Choosing The Best System For Managing Your Website Content |
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Written by Lynette Chandler | |||
By: Lynette Chandler I believe it's a personal choice. All these are just different methods of publishing your content. There are some key questions you might want to consider. What is your audience most predisposed to? You'll naturally have a hodge podge of answers and sometimes even after asking, the result is not always clear. Overall, written content still triumphs over multimedia for several reasons. People cannot scan an audio or video file so if they want just one piece of information from that hour long recording, they are forced to find an hour of their time that they may not be willing to give. Why are you building that site? Other sites especially those built for educating and dispensing information would be better off with a regular article based site. While you can use a blog as a content management tool for your articles, a regular website offers much more control when you're trying to optimize each web page individually. True, you can optimize a blog however, overall I find it's easier to optimize a website. Relevance This is because all of these sites are working in tandem to support your main business. It doesn't matter which you use, in the end, the focus is on your business, you are promoting your services no matter where people go and you'll reap the rewards. Each of these sites also become a network of content. Doing so also means you could keep only one blog and use it to direct people to new articles, highlight special articles or alert people about a teleseminar call, kind of like a news hub just for your business. Another nice plus to this is you don't have to build so many blogs you can't keep up with. An example is this page you're on. Some of you are directed here because I mentioned the article on my blog. Some of you come here from my newsletter. Some from reading the blog's RSS feed. When to podcast Many people misunderstand podcasts, they look at it like they see radio and magazine which are totally different things. Fact is, many podcasts are blogs and vice versa. If you think podcasts are just a little too much to handle right now, here's one way you can leverage them without committing yourself to it. Become a guest on someone else's podcast who reaches the same niche as you. Podcast publishers are always looking for great content and people to interview so, fill their need. Why create your own when you can piggy back. There are so many things to consider it could go on forever, but given this time slot I'll make it quick and point out a few key areas. Some sites are just made for blogs – reviews, FAQs, deals, news and updates. Look for synergy. I'll usually start off with a regular articles based website. I think you cannot go wrong with it. It's the basis of the Internet and will be for a long time just like books are still in publication today, it's not going anywhere. However try to also see if an existing blog can help drive traffic to this site simply by highlighting articles or mentioning certain things about the content. Sometimes time itself is of the essence and we just do not have enough of it. If you find this to be true you can still create an influence of a podcast by being a guest on a show or even by contributing recorded segments. You could create an audio of an article that you've already got written so that it doesn't take up much of your time. This could also apply to blogs. If you find you don't have time to write a blog, or another blog, then see if you can be a contributor to a relevant blog. You could even set up a 'community blog' where three or four people will add there posts so that it is busy without one person having to do all the work.
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