Rise and Fall of Blogging, In The Last Three Decades

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In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web(WWW). The WWW made it possible to share information through static web pages, written in markup languages such as HTML.

The first decade of the web is called Web 1.0. This era gave birth to blogging; the more significant change happened in the second decade, in Web 2.0. Many enthusiasts or entrepreneurs created hundreds of thousands of blogs, communities, or forums. For example, Reddit, Quora, etc.

In the late second decade of WWW, things started changing. Youtube began to rise, which made it possible for anyone to write, record, and publish any content.

Over time, the Internet spread dramatically around the globe. It became faster day by day. Many and many people gain access to dial-up to DSL.

The access to fast Internet made it possible to find a solution to their problems over Youtube rather than reading lengthy blog articles.
The third decade of the World Wide Web is known as Web 3.0. It is the era of the semantic web. Nowadays, every webpage is linked to each other. In this era, Mobile Technologies improved; further, 3G and 4G internet became cheaper and cheaper. Therefore, now it is accessible to everyday users. It gave further rise to other entrepreneurs to establish their new platforms rather than blogging.

It was a time when people read stories from the blog. But, now the trend has changed dramatically. People watch funny clips over Netflix, Youtube, or any other video streaming service.

To sum up, one can say blogging started in the first decade of WWW, in the second decade, it was in the most mature form. In third-decade fall begins.

What is the good Length of an article?

500 - 1000 words

There is no hard and fast rule to write a specific length of the article for your blog. But, one should follow a few rules while composing for a blog.

Shorter articles are considered less informative, while longer articles are deemed tedious and time-consuming. Therefore, one should follow a moderate approach to write articles.

Back in the 2000s, people write articles about thousands of words. On that time, people have much time to waste on a single article. But, nowadays, the trend has changed. There is massive information available over the Internet. In case one article is dull, lengthy are less informative; one can easily choose another item to get his head around.

According to Google, articles shorter than 250 words are considered boring, less informative which have a terrible impact on Search Engine Ranking. Therefore, the article should contain at least 250 words.

An article in the range of 500 to 1,000 words are considered best. A reader can read in five minutes, and the writer can say whatever he wants.
However, there is an exception for use cases, case studies or user guides. These sorts of articles must contain every bit of information a reader may need while performing the practical task. Therefore, these sorts of articles mostly comprise around 2,500 to 3,000 words.

To conclude, it is the 21st century; everybody has access to fast Internet. The time is so precious, and a blog writer should not waste others time and energy. He should directly focus on the topic. He should try to write to-the-point.