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Marketing on the Internet has gone through many phases. There was a time when banner advertisements and pop-up advertisements were considered the best way to market a product or your website on the Internet. However, with the rise of "pop-up blockers," these advertisements have become ineffective at best and down right annoying at worst. Luckily, advertising on the Internet has evolved past these ineffective methods. Today, it seems that everybody under the sun has a blog.

A big appeal of blogging is the personality involved. In other words, each blogger now has a forum with which to share his/her opinion about any subject that comes to mind. Readers are attracted to blogs because the blogger is stating his/her personal opinion. It may be a biased opinion or an opinion that completely contradicts your point of view. However, because bloggers do not need to be politically correct, as the national news stations need to be, readers feel that they are reading nothing but the truth. Readers like this feeling and like the ability to immediately comment on the opinion posted on the blog.

Another big appeal of blogging is that it can be done for free. In order to get a website, you usually have to pay for the domain name and hosting. Many people are not wiling to pay for these things for the simple purpose of stating an opinion. However, because many websites offer you a free blog, which you can design however you please (thus preserving the personal feature of blogs), and free blog hosting, many people have become attracted to the blog phenomenon. If you can state your opinion and at the same time, state the opinion in a forum that is visited by hundred of millions of people (thus giving you the opportunity to have your opinion heard) without having to pay any money to do so, you would take advantage of that chance. Many people feel the same way and thus, the blog explosion has occurred.

Another reason why blogging has become so popular is because a blog can be monetized. In other words, you can make money from your blog (by sales, visiting traffic, or both) at the same time you are marketing your product, yourself, or your opinions. Therefore, not only is the blog free to obtain and free to maintain (in the monetary sense because you always have to factor in the cost of your time), but you also have the opportunity to make money. This is an unbeatable deal that is irresistible to many people.

Blogging has arrived and is a powerful force in the Internet. However, only time will tell whether this marketing method falls by the way side or stays around for the long haul. For now, the advantages and benefits of blogging are too good to pass up.

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