World Blog Day or World Bloggers Day

Since the early 2000s, August 31st has been known as World Blog Day.

Blogging allows you to share information about your business and its services but it also allows you to share opinions and thoughts on certain topics. Blogging is a great way to create a personality for your company and makes your business more credible approachable.

WordPress users produce 70 million new posts and 77 million new comments every month. Roughly 350 new blog posts went live while you were reading this.

In 1994, Justin Hall, a Swarthmore College undergraduate, created links.net and began using it as a diary. He pioneered the practice of documenting thoughts and sharing personal insights online, so he’s often credited with being the world’s first blogger.

By the start of 2020, most blog articles ranged in between 1,231 – 1,351 words.

To date, there are more than 500 million blogs out of 1.7 billion websites in the world. Their authors account for over 2 million blog posts daily. In the last 5 years, the average time for writing a post has steadily grown from 2:24 hours to 3:28 hours.