How Blogging Has Evolved – Part 04 : Bloggers of Today
This post is continued from the previous one, and it is one of the parts of my blogging series – How Blogging Has Evolved. Hope you enjoy the series. Stay tuned!
- How Blogging Has Evolved – Part 01 : The Basics of Blogs
- How Blogging Has Evolved – Part 02 : The Formation of the Modern Blogs
- How Blogging Has Evolved – Part 03 : Bloggers to Date
- How Blogging Has Evolved – Part 04 : Bloggers of Today
Bloggers of Today (and a Few Positives)
In the beginning of the blog, most people didn’t know that they were creating what would become the de facto for communicating to one another as both a professional and non-professional manner. We’ve also found that blogging can be more controversial and destructive than we first thought: you can lose your job, life, and more as a result of blogging (whether directly or indirectly). There is no undeniable fact that blogging is one of the most powerful weapons in the world and there is no reversing the events that happened in the past, the posts we published yesterday, as you can only move forward on your blog, aiming for new goals and “meeting” new individuals.
Today’s blogger doesn’t tolerate the same things that the original bloggers once did. For example, at a time when there were only a “few hundred thousand” blogs, it was much easier to be personal, share your thoughts on your blog, and receive dozens of comments, while today every blogger is trying to “compete” against one another, primarily driven by greed and self-power. Taking a step back, everyone, whether they admit it or not, is looking at either relationships or profit as their main motivation when starting a blog – along with gaining more insight, following others, and simply bettering their life.
We’ve seen the young and old begin a blog, meaning that there are virtually no barrier as to who can blog – but who “wants” to start their own “space” on the web.
People who share general interests can now connect with each other in ways that was not possible before. For example, you can subscribe to a few of your favorite websites (through RSS feeds) and be delivered daily updates through your RSS reader. If anything, people, of any language, religion, race, and gender, are able to socialize and connect (through multiple methods) to one another like never before.
There are much higher standards if you want to be taken seriously than there once were. Less than ten years ago, the term “blogger” was shunned in media, and today it is widely accepted, with celebrities, newscasters, and others persistently mentioning it like no other. You rarely heard the now-famous bloggers being mentioned, as a great percentage of them just started within the past five years.
to be continued … (one more part to go) 
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I know what bloggers feel like today. With more than a million blogs starting each week, it is hard to find quality
And the way Google ranks a blog giving more weight to age and popularity (backlinks), pagerank does not equal to quality. But since pagerank equates to traffic, it is usually the trait more valued by the bloggers of today.
Page rank is valued from the number of dofollow backlinks that we receive. Getting a pagerank like themelib surely will bring our blog out of millions of blog cloud.
Atniz, that’s not actually the pagerank which brings sites to the Top10 in Google (hence tons of traffic). That’s the linking power, which the site is able to collect.
During the last update a lot of quality sites lost their pagerank, but they didn’t lose their rankings. So the only people who should care about pagerank are those who sell links, I think.
And one of the main reasons for this blogger burst is the availability of a number of free services and google’s blogger.com is another main reason for this giant leap.
Who would have thought about the present situation 20 years back?
I was actually introduced to Blogger 4 years ago but I did not pay much attention to it then. I realize now that the power of blogging as a medium increased exponentially also because of the increased number of bloggers.
I have started with 6 blogs earlier. Then gave up on all and concentrate on one only. It is because of free blogspot concept and my eagerness to earn more money from blogging. Nowadays, more people are losing their job and having unsecured position in their office. So, finding alternate source is the survival key and everyone force to find their own way.
I commend you for being able to do that. I think that is one of the hardest things to do…let go of other businesses or “blogs” and focus on one. And I hope that is pays off big for you.
yea,it has become very difficult to manage in this recession,and though its difficult to make a living out of blogs,it will surely supplement and ease the pressure,in terms of money.
It’s especially difficult for most because most blogs are general, not niched focused, and they don’t solve any immediate problem the reader is having now.
yeah Blogger really made blogging popular. I loved Blogger and still do…
…But then WordPress has turned it into a “business”.
Always give the importance to the contents and higher importance on link building and seo.
Rightly said. Some of my previous blog posts were published on PR5 pages giving a backlink to me
Nice post. The market is really competitive and to keep people’s interest, you really need to have something spectacular about your blog. Nice!
Seth Godin once wrote that blogging is already saturated. He did not mean that there’s no more room for new blogs. What he actually meant was that people just don’t have enough bandwidth anymore to read everything that’s published on the web.
You just have to wonder where this is all going to end up. How many millions of blogs will there be in 5 or 10 years, or will there be something cooler then. Maybe blogs will become as old as pen pals?
I think you are right Ryan. But, I don’t think it’s going to happen in next 10 years time.
If you want to beat blogs in general and make them “as old as pen pals”, you should create a new media, much faster and broader than Internet, in order you can share your idea to millions in mere seconds.
Perhaps, when we will be able to share our thoughts and other information direcly into each other’s minds, then we could think about the end of the “blogs era”
But still, the vast majority of us want to be heard and listened to.
As for millions of blogs, coming to the Internet during the next decade, consider evolution here. Only the best will be able to bring money and stay for a long time, so the overwhelming number of blogs should not be the thing, we should worry about.
In the past, nobody predicted that this would happen to the blogs now. So I think we can identify trends, but what the future holds will be something completely different with what we expect.
I recently got into blogs after discovering the WordPressDirect platform. Before that, I thought creating static html and php sites was the best way to go. It seems that WP and WPDirect blogs are hard to beat in terms of being able to quickly deploy an search engine optimized site.
SEO themes will give you a boost but notice how not everyone who uses these themse become successful in attracting traffic from search results?
Not actually. Blogs do have some advantages, that static sites do not have, however, links and trust are the kings, so you should think more about link-gathering strategy and quality content, and only then about choosing a platform.
If a site is really well-optimized it would be hard to beat it only by using WordPress
That’s so true. Blogging is extremely powerful… blog post have the ability so spread like wild fire.
A nice series of posts. Very informative. Thanx a lot.
I trust and comment on blogs that regularly host contents, which bring them link power and some of their love to us
I hope to see more refinement and separation between what is good and bad blogging.
I for one would like to see more blogs about actual thoughts and feelings rather than a number of blogs about “how to make money” or editorial repetition of what someone read on another site.
As a new blogger I’d like to be able to find some quality blogs to network with. It seems the blogosphere is just littered with people trying to get a piece. Something has to give at some point and there will have to be some major changes or blogging as we know it will die IMHO.
Maybe that’s the way of things, maybe it will shift to Twitter, or a new thing will come out and work for a while until it too becomes to big to be effective.
I seem to agree with thekayway, I am guilty of duplicating some content.
Interesting post, blogging have evolved and will continue for a few years to come. I can’t wait to see what the next big thing is
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed your posts on blogging. This is pretty new to me and I am one of those older folks you mentioned so I think it is great for whatever age. I do like building relationships but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t here to make some extra income as well. Who isn’t? I will continue to look forward to your future posts.
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Eddie