One New Blog Created Every Second Means Yours Is Irrelevant Unless.
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