You probably have seen many times over the past years the news that blogging is at the verge of its extinction because micro-blogging social networks sites have replaced it. After having look on following reports I couldn’t agree to it any more.
Online buzz
It is true that blogs are sometimes overlooked as a significant source of online buzz in comparison to social networking sites, yet consumer interest in blogs keeps growing. By the end of 2011, Nielsen/McKinsey company, tracked over 181 million blogs around the world, up from 36 million only five years earlier in 2006.
It also points towards the evolving tastes in the Blogosphere like Tumblr, Pinterest is a visually-oriented social media site that is also growing rapidly, with over 10 million unique U.S. visitors in December 2011, almost double their audience from October.
Blogosphere report 2011
As per technorati‘s State of the Blogosphere 2011 report, in 2011 bloggers kept on using display ads, affiliate marketing links, and search ads are the most common ways bloggers generate revenue from their blogs.
60% of Corporate bloggers said they do not have any advertising on their blog. Here are some interesting slides from the report..
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