Blogs and the activity of blogging went mainstream
a long time ago so much so that these days every 1.5 seconds a new blog
is created! Crazy huh? Put another way:
• 7.4 Million blogs were created in
the last 120 days
• 1.5 Million blogs were created in
the past 7 days
• 900,000 blogs created in the last
24 hours
• 37,500 blogs created every hour
Those are downright scary figures especially if
you are just creating a blog today because it is a reflection of the
extent of the competition facing you today! So what really made blogs
and the activity of blogging so popular?
Why Blogs Became So Popular
Well before blogging became so mainstream and the
internet became literally saturated with millions upon millions of
blogs, the activity was pretty much restricted to only the truly savvy
online marketers (who traditionally set the pace for the rest of the
crowd) and the geeks. Once those marketers realized the significant
advantages blogs held over normal websites they quickly, quietly and
efficiently converted their traditional websites to the blog platform.
Here’s why they did it:
1. Blogs are quickly
indexed by search engines;
2. A blog is easy to
update and add content to frequently;
3. Frequently
updating content encourages visitors to return to your blog;
4. You don’t need to
know HTML or any other web coding language to manage a blog;
5. Blogs embrace the
2-way conversation interactivity that is so important to today’s
business environment;
6. Social Media
Websites welcome and are the perfect fit for blogs;
7. Blogs rise up the
search engines quickly;
8. It is dead easy to
attract web traffic to a blog even if it is brand new;
9. New content added
to your blog is instantly viewable and just as quickly picked up by the
search engines; and
10. You don’t need to
be a web designer or have web designing skills to create a cool and
professional-looking blog that stimulates visitor confidence and
enhances their interaction.
What those ten attributes listed above so
characteristic of blogs essentially mean, is that a blog would
invariably and inevitably beat a normal website when it comes to
attracting web traffic and attaining exposure! What blogging had
fundamentally done was to level the playing field so that even absolute
beginners could take on well-established traditional websites that had
had thousands of backlinks and been around for several years. What is
more not only were blogs competing effectively with them but actually
beating them at their own game!
Before long blogs were popping up as the number
one listings throughout Google’s index for the most competitive keyword
terms! Slowly and surely those traditional websites that had maintained
a vice-like grip on the top-spot listings on Google for an eternity
slowly lost their rankings to a large number of blogs.
Soon enough the secret was out that blogs wielded
a considerable advantage over traditional websites and before long the
activity itself had gone mainstream. Now let’s fast forward to the
current situation today where the internet is super-saturated with
blogs to the tune of a new blog being created every 1.5 seconds!
What 900,000 Blogs Created Everyday
Means to You!
It used to be that anybody could virtually blog
about anything and were almost guaranteed to attract enough traffic to
make enough sales to actually justify it as being worth their while. In
such a manner a lot of marketers who had embraced blogging early on
were able to dominate a good number of niche markets quickly. But that
was then and today, well, is today!
Long gone are the good ole days when you could
target a small niche, slap together a few mediocre posts to your new
blog and attract sufficient traffic to enable you to make money enough
to quit your day job! These days most of those once little-saturated
and highly-lucrative niche markets are overcrowded with more
competitors than their daily web traffic allotment can possibly handle!
What that boils down to is that only the very few, very best of blogs
are actually able to make money online from their chosen niche markets.
That also means that if you are just creating a
blog today, your blog will surely join the millions of mediocre blogs
that never make any headway and are quickly abandoned by their owners
unless you…
Make Your Blog Stand Out From The
Rest Of The Crowd
To succeed as a blogger you have to make your blog
stand out from the many other millions of blogs already proliferating
all across the internet. This ironically is actually good news for you
because most bloggers have absolutely no idea how to distinguish their
blogs from the next guy’s. In fact these days there are two kinds of
blogging style, the traditional type of blogging known as Old-School
Blogging and the more recent style in tune with the current internet
business environment known as New-School Blogging.
The big difference between Old-School Blogging and
New-School Blogging is that unless your Old-School Blog is already
ranking well on the Google Index, you are going to find it extremely
difficult to draw enough attention to make your blog profitable. In
other words if you start a blog today and adopt old-school blogging
techniques then you are almost certainly guaranteed to fail. Why?
Because old-school blogging techniques will not enable you to stand out
from the crowd which also means that you cannot possible compete
against blogs that have been around for a while and are already
well-established.
The biggest flaw that
old-school blogs suffered from was an inability to consistently draw
significant amounts of web traffic!
However if you create a new blog and adopt
new-school blogging techniques, within little time you will
effortlessly attract lots of web traffic. Which method of blogging you
choose will ultimately determine the level of internet success!
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