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Originally Posted by Gary O
Rich, You know I always say what is on my mind.
Who would have thought I would have ever sent fauna money? But I told you in the past before you ever did it. Charging for the classifieds is a good thing and when I was ready to post ads I would pay to post them here.
I would like to go on record in saying that it was the best 25 bucks I have spent to place ads. I get a TON of people saying they seen my ads HERE! That makes me feel like I spent a good 25 bucks. and to tell you the truth I am and will renew if you keep charging. I like to think I offer high quality animals. And I have thought about it but every time I do I wonder why send KS money when Fauna and my sites do me just fine.
I get buyers from here bro. I really do. I think on KS i would be emailing people back pics just becuase they want pics. Not becuase they are interested in the animal.
I know we have butted heads many many times. I did not agree with charging for the BOI. But I do agree with charging for the ads. It is only fair IMO that I give you something for helping me sell.
If you do not charge I will continue to place ads here. I probably will still send you that 25 bucks. Only fair like I said. I see one thing though. the people that will place ad after ad after ad to fill the page will now have others to compete with lol.
But from a person selling here. I get a lot of people saying they seen me here. So it is getting the traffic. Just the fluff is gone. But like everyone says cut away the fat and give me the meat lmao.
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Thanks, Gary....
But how does one know what is fluff and what is meat? By what yardstick would most people measure the health of a website like this? Fluff or not, I believe that nearly all measurement criteria concerning a publicly accessible website would have to include raw traffic. To advertisers, people coming to this site for answers to their questions, or someone just looking for a place where everyone else goes to, the amount of traffic (IE, how many other people are visiting the site) is going to be an important criteria to note for them to determine if this is a place THEY want to come to as well.
If I were a new member coming to this site, I would look at the stats and see that there are presently 43,329 registered members here. WOW! Pretty impressive, I would think. But when I look at how many registered members are HERE right now, I only see 73. Where are the other 43,256 members? Thinking maybe it's just a slow time of day, I then check number of members who have visited in the last 24 hours..... Hmmm... only 872.....
If I knew enough to check, I might then go to FaunaTopSites and look at the stats there for this site. I scroll down to the bottom and see this...
This clearly shows a steady decline in traffic from January, 2007 to present.
No, the stats aren't lying if you take the time to read them.
So the question is, WHAT is the problem and is it fixable? Or is there even a solution at all? My original incentive to post this thread was initiated by an email I got from someone concerning the paid requirement for posting classifieds. Is THIS being the boat anchor? Or perhaps one of several?
Looking at this from a different angle, is this all just indicative of a slowdown in this business itself? I just looked at the stats on FaunaTopSites of some other sites, and in many instances I am seeing the same thing: A general slowdown in traffic to many of those sites as well since January.
Which, obviously, is nothing I can fix from this site, I guess. If the number of buyers and sellers are declining, or people in general maintaining a DAILY interest in this topic matter just falling off, then all I am seeing is a graph of the industry in general. Which, if this is the case, leads to the question of whether there is anything that could be done HERE to help turn things around. I would rather think I am contributing to the health of this industry rather than inhibiting it and therefore being even partially the cause of spiralling down into stagnation.
Just more food for thought, I guess.
Thanks for the input on this....