The Fast Growing Business of Blogging!
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Just the other day, I was reading some stats on the WordPress site and was blown away by the massive growth of WordPress Blogs over the last 24 months!
Here are some 2008 stats shared by the WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg:
- Page Views grew from 1.5 million to 6.5 million per month
- 2 million new blogs created for the year
- 35 million new blog posts in 2008
In January 2009 alone there were 372,519 WP blogs created!
It is clear that not only is blogging growing at a rapid rate, but it is also evolving in some new and exciting ways. This excerpt from WordPress.com puts it best:
Blogging is growing both in the US and especially internationally. Tens of thousands of new WordPress blogs are created every day – by regular bloggers, companies, large media publishers, and many others. In addition, we seeing a trend that’s potentially even bigger than blogging: Publishers are starting to use WordPress as a platform to create all kinds of sites beyond blogs – large and small company sites, online magazines, social networks, travel sites, scrapbooking sites, contact managers, startups, multimedia archives, video sites, sports sites.
Isn’t this cool? Ten of thousands of blogs being created DAILY! Businesses are using blogging technology to create company websites, social networks, video sites, membership sites and so much more.
The sad reality is that a good portion of these blog sites won’t last more than a year as they are lacking some key success strategies and tools for optimizing and marketing their blogs.
This is ONE of the key reasons we have created our newest mini-course called, Blog Marketing Tips, Tools & Tactics. We want to provide blogsite owners as well as Virtual Assistants (who operate and manage blog sites) with some advanced marketing and optimization strategies for increasing blog traffic and visibility.
There are excellent opportunities right now for Virtual Assistants and Online Professionals to offer “in-demand” blog marketing services to this fast growing base of blogsite owners.
Our newest blog marketing training program starts on August 10th. Check it out!
