Technorati view of blogosphere doubles every 5 months
Some findings reported by Technorati's David Sifry:
- The number of blogs Technorati tracks doubled every 5 months for the last 20 months. [Useful for planning server purchases, I bet.] If the trend continues (and we don't know why it should), Technorati should be tracking 15 million blogs by August, 30 million by January.
- Technorati discovers 30-40 thousand blogs daily.
- Technorati is working hard to remove fake or spam blogs from their reporting. Perhaps 10% of malicious content makes its way through Technorati's defenses against comment spam, spam blog posts, and ping spam.
- How many blogs are abandoned or killed or misplaced daily?
- How many new blogs are old blogs that have moved, or old blogs that are now continued on a new site by the same author's?
- What percent of the blogosphere does T believe it tracks?
- A useful or complete definition of the kinds of weblogs included in their statistics.
3 Comments:
There are automatic programs that create blogs to point to another blog or web site, it's Blog Spam, using an entire blog as a spamdexing machine, with no other purpose than to boost SE rank of target site.
Are these included in the counts?
How many blogs are created, versus how many are for all intents and purposes abandoned?
And lastly, is this English Language blogs or a global count?
I thought Blog Count said that there were like 11 million non-English blogs.
Also: who is the real guru on all questions of blogology?
Who can we go to for authoritative info on pros and cons of tip jars, anonymous blogging, safety of posting personal info and children's photos, etc.?
See my recent post on "Dangers of Personal Blogging" at:
www.vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com
I estimated about 12 million blogs in South Korea.
Abandonment is more problematic. The reasons are many and have different patterns.
- Some blogs are just experiments, a post or two to try out the service. Clue: no more than a few posts, all within the first couple of days.
- What do you call it when someone moves from one service to another, continuing to post but at another site?
- Some people take blogging vacations.
- Some people take real life vacations, for 30-90 days, especially in Europe.
- Some blogs go quiet, running silently just for friends and family, or moved behind a firewall. Not abandoned but invisible.
For my purposes, I try to report on bloggers, blogs, and active blogs (changed in the last 30 days).
Enjoyed a lot!
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