Is Blogging Dying?

Written by Andrew Parker Monday, 30 May 2011 10:44

An article published in the New York Times a short while ago states that the number of bloggers between the ages of twelve and seventeen has been declining. The study takes this specific statistic and uses it to pose the question of whether or not 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, specifically in the world of Internet marketing and online sales, dying? What would this, if it were true, indicate for the sales field and for web marketers? We chose to look into this query and find out whether or not it is true and what kind of implication this poses for the internet market arena.

An article published in the New York Times a short while ago states that the number of bloggers between the ages of twelve and seventeen has been declining. The study takes this specific statistic and uses it to pose the question of whether or not 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, specifically in the world of Internet marketing and online sales, dying? What would this, if it were true, indicate for the sales field and for web marketers? We chose to look into this query 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 that we discovered is that blogging, especially as a form of online communication is not actually dying. The statistic of people aged 12-17 blogging less often isn't going to necessarily indicate that blogging is going away. The basic reality is that people in this age group are simply migrating over to other forms of social media like Facebook and Twitter---Facebook offers members a chance to write notes which can double as blogs and allows the user to control who can see what he or she writes. Adults are a great deal more likely to start their own internet sites than kids are, especially because things like parental consent are not actually an issue.

We also wanted to take the belief that blogging is hard under consideration. Blogging is just not a thing that can be done once and quickly. If you would like to make money online, specifically 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 upturn between 2004-2006, many online 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 became clear really quickly to everyone who tried this that the only way to truly make money with blogging is to be constantly updating the site with new information. This may be the main cause of the abandonment of blogging as a major income source in Internet marketing.

Google is cracking down on those who post stolen content material on their blogs and websites. This means that, every day, Google de-indexes more sites--the websites that get this done to them are the blogs created by people who employed software to steal content off of other blogs and websites for themselves. With so many blogs being removed from the radar, you can easily believe that blogging is dying and that the sites are merely being shut down.

The genuine truth is that blogging remains alive. Blogging is just being far better regulated so it is a lot more difficult for people to earn money using these mediums. While this could impact some basic data, we predict that blogging isnt going anywhere. It's still coming into its own for precisely what it is really supposed to be: an instrument for communication. It is a lot better to apply a blog to share information than it is for people to earn quick money.

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