Originally Posted by positivecarry

I think this is were everyone is at in today's market. You just have to think for a while and ideas will come.

I'm glad you said that, because I have been doing this for a while now and sometimes I feel like I'm thinking too much, but every time I learn something new I'm glad I did not jump into previous ideas and wasted hours on implementation that would not pay off. RE web design, I'm not too worried about that, I know I can do that I just have to take the time to learn a new program, which is a pain, but if that's what it takes then that is what has to be done.

Footnote: I have downloaded about 10 free trials of web design software to try out and Coffee Cup is certainly the most USER and PRICE friendly, especially for newbies like me. And they have great support, they ACTUALLY ANSWER THE PHONE without holding!!

Thanks again Carry, your comments are very helpful

[vicks]

I think its up to you. But for fresh starter I would go with a website first. Blog can be later build after gaining ideas from various niche.

[HL08]

Personally I like squidoo the best if you are looking for a free landing page. I think it all depends on what you are trying to do. Blogs are good for marketing one affiliate product, but websites are best if you are marketing several or have a niche page. One thing that I do love about blogs is that you can get them high in the search engines very fast, unlike websites.

[genuwine4532]

Thanks I actually went with website and attached a blog too! So far so good, have been getting lots of backlinks and some good traffic!

Site was indexed by Google pretty quick by submitting my URL so that was a good thing too.