Comments on: How Long Have You Been Blogging? – Poll Results

By: Major

Major — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:37:48 +0000

Wow Interesting Poll Results…… This Gave Me Morale Boost really My Blogs Get Results…. After Hard Work…..

By: Jaseem

Jaseem — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:14:01 +0000

I am happy to see most are beginners as I am a beginner too. I think my blog is worth in this case.

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:14:16 +0000

This is really great result, I believe many people around the World are not interested in blogging, Well again quality is more important then the quantity. I think the factor which we have to keep in mind is that the contents of blog is useful for end user or Target audience.

By: Manojit

Manojit — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:56:39 +0000

Darren,

I agree with other commenters, wonderful graphics. I am new to serious blogging (about 2 months into it). Your site has been, and continues to be, an inspiration and source of learning to me. I am struggling with two things right now: first, to set up a regular posting schedule. I am terrible at that, barely managing 2/3 posts a week on average. Second, I still think I need to add enough “quality” content before letting others know about my blog (by indexing it to google, leaving comments on other blogs, etc). I’d rather have slow build-up of loyal readers than quick passers-by. I know you have tons of information on both these issues here, and I probably read most of them.

Thanks a bunch.

(I realize my comment is probably out of context for this post, but good to see that most bloggers in these charts are like me.)

By: Teejay

Teejay — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:50:13 +0000

Wow. It’s good to be in the 3-6 month category. Its so nice that there are so many bloggers right now and still growing.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:45:54 +0000

I’m very happy to be in the 3-4 years section, especially since I have been a little bit more serious about blogging for about a year and a half now.

By: Thomson Chemmanoor Blog

Thomson Chemmanoor Blog — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:50:25 +0000

I have been blogging for at least year. You Poll graph looks wonderful.

By: Sheila at Family Travel

Sheila at Family Travel — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:42:23 +0000

I’m one of the ones who’s been blogging for about 18 months, and while I don’t feel compelled to read every single one of Darren’s posts anymore, I still follow his RSS feed and try to never miss at least scanning his headlines.

Yes, there’s some repetition over time, but that’s OK with me.

Darren always preaches the fundamental value of good content, not gimmicks, and I admire him for that.

By: Brad V.

Brad V. — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:39:31 +0000

Those are some pretty sweet graphs! It’s an interesting spread of bloggers and how a majority of readers appear to only have been blogging for less than I year (I fall into that category as well).

You noted in a comment that a lot of people come to this site during the “research phase”. I also fall into that category. While I’m by no means a “pro blogger”, I still wanted this to be a serious hobby and coming here got me started on the right foot.

Thanks for all your help Darren! This blog is an invaluable resource.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:07:32 +0000

It’s amazing how the numbers drop off as the years go on.

By: marquis

marquis — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:43:14 +0000

I’m somewhat of a rookie having only blogged for 3 months. My goal is to get as much traffic as problogger, which is a terrific site by the way. I would appreciate if any readers of problogger could check out my site and tell me what you think.

http://alltalksports.wordpress.com/

By: WarriorBlog

WarriorBlog — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:57:19 +0000

Wow. look so nice =)

By: kalyan

kalyan — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:46:41 +0000

Nice Work ! U Seems to be very Creative !

By: Travis Vocino

Travis Vocino — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:14:08 +0000

@jhay: Not to hijack this post, but Apple doesn’t make iWork for your Windows because they’re a hardware company, not a software company.

iWork’s purpose is to provide Mac users with great tools, not just users.

Also, Apple hasn’t “allowed” MS to put Office on the mac, anyone is free to develop Mac software — again, they’re a hardware company.

By: Thomas Enever

Thomas Enever — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:05:27 +0000

Very interesting.

I’m one of the newer bloggers

By: jhay

jhay — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:44:08 +0000

Now why can’t Apple make a Windows-version of iWorks? They allowed MS Office in the Mac.

Anyways, It’s very interesting that the non-bloggers were quite a significant share of the pie. I observe the same thing over at my blog.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:28:32 +0000

yes – graphics are from Keynote.

G’s Cottage – a lot of people discover ProBlogger in their researching phase of blogging (ie before they start). I suspect that a lot of those voting in the ‘no blog’ category would have been first time visitors surfing in from search engines.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:00:17 +0000

I agree with those before me, the graphics are very nice. Did you use keynote or numbers to produce them? If not, do you mind sharing what your tool of choice is?

By: Johan Ross

Johan Ross — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:58:39 +0000

I’m one of the rookies in my first month and found this site immediately and love the help it offers. It’s good to know there are a lot of people out there like me.

By: Marsha

Marsha — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:58:30 +0000

That bar graph code is wonderful care to share how you made it?