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to take your blog to the next level with top-notch content, monumental traffic growth, and multiple revenue streams to go beyond your wildest goals.

So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host, whose blog gets more than

one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 137 of the blog millionaire.

Orbit Media conducted their big survey of bloggers for the fifth straight year.

I'm going to be breaking down their key findings in a series of episodes.

Each one of these episodes will go over the statistic, what it means, along with some

awesome growth hacks.

In this episode, I'm going to be looking at the time it

takes most bloggers to write a blog post. I will also dissect whether or not there is a direct

correlation between time spent on post and traffic results. Let's first take a look at the average amount of time it takes a blogger to write a blog post.

Back in 2014, the average blog post took a little under two and a half hours to write.

In 2018, this stat had risen by 44%. It now takes on average three and a half hours for a blogger to write a post.

The average time only tells a tiny part of the story. The actual time invested per post varies dramatically between bloggers.

Close to 50% of bloggers spent less than three hours on writing a blog post.

On the other side of this spectrum, one in eight bloggers spent over six hours per blog post. There's clearly an upward trend in bloggers going the

extra mile for each of their blog post. In 2014, only 4% of bloggers spent six plus hours per post.

2018 saw this number rise by over 300%.

The time spent per post shows us a trend,

but it doesn't give us a correlation between time spent and actual results.

Orbit Media did a great job with the follow-up question to bloggers by asking these bloggers

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