I found this Pdf in the the traffic exchange for blogs "BlogMad" . The report answers one of my following Questions: Who are those Bloggers, Why and What do they Blog? - in general, not for business. (Quote) : Bloggers: Summary of Findings at a Glance- Blogging is bringing new voices to the online world.
- Telephone surveys capture the most accurate snapshot possible of a small and moving target.
- Contrary to the impression created by the press attention on political blogging, just 11% of bloggers say they focus mainly on government or politics.
- The blogging population is young, evenly split between women and men, and racially diverse.
- Relatively small groups of bloggers view blogging as a public endeavor.
- The main reasons for keeping a blog are creative expression and sharing personal experiences.
- Only one-third of bloggers see blogging as a form of journalism. Yet many check facts and cite original sources.
- Bloggers are avid consumers and creators of online content. They are also heavy users of the internet in general.
- Bloggers are major consumers of political news and about half prefer sources without a particular political viewpoint.
- Bloggers often utilize community and readership-enhancing features available on their blogs.
Source: Lenhart, Amanda and Susannah Fox. Bloggers. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project, July 19, 2006.
(end Quote)The report shows also that, at least until the beginning of the year, few Bloggers look after earning money with it, and the Blog as Business tool is not yet too overrun.
Spacelady's Archive: "I think I should really enable the archive again - but I miss CATEGORIES - so from now on I will sort all the links to my more important posts and other own publications by category here in the Spacelady's Archive."
One of the important things for the ranking of a website is its link popularity. that means, it should be linked to many, preferrably high-ranking sites.Search machines would then follow those links and find the site.A good way to get links is a link exchange. I recently joined one called LinkMetro.A slight disadvantage might be to land on a sites "linkfarm", because search engines are overtaxed, when there are more then 150 links on one page, but having no inbound links at all is a worse one.Links should always be reciprocal. Putting up a link on ones own site without a backlink on the other one (outbound links) does not increase one's link popularity much, on the contrary, it might overflood the site.Therefore one should be careful when one allows or even aks for comments . There are many 'nice' creatures around who write their ads, or leave their backtracks instead of a comment.Here on blogspot it got better since better precautions against link spam can be taken, luckily the word verification alone deters those people.(Please don't mind that I do not let comments be visible at once, but only after approval, which I forget sometimes for some days.)Did I get linking requests?Oh yes, more then I exspected. But nobody puts his links on the main page. So I finally got my new link directory up and all the links off my blog again.Everyone controls now and then, if his own link is still on the link partner's site - at least he should. Link exchange services do that automatically when the request is approved. - I do not know yet, if they check back later and I will have to verify the new location of my linkpartners' links.To those who check back themselves - and everyone else who is interested to see it:Neila's Link Directory and the Link Exchange Links are now on my new Domain.
