Statistics

...The interest in BlogCharm has been simply overwhelming...

...With over 800 members and approaching 1000 blogs already BlogCharm promises to be a massive launch when we go live with paid advertising March 1st...

Define 'overwhelming'. Of course, flash $$'s in front of anyone and you are going to get signups but by their standards of so called members the following statistics are pretty bad.

I hate linking to this site so I won't. BlogExplosion currently have 24,114 members as indicated on their forum. Let us look at numbers.

24114 members. 800 members applied. That means 3% of BlogExplosion's member base applied for blogs. Wow. Overwhelming is not the word I would use. More like underachieving, but then again BlogExplosion is rather famous for flaunting their incredibly large member base and yet nothing seems to happen when it comes to active participation by the masses.

For instance, BlogExplosion touts themselves as being the largest community forum on the internet. As was said before 24114 members with 9366 posts which leaves BlogExplosion running at 39%. All members of BlogExplosion automatically become members of their forum and if you leave or if you're deactivated your membership on their forum remains. Got to think of those numbers. On the flip side, membership on BlogAdvance's forum is voluntary and while there are only 255 registered members, they have 18289 posts and are currently running at 7172%.

A forum is no good if people don't participate and while BlogExplosion may have the numbers they sure don't have the statistics that prove that they are as "huge" as they claim and quite a number of big name blogs have left and that tells you something right there.

...BlogExplosion is getting recognized! We have been approached by several very well-known companies over the last few weeks and we have partnerships that are being negotiated right now!...

With the new "partnerships" approaching I feel sorry for their member base as if its not nazi controlled now, whats it going to be like when other "partners" matter and their image matters? As it stands, you cannot blog about other traffic exchanges, you cannot have a negative opinion about BlogExplosion and you're only allowed a "hate" blog if you are part of the inner circle. What happens when you decide to blog about one of the new "partners"?

Be careful what you blog about. BlogExplosion is watching you.