2017
Over 2 million blog posts are published on the Internet every day. (730 million per annum)
Over 5.5 billion Google searches are made every day.
3.74 billion Internet users in the world as at March 2017.
https://hostingfacts.com/internet-facts-stats-2016/
https://www.impactbnd.com/blog/25-little-known-blogging-statistics-to-boost-your-strategy-in-2016
2016
Number of web pages indexed by Google 60 trillion on 1 May 2016
Number of monthly Google searches 100 billion
Number of unique searchers per month 1.17 billion
http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/by-the-numbers-a-gigantic-list-of-google-stats-and-facts/
Google+ shares will outnumber Facebook shares by 2016?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141127150359-302505920-google-demographics-for-2014-and-2015
What do you feel?
January 2015
If appx 750 million websites are there and there are 3 billion internet users and each visits 10 sites per day, an avearge site can get 40 visits per day.
If you are blogger and getting 100 visits per day, you should consider yourself much above average blogger.
Interesting blog post on goals by Melody Beattie
http://melodybeattie.com/new-year-january-1/
Site of Dorie Clark
http://dorieclark.com/publications/articles/
Accessed on 3 Jan 2015
Number of websites as on 1 January 2014
759 Million - Total number of websites on the Web
510 Million - Total number of Live websites (active).
313.44 Million - Top Level Domains on the Net (.com, .org, .net, .gov etc.)
http://www.factshunt.com/2014/01/total-number-of-websites-size-of.html
Against 7 billion population 700 million website are ok with 1:10 ratio.
But should number of blogs rise to a large number if more and more people wish to communicate their thoughts, opinions and views? May be 2 billion blogs could be ideal number. The participants in social networking sites can be even 7 billion and more if people participate in multiple sites.
Internet users are 2.925 billion as on 1 July 2014
http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/
Take every one in three writes blogs. The number of blogs at this point time can be 1 billion.
Facebook has 1.35 billion monthly users.
Twitter has 284 million monthly users.
Registered Google+ users number has gone up to 1.15 billion in Q3 of 2013 (35% are active monthly)
https://econsultancy.com/blog/64319-google-just-35-of-users-are-active/
Stats of top social networks based on active monthly users
Facebook number 1. Qzone number 2 Google+ 3
Tumblr has 230 million blogs users.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/
June 2014
Number of blogs in the world 2011 - 173 million
http://www.statista.com/statistics/278527/number-of-blogs-worldwide/
6.7 million people write blogs on blogging websites and another 12 million write on social networking platforms.
http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2012/buzz-in-the-blogosphere-millions-more-bloggers-and-blog-readers.html
Every day 172,800 blogs are being added (at the rate of 2 blogs per every second)
http://www.wpvirtuoso.com/how-many-blogs-are-on-the-internet/
Wikipedia entry as on 3 June 2014
On 16 February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence. On 20 February 2014, there were around 172 million Tumblr and 75.8 million WordPress blogs in existence worldwide. Google's Blogger does not offer public statistics.Technorati has 1.3 million blogs as of February 22, 2014.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
September 2013
http://www.chrisducker.com/ - Online business and blogging bootcamp - Features in Economic times on 20.9.2013
http://www.happiness-project.com/about/ - Grethchen Rubin - Blog features in Economic times on 20.9.2013
January 2013
Top 10 Social Media Blogs
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/top-10-social-media-blogs-the-2013-winners/
65 Metrics to track blog success - Heidi Cohen
http://heidicohen.com/blog-metrics-to-track-success/
28.4.2012
Importance of Diverse Anchor text links
http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/importance-anchor-text-diversity
14.4.2012
5 Tips to becoming the a top blog in the industry
By founder of social media examiner and hence they are very sensible
Nrao Blogs registered 15,000 cumulative page views
23.3.2012
Google wants to give priority to Content
http://www.thesaleslion.com has interesting content for bloggers
20.3.2012
My 7 links Blogging Challenge
Nominated blogs lists
A to D
http://www.tripbase.com/blog/a-d/
7-Day Blogging Challenge - Jenson Taylor -19 - 25 March 2012
17.3.2012
Award to a Blogger - Dr. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao
HEF is Higher Education Forum of India. (www.highereduforum.org)
Updated 8 November 2017, 13 May 2016