Comments on: Active Rain Charging for Search Engine Placement?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:11:55 +0000

they’re charging 89.99$ a month now btw

here’s the result of that brilliant move
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=activerain.com&sa=N

it’s no wonder the entire ql staff left.

By: Tony Sena

Tony Sena — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:46:34 +0000

Dusty,

“You all must not be real bloggers if you are squacking about one buck per day”? To be a real blogger, you should spend money? My Las Vegas Real Estate Blog out ranks any Active Rain Blog in Las Vegas. Am I not a real blogger?

I’m not discounting the fact that AR is a powerful platform to blog on, just questioning your comment about having to spend money to blog.

By: Dusty Brazil

Dusty Brazil — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:35:25 +0000

You are all nuts! I would pay for Activerain over any other website company out there. PERIOD. You all must not be real bloggers if you are squacking about one buck per day. GO AR!

By: erelopro

erelopro — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:33:49 +0000

We currently have 1 Outside Blog with ActiveRain which is also $19/mo. It came with a free domain, and has excellent listings on Google.

Although our blog on the ActiveRain website itself, also does quite well.

What I am really amazed in is our new blog on WannaNetwork. I created it yesterday and it’s indexing quite well. I’ll be posting on that numerous times a day now.

By: tradedude

tradedude — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:22:05 +0000

Kim,
I have 4 questions about your increase:
How Do You Know It Is From Your Blogs On Active Rain? Could it be a combined effort?
Does active really Have over 132,000 members? it just jumped 10,000 over nite? I think they do

I have been very active on a large number of networking sites the main problem I see is people do not understand networking. I belong to the local chamber and I have offered my site free to use for fund raisers (auctions, trades, classifids) only to be told they can’t promote business at the chamber? Hmmmm that’s what every business joined for is the promote business by networking at a local level. Now on the networking sites for about two years I have offered my site to all with plenty of free stuff like stores, 45 day free classifieds, trades, etc. Please remember everyone on this site is here to sell services, products, or any other items. My name ties very well with Tony’s wannanetwork it is iwannatrade.com so name is good, google search is very high, news media coverage good, and very few have taken advantage of my offers. I think if people would support the people who are here they will see major increases in the products, services they offer.
One time I did a blog that hit numder 1&2 out over 14 billion did a 1 hour wn radio about the changes in real estate not one person joined or asked questions. I did not offer to bring them to to top google search just my site. Just some things I have noticed hope everybody understands networking is something that has been free and should be free.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:48:50 +0000

What a rediculous idea. Why would any pay AR and then give them content that helps the build the AR site. In my opinion you can get just as good rankings using a Word Press blog for free. Word Press has tons more visitors and I find Word Press blogs on the first page of Google more often then AR blogs.

The power to ranking on the first page of Google lays within constantly updated content, whether it be a blog a website or a forumn.

By: Tony Sena

Tony Sena — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:46:39 +0000

I can relate with AR as I operate WannaNetwork.com but charging for your core feature is crazy to me. I really believe this will hurt AR as a whole as new user registrations will drop off and the community will have to rely on its current member base to keep adding fresh and unique content to draw visitors.

I could see charging for upgraded features or something along those lines but why charge for your core feature?

By: homesleuth

homesleuth — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:18:21 +0000

Considering that Active Rain has over 132,000 members, there had to be a give back. My business has increased huge amounts from my blogging on Active Rain and it is free to me and post directly to localism.com. I also chose to have an outside blog for $19 a month after my free months that they gave me ends. I get a free one because I have over 100,000 points.