Which Country Is It Best To Be A Blogger In?
By Matt Jones on Jan 23, 2008 in Creative Blogging
Here’s an interesting thought. Which country is it best to be a blogger in? There are lots of different questions around this topic:
- Is it beneficial to be a blogger where lots of other bloggers live near by? (e.g. parts of California)
- Does a large group of bloggers living near each other make it harder for an individual blogger to stand out, or are they getting an advantage with networking?
- What about where blogging is illegal or restricted (like China?)
- What about in countries where the number of Internet users is booming? (like India)
- Is it beneficial to be blogging from a War zone where every post can be the centre of mainstream media attention?
- What about the weather?
- What about online payments, does PayPal work in your country?
You might think in England that all the bloggers must live quite close to each other and so visit each other all the time, but that is not the way it works here. In England we consider a 2 hour drive a pretty serious road trip, but when I went to California 2 hours of driving seemed like nothing, due to the vast stretches of road through the desert.
There are also very few networking events in England, whereas in California there seems to be a new one each week!
Where do you think is the best Country in the world to blog from?
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UK’s pretty good. 70-80% of my traffic is from google.co.uk - less competition than on google.com
Interesting Tejvan, (correct me if I’m wrong - I may be) but that would be due to what you write about not where you are blogging from. E.g. I could be blogging from China about the best Castles in England to visit and as a result there would be lots of google.co.uk traffic.
Australians seem to enjoy meeting and networking face to face, and online. There are a number of blogger Meetup groups locally, and the recently established Aussie Bloggers Forum (which is open to anyone, not just Australians btw) has really taken off also.
Im based in the UK, and there doesnt seem to be too much over here. Not many well know bloggers are from the UK. Possibly Mashable, thats about it.
Im from Australia and there is a lot more Meetups etc, but there is a lot less connectivity to the internet for the average person in Australia, so internet is valued still as an outside sector.
I’m sure that the best to be blogging from isn’t Romania.
Surprisingly, I did not meet any fellow bloggers in real but have been communicating with them online. I think I shall set up a bloggers’ meet in my area.
I’ve not met up with any other UK bloggers as yet, neither have I heard of any events, but I’d definitely consider going to one if there was one.