SageRock Web Marketing Blog

All over the world, people have discovered the power of blogs. Not only are they a great way to keep a diary or express your opinions, they have also created a worldwide community. This community has grown in power on the net, making them a valuable ally to the web marketing field.

Blogs in existence in April 2005: 50.75 million worldwide

Multinational Blogging Services
Google: 8 million
according to Persus
MSN Spaces: 5 million
Persus + Scoble
Six Apart Live Journal/ TypePad/ MT: 8.2 million
from LJ 14Apr (6.8m) + SixApart claimed 1.2 million for MT and TypePad when it acquired LJ which was 5.3m at the time, allows for 200,000 conservative growth figure for MT and TypePad
Other hosted (US): 9 million
based on Persus study
WordPress: 250,000
at best an educated guess, over 100,000 downloads of WP 1.5 and 266,000 links to WordPress on Google
Other DIY: 100,000
again, an educated guess, and this would include CMS packages that are utilizing blogging plugins

The Blog Herald || Number of blogs now exceeds 50 million worldwide

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