Is Blogging Dead?
Written by Tom Zimmerman Sunday, 10 April 2011 05:51
A new study completed by the New York Times says that the number of young bloggers (ages 12-17) is decreasing. This is a study that then uses this specific statistic to ask the question of whether blogging, as a kind of communication between people, has started to die. Do you believe this is the case? Has blogging, specifically regarding Online marketing and online sales, died? What would this, if it were true, indicate for the sales field and for web marketers? We thought we would take a look at this concern and find out whether or not it is true and what kind of implication this poses for the internet market arena.
The very first thing we figured out is that blogging is not actually dying, particularly when it pertains to the field of online communication. The statistic employed in the content, that kids aged 12-17 doesn't really imply that blogging is dying. The simple truth is that individuals in this age group appear to just be switching 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 a good deal more likely to begin their own web pages than kids are, especially because things like parental consent are not actually an issue.
You should also stop for a second and consider the fact that blogging is hard work! Blogging isn't a one-time kind of action. If a person within the marketing field needs to earn money on the net, blogging is a great way to do that, but you need to be willing to actually commit to the activity. While blogging and site-building achieved the peak of its popularity in 2004-2006, lots of Internet Marketers jumped onto the bandwagon thinking that they might 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 people who experimented with this found very quickly that the only way to generate real income via blogging was to always be updating their sites with brand new information. This is why many web marketers have left behind blogging as a form of earning money online.
Google has been working hard to give a punishment people who have submitted stolen content to their blogs and sites. This shows that each day 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 so many blogs falling off the radar, it would be easy to assume that blogging is dying and these sites are just being shut down.
The real truth is that blogging remains alive. The truth is that blogging is just being better regulated which makes it harder for people to earn money through these mediums. While this can affect some primary data, we predict that blogging isnt going anywhere. Its simply coming into its own for precisely what it truly is: a communication tool. Blogging is a much better choice for sharing information than it is for earning quick cash.