How Many Unsuccessful Bloggers Can One World Hold?

You don’t need to venture too far during a surfing session online to come across a few blogs of one kind or another. It seems like everyone is doing it – no matter what subject you can think of, it’s a safe bet that at least one person somewhere in the world has felt the need to start a blog on that very subject, no matter how obscure it might be.But while we often hear about the explosion in blogging that has occurred over the last few years, the unsuccessful nature of many blogs and bloggers doesn’t tend to hit so many headlines. There must be millions of blogs that have been started in a fit of excitement, only to be abandoned after the creator ran out of ideas for posts and lost interest in the subject altogether.So why is it that there are so many unattended blogs out there, and so many people running very quickly in the other direction?The main reason is probably due to the myriad of e-books available today that tell you all about the vast amounts of money that can be made from blogging. Now while that is true there is one thing that needs to be added to the mix if you are to develop a successful blog – and that is effort. After all, you want your blog to be found and liked by other people otherwise you aren’t going to make any money or attract any readers.And this is where most people fall down. The dream of someone writing something amazing and posting it to their blog so that millions of people will jump to read it just doesn’t happen very often. If it does, you can bet the blogger concerned did their homework and learned to use good SEO techniques to attract the attention of the search engines and pull in new readers.And you can also be sure it didn’t happen overnight.That’s why we will continue to see a community of non-bloggers who have blogged once or twice and then given it all up as a waste of time. It’s anyone’s guess how many people have started blogs with one of the free providers and then let them founder. There are probably plenty more people who went one step further as well, getting their own domain names and hosting and setting up their own site before letting it sit still in cyberspace with only the barest handful of posts on it to excite anyone who happens to pass by on their journeys. Website promotion doesn’t seem to be on the top of many bloggers lists of things to do.The percentage of unsuccessful bloggers out there depends on which site you go to and which source you read, but the general consensus is that it’s somewhere around the ninety per cent plus mark. Maybe that figure should be presented as a cautionary tale to those who are thinking of making their own splash in the blogging world, before they actually do it.