Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.
We all know about blogs and how big they are.
Blogging can generate a great deal of traffic to your online business.
Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.
Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.
There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.
I had a blog for many years. Once you develop your readership on your blog, and you can put something out there or direct traffic or get attention - it's like a super power.
It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.