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The World Of Mommy Blogging

By on May 12, 2010 in Ideas

The News Tribune:

If you think high school is tough, with its cliques and mean girls, you probably haven’t visited the ever-widening world of mommy blogs, where women bully and bad-mouth each other in posts that are more personal and more spiteful than you’re likely to find on sports or entertainment blogs. Or on blogs written by dads. Through the anonymity of the Internet, women accuse each other of hating their children for revealing that being a mom isn’t all milk and cookies.

And of breaking an unspoken rule of motherhood – that a mom is supposed to be her child’s biggest booster, confidant and protector, not write about his or her private life in a venue all the world can see.

All of this is occurring as mommy blogs are growing in visibility and in legitimacy.

No one knows how many mommy bloggers inhabit the blogosphere; there is no central clearinghouse for them. But BlogHer, a platform for thousands of blogs by women, says parenting is its most popular subject and accounts for more of its blogs – 5,819 – than any other topic.

Their reach is vast. Ree Drummond writes about life on an Oklahoma cattle ranch with her husband and four children on thepioneerwoman.com. Her blog – which includes anecdotes about her kids, the ranch, recipes, tips on home schooling, lists of her favorite beauty products – gets 22.4 million page views a month, according to Federated Media, which specializes in advertising for blogs.

Published last year, Drummond’s cookbook, “The Pioneer Woman Cooks” (William Morrow, $27.50), became a New York Times bestseller. And just recently, her life story – to the delight of her fans and dismay of her detractors – was optioned for a movie. As a result, advertisers are taking more notice of popular blogs and are upping the amount of money they spend on them – $283 million on all blogs in 2007 and a projection of $746 million by 2012.

And advertisers’ real darlings are mommy blogs. Because women make about 80 percent of their households’ purchasing decisions and because, according to studies, moms spend about $2 trillion annually.

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  • http://maverickmom.com Lisa

    Good for moms for harnessing the power of the Internet to create revenue. I would disagree, however, with the negativity attributed to mommy blogs here. Thou many women do choose to criticize other moms, these women are usually unhappy with their own choices. The best mommy blogs out there are focusing on the reality of their lives and unique ideas, not other women. Criticism of others, along with gossip, is the smallest minded form of conversation anyway. These blogs won’t do well or generate much revenue in the long run anyway.

  • http://www.soulcurry.org Kuldeep

    If women starts blogging on household stuff, products, cosmetics. They will get great response.

  • http://www.princesszaria.com Cheryl Pop

    I love mommy blogs. My favorite is Prissy Mommy. I also write a blog entitled The Real Princess Zaria and Mommy Blog. My blog is a mommy-daughter blog on my website. Mommy Blogs and now, Daddy Blogs are informative and entertaining.

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