Traditional Blogs Are Dead - Here is What the Future Looks Like
How to succeed as a blogger in this day and age
Blogs are dead. Long live blogging.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard or read this statement.
Everything is video now. No one reads blogs anymore. As such, everybody needs to start a Youtube channel.
That’s the word on the street. The numbers, however, tell a different story.
In 2019, there were over 600 million blogs in the world.
In this context, bloggers publish over 5.7 million posts every day, according to Internet Live Stats. Every month, 78 million new articles see the light on WordPress alone. And these numbers will continue growing, especially since much of the developing world is only discovering the phenomenon.
So, if there are still so many people blogging, why do people say that blogs are dead?
Well, blogging has changed a lot over the last 20 years.
I started my first ever blog — now defunct — around 2012. I experimented with various niches, bought and sold several blogs, and built a total of ten websites in the last few years. I’ve made a living with blogging and freelance writing for three years now, and I can safely say that…
