Bloggers, what are we to do?
Starting September 1st, Passionfruit is no longer free (for swaps, or anything else, for that matter).
Are you going to pay the $9 monthly fee, or are you going to use a different method for ads? Is there even anything else out there? Has anyone thought about this? Or do we go back to the archaic means of constantly adding and removing code from our pages? I honestly don't have the time for that anymore, and that's why I loved Passionfruit. These ads have brought great traffic to my blog, and I'm sure others' ads on my site have brought them traffic.
There are tons of lovely ladies and gents in the blogosphere, and I would hate for people to stop being discovered because Passionfruit wants to start charging.
Yes, the new features are nice, but for me, it's just not worth it.
I agree. For me, it's not worth spending the money.
ReplyDeleteI honestly think they will see millions of people turn away.
DeleteI agree. I don't even want to spend (or have extra) money to advertise my blog, so I won't be spending money to use Passionfruit because all I'm doing are swaps. I'm going to have to think about what's going to be the easiest way to continue doing swaps without a lot of extra work for me.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the money, either! Passionfruit is going to lose millions, I can see it happening now.
DeleteI totally agree with you and most probably will not be using Passionfruit after they have now turned into basically a membership site. It's actually really bad they did this but I know why: because many bloggers button swap or don't have many sponsors, they weren't making as much as if they charged a flat fee, but that really makes all of us who don't charge an arm and a leg for ads ( or do swaps) pay for something we could just do for free. It's a shame they did this. Oh well. :)
ReplyDeleteNew subscriber! Have a great week!
Elizabeth
http://www.phuketfamily.blogspot.com
First, thanks for the subscribe! Sorry for taking so long to reply, I'm so busy over here with work and figuring out school.
ReplyDeleteI guess I just won't have ads on my blog anymore after Passionfruit does its thing, which is kind of sad because swaps brought a lot of traffic to my little blog. It's hard to make it in the blogging world when you aren't big yet!