Posted 10/1/08
This morning, I was looking back through old posts to see if there were old topics that needed updates and I realized we had done 313 posts! I can’t believe it has been that many and that this blog has been up for so long. It seriously seems like yesterday that this idea came to fruition and the SD was born.
Anyway, while looking back through old posts, we noticed a handful of posts talking about products and services that we suggested people should check out. Sure enough, more than a few of these I would call complete flops or on the verge of becoming flops. Some of these services preached big things and slowly fizzled and died off.
TNX.net
Remember this one? I think this was some paid review we did and while doing the review realized how intrusive the service was. They basically wanted you to completely manipulate your template code in order to get their whacky service up and running. It may have changed now, and possibly became easier to use but we still don’t feel good about it. Plus, Google hates these text-link-widget-selling site things.
BlogRush
Was this thing the scam of the year or what? The BlogRush widget was everywhere! Every blog on the planet bit on their idea to send you relevant traffic without having to do extra work and all that. Of course, no one saw anything from it except the revenues of BlogRush growing exponentially.
Top Hosting Center
We thought about using them to host us and even gave their affiliate program a shot, and then a close friend of ours actually moved over to them for hosting and things went immediately downhill. A front page digg submission followed by and Extra Mustard hit and their site blew up on the first day! Or better said, the Top Hosting Center server blew the hell up. Another small company talking way too much game.
BlogRolled
Remember this one? This was the site created by the ReviewME folks which was going to be a link buying exchange sort of program. Instead of installing some nasty widget that Google would hate on, they claimed they would sell text links for you and then it was your responsibility to actually place them on your site. Seemed great, and then no one had any links sold. Flop.
Entrecard
We used it and so did you! Has anything been a bigger waste of bloggers’ time than this site? I would argue, “hell no.” The site is about to completely crash in the next month or 2 after the owner flip flopped on a possible sale only to regain his motivation for making it great. Yeah, failure is around the corner.
Performancing Ads
Ok, so not a complete flop but it is inching close to it. Initially, it started off well with so much buzz being generated from top blogs on the service around the blogworld. Well, like all things, the buzz died off and now, no one cares about the site. I think I sold 2 ads total through it and purchased a few more? I’ve basically gone back to selling ads on my own, which works a hell of a lot better.
Any services you can recall that are/were complete flops? I know we’ve touched on quite a few of them!
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6 Blogging Service Flops we Told you About
Wednesday, October 01, 2008Posted by kellex at 9:31 AM
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4 comments:
Love the tips. Thanks very much for the post.
Whoa..christian debt help? Any bets on whether or not that person actually read the post. Especially seeing as it wasn't a tip?
Performancing has been a great affiliate program for me, but my fear is that they will have a lot more affiliates sign up than sales made, and they might not pay out completely. Already, they are saying that you need to wait 30 days after the end of the first month for them to analyze all the sales and "make sure they are legitimate."
It was good as an affiliate for me too, but thats not the point of the service. You are supposed to sell ads through and from what I can tell, not very many are selling ads.
OH, and I sent them an email yesterday asking when they'd pay out my referrals. We'll see what their answer is. :)
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