6 Reasons Why Bloggers Blog

This is 2007. The buzz around the town is Web2.0 and Blogging. Bloggers are more active than ever. The blog community has grown by leaps and bound. Every day there are new signups for owning and running a blog. Why is there so much rush. The question is why do bloggers blog.

Here are 6 reasons why bloggers blog.

Money. Its all about the money. No brainer. Before Google Adsense became popular, generating revenue from blogs wasnt for everyone. However that has changed. Now any average Joe in the country could make money from blogs by displaying advertisements. There are alot of affliate sites you could tie up with to make money. Money is the driving force to blog. Wouldnt it be nice to pocket some extra money for the things we always wanted to buy, but did not. Ofcourse alot of bloggers wouldnt admit that, but money always plays a part in it. Noteworthy places from where you can make money are Adsense, Agloco, Amazon, TmiWireless.

Fame. Everyone wants to be famous. Earlier everybody wanted to be on radio, TV, newspaper or movies. You could make it to any one of the mediums if you were really rich, smart and pretty or really dumb, stupid and ugly. In the late 90's the world of blog took off. Now even you and me can be famous. There will be an audience to listen to you. If your blog really does well, you could be a blog celebrity. Few blogs who have made it to the world of fame are problogger.net, JohnChow and ShoeMoney. They are few of the most seeked out bloggers.

Knowledge Transfer. Then there are those few, that are not really blogging for money or fame. But they want to share information. They want to share their experience and find like-minded audience. These type of bloggers are widely appreciated in the community.

Sell Products. You have developed this amazing product and you would love to sell it to the world. However you werent able to market your product due to budget constraints or any reason for that matter. Blogging can be an excellent medium to promote the product. When you relate to the world as that nice guy who wants his audience to try out this product, people do respond. Atleast they would check out the product.

Traffic. The more people visit you, the more famous your web page gets. Most of the ranking sites, rank blogs based on unique visitors. These are bloggers who probably just want to sell their blog site off for a huge chunk of money. The huge volume of traffic speaks for itself while negotiating. Some bloggers use questionable tricks like filling up their blog with popular RSS news to get traffic.

Make Friends. Then there is a niche community which is there in the blog world just to make friends or find a date. Set up a social community to meet up. Find out what others are doing. Most of the time they are not serious bloggers. They are just doing it because it sounds cool.

I am sure i have missed out a couple of more reasons, why bloggers blog. Would love to hear from my audience on their thoughts.