This was an interesting question to me because they are so very related. I went looking for another point of view on the subject and found this short explanation from a SEO service website.
“Blogs have arrived as a means to get your message across in a personal way. Articles are usually considered to be more informative and accurate where details are concerned. From a search engine perspective, both are a great source of information. But which one to rank better?
First, let’s look at the value each one brings:
Blogs:
Timely, personal, have “inside point of view” usually updated on a frequent basis
Articles:
Informative, Authorative, detailed, marketing driven.
From a freshness perspective, Blogs clearly win out over the articles.
Exposure:
Unless your blog is highly ranked, the articles will get more exposure, since there are more chances of your article being seen by more people. There are many sources on the internet that you can submit your articles to, here is a link for some: seoresources.seoforgoogle.com
From a business perspective, I can tell you that articles help re-enforce what you are selling. By writing an article instead of a blog, there is a perception that more care is taken to writing an article, therefore the information contained within is worth more.
People know that a blog will have a personal spin to it, whether the author is blasting a company, or promoting something that they have a personal or professional interest in.
From my own trials, no one has made any purchases for any product being pushed in a blog, but instead there has a distinguishable influx of sales that can be directly traced back to an article.
So what does this mean to you?
If you have a product or service you want to promote, use an article. If you need to get something off your chest, create a blog. While both are thought of very well by the search engines, you’re ultimate goal is to convert the user, not confuse the search engines.
-To your online success!”
Paul Bliss
www.SEOforGoogle.com
Now what I didn’t see there was the relationship between blogs and articles. I personally like to own what I write; and so do most other writers. Consider writing your article, posting it to your blog, re-writing the same article to be original, then submitting that to the article directories. This way you get back links to your site and there isn’t any duplicate content penalty.
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