Has Blogging Died?

Written by Dennis Checkowish Friday, 08 April 2011 20:20

A recent article printed in the New York Times claims that the number of bloggers between the ages of twelve and seventeen has been reducing dramatically. This is a study that then utilizes this specific statistic to ask the question of whether or not blogging, as a form of communication between people, has started to die. Do you think this is the case? Has blogging, particularly regarding Website marketing and online sales, died? What could this, if it were real, mean for the sales field and for web marketers? We decided that it would be a good plan to look closely at this question and find out whether or not it would actually have a large impact on the arena of Internet marketing.

A recent article printed in the New York Times claims that the number of bloggers between the ages of twelve and seventeen has been reducing dramatically. This is a study that then utilizes this specific statistic to ask the question of whether or not blogging, as a form of communication between people, has started to die. Do you think this is the case? Has blogging, particularly regarding Website marketing and online sales, died? What could this, if it were real, mean for the sales field and for web marketers? We decided that it would be a good plan to look closely at this question and find out whether or not it would actually have a large impact on the arena of Internet marketing.

The primary that we found is that blogging, specifically in terms of aiding one's ability to communicate online is not truly dying. The statistic found in the content, that kids aged 12-17 doesn't truly imply blogging is dying. The easy reality is that people in this age bracket are simply migrating over to other forms of social media like Facebook and Twitter---Facebook offers members a chance to write notes which can double as blogs and allows the user to control who can see what he or she writes. Adults, because of the lack of required parental consent, are a lot more prone to easily start their own websites than they are to join these networks.

It is additionally vital that you consider the indisputable fact that blogging is difficult. Blogging seriously isn't a one-time kind of pastime. If someone in the website marketing industry wants to make money online, blogging can be a great way to do that but you have to be willing to actually commit to the activity. When blogs experienced their reputation rise between 2004-2006, many online marketers jumped on the bandwagon thinking they could create a fast site that looked like a blog and put up advertising and be done. It swiftly became apparent to everybody who tried this that the only way to make serious money in blogging is to constantly update your site with new information. This is why many web marketers have left behind blogging as a form of earning money online.

Google is cracking down on people that post stolen content on their blogs and also websites. This means that, day after day, Google de-indexes more sites--the internet sites that get this done to them are the blogs produced by people who employed software to steal content off of other blogs and websites for themselves. With a great number of blogs being yanked off the radar, you can believe that blogging is dying and that these sites are just being closed down.

The actual truth is that blogging is still alive. Blogging is just starting to be better tracked and that signifies that it is a lot harder for people to make money with them. While this will impact some basic data, we predict that blogging isnt going anywhere. It's still coming into its own for what it is really meant to be: a tool for communication. Blogging is a more effective method for sharing information than it is for earning quick cash.

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