Most of us today agree about the popularity of the blogs. However, only a handful of us are really present to the impact blogging or bloggers have already made to our world - professional and social!

Today, blogging is no more a hype; it has gone mainstream.

I was amazed to see the blogging statistics (mention below) at Blog World Expo’s site and I could not stop myself sharing them with you

• Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
• More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
• Over 57 million Americns read blogs.
• 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
• 89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
• 9% of internet users say they have created blogs .
• 6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog .
• Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs .
• over 120 thousand blogs are created every day .
• There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day .
• 22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs .
• 120,000 new blogs are created every day .
• 37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006 .
• 51% of blog readers shop online .
• Blog readers average 23 hours online each week .

Amazed? I am sure! So, keep blogging unless you want to be left behind.
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