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Has Blogging Changed?

2/1/2017

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There is no question that blogging has changed. A few years ago I stated on the AHA show that "blogging was dead". I truly believed that blogging (on blogger) was a thing of the past. With the new social media platforms such as facebook, writers and readers were looking for a more dynamic interaction (i.e. instant comments and feedback) that blogging couldn't offer. Boy was I wrong.

So what happened? A few years ago, blogging wasn’t a business, it was a personal journal. Most artists were on sites like Blogger but not too many people followed blogs and their popularity was pretty low. And it wasn't that easy to follow (or find!) good bloggers.

Fast forward a couple of years and blogging is now a huge business. There are thousands of bloggers making six figures plus, who blog about fashion, home decor and life as a lonely high school co-ed. Many of them are not scholars, rather they have something interesting to say and they have an audience. Bloggers now make money from sponsors, advertising, affiliate marketing and even sponsored posts. It's big bucks.

Another big difference is that social media has made it a lot easier for bloggers to build a following. Create a blog and then share your message on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest. Find followers and entice them to follow your blog. Ask your followers to share your message and the next thing you know your blog has thousands of followers. With some work you may end up with tens of thousands of followers. For the hard working bloggers you may end up with over a million followers.

So maybe it is time to rethink the whole blogging thing. You probably have something to say. So just do it.

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Sandra Busby link
2/1/2017 04:47:32 am

Well this is a timely post! I have just moved my Blog from Blogger to Weebly. It's a scary move, since I have had my old blog for several years and I may of course lose the *cough* 266 followers I had managed to build... But having learned so much about what NOT to do by having my 'blogger' blog, I am taking that knowledge with me to my new Weebly blog and I am going to use what I've learned to build a new following (I hope!). I think the main mystery here is SEO, something I have been reading up on a lot over the last couple of weeks and something I never used on Blogger. I must say, when you read about SEO titles, SEO descriptions, META tags, RSS feeds and Permalinks, it's enough to leave anyone running for the hills with a brain resembling a blancmange in a tombola! I would LOVE you to do a show on all of those things (I'd be happy to share what I've learned with you), because I think it would be so helpful to so many of your listeners to hear it in simple 'blonde' language... I have learned so much about it now having forced myself to research the subject and I think that once you get your head around it, it's actually quite simple, though I still need to know more on the subject. We just get frightened off by all of the techno-geek words used to explain it on websites! I must say I am still confused about what exactly an RSS feed is and how it works, but I have no brain power left right now to try to get it! One thing at a time... I guess blogging has changed and we all need to change with it!

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