A while back, I did a public Q&A webinar and answered a lot of questions posed by you – the audience. Well, I recorded it and I’ve been (slowly) releasing videos on all the major video sites. To follow my videos, be sure to subscribe to my Youtube channel.
Well, one of the questions was asking my views about the future of blogging. So, I answered it and I wanted to share the video with you today…
What do you think? Where do you think blogging is heading?
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David has been blogging for 15 years, and generating a six-figure income at it for the last 12. He is the founder of Blog Marketing Academy. 
David Risley has been building and operating authority blogs for 15 years, and operating a six-figure business doing it for a decade.
Seems like we're moving into a phase where there are three parts to “blogging” (or online business). Blogging is moving back to 1) individuals. From there you can promote your 2) project and 3) product. Think about Gideon Shalwick for example. He's got his blog “Gideon Shalwick”, “Become a Blogger” project (which is more like a website) and a product “Rapid Video Blogging”.
So, in essence, I think what we call blogs now is moving into projects/websites. Some examples are Become a Blogger, Ed Dale's “Challenge”, and to some extent Income Diary. They seem to be much more effective for affiliate marketing. And it's also a nice place you can introduce your product as well.
So actually there's quite a nice sales funnel going on there. Personal blog (blogging/promotion) to website (affiliate marketing) to product.
That's definitely true. That's pretty much my business model with this blog as well. This blog isn't really monetized directly (except for some affiliate promos I do), but is more indirect by pointing to my products.
Internet marketing has trained our customers to buy on product launches. Only. Why do we think this is smart?
With respect to blogging, I believe there's a lot of room for specialists who dominate a very narrow niche. Examples from my cohort include: Alex Whalley, a relatively new blogger, is going very deep in just keyword analysis. Corbett Barr is taking on traffic building. Francisco Perez is mastering advertising. I'm going deep into the write/publish/promote process. I see a lot of opportunity in the unanswered questions. Like: “What's the lifetime value of a blog post?”
Since all of these activities are coupled, there's a lot of room for fruitful collaboration.
It's not easy money. But the authority that comes with deep mastery over a period of years has market value.
You know it's funny, but I define myself as a blogger. In reality, I am probably the worst blogger on the planet. I rarely update my blogs and I am very inconsistent. But, my blogs are by far my biggest income generator for me.
The reason being is I've been able to do a lot of what you talk about and that is turn it into a revenue center by filtering traffic to the right offers.
no doubt it works like crazy when done right.
The future of Blogging does lie in video, I am convinced of that, but it will take place in 2-3 minute clips. 6:27 is too long!
Not sayin, just sayin!
Stay Blogging My Friends!
@TheRECoach
Blogging as an art form has been perfected. Blogging about blogging has become paradoxical. You now have to be exceptional to stand out. It's like running up an escalator, you have to be pretty good to get anywhere.
The flip side is, now all of this has been figured out, if you can apply it to a nichè that hasn't been penetrated you're set. Finding that nichè deserves a blog topic of it's own. The ability to see what's coming, spot a gap in the market, and do something original is now the key. What hasn't been done yet & how can you get there first?
PS. You say “blog” funny… “Bllaaawwwwwwg”
i think blogging business will remain safe at least for next 5,6 years.
Another increasingly popular way to sell ads on your blog is to look into text links. The beauty of these are that they don’t take up much room and that depending upon the system you choose to run them you can have control over which advertisers you accept and reject. AdBrite(aff) is one such system that gives you control in a similar way to BlogAds in that you set your own prices and approve all ads. They also other other formats of ads.