If you currently have a blog now, I would like to know why and what was it that made you decide to start blogging? I know some people wanted to have an online diary and a blog is a great way to keep track of your life and the daily events that happen to you each day. While some bloggers created a blog to draw attention to a worthy cause and will blog mainly about a specific charity or some topic they want to shine more light on. You also have the blogs that got created for marketing purposes and a blog is a great way to promote or advertise online.
Most of your older blogs that date back 5 years or more, came from people that had a unique or orginal idea on what to blog about. Also, the people that are talented writers created blogs to show off their writing talents. Most of your newer blogs were started with other purposes in mind. Perhaps to make money with or just for a specific marketing purpose. A lot of books are available to teach bloggers how to earn money from their blog. One example is to sell links in the sidebar and some advertisers will pay big money for those blogs that have a PR (page rank) with Google. These rankings go from 0 to 10 and the higher your blog is, the more potential money you could be earning from your blog. My blog here has a ranking of PR3; which is pretty good when I compare it to my fellow bloggers. Most of my friends that blog online will rank around 1 or 2 with Google. I don’t believe any of them have a PR3 blog yet. I believe in time Google will recognize their blogging talents and give them a better page rank. The other big ranking system online for bloggers is the Alexa Rankings. You want a low score with Alexa and the lower number you have, the better your score is with them. I don’t really like Alexa, due to the fact Internet users have to have the Alexa toolbar installed on their computer, to be counted over at Alexa. Please feel free to share your stats from Google or Alexa and let me know what it was that turned you into an Internet blogger.