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Greets,

Well.... My 2 cents on this:

Blogging and having a "successful blog" -- as in one that makes money -- are totally different things.

"Quite a lot of them continue to exist online but are in fact abandoned by the user only after a few weeks or months. One infographic (How Many Blogs are on the Internet) puts the figure at 152 million blogs for year 2013. Another source (Number of blogs world from 2006 to 2011."
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=how...

I do appreciate what you're saying... but the format of the blog itself doesn't necessarily relate to it's success. There's so much more than that. Of course one of the biggest issues is finding and maintaining an audience but I'm not going to get into any of that.

Writing.Com's blog platform was never intended (and still is not intended) to compete with free services like Blogger (by Google) or the like, that "cater to people who think they'll have a successful blog". Separate to the above quotation, Blogger itself is estimated to host around 44 million blogs. We can guesstimate that not even a noticeable % of those would be considered "successful" by many monetary or viewership metrics.

As for the bloggers who do have blogs outside of WDC... I wonder how many of them would call them "successful" and by what metrics they consider them. I stop over to some from time to time only to find they have very few, if any, comments, likes or shares on these outside blogs.

"Successful" outside blogs having to allow for commenters from non members. And so most "non-WDC" blogs fight with comment spammers all the time. It's not something we really want to deal with here.

Our Writing.Com blogging system was and is here for far more Writing.Com community oriented reasons. It has not been our goal to provide "publishing platforms" of any kind for members. We're a social network with a focus on writers and writing within our own community.

Best,
~~SM

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