Now Reading ...Do you know that:
- There are 70.000.000+ of Blogs out there?
Or, do you know that:
- On every time you take a breath in and out, around 6 New Blog is born and try to claim to the top?
(assuming you breath in and out for 2 seconds each)
70 Millions of Blog? Are you kidding me? 3 New blogs for every 1 seconds?
See the fact here.
Yes, I know it’s an outdated statistic, but fact remain fact, and it’s growing!
To witness a new blog born every second is unbelievable. When you finish making your post, Thousands of new blogs already born and ready to compete with you? Can you overcome this situation if you are a newbie in the blogosphere?! Could you compete with them?
…
Well, don’t worry about it, anyway! 
There is another fact that quite helpful. It’s a fact that you can either use it as your motivation or to slap you down to the ground. Depend on your perspective, btw.
The fact is as below:
Some Study said that from the 70.000.000+ millions of blogs, 98% will not be able to survive the first month of blogging due to some critical factors. Only 2% of the rest that could maintain stable and move on to the next month.
So, the rough calculation is:
70.000.000 x 98% = 68.600.000
70.000.000 - 68.600.000 = 1.400.000 Active Bloggers
Yup, only 2% that could resist the first month trials and errors. But the fact is not end here. There is another level of natural selection that proved to be able to ‘disqualifying’ many bloggers after the third and the sixth month of blogging.
This is a kind of myth around the blogosphere about the ‘3 months barrier‘ and ‘6 month wall‘. It’s the period where people get their biggest challenge in blogging and where lots of blogger fail to break the barrier or jump through the wall. The question is, could you going through all of this?
Only you can answer. I can’t make any answer for you and everyone who come and read this post. I only know how I passed this stage and successfully entering the my first day of month 7.
Well, as you may know, my blog is not as bombastic as others, who could ‘up and running fast’ in the matter of 3- 4 months. I move as slowly as turtle. But I could make sure that I’m walking firmly toward my goals.
I believe, the elements that have helped me to go through all of the obstacles and trials are as below:
- Faith & Beliefs
- Persistence
- Positive Thinking
- Think the Big Picture
- Endurance
- Teachable
It doesn’t mean I have these elements back from the start. The only element that I have at the time is faith. It is faith that bring me through all of the obstacles and obtained all other elements to support my journey to my goals together with the visibility amongst the crowd of 70 millions fighters.
To Stay visible inside of the 70 Millions blogs, you must begin within yourself. Do your blog visible in your heart? or Do you have a Faith on your Blog that it will be visible?
There are 5 kind of faith to maintain before getting your blog truly visible:
- Faith to Yourself
- Faith to your Blog
- Faith to your Goals
- Faith to Blogger
- Faith to the Process
Faith keep your blog running and in a long term, without questioning the difficulty that you will face. these 5 faith pillar of support is my own theory of self-support.
Faith toward myself enable me to create pillar contents everyday. Faith to my blog will result to my action to Promote my blog to my friends or foes.
Faith to my Goals reflected to my Never-Ending expansion of Knowledge and Niche.
Faith to blogger make me love and trust every blogger that get near me.
And lastly, faith to the process by believing God have the supreme grace all over me and abundant of wealth for me to enjoy at the end of my journey.
Tired of reading faith, huh?
That’s my element and I hope it will suit you. It’s something that is pretty simple to get but hard to maintain.
It’s depend on you now. The answer to my headline “How to stay visible inside of 70 Millions blogs?” is all up there.
Note:
I joined Court’s Group Writing Project with the subject on internet marketing. This post is the post about Popularity. I asked Court whether I can take charge of the ‘Popularity’ topic (not in the list) in the comment box. And yes, he replied me back with a question about the title. Well, this is the post title along with the content, Court!I don’t clearly using popularity as the topic, though. Instead, I translate it into ‘visibility’. I believe, if a person is visible in the blogosphere, then he must be very popular!
For you who have a decent skills in internet marketing, you may join this group writing project to increase your visibility though Court’s blog. Court will publish all the links Next Monday (Deadline is this Saturday!) So, If you are interested, hurry up and book a seat for your blog post now!
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(October 11, 2007, 1:51 am)
Good inspiration, Ken - and I hope you keep the faith! Also, continue to inspire other new bloggers like me!
Btw, do you happen to be a Yaro student?
Reply to YC(October 11, 2007, 3:06 am)
I will, thanks a lot, YC!
Reply to Ken XuYaro Student? Nope, Not yet. I’m still considering the ROI and BEP.
(October 11, 2007, 2:54 am)
hi ken! i’m back…
thanks for another great helpful post! 
i haven’t been visible for the past few days, because i wanted to reserve my posts for my upcoming new site by webble you… 
which do you think sounds good– careermom or careermothering? thanks for your input!
Reply to proud mom(October 11, 2007, 3:17 am)
Oh, Hi, Nymfa. I thought you have been disqualified by the natural selection! LOL
Reply to Ken XuJust kidding of course.
Oh, you ask me about your new domain name?
I think careermom.com sounds better. or Careermoms.com even more better because you can expand it into a network blogging in the future.
Careermothering is sound like you are making career as your mother!
Well, it’s depend on topic that you want to talk about. You may need to ask several persons about your topic and domain name and observe their reaction.
My reaction is, if your topic is about your career, whether it’s on blogging or online/offline business, CareerMom.com or CareerMoms.com is good. Unfortunately, I have helped you to check the availability. Both domain name is registered already!
(October 11, 2007, 6:30 am)
Many Internet Marketers also have blogs but don’t register to Technorati but to keep their customer updated. Some blog are also created just to put ads on there and send traffic to it through article marketing.
So there are blog out there that don’t care about ranking high in Technorati but Search Engine for the money from ads and products
Reply to WarriorBlog(October 11, 2007, 9:53 am)
Hello, Sean.
Reply to Ken XuThanks for stopping by and commenting. It’s good to hear another fact from you. Thanks for contributing such a good information.
(October 11, 2007, 8:09 am)
Hey that’s a wonderful post! I knew bout the 70 million blog figure but didn’t about the second fact that most of the blogs die with in first month only!
That’s quite an interesting fact..
I’m sure that remaining blogs must be acquired by at least 50 % of the spam blogs….so mate….cheerup…the competition is not so stiff 
Reply to ReviewSaurus(October 11, 2007, 10:48 am)
Splogs is all over the blogosphere. THat’s what make the number skyrocketed!
Reply to Ken Xu(October 11, 2007, 11:41 am)
Great inspirational post for both new and seasoned bloggers. I have learnt some new stats here.Keep it up:)
Reply to Clement(October 11, 2007, 1:20 pm)
If you treat your blog like a business, then the same strategy on small business applied. 90% of small business did not survive after the 1st year.
If you treat your blogging as a hobby, then all you have to care is your love ( or lust depend on what kind of hobby :)) for your hobby :), like any kind of hobby, be it kayaking, knitting, hunting etc…
But if $ is concern, it is a different ball game, bricks or virtual, all come down to same biz strategies.
Reply to jamy(October 19, 2007, 5:12 pm)
What an inspirational post. I have survive now for almost two years. I do have to admit that those first months when I started blogging were some of the most frustrating times I think I ever had. I had a vision, but getting there was difficult. I knew nothing about blogging to begin with, and even had trouble with copy and paste. But I did have a vision of what I wanted to do. I think if you have purpose and vision, and all those other elements you mentioned, you can get there. Now I push myself every month to stretch and grow.
Nick
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