Just how many blogs are there?

How many blogs are out there is a good question? Even how many good small internet business blogs are there? I don't know yet, but I am starting to look around, but one thing is for sure - there are lots!

An interesting article I found states:
"Technorati currently states it is tracking over 112.8 million blogs, a number which obviously does not include all the 72.82 million Chinese blogs."

Check out the full article at this link:
BlogHerald: How many blogs are there?

Business Week has also looked into the Blog phenomena:
Business Week: Blogs will change your business

Technorati and others publish a catalog of blogs
Technorati: Blogs directory

Smartcompany Best Business Blogs
Smartcompany Best Business Blogs

And an interesting list of 100 Small Business related blogs
WebdesignSchools Guide: Top 100 Small business blogs

BlogWell has compiled a great list of useful resources for small business on the net
BlogWell: 100 useful web resources for small business and non profits

Of course just doing a search in Google, Yahoo, Live or any search engine will give you a large list.

Enjoy

Owen

How does Twitter Work?

I have been using Twitter lately to try and find out what all the fuss is about. It certainly is an interesting micro-blogging tool and one I think could complement many businesses online. The trick is how best to use it?

Here is a survey I created to ask people what they think of Twitter. Please fill it in, it will take only 2 minutes.

http://tinyurl.com/b3hn6w

I will post the results once I have over 100.

In another post I will put in some of the best links to Twitter information I have found.

But just what is Twitter you ask? Watch this wonderful video from the Creative people at "Common Craft"



Now you are ready to use Twitter

Owen

Measuring the Search Rank of this Blog

Writing about SMART goals made me think how am I going to measure the success of this blog? What are the Specific goals of this blog after all? Why I am doing this? Well, this blog is partly a learning exercise for myself and my wife as we grow our online business. It is a way to collect our own thoughts as we proceed to build the business and to share ideas with a few others who are interested, some of whom are also building up their own internet presence. I don't expect it to make any money - it is to share ideas. Our money making websites aren't up and running yet but will be focused on specific products and services that are in work. The first of which I plan to be up and running and being refined during Q2, 2009. That is my stretch goal.

What about Measuring the success of this blog? Well Google does provide some excellent tools as part of the Blogger system so I will be using those once there is a lot more content in here. But for interest I just quickly did a search in Google with the key words: "small internet business blog" to see how far down the list, if at all, this blog would appear. I went through 50 pages of search results and didn't see it, and to be honest after only a few days and a few posts I didn't expect to see it, why should it appear anywhere yet? But let's see how it goes over the months and years ahead as we build our online business and keep our thoughts in this blog or whatever this evolves into.

Of course for a blog the real success is if someone finds the information useful.

Owen