Personally, after blogging now for a few months and seeing the power behind blogs and blogging I can't imagine using a regular static website for marketing.
Here are some of the primary reasons and benefits that one gains by using blogs for Affiliate marketing in what ever you going to enter.
Firstly, the interactivity of a blog is important to the search engines and because you are updating with such a level of frequency, the search engines pay such close attention to what your doing.
So if you can get yourself into the habit of writing to please the search engines and what I mean by this is if your going to put together an article there is no point in not optimizing your article to get the maximum benefit and possibly get on the first page of Google and other search results.
Here's another benefit of maintaining a blog.
This is something that is not thought of when one begins.
However, regardless of whether you have an ecommerce store or if you're an affiliate marketer or even if you have created your own product in your favorite niche.
This is with out a doubt the best information management system you could have.
Presently I am getting the Google bots crawling my blogs 3 times a day.
Not only are blogs beneficial to search engines, they also become of great value to your prospects, allowing you to create a more interactive dialog with them, and they get to know you on a more personal level.
They have the opportunity to vote on your content.
They will often offer up some suggestions for future projects that can further your cause and online presence.
Admittedly, I was very slow with catching on to the importance of running and maintaining a blog.
As mentioned, I purchased my first blog program way back in January and didn't get my blogs done till July.
But I am here to tell you, that you simply can't miss with blogs.
Are the days of traditional static sites gone? Well they just may be.
With advent of social networks and the relevancy of optimized and fresh content, it simply breaks down to a blog being your best tool to meet those requirements.