What is the difference between managing a blog and a forum?

harrygreen90

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Can someone tell me what is the difference between managing a blog and a forum? They look the same to me.

Which one is more advantages to get traffic and rankings on search engines?

What do you guy think?
 

Hawker

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Hmmm blogs and forums are two completely different things and hardly ever look the same.

Blogs and forums are the same in that they list recent topics or posts in chronological order and have different categories in which posts or threads go in to.

But a blog is more of just a platform to publish content on, articles etc etc. Example WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr etc.

Where as a forum is a platform where discussions can take place and you have your own account/profile and features that come with it like private messaging, avatar, signature etc.

Of course, discussion can take place on a blog in the comments section for those blogs that have comments/commenting enabled.

But with a blog, it's not the same as a forum because with a forum you get your own profile, post count, forum abilities, private messaging etc.

Forums are for communities, a place where people can come together and discuss things together.

But a blog not really for a community, its just for writing, publishing articles, posts etc.

Some forums, such a this one, provide a blog as well though. Example https://www.webmastersun.com/blog.php

Neither are more advantageous than the other, both have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Blogs generally let you post more content and you can post what you like if it's your own blog.

Some blogs are very SEO friendly and have features that search engines like such as RSS feed, Sitemap etc.

But then, these days you can get all of that with a good forum platform such as VBulletin etc anyway.

Hope this helps!
 

Ron Killian

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The big difference between a blog and a forum is that a forum can take ALOT more of your time to manage. Sadly forums are magnets for spammers, and many people are on forums just to get something, and not to be a part of the community.

So you can spend SO much time weeding out the bad posters, deleting junk posts, those who break the rules. It can be a never ending 24/7 job. Then you need to make sure every one is getting along.

With a blog, the only bad folks you will have to deal with are those who spam comments, and most of them can be weeded out automatically with a good comments plugin.

And as Hawker said, with your own blog you can post what you want, with a forum it's going to be more limited. Your own blog will give you more freedom.
 
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