Issue
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Websites
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Blogsites
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Domain Name
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A website contains and is hosted only with a domain name
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A blog does not contain any domain name but, contains a sub-domain name
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Registration Fee
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A website owner has to pay for the registration of the domain name of the website
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A Blogger needs not to pay for the registration of his sub-domain as several companies are offering the sub-domains free of cost.
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Technical Expertise
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Website maintenance requires at least some degree of technical expertise
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The maintenance of a blog does not require any technical expertise.
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Cost of Hosting & Maintenance
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Hosting and maintenance of a website costs the owner of the website
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Hosting and maintenance of a blog does not cost the owner of the blog
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Seriousness of Maintenance
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In general, the website owners are more serious about the maintenance of the site compare to the owners of blogsites, because they are paying for it.
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There are several professional as well as amateur bloggers who update their blogs regularly and make valuable postings. However, it is common wisdom that an average blogger is less serious about the maintenance of his site when compare to website owners. The bloggers are less serious simply because they are getting everything free of cost. Most of the bloggers commence a blog and make posting due to their new enthusiasm but, slowly their enthusiasm comes down in course of time and start spending less time or almost no time on their blogs.
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Content
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Usually, websites contain more content with quality and accuracy when compared to blogs.
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Though there are good many blogs which are popularly known for their content richness, bloggers make their postings in hurry without doing in-depth research and enquiries.
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Preferred by
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Organizations always prefer to maintain an official website with an independent domain address rather than a blog for their official purpose.
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Individuals, who does not want spend money on website, prefers to maintain a blog.
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Written by: S.Chandrashekara Reddy
Contact: chandrashekarareddys@gmail.com
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