Over the last several weeks, I have been reading a lot of complaining by Xanga faithful about the promotion that Xanga is giving to the ish sites. If you think you've got problems, you ought to
have an ish site. I have two blogs on Dollarish.com and they're both being put down at the end of July. I had two sites on Revelife and have canned one. The other will stay, but I'm wondering why?
There was a time on Dollarish, I thought I was there all by myself. I'd post and see my post on the recent activity list and for a day or two. I think Xanga has purposely decided to try to fill the abandoned building. They have a small group of busy writers who are doing all the heavy lifting and are featured everywhere else from ish to X, which is pumping their Views up.
Recently, Dollarish changed the Home Page to show what they call the
Top Contributors on the sidebar. The problem is that is seems that a handful of people are writing their butts off over there, and those are the only people you see on the
Top list. If you don't walk into Dollarish with 2,000 friends, it's getting very hard to get noticed, the more the shadows of the Top Contributors grow.
I had changed the focus of one of my sites to just providing stock market news data and using it as a feed to another site - not a big mass appeal topic. However, I know in the past that no matter what I posted, there were always a healthy amount of footprints and growing numbers on the Views. Now, with the combination of my change in focus and Dollarish's changes, I'm feel like I'm locked in a closet.
I have a stock trading site on Blogger, another market related blog on Traddr.com and that's plenty. The Dollarish site was actually redundant. But I can see that, even I shifted to more broad consumer topics, I'd have a tough uphill climb getting any attention.
Do I feel better over on Xanga? Not quite sure. I share my posts on Facebook and occasionally send out Tweets on Twitter with a link to them and that seems to be accounting for the Views I'm getting. Right now, I'd have no idea how to find me, if I didn't already know where I was.
I have to agree with the
July 2 post by TheTheologiansCafe. Xanga needs to figure out a way to shuffle all of the contributors into public view. There are some very thoughtful writers that are collecting dust in some forgotten corner of Xanga, and that's a shame.
We'll see... I'll live out the three Premium memberships I have and then make a decision if Xanga is a keeper. But the first move is to get the Fish out of Ish.
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Comments (1)
The ish sites are growing because xanga is featuring them on their front page all day every day and they are also sending out friend request using bots.
The problem is xanga is actually shrinking overall. Xanga needs to feed its user base or there will be no traffic left to send to the ish sites.
I don't think the xanga team sees it coming but there is going to be a tipping point where they wake up one day and find all the users gone. Every other major social network has its number one priority as feeding traffic to their users. Xanga is the only one who has tried the strategy of creating sites and driving traffic away from their own site. You have to give them points for creative. It isn't working though.