Blogs / Forums? Pros & Cons?

[Commercial Loans]

What is more useful for a website? Of-course both creating dynamic pages with updated content, I am curious as to what is more useful in a sense as far as Google PR? I have seen forums have always worked. I have little knowledge as far as the blog. Can any one here elaborate on some of the pros & Cons?

[bcarreon]

Are you specifically asking about having your own forums and/or blogs or commenting on them?

My experience is that relevancy is key in upping your Google rank. A topic that has specific information and is found on an discussion board is almost always helpful, while blogging putting relevant information causes back-links to your blog and that itself will undoubtably help your rank (make sure your topics have permanent URL's so relevant articles can be found - sometimes called permalinks)

For my 2 cents, if you have the time do both.

[spjain81]

What is more useful for a website? Of-course both creating dynamic pages with updated content, I am curious as to what is more useful in a sense as far as Google PR? I have seen forums have always worked. I have little knowledge as far as the blog. Can any one here elaborate on some of the pros & Cons?

Do you want to create a forum or blog in your site? I mean do u want to create your own forum or blog and want to attract visitors to comment in your blog or forum?

[lyka27]

Pros and cons of blogging



Pros
* You get your very own soap-box - We’ll see this one again in the cons section, but a blog really is a wonderful tool for you to use to bring other people’s attention to issues that are of importance to you.
* You get to practice writting - If you write more, you will learn more. I’m not saying that a blog is a substitute for an English degree, but as with most skills, if you practice writing, you will get better at it. At the end of the day, the ability to write properly will serve you in all facets of life
* Contact with friends, family and/or community - Whether you’re on the adventure of a lifetime or just have some physical distance between yourself and your loved ones, a blog can really help bridge the gap. Similarly if you are involved in a community, for example do it yourself guitar pedal builders, a blog can be a great way to reach out to all others in your community and initiate some dialogue through user comments.
* Financial gain? - I add the question mark because for most bloggers, monetizing their blog is a challenge with often little reward. That being said, approximately 1% of bloggers are making money by blogging. Please note that I’ve listed this last beceause if you start blogging to get rich, you will likely be terribly disapointed.

Cons

* You get your very own soap-box - Yes, this is as much a disadvantage as it is an advantage. The ability to bring awareness to important issues can quickly be diluted by a flurry of rants and raves against anything that happens to be bothering you that day. Be it the driver who cut you off or the fast food restaurant that messed up your order, it’s vital to resist the urge to turn your blog into a daily complaint against everything that has crossed your path in order for your genuine complaints and concerns to hold any water.
* Anyone can (and eventually will) read your blog - If you don’t have a reliable self-censor, you may quickly find yourself deleting posts and/or appologizing to people you know. The web is littered with stories of people who have lost their job because of something they wrote on their blog. This is not to say that you can’t blog about work, but your self-censor needs to kick in long before you write a tirade about how incompetent you feel your co-workers are and about how the Q4 numbers are down the tubes because of insert name here. Similarly, remember that family, friends and loves ones all have fair access to everything you write.
* It requires work - If you hope to build a good blog with solid reasership and steady traffic, you’re going to have to write often and write well. This isn’t to say that you won’t have a period of time where you’re writing less frequently or not at all, but rather that over the long haul, you’ll need to be putting in a fair amount of effort into your blog.

[rainier]

Well Lyka that is a nice post, your idea of posting it here is a good way of letting us aware about it.

[wchua24]

thanks lyka for that great information it really helped me to know more...see you in other threads ..thanks again ...:)

[rainier]

in addition it is right to have a updated contents for a dynamic site but you have to be aware that it is hard to have rankings for a dynamic site.

[jvcus17]

What is more useful for a website? Of-course both creating dynamic pages with updated content, I am curious as to what is more useful in a sense as far as Google PR? I have seen forums have always worked. I have little knowledge as far as the blog. Can any one here elaborate on some of the pros & Cons?
well blog is different from forums, in blogging..they express their thoughts and ideas in something..in forums, it's like sharing or asking ideas..