How can you tell a site is going to fail – When it’s new!

This post is NOT about building a blog network of affiliate sites but more of a point of observation I wanted to make about some of the top blogs or websites (or what we were lead to believe were the top sites) here in the blogsphere.

First, if some of you recall, I made a post called “Is Entrecard Dead” a few months ago. Well, as it turns out it is almost dead. The owner of the site has put it up for sale claiming he has not got the funds to do with it what he wanted to do with it. What a pile of crap! Just another Blogrush hype type of site that is and soon will be a flash in the past that’s built only to be sold. With all the blogs out there you mean to tell me that the owner of Entrecard could not find a way to make money off of the site so he could build it. Well, my guess is he did make some money off of it and has noticed there is a drop in income so he has decided to sell it. 100k starting bid price for a dieing site and a outdated concept is way to much money in my mind.

The Rating Blog is another site/blog that has packed it in. Alan, the owner claimed he had other ventures he had going that made more money then his blog did. So he had to take a break from his blog which is to bad because I thought he was going to be a great blogger.

Here is a sure fire way for you to tell if a site is going to be good or not and if you should have any involvement in them. First, watch how they grow. You know as well as I know it takes time to get RSS readers and when you see a site like the Rating Blog for example grow to a whopping 10k in readers in 4 months, you know that site is not going to last. The blogger is just going to burn out.

Watch out for the loud mouth bloggers who sit there and scream that all these other bloggers are dumb and that they know everything and you should do what there doing if you want to make money. The Blogger Unleashed was that way, all that guy was doing was pushing BANS and products to build BANS sites, which we all know are thin affiliate sites. That’s who was telling people to build  affiliate sites and put adsense on it so in time you could make a buck a day off of each site. What a dumb ass! And even though he came out firing all his guns and his big mouth everywhere I don’t see him around anymore. he is posting on his blog but his RSS, since he has shut his mouth a bit ha stayed the same over the past 4 months. He has his following and I really feel sorry for them. While on the Top Affiliate Challenge we all had some fun ripping that guy ammo apart.

Same goes with traffic exchange sites like Entercard. Traffic Exchange sites are no different then buying most types of traffic. They are going to be very un targeted visitors that won’t do anything for you and the buzz of them will soon die off which leaves you with a bunch of wasted time. There really is to much work involved with traffic exchanges to make it worth while and when a place like Entrecard first starts up people give it a shot but soon realize they could be doing a lot more profitable stuff then sitting there surfing sites that have nothing to do with yours. Just think about it, with the system I am going to be releasing as part of my mentor program, 1 hour a day can give you enough data to build almost five profitable affiliate blogs. What would you rather have?

I have a full day, every day that I can spend working on my sites and blogging. I don’t have time to waste with traffic exchange sites like Entrecard and anyone who is serious about what there doing online, should not waste there time either.