Friday 25 November 2011

Is Blogging Dying?

By Dulce Asia Kamstra


An article printed in the New York Times a short while ago reports that the number of bloggers between the ages of twelve and seventeen has been declining. The study makes use of this statistic to offer the questions of whether or not the complete blogging medium is following suit and whether or not blogging, as a form of communication online, is dying. Is this accurate? Has blogging, specifically pertaining to Website marketing and online sales, died? What could this imply for online marketers if it turns out to be true? We thought we would take a more detailed look at this question to determine whether or not it is actually true and what sort of implication it would mean for the field of internet marketing arena.

The primary that we found is that blogging, mainly in terms of aiding one's ability to communicate online is not truly dying. The statistic of people aged 12-17 blogging less frequently isn't going to necessarily indicate that blogging is going away. What is really happening is that people in this age group are just migrating over to Twitter and, specifically, Facebook--the service that offers people the power to create "notes" which can act in much the same fashion as blog entries and allow the user to control who is able to see what they have written down. Adults are far more likely to develop their own web properties than kids particularly because pesky things like parental consent aren't an issue.

It can also be crucial to consider the indisputable fact that blogging is difficult. Blogging seriously isn't a quick onetime thing. If a person within the marketing community needs to earn money on the internet, blogging is a great way to do that, but you need to be willing to actually commit to the activity. While running a blog arrived at the peak of its popularity in 2004-2006, lots of Internet Marketers jumped onto the bandwagon thinking that they could make a site really fast that, because it looked like a blog, they could slap up some advertising and sit back and collect earnings. Most of the individuals who attempted this found very quickly that the only way to make real income via blogging was to always be updating their sites with brand new information. This is why many internet marketers have left behind blogging as a form of earning money online.

Google is cracking down on those that post stolen content material on their blogs as well as websites. Every day Google is de-indexing more and more websites--typically these sites are pseudo blogs that were produced by people who use software programs to rip off other peoples' content and use it for themselves. With numerous blogs being taken off the radar, it is easy to think that blogging is dying and that the sites are merely being shut down.

The serious reality is that blogging is not really dying. Blogging is simply beginning to be better tracked and that signifies that it is a lot harder for people to make money with them. Sure this will likely influence some of the basic and blatant facts but we don't think that blogging is actually going to go anywhere. It is simply starting to be recognized for what it really is: a communication tool. Blogging is usually a more effective method for sharing information than it is for earning quick cash.




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