More Blog Post Or Articles?

More Blog Post Or Articles?

If you can write 5 posts a day and keep it up - you really got an edge in this making money online with blogging. But it’s definitely pretty hard to write 5 articles a days. Articles is more well research and comprehensive piece of writing about a topic. It’s usually take days to research and write a good article. For us, if you can write one good articles a day, you are really good!

Now, with blogging become more popular, the line between blog post and articles become more blurs, we see some blog post is written as an articles. Some even better or more comprehensive as an articles. Even us having a hard time to classify and said that this is an articles and this is a blog post.

If you have a choice, will you write more blog post or articles? Well, let look at what is the strategy or benefit behind by posting an articles or blog post in the making money online point of view.

Great Thing About Writing An Articles.

Great and well written articles can easily become a linkbait! People just love to link to a well research and written articles. With more incoming link, it’s can rank high in search engine result page for pretty competitive keywords.

Another great thing about writing articles compare to blog posts is writing great articles can build up your industry leader expert image. If you are in the academy world, how many published research papers, articles or books is almost determine the success of your academy career. Write a great and well research article can do this wonder for you! And writing good articles will help you easily sell your consulting and ebook service to your audience.

Great Thing About Writing A Blog Post.

A blog post is usually using a more informal tone of voice to write. Is like talking to a person, and sometime, it’s doesn’t mean that you need to have well research fact to make your points across in blog post. And most people love reading blog post rather then “dry” and long articles. A blog post always have more personal touch!

Another great thing about writing blog posts is by writing more blog posts, you are able to capture more long tail search engine traffic. There are some founding publish that there is a correlation between number of blog posts and search engine traffic send to your blog. We think it’s truth that the more consistent blog post your post, the more search traffic you get.

To Sum Up

• Articles = LinkBait + Expert Branding
• Blog Post = Personal Touch + Long Tail Search Engine Traffic

From here, you can see if you are going after more incoming link and build your expert status branding, then you should really write more articles. But if you want to build your reader base and having more long tail search engine traffic, then you should write more blog post.

You Can Write Both

You can write both articles and blog post, but the result can become disastrous if you write sloppy blog post. ( this happen to us before ) And writing sloppy blog post and great articles won’t help you to build your expert status. For me, English is my second language, it’s really take more effort to triple check my grammar and read it out laud to ensure it’s sound right. I can see my RSS subscription reader drop if I don’t double or triple check my spelling and grammar mistake. Some expert and professional prefer to stick to writing articles. This make thing much easy for them. So it’s really tricky to write both articles and blog post.

Writing More Blog Post Is Much Easier

But if you are not the type that can write comprehensive and well research articles, then writing more blog post can bring an edge to your site. By having more personal touch posts and capture more long tail traffic, it’s eventually bring success to your making money online blog. This is the best strategy we will recommend to new blogger … WRITE MORE.

What We Think Of Writing Great Quality Blog Post?

We think not many people can keep up with the consistency by writing great quality blog posts unless you have couple of writers working for you.

For us, it’s best, you separate them!

By separate them in to blog post and articles, you bring the best of both world together. But again, it’s can be tricky if you do write some sloppy blog post sometime. Well, we are testing out the concept of separate articles and blog post here in Hoobin.com, but we can said we are still not sure how it’s will eventually work out.

But we can see separate them is a MUST for long term strategy and maximize your return of investment in blogging, nothing worse then a great blog post or articles buried together with all the daily blog post. Eventually, to write a linkbait articles and to build your expert brand is harder.

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