Blogs and websites: looking at some points for musicians

Have Blogs Killed Conventional Websites?

This is a short list i grabbed from the www.problogger.com site discussing the advantages and i guess differences between blogs and websites.

Now this is from the site of a guy who's sole 6 figure yearly income comes from posting lists and written pieces like this dicussing blogging, and this has kind of been something I've been getting at - these guys are getting rich from monetizing free content with advertising.

I guess I would say that blogs are important to musicians because its as easy way to grow your online presence, develop additional benefits such as search recognition, and get you into the kinds of habits you'll need as a digital entertainer.

But websites still serve as "your place" a place where you make the rules, and you can create the environment you want for your fans, and dictate what gets shown and how commerce is conducted.


1. Websites are clunky and expensive; blogs are lean and cheap.
2. You have to wait for someone to make changes to your website; your blog can be changed easily by you.
3. You have to wait for someone else to set up your site; your blog can be set up by you in 15 minutes.
4. You can update your blog at an airport, while you’re on the run. You have to call your webmaster … and wait … to update your site.
5. You can collect email addresses, and download free reports and bonuses off of a website. Same with a blog.
6. You can use a shopping cart to collect money for e-commerce of a website. Same with a blog.
7. You can set up a press room with all sorts of cool links and forms on a website. Same with a blog.
8. It takes three to six months for the big search engines to find you with a website. It takes two or three days with a blog.
9. You can easily track stats of who has visited your regular website. Same with a blog.
10. The media are more likely to find you on a blog.
11. You can learn more about your audience from a blog.
12. You market automatically with a blog. But not with a conventional website.
13. You can make a lot more friends with a blog.