Will the popularity of blogging lead to its own death?
 

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2...rowded-market/

According to a very recent CNET article, “Right now, the Web is home to about 110 million blogs, with about 120,000 new blogs created every day and about 1.5 million new daily posts, according to the blog-tracking and search site tech..no..rati (sorry, had to reformat cuz the site is banned here)

Let’s look at the numbers a little closer. If you type the term “blog” into GOOGLE the search returns 1,550,000,000 results. While I realize that this is just the term “blog” and not explicitly actual blogs that are in existence if you consider that the word was only coined ten years ago the increase is truly amazing. Additionally, think about the fact that the population of the United States is 303,349,807, in China it’s 1,319,175,331, Australia has 21,137,366 people, and the world’s population is 6,630,698,109. Certainly at blogging’s current growth rate there could be more blogs than people in the very near future.

makes you wonder.
I remember when you could start a blog, make one post, get 30 hits immediately, and be listed in Yahoo for that term the next day...LOL

Now you create a blog, make a real post, something high quality, and nada. You can hear the crickets chirping.

I sold off all my blogs awhile back, and decided to get back into it, but wondering if it's worth it.

For mainstream, it's still worth it if you do the following:
Focus on high value but low traffic microniches
Focus on longtail keywords/terms
Supplement SEO-based traffic with social media-sourced traffic
Viralize the content (ie., linkbaiting)

Funny you say that...microniches are exactly what I've been looking into...along with the longtail keywords.

A lot of people have blogs where only they read them. Then it kind of functions as a public journal. I know people who have private blogs set up just for that purpose as well.

Last week, one day I made a new non blog site and one new blog.

The new blog started getting SE traffic from google & yahoo next day while the other non blog site just started seeing traffic in about 5 or 6 days

Probably like with everything money is being made with online; eventually, when competition & saturation kicks in enough, You'll have to work Your ass off, 10x over..

At that point, the ambitious start automating heavily to turn a profit... and Google starts penalizing the techniques used.. *sigh*

It's not so much the content of blogs that made them popular, but instead the "low mental cost" design aspect of them. They are the easiest sites in the world to surf.

Blogs are just modified newsboard scripts that display all the posts on a single page at once. Blogs were really born out of the concept where a partial post was displayed on the main page, then you clicked through to see what text and photos the writer thought was too much for the main page.

After that writers dumped the linking to full posts (or "cuts" as LiveJournal called them) and all content was moved to the main page. Suddenly this is new and innovative enough to give it it's own name, a blog, even though the actual site content hadn't changed.

So I don't think this is going to die. It will just continue to evolve like it has over the past several years.

blogs aren't going anywhere :2cents

i dont see it dying, i started my first blog in 1998, 9 years later they are still going strong

Blogs are still the easiest way to get SE traffic and you do not need a lot of SE traffic to make a buck.