I answered a lengthy survey couple of months ago which was conducted by Technorati as part of it State of The Blogosphere report.

This was the first time that a survey was sent out by Technorati and the results are exciting.

Technorati indexes about 900,000 blogs posts every 24 hours, this should give you a pretty good idea of how deep Technorati goes to index and track blogs in blogosphere.

The report says that every blog that has more than 100,000 visitors makes more than $75,000 annually. It also suggests that 34% of blogosphere is made of female bloggers.  Asia stands 3rd with 13% contribution on the blogging distribution chart after North America with 48% and Europe 27%.

Personal and Lifestyle was known to be the most common topic for blogging standing at 54% followed by Technology at 46%. Interestingly when bloggers where asked “Why do you blog?”, the making money part stood 6th in the list after, Speaking My Mind, Making Friends, Keeping my Family updated through blog, etc..

68% of the bloggers did not mind revealing their real identity on the blog, in fact, “Made new contacts and met them in person” stood 3rd with 47%.

Technorati decided to release the report in 5 parts, 1 part each day. Today being the second day the data I discussed in this article is only based on two parts.

Following headings will be covered in the coming three days:

Day 3: The How of Blogging
Day 4: Blogging for Profit
Day 5: Brands Enter the Blogosphere

Click here to visit Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere report.