Plan to start a Blog or Vlog?

Then you must know the difference between Blogging vs Vlogging? Every organization or individual wants to get more visitors to their blog or vlog. Blogging or Vlogging is best to generate the huge amount of traffic and gain potential customers.

If we are talking about Blogging, it is all about writing articles and Vlogging is all about creating videos.

But the question is what to choose? Blogging or vlogging? Read the article below to find the answer

Blogging

Blogging is like an online log, where an author can share his thoughts, experience or whatever he wants to share with his readers about any specific topic.

Initially, blogging involved a personal weblog, in which a person would journal about their day. From “web log” came the term “blog.”

Like most new innovations on the Internet, many entrepreneurs saw a marketing potential in having a blog, and blogging took off from there. Not only can a blog be used for marketing, but also, a blog can be a home business in and of itself.

Advantages of Blogging

It is easy to set up

It’s very easy to set up a blog. You don’t need extended technical knowledge to create a blog. There are several platforms like WordPress, blogger, Tumblr… making our life simpler for creating a blog.

It does not require massive equipment

To create a blog, you need not have a lot of equipment. All you need to have is A computer and a good internet connection.

It get huge traffic to your site

by using SEO and proper promotion of your content on social networking sites, blog directories … and earn the decent amount of money by using AdSense ads, affiliate marketing…

Disadvantages of Blogging

For blogging, you need to know about SEO

SEO is all about ranking a site in search engines. To generate traffic to your blog, you should have good knowledge about SEO. Learn On page SEO and Off page SEO and implement them.

• Use the proper title for your blog posts.
• Use High frequency and low competition Keywords in your articles.
• Use images in your blog posts and try to have at least one image for every blog post.

You need to update your blog regularly

Another thing you must notice here is, you need to update your blog on regular basis. Convert your visitors to regular log readers by providing them quality stuff that they are searching for via your articles.

Vlogging

A vlogging (or video blogging) is that kind of log that contains video content. In which one can share his thoughts or whatever he wants to share with others by creating videos. The small, but growing, segment of the blogosphere devoted to vlogs is sometimes referred to as the vlogosphere.

Some bloggers have included video content for years. However, vlogging is becoming more common as equipment becomes cheaper and supporting software and hosting and aggregation sites become more prevalent.

Advantages of Vlogging

It doesn’t require professional writing skills

Unlike the blog, you don’t need professional writing skills to create a vlog.  If you can create quality videos, you will get huge visits with minimal SEO effort and earn money from your videos.

You can get more user engagement

Generally, people used to watch videos rather than seeing of written stuff. So by creating good vlogs you can get more traffic and more user engagement.

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Disadvantages of Vlogging

You need more expensive equipment

To create a vlog, you need to spend some amount of money for equipment.  You need to have a camera to shoot high-quality video and a professional video editor software like adobe after effects.

It is difficult to edit after submission

We can easily edit the blog post after publishing but when it comes to vlogging editing is not an easy job. If you find any mistake in your uploaded video, you need to delete it and edit the original one and again upload the video in your channel. Sometimes editing is difficult, so you may have to re-record the video.

It takes time to vlog

It takes a time to record a video, edit the video and upload the video. You require 2-4 hours for a video. So you must spend some amount of time to create vlog and to become a good vlogger.

Blogging or Vlogging? It’s up to you

It depends on your opinion whether to choose blogging or vlogging? If you have good writing skills then go for creating a log and share your knowledge through your log articles. If you have good speaking skills then go for Vlogging.

You can also create a vlog in parallel to blog. Just create a log and embed video into your articles so that you can get more traffic, more user engagement, and more earnings$$$.