More and more people are starting to blog nowadays. If you are new to blogging, the most pertinent thing is to understand the difference between a blog and a static website. A static website is one written in a computer language such as HTML or javascript. It contains pages relevant to what a website is about. A blog also contains pages about a certain topic but the main difference is that a static website is generally unchanged unless updates need to be made to the content or if the webmaster decides to change the design of the website whereas a blog is dynamic in its contents. A blog's content is updated regularly as often as the blogger desires (it can be several times a day). That's what makes a blog interesting, and that's why search engines in their quest to bring relevant and fresh content to searchers favor listing blogs.

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