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This post is on a study by Orbit Media on the state of blogosphere in 2017 in terms of use of blogging. They have based their findings on the basis of responses from 1377 blogger to 11 questions. Summary of findings: 1. Bloggers now take more time in composing blog posts than before. The time spent on creating a blog post has been found to be increasing over years since 2014. Now a blogger spends 3 hours 20 minutes on an average in creating a post. In addition, the number of bloggers who spend over 6 hours in composing a post has more than trebled over the last four years and they have said, they get 'strong results' by posting big! 2.  Most bloggers post weekly or around that, and the overall frequency has gone down. But it is not that the drop in frequency gets good results even when the content is big. Frequency matters in getting good results, bloggers report. 3. More bloggers are using editing support than before. 4. The size of blog posts now averages 1142 ...

Users of Blogger and Wordpress free blogging platforms sometimes want to give up the independent domain they had mapped with the blog/ website. It mostly happens when they do not make good money from the blog. If you are one of them and have decided to junk the custom domain, you need to take some small but important actions so that the damage is minimal and your free blog regains life. Read on... Removing the custom domain This is the simplest task. When you stop paying for renewal of the custom domain, it will automatically be inactive. Full stop.  But just letting the custom URL vanish might create an issue for some days: when the visitor types the free URL, the browser might still try to take him automatically to the custom domain and when the browser does not find the custom URL, it might give 'Site does not exist' or 404 Error. To avoid this,  on Blogger, go to 'Settings', 'Publishing' and then click on 'x' next to the custom domain; ...