Most bloggers don't have any stamina! Only 55% are still posting three months after creating their blog.To me this is an indication as to why many don't achieve what they hope from blogging, whether this be making money, converting the world or launching some great idea or product. They simply don't keep going long enough.
The reality is that it takes longer than three months to get established within the blogosphere (I really don't like that word!). There are exceptions, but generally you have to have the stamina and determination to keep going for at least a year.
A lot of businesses still don't realise the power of having a blog. It's an almost essential aid for any company. One reason is that blogs get picked up quickly by the search engines. I've been messing around with a new blog, about a forthcoming reality television programme, and Google sent me referrals from day two. Okay, only a couple a day at the moment but this will hopefully grow. The point is that it didn't take any fancy SEO for Google to find the blog.
It's now said that 120,000 new blogs are created each day, which is 1.4 new blogs every second, and that the total number of blogs now stands at 70 million. 1.5 million posts are made each day.
These numbers shouldn't put others off from starting a blog. Remember over half will pack it all in within three months and an estimated 350,000 blogs started each week are only splogs - spam blogs.
The population of the world, in July, was 6,602,224,175 so 70,000,000 blogs is only a small percentage. We haven't seen anything, as yet, as to the full potential of a quality blog.
Good luck (and to England in the Rugby World Cup tonight)
Mike.
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