Welcome to “Help Me Blog” the official blog of BlogExplosion!

We need your help! We are holding a contest for creative BE members to help design this blog.

BlogExplosion will donate $250 to the Red Cross on behalf of BlogExplosion members and we will then donate $250 to the charity of choice to the designer who produces the winning creative. That is a total of $500 to help support charities working on helping people involved in some of the global disasters happening in the world right now.

The winner gets a designed by logo at the bottom of the BlogExplosion blog which is very valuable real estate and a great way to get bloggers to your site.

Looking for entries to be posted here by the end of October and the winner will be selected early November.

You can read all about it in the BlogExplosion Forums

Just finished reading David Sifry of Technorati.com recently updated the State of the Blogosphere, October 2005 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth on his blog. Some very interesting stats and encouraging trends emerging around the current state of blogging. 

There is a complete powerpoint presentation you can download there with again very interesting numbers about the growth of the blog industry.

Summary of the Presentation:

- As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs

- The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about

every 5 months

- The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth

- About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day

- About a new weblog is created each second

- 2% - 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs

- Between 700,000 and 1.3 Million posts are made each day

- About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second

- An additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are from spam or fake blogs, on average

Most people seem to be making a fuss about the low number of “spam” blogs in the report. Will be interesting to hear how the blog industry reacts to Technorati´s latest claims.

With the decision to have helpmeblog.com as a separate domain name from BlogExplosion we found this post by legendary marketer Seth Godin an interesting one.

Should we have named the BE blog blogexplosion.com slash blog something or was keeping the BlogExplosion service separate from the BE blog a good move?

I think it really depends on the situation, the nature of the brand and what you are trying to do with it.