Review of The Blogrush Widget
The Blogrush widget was very popular when it first came out a year or so ago but since then it slowly lost it’s momentum. In the beginning blogrush allowed all blogs to become a member. At some point in time they decided to up the standards and deleted around 10,000 blogs ( people were angry and spread negativity about the program). Some how my very first blog did not get cut. I put the blogrush widget on my site and never did anything else with it. I have since abandoned this blog, and I have to tell you that Blogrush has kept that particular blog alive.
The first time I applied for this blog at blogrush I was turned down. This turn down was actually an eye opener for me, it made realize I was writing a little on the sploggy side. So I went back to the drawing board and started writing about subject matter I thought the other bloggers would actually like to read. Three content driven articles later I was accepted.
I am sure you are asking yourself “So, What is blogrush and what can it do for me?”The best way for me to describe it is that is like a fancy blog roll. Every time the blogrush widget is shown on your blog, you earn a credit for one of your 12 newest articles to be shown on someone else”s blog. They try to match your content to other bloggers content, and there are also all sorts of fancy statistics of weather your articles are hot or cold.
It gets even better,There is a seven level referral program in which you earn even more traffic credits. When I put the widget on my first blog I was new to marketing and traffic so I never lifted a finger, wrote a review, or did anything to promote blogrush other than stick the widget on my blog. People joined from my blogrush widget and their efforts keep my otherwise dead blog alive.
I highly recommend blogrush, it so easy, just get approved and stick the widget on your blog and never worry about it again.
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October 24th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I hope BlogRush works out well for you. I’ve taken it off the only blog I had it on because it did nothing for me. I saw posts of mine that had a lot of comments, only to check BlogRush and have it showing me with 0 visits. John Chow wrote a long post about its failure for him, as he’d amassed thousands of credits he couldn’t do anything else.
So, good luck with it; I hope it finds its way back to some kind of prominence.
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October 25th, 2008 at 8:02 am
It is funny that John Chow says it doesn’t work for him because I clicked to his blog off of my widget twice yesterday alone. I thing much of the traffic through blogrush happens this way. Something catches your eye while working on your own blog and you click. I have had luck with it in the past so I am gonna give it a whirl here.
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October 30th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Well, what do you know; it was your blog I wrote the message on!
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