badabadu.com: an interview with the creator
URL http://badabadu.com/
Title BadaBadu!
TIC 30 (bar)
PR 3 (3)
Indexed in Yandex 6006
Indexed in Google 3900
Links to the server 36 according to Google
Links to the server according to Yandex 5409/203 /
Found at Yandex directory does not
Found in the PT100 is
Attendance: the average in the last 7 days 915
status: open
I must say that BadaBadu - not exactly a familiar social sphere of the number of previously discussed on this blog. Differences of this service are dictated by the choice of engine: BadaBadu powered by WordPress and serves as a service to conduct your own microblog and storage, and discussion notes, and bookmarks.
Questions of the robot responds Jacob , owner badabadu.com .
Prisustvuet your site in the network long enough, according to my feelings, at least 9 -10 months. I think that during this time showed a site and you can make some conclusions. Taking the decision to launch the site, you would set ourselves certain targets. By what percentage they achieved and what were their goals?
Purpose - a social experiment in which the resource will face. We are balancing on the border of the micro-blogging service, social network, a collective blog, closed / open-source community, periodically making the bias in one direction or another. The goal is not achieved: yes, there are thousands of registered users who have content, traffic and even monetization (the project is profitable), but we constantly are making some improvements, in general - work.
Two. Did the project financial target, the percentage reached it? What are the ways of monetization of niche social networks, and you can see which ones work best? Which way is your experience will not give results?
I will not hide BadaBadu - is not only for social experiments, but also for experiments on monetization. Accordingly, there is in the problems and benefits. We monetiziruemsya through access to private content. Tried to close registration for SMS - monetization is also a good option, but it may scare off some users.
In support: women's health, pregnancy , ads and all the necessary information.
Three. What kind of audience you oriented your project, what is distinctive predpogalagas special value, it is your trick for this project from the rest of the audience and what the audience at the site now?
The audience we have the most extensive, but the task - to attract people for whom napryazhno to a great blog who are not very useful other blog services, and to whom few opportunities to twitter. Who is the audience - bloggers who need more links to good resources.
4. Attendance at the site are decent, with the bulk coming from the search. What percentage of them are active participants, the core network?
Unfortunately, not great, with a relatively large number of-ve registered users, we have a very high percentage of new visits. Although, I note that recently we are working on reducing the bounce rate, try to stay longer in the audience share, which leads to a more active role of the "core".
Five. What do you see the future of your project?
The future still looms in the form of several leading blogs on the platform, and many small - random, for reference purposes only, trial undertakings.
6. If you go back to the time of the decision to start your project, would you do it now? Or would have done something differently? What?
Yes, I would have started the project, but initially oriented to it on blogging and making a bid for traffic from search engines.
As you can see, BadaBadu - quite an interesting project: even compared to many free blogservisov can be quite successful with paid registration services, which are BadaBadu, provide an opportunity to earn participating in the service of bloggers (and within Badabadu can earn through the system Blogun, Copyrait.ru and depositfiles.com). Without having any own blog, pay attention.
In the next issue - an interview with the creator of the service Bookmarkr.ru