Recently, we surveyed more than 600 bloggers, most of whom came right out of the BlogBurst network, to better understand their feelings about syndication and their blogging motivation. You can see the results of our survey of more than 590 BlogBurst bloggers here:
Here are the highlights:
- #1 reason for blogging: To inform and entertain (40.5%)
- 45% make $0/month, 80% make less than $100/month
- Reasons for participating in a syndication network, in reported priority order
- Referral Traffic
- Exposure
- Compensation
We are really grateful to all of you who took the time to answer our survey questions and help us better understand your motivations and needs as bloggers. The survey is now closed, but that doesn’t mean you can’t contribute your opinions to this blog for us to see and read. We more than welcome your feedback on why you blog!
Wow, there’s not a lot of bloggers out there making any significant money are there?
I still feel it can be a good platform for your business or social entrepreneurial ventures. For example, I set my intention to write a book a year ago. Now I refer to it as my blog to book project.
I never expected my blog to make money, just to demonstrate my ability and generate some interest, test the market so to speak.
I blog for both entertainment and for business. It took a while for my blog to start generating income, but its doing great not. Even if I didn’t make a penny I would still do what I do though.