subject: Is Blogging Dying? [print this page] A recently available article published in the New York Times says that the number of bloggers between the ages of twelve and seventeen has been reducing dramatically. The study takes this particular statistic and employs it to pose the question of if blogging as a whole is starting to fall out of favor and whether or not its use as an online communication tool has died. Do you think this is the case? Is blogging, especially in the internet marketing and online sales arena, dying? What will this signify for online marketers if it turns out to be true? We thought we would take a closer look at this question to find out whether or not it really is correct and what sort of implication it would mean for the field of internet marketing arena.
The very first thing that we discovered is that blogging, mainly in terms of aiding one's ability to communicate online is not truly dying. First of all, the statistic of kids somewhere between the ages of twelve and seventeen blogging less doesn't in fact mean that blogging is going to go away. The simple truth is that people in this age group appear to just be moving over over to the other kinds of social websites like Twitter and Facebook--Facebook, especially, since it offers its members the ability to create "notes" which can act in the same fashion as blog posts and will let the user have control over who can see what has been composed. Adults are much more likely to develop their own web properties than kidsparticularly because pesky things like parental consent will not be an issue.
You must also stop for a second and think about the fact that blogging is hard work! Blogging isn't a one-time sort of action. If you want to make money online, particularly when you are in Internet Marketing, you have to be willing to actually commit to the activity if you want to find success with the activity. When blogs experienced their acceptance rise between 2004-2006, many internet 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 obvious 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 the reason many Internet marketers have stopped employing blogging as a key income source.
Google is working hard to punish people who have uploaded stolen content to their blogs and sites. This signifies that on a daily basis hundreds of blogs are being de-indexed by Googlethese tend to be the blogs created by people who use software to steal the content off of other sites and put it on their own. With countless blogs being removed from the radar, it is easy to think that blogging is dying and that the sites are merely being shut down.
The actual truth is that blogging is still alive. Blogging is just being far better regulated meaning that it is a lot harder for people to earn money using these mediums. Sure this may impact some of the basic and blatant facts but we don't think that blogging is actually going to go anywhere. It's still coming into its own for what exactly it is really designed to be: a tool for communication. Blogging will always be better method for people who want to share information than it is for someone to earn money.
