World Wide Web Blogging Lotto

After years of working hard at the 9 to 5 job it seems that many are considering jumping on the hype blogging wagon! Even as I am writing this article it puzzles me that so many out there can be so naive to the cold hard facts of blogging success. After many Google searches I have come up with some stats of how many blogs are out there giving the blogging community competition and people contemplating the idea of starting a blog.

How many blogs are out there?

  • Technorati: 5,790,155 weblogs watched.
  • NITLE Blog Census: 2,108,226 visited sites we think are weblogs.
  • Live Journal stats: Total accounts: 5,703,540… active in some way: 2,460,062
  • Planet Weblog Service has 6 million users with blogs and Yahoo! Korea has 3 million users.
  • Cyworld, the countries biggest blog host, has 11 million users.
  • Bill Gates interview with Gizmodo last week that MSN Spaces has 1 million blogs.
  • SixApart claims 6.5 million blogs across LiveJournal.
  • Google owns Blogger and has at least 3 million users.
  • Pew internet estimated 8 million blogs in the United States.
  • January 2005 Netcraft Web Survey: 58,194,836 sites and 26,405,729 active sites.

Now that we have an estimate of 1 in 58,194,836 blog success are still ready to quit your job?  Maybe you would like to try your chances at the Mega Millions Lotto for just a mere $1 where odds are 1 in 135,145,920.  Yes, I’ll say it you actually have better odds of being struck by lighting 1 in 2,000,000 but your best odds are actually finding a pearl while eating an oyster 1 in 12,000.

Yeah I know but you are very lucky and you will win the World Wide Web Blogging Lotto.  The difference between blogging and winning the Mega lotto or eating your way to a pearl is that you have to win the public vote.  There are three keys factors to winning the blogging lotto; the article, determination and traffic (public vote).  Remember if you want to win it will take all three and a word of advice never quit your day job until you have a proven constant cash flow coming in unless you are someone that would quit their job because they purchased a lotto ticket one day.

June 5, 2007 | posted in The Net 

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8 Responses to “World Wide Web Blogging Lotto”

  1. John on June 5th, 2007

    Hey like the new theme!

    Back to the topic… the difference here is, you, the blogger can influence the odds. Most bloggers will give up after just a few months. Many will be blogging about topics for which there is no demand, or there’s no way of making money.

    Lots will not have the skill, knowledge or inspiration to create unique valuable content. Few will have the determination and dedication to see it through to success.

    The ones that succeed will be the ones that are passionate, dedicated, determined and that run their blog like a business…

    IMHO at least :-)

  2. Steve's Tech Blog on June 5th, 2007

    It’s a good example. People should start a blog for the fun of it unless, like me and others, you have a product to promote.

    Still, quality content and sticking to it will always win.

    The hardest, I think, is getting the traffic to your site.

  3. Travis Roberts on June 5th, 2007

    I agree, getting traffic is the hardest thing, but I have been able to earn a little extra cash here and there from clicks…who knows/

  4. Derrich on June 6th, 2007

    Great reasons. Blogging is definitely worth while…and always an adventure.

  5. Make Money With Funds on June 6th, 2007

    I wonder what will happen with the world economy when 10% of work force quits and starts blogging :)

    It’s like a wave of journalism, but not actual goods production…

  6. Steve's Tech Blog on June 6th, 2007

    You can have production value from a blog. For example, the testing for reviewme,ppp … can serve has feedback to better a product or service.

    If it’s just blogging about a bad hair day, then there is no production of value. Unless someone see a pattern and notice bad hair day in a geo location and make a shampoo for that

    Call it “shamblog”
    “Blog about your beautiful air” ;)

  7. Jason Neuman on June 7th, 2007

    Exactly blog for a hobby or for promoting products never blog strictly for money because you more than likely give up.

  8. Paul on June 16th, 2008

    The secret here is to blog what you know off and not something that you want because many are making cash out of the topic.

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