What do you guys think of blogging communities like Xomba? Do you think they are more effective than blogger blogs??
yeah even though the adshare is 50%, it gets way more traffic than my blogger blogs though they are 100%
i think blogging communities unless you have a well-developed marketing scheme imagine adsense arbitrage you have to pay a certain amount for the adwords you might as well just split 50% with a blogging community no risk right?
I'm glad you posted this. Here's a snippet from Xomba's TOS: "...By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") on or through the Services, you hereby grant to Xomba.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services. This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a back-up or residual copy of the Content posted by you may remain on the Xomba.com servers after you have removed the Content from the Services, and Xomba.com retains the rights to those copies..." I don't think most blog communities do this. I think it could be a problem, in the long-run, if you write something that has the potential to make some real money. It sounds like they could compete with you, using your own content. I would only blog somewhere if we shared ad revenue from that site, not if they get access to your work always and forever. They provide the host and traffic; you provide the content. And the relationship should stop there, in my opinion. BTW, I really like their site. I wanted to post there, until I saw that part of the TOS. I like how they have different categories clearly displayed when you go to the site, so that you can actually look for the things that interest you. It seems more reader friendly than the other blogging communities I have seen. In general, blogging communities seem like a good idea for getting your content out there, but I would read the TOS very carefully.
Xomba allows its members to promote their own blogs and sites. It gets articles ranked much higher than they would be on member's own sites. It also allows members to write on topics they don't major in, try out ideas and see which would be profitable and attract readers. Xomba is free to join too. My income has gone up by at least 10% a month - sometimes up to 27% a month - from adsense on Xomba articles. Xomba is far better than Hubpages in my experience. Ads on the same article on Hub seem to earn less and the CTR is lower on Hub.