Agent Genius raised the issue - Tough Love

Gary... do the traffic numbers lie?  I love Compete.com so I have watched all year, the graphs showing a decline in ActiveRain were no surprise to me.

Why server errors if there is less traffic?

I wondered if the lost traffic is redirected to hundreds of Outside Blog URLs. Or if it is bloated members only content.

The rumors of ActiveRain's demise... 

"leaving some to speculate not only on the effectiveness of ActiveRain, but its longterm viability."

social media Diva's throwing temper tantrums on Twitter because their content was not showing up on ActiveRain

Benn's asking if an apology was enough?

Lotsa hysterical posts on ActiveRain saying the content was lost...

"I'd like to see less emotion and more logic as members make their decisions about whether to continue with AR or not.

Ask me if I care?  Move along and read something else, if this or anything is too emotional for you.  There is a lot of emotion out there, if you thinks YOUR  content has been visible or readable in the past 12 months, you are fooling yourself.

What good is good Google juice if the posts will not open or close with a proxy error?  Don't fool yourself Gail..

ActiveRain is a business.  It is about $. ActiveRain has loyal members, some would say "fools."  People paying for RainMaker and Outside blogs and vendor ads are what matters.

They (ActiveRain Corp)  do but are WE (ActiveRain members)  shooting ourselves in the foot by using AR as a watercooler and standing around telling one another war stories, talking politics and not producing content for the search engines? 

I think we as a community forgot about transparency... a couple of years ago.

All the members suffer when the proxy errors, bad gateways, etc.  happen.  Some like Loreena Yao who uses AR for business lose leads... others who use AR to catch up with friends or to debate politics in Members Only posts are disappointed when they can't get on or get knocked off.

"All your eggs in one basket" means more if you are using the site to generate business.

Will members who buy Outside Blogs or pay for RainMaker continue to pay for a site that  is not up?   Or won't allow a consumer to  enter?  A drama queen threw a big hissy fit last week on Twitter, Agent Genius (and probably elsewhere because HER content was down... I don't know her, don't know what she posts, whether she is grandfathered or paying for RainMaker, but she was certainly taking it personally.   I don't even know if she has an Outside Blog... I should go look. 

I believe she is grandfathered. She does have an Outside Blog.  Will she continue to pay for an Outside Blog?  Did not sound like it last week.

Denise  I am addicted to Compete.com so I was aware of the missing traffic.  Puzzled by it.  I want to believe the Outside blogs are the missing traffic.

I would love to know why AR says the proxy errors are due to increased popularity with the traffic dropping.

Is your Outside blog up? Mine both seem to be.  No header photo and no headshot but the content is up.

Sally  The story of AR is here somewhere, it was a contact management system for a brokerage? Lead management? It was not planned to be the biggest real estate network.  I kind of wish the money and time  would have been invested in late 2006 early 2007 to make it stable...  that story is here too... there was no money... then there was going to be money, then Move.com moved in a different direction.  Then HouseValues.com (?) under a new name invested.... then there was a settlement with Move.com

Perhaps for you it is NOT a question of loyalty but for some of us it is.  I have been here since 2006.  It does not always work but I am not going to have a drama queen hissy fit on Twitter... I witnessed one last Thursday, Friday?  I had to look for her AR blog when I was able to.  I don't get it... would she provide content to readers on a WP.org blog?  She had very little here so I don't know what the drama was that AR was down. 

ActiveRain to me is Jonathan, Bob, Brad, Jorgen, Kerrie (I always spell her name wrong) and other people.  ActiveRain was Matt Heaton, Caleb Mardini, Matt's wife...Lydia to me it was always people, so yes it is a matter of loyalty.

If you feel the need to leave Sally, bye. Good luck...  Do you have a WP.org blog? Tutorial about how to export content was on the dashboard. Bob Stewart of ActiveRain sponsored the webinar.   Not all that used the tutorial are leaving AR, just posting their content on their own blog, something that they always were able to do. 

Laurie mine are up.  Or were.  I can get to them putting in the URL anyway.  I am not sure if I can get to them going to my Left side bar on my AR profile though.

Google links open to my Outside Blogs.

My head shot and the header image are missing (neither a biggie for me) all the images in the posts are there, all the content seems to be there.  My RSS 's are working.  That's how I realized 'Worthington Old and News' was up.  I saw it on Twitter... via RSS.

oooops just realized you know they are up just looking for your header...  my bad.  not heard anything yet.

5:58 my time... Is that an hour after your comment ?  Or 10 minutes

I can see your Outside Blog

Wales a tiny country

http://iowacityrealestateblog.com/post/1615587/wales-a-tiny-country-with-a-very-cool-flag-

I'm going in for a snippet to prove it.

I can see get into it. 

Or are you like Lori waiting for the header?

You are from Wales?  How neat.  Do you have a wonderful accent?

I love accents! 

The flag of Wales is wonderful.

I am glad you are able to see your blog.  Do you have it feeding anywhere, Facebook or Twitter?  Lori Cain said her she thought her feeds were not working. Mine fed to both Twitter and Facebook without me touching it.

I love my Outside Blogs... I love the fact that they show up on the sidebar of my WP blog and Google credits the WP blog with their keywoods.  I suppose that may not be that great if people end up there looking for hyperlocal content because it is not there. hmmmm