Bharatstudent.com Highest Ranked Indian Social Networking Site?
Launched just four months ago, Bharatstudent.com, the social networking Web site aimed at college students in India and those of Indian origin abroad has become the highest ranked Indian social networking site, according to Web information company Alexa. [via Mint] [Ed's Note: Alexa is famously inaccurate, so take this for what it is.]
BharatStudent.com says it has 1.4 million registered users, with focus on advice for Indian students seeking entry to universities abroad. The company hires students as campus representatives for a monthly fee that varies from Rs 4,000 for India-based students to $500 (Rs 20,500) for Indian students on overseas campuses.
Bad marketing technique by them, spamming all the yahoo groups and adult yahoo groups .
They spam several of my own yahoo groups :(.
good to hear they have so many users but how many of those 1 million users are active, who login atleast twice or thrice… paying someone to get a formidable user base is not a big thing, what are they doing to retain the users? my first impression was that there was no forum where people could interact and get opinions (or may be there is one buried deep inside the pages).. and the study abroad page just links to various university sites which is of not much help.
But since the site is just 4 months old i think they'll ramp up pretty soon.
BharatStudent.com probably is also the reason why India is number 2 on orkut for the number of registrations..They apparently create one new orkut account everyday, and spam several orkut communities. Recently mginger was in the news for having amassed 4 lakh subscriptions..These websites are setting a bad precedent of using Spam to amass users.
Also, I agree with Mr. Swamy on the active list of users. There are so many Indian nationals in the American universities today that it is not a great deal to make a living there. So, it is only the initial couple of months that the student might be active on BS..I dont think it has anything else to even offer..
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the numbers are fake.they dont have 1.4 mill registred users.they have 1.2 laks(cant disclouse the source).they have a team of 100 who log in to site every day to feed videos and movie realted content.any site with such huge team is bound to have such a rank
Hey Guys, i accept that the spammed orkut but who doesnt????? Social networking sites are the best source to market any ones products. I started using Bharatstudent.com because Orkut waz banned in my campus and i liked the site and today i have few of my old friends if not many on bharatstudent.com. They are definitely growning and a meedre 100 people logging on to the site daily cant make it this big……..i accept that they are getting bigger day by day……..
I am one of the member of this Social Networking website who is a final year engineering student. I and my friends enjoy the stuff there. It is one of the happening site among the college going crowds like us. The student support through Study Abroad is really helpful …….. just log in and check out yourselves.
Hi Guys, i totally agree the factor that Bharatstudent.com links are seen everywhere. But i wonder why Yahoo and MSN are looking to buy Bharatstudent.com???
IS this a rumour or fact? like we know Orkut was acquired by google and few other networking sites have been sold to big heads previously, I guess we might here a news soon abt Bharatstudent too…
"""But i wonder why Yahoo and MSN are looking to buy Bharatstudent.com???
Where did u get this info from???
Well, if this is true, I better buy some shares in its parent company, Northgate Technologies.
Could u please confirm for me?
Thanks
How much geniue is BS.Paying ppl to get members will not wrk too far.lets see how much they can retain.
I think these sanjay, ashmita, sanjana, deisha etc. are fake geeks – cornering bharatstudent.
I am just tired looking at these useless junkies like bharatstudent, ibibo, yaari spam all over the net. If their product is not good, they can not sustain on a longer run. You can keep your team spamming the net forever now. If your visitors don't stay, your product is worthless and that's what I see in these sites.