AOL announced last week that they are making plans on redesigning Netscape.com into more of a social and news style portal. With these plans, they also plan on migrating their existing social news network over to Propeller.com.
I have been a registered member of Propeller.com for close to a year. Many of you know that I went through a phase of trying to push traffic to my blogs using social networks such as StumbleUpon.com, Digg.com and even Propeller.com.
Of all the social networks I participated in, Propeller.com was the lowest on the ranks in terms of driving traffic to my sites. However, recently about three weeks ago, I noticed that Propeller.com had a complete overhaul and new web design.
The new Propeller.com is very appealing and extremely fun and friendly to use. While I have been busy with other projects, I did make a note of newly updated Propeller.com web site and have full intentions to join back in.
With that said, I can now start to see why Propeller.com was redesigned as I am starting to see the bigger picture of what AOL is doing. They had Propeller.com redesigned towards taking their first steps with shifting their Netscape.com social news to it.
Soon, and this is just a prediction, I beleive that Propeller.com might be a more effective social network with much more traffic and an increased level of user interest. It might not be a bad idea to register and get a profile set up and start making friends.
I think with AOL’s plans to funnel traffic from Netscape.com to Propeller.com, that there may be a great opportunity for bloggers and publishers to contribute in a newly restructured social network that could very well have some decent traffic coming into it soon.
Keep in mind too my overall view of social networks. While many social networks can indeed funnel large amounts of traffic to your web pages, I found that this traffic doesn’t little for publishers who monetize their content.
What do you think? Do you think the new Propeller.com will pick up momentum after Netscape.com funnels traffic to it?
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