A recent article posted in the New York Times claims that the number of bloggers between the ages of twelve and seventeen has been reducing dramatically.
The first thing that we discovered is that blogging, especially as a form of online communication is not actually dying. First of all, the statistic of kids somewhere between the ages of twelve and seventeen blogging less does not actually mean that blogging is going to go away. The simple truth is that folks in this age group appear to just be moving over over to the other kinds of social networking like Twitter and Facebook–Facebook, especially, since it offers its members the ability to create “notes” which can act in the same fashion as blog posts and will let the user have control over who can see what has been composed. Adults are far more likely to produce their own web properties than kidsparticularly because pesky things like parental consent are not an issue.
It is also crucial to consider the undeniable fact that blogging is difficult. Blogging just isn’t an easy onetime issue. If you would like to make money online, particularly 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. While running a blog arrived at the peak of its popularity in 2004-2006, lots of Internet Marketers jumped onto the bandwagon thinking that they might make a site really fast that, because it looked like a blog, they could slap up some advertising and sit back and collect earnings. It became obvious really quickly to all people who tried this that the only way to genuinely make money with blogging is to be constantly updating the site with new information. This may be the main reason for the abandonment of blogging as a major income source in Internet marketing.
Google is working hard to discipline people who have published stolen content to their blogs and sites. This means that, each day, Google de-indexes more sites–the websites that get this done to them are the blogs produced by people who employed software to steal content off of other blogs and websites for themselves. With so many blogs being taken off the radar, it is easy to believe that blogging is dying and that the sites are merely being shut down.
The truth is that blogging is not dying. This can influence some preliminary specifics but we are comfortable saying that blogging isn’t actually going anywhere.