One of the biggest questions about the internet since several years is ‘How big is the blogosphere’ or How many blogs are there?. While the answer to the last question almost impossible to count is, BlogPulse currently tracks almost 150 million websites, identified as blogs.
We wanted to know more and decided to analyse more data, such as how much revenue is generated from blogs and what are the key demographics for the blogging publishers. We also were interested in the languages used online and their spread. The result of all this can be found in our State of The Blogosphere infographic.
The average earnings made by blogs are a ten fold of the investment made to sites with most hobbyists surprisingly missing out on any earnings, but investing an incredible $1,500 in their blogs. In these economic challenging times for many, maybe it’s time to reconsider mortgages and loans and get some solid advice from the folks at Credit Loan. After all blogging is not a cheap task it seems and part timers invest even more in their blogging habits, more than $10,000, with rather low profit.
With huge thanks to the team of Infographiclabs.com for this graphic.
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How can BlogCatalog.com not be listed in the blog galaxy?
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Yahoo 360 was closed years ago.
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Sorry but i disagree with the data shown in This Infographic.
Many services listed as “blogs” aren’t blog platforms at all:
- ezinearticles is an article directory
- squidoo is squidoo, it’s more akin a wiki
- friendster is a social network (so why not including facebook and twitter too?)
- Terapad e Weebly are online services to create webpages, like geocities.
- Scribd is used to publish online pdfs and powerpoints
So, if the basic survey of this analysis is flawed, the conclusions are also flawed.
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Very good graphics but could hopefully bring more attention to Hispanics who feel that blogs are becoming a very important contribution to the global Internet.
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And there are no blogs in India ?
I think a lot of the numbers and graphics here are incorrect !
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I agree with Andrea.
Harvard did interesting research of few national blogospheres, I have done map of Russian blogosphere based on their research http://russiansphinx.blogspot.com/2010/11/mapping-runet.html
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An interesting discussion is worth comment. I think that you need to write extra on this matter, it won’t be a taboo topic however usually people are not enough to speak on such topics. To the next. Cheers
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Only a small sample size is technically necessary to ensure statistical significance. What’s more important is how they selected respondents (is it really a random sample), how the questions are crafted (to ensure that the structure doesn’t introduce bias), and how they handle the data (to ensure that the results are pure).