Why Blog? - Part II of Why Blog?

Continued from: Why Blog? - Part I - What is Blogging?

Why Do People Blog?

To find out why people actually blog, it would be best to ask the bloggers themselves. Deron Sizemore of RandomJabber.com says, “I blog because I enjoy it. I feel like I’ve got a lot of ideas to share that I hope a lot of others can benefit from.” Another blogger, Simon Ward of Pingable.org, shares similar sentiments. “I enjoy writing about the topics I blog about. I enjoy learning, you never stop learning, and I learn a lot when I blog.”

Adnan of Blogtrepreneur.com blogs for a different reason. “I blog in order to build relationships with fascinating people who share similar interests and characteristics to me… A blog can be a great way to build these relations as it’s primarily a form of conversation between me and my readers.” Adnan also blogs “to build Blogtrepreneur into a base where I can launch successful websites and products from in the future.” In fact, Adnan has used his blog to launch a blog evaluation service called blogLOUDER. Adnan used his blog to launch blogLOUDER and since then, blogLOUDER has done remarkably well.

As previously stated, arguably the second most common reason to blog is for financial income. Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net and Digital-Photography-School.com started blogging primarily because he enjoyed it. Now Darren is making a six-figure sum from blogging - and loving it. Many others are hoping to achieve financial freedom as, just Darren has done. Tomaz Mencinger of FreedomIdeas.com and TennisMindGame.com current job contract will end on December 31st, 2008; he hopes to be “financially and personally free” through blogging and other entrepreneurial ventures. He is currently making upwards of one hundred dollars a day from Adsense alone and is well on his way to ‘financial freedom.’

There are Bloggers on the other end of the spectrum. ‘Small Potato’ of WPdesigner.com doesn’t really know why he blogs. When asked the question, “Why do you blog?” he replied, “I have no idea. It just happened. About a year ago, I started a blog simply to publish free WordPress themes for people to use. As time passed by, I started publishing other types of content, like tutorials. I kept going from there. Right now, Wpdesigner.com is doing well and [is] publishing content other than free WordPress themes…”

As can be gleaned from the words of Bloggers - there are many reasons to blog. As stated, the most common reasoning is personal enjoyment, others seek ‘financial freedom,’ and others blog for reasons not explainable. Evidently the Blogging Empire is not likely to fall anytime soon; over 175,000 new blogs are created every day and over 1.6 million posts per day - that’s over 18 updates a second.*

Blogging allows anyone and everyone to get their voice out. Bloggers don’t have to hope to get their articles published in a newspaper to be read by a specific community. Bloggers can say what they want and make it available to everyone with the simple click of a mouse.

So why blog?
To be heard.