The how of blogging

• 15% of bloggers spend 10 or more hours each week blogging.
• One in five bloggers report updating on a daily basis.
• The most common rate of updating is 2-3 times per week.
• The majority of blogs use tags (85%).
• 13% say that they built their blogs themselves from scratch.
• 59% of respondents use a free third party hosting service.
• 82% of respondents say that they post photos to their blog, making images the most popular form of multimedia.
• 13% of all respondents say that they never post any images/videos/audio to their blogs, preferring to just use text.
• Of those who use media other than text, 73% say that that they also create the photos, video, or audio they post themselves about half of the time.
• 75% of those who use syndication syndicate full content.
• 20% of all users report having updating their blog or adding content from their mobile device.
• 59% percent report doing so at least somewhat more this year than they did last year.
• Fewer than 10% of bloggers say they don’t know the traffic to their blogs.
• Bloggers participate in an average of 5 activities to drive traffic to their blogs.
• On average 27% of a blogs page views come as referrals from a horizontal search engine.
• 74% of all respondents use a third party service to track their site traffic. Google Analytics is by far the most popular tool in the space.

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The Demographic of Bloggers

• Two-thirds are male
• 60% are 18-44
• 75% have college degrees
• 40% have graduate degrees
• One in three has an annual household income of $75K+
• One in four has an annual household income of $100K+
• Professional and self-employed bloggers are more affluent: nearly half have an annual household income of $75,000 and one third topped the $100,000 level
• More than half are married
• More than half are parents
• Half are employed full time, however ¾ of professional bloggers are employed full time.
• Around half of bloggers are working on at least their second blog, and 68% have been blogging for two years or more
• 86% have been blogging for at least a year

Thank you to the future buzz for these stats and research!

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Introduction

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