Friday, September 21st, 2007 12:10 pm by
jdmacor 
I am sure you have all been hearing a great deal about BlogRush, the latest blog buzz topic. In fact, according to Technorati, BlogRush has been mentioned 2,000 times already! But the question is whether this new darling service is worth the hype. Of course, John Chow has adopted it, but he is also Agloco’s biggest supporter and there has been much written about how that program may be worthless. So I want to look at the bottom line here myself. I have installed the widget on my blog and have had it running for about a week and would like to share my initial thoughts with you.
The BlogRush Concept
Well, with all of the hype and mystique about BlogRush, the idea is actually quite simple. The underlying goal of the service is to give you readers. Basically, you install their widget on your blog, then it displays headlines from other people who have the widget installed. You, in turn, will have your posts promoted on the other blogs in the network. The more credits you generate, the more times your headlines are shown. So, you may be wondering, how do I get these credits?
The more pagviews that your blog receives, the greater number of credits you get in return. The other method to gain credits is to refer a friend, and whenever they receives pageviews, you also get credits. This method of referral earnings works through 10 generations! So, you can easily bring those credits in by the thousands!
BlogRush has now multiple color options so that you can match it to your blog’s theme! This feature will be available in a few days.
My BlogRush Experience So Far
To be honest, the widget has not driven too much traffic for me. I mean, I generated plenty of credits and was displayed about 5,000 times, but have only received 2 clicks. However, I think that this has more to do with my headlines as opposed to the BlogRush system. You really have to make your headlines attractive. In fact there are plenty of tips to increase your BlogRush click through rate:
- Do You Make These BlogRush Mistakes?
- How To Control BlogRush Headlines
- 5 Ways To Increase BlogRush Traffic
- Blogrush Visitor Statistics: Who Gets Traffic, Who Does Not?
To put it simply, optimize your headlines, encourage others to sign up, and become an early adopter (they are doling out free credits for people who sign up early). Speaking of which, sign up for BlogRush now and give it a shot!
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Thanks for the mention!
Nice theme, by the way.
I’m not too impressed with the BlogRush phenomenon…but that’s just me.
Does this appear to be a fair practice? Somehow this seems to be an underhanded way of driving readership.
In every blog there is a mention of blogrush. I think it’s the most in thing for all bloggers. But I would go with ‘Recording Studio Equipment’ and would like to ask whether are such practices fair? and if it turns out to be a fair thing then it will change the face of blogging.
i hav joined it too but hav’nt received any traffic from this .
Personally I think if blogrush enabled you to incorporate the links into your website it would be more appealing to the masses. As it stands, configuring the look of their plugin doesn’t do the service justice.
They should look at it from a “google adsense” sort of way, just text, with a link stating “distributed by blogrush” etc. You could easily tie it in with more of your content in that respect and would definately receive more clicks.
There are few problems that keep BR from being a great new viral product. First are the titles that are not optimized for BR.
Second, the widget itself can not be changed to suit each blog.
And third, 90% of bloggers put the widget to the page bottom so no users can actually see it.
The stats say it all, 5000 and 2 clicks.
(wow, 8 6. i had to take my shoes off)
here is a novel idea, write rich content that people in your related field want to read and give them practical tools to use. go to releated field blogs and begin a real blogging relationship with those people. it has worked for us incredibly well. BR is a farce and will fade faster than the evening sun. get exposure the old fashion way, earn it.
(wow, 8 6. i had to take my shoes off)
here is a novel idea, write rich content that people in your related field want to read and give them practical tools to use. go to releated field blogs and begin a real blogging relationship with those people. it has worked for us incredibly well. BR is a farce and will fade faster than the evening sun. get exposure the old fashion way, earn it.
(woops and then i mistyped the url, yikes, my bad.)
there is so much about it on the blogs but i dont think i will use it, there are always few guys who find out how to exploit this systems.
why everyone asks how it is?
i have not read detailed review but its definitely worth trying.
Actually it’s really not worth trying it. Check out the stats from some of the bloggers that have BR. More then 20.000 impressions and only 4 clicks is the average. For now, you don’t have much use from BR.
Well I’ve tried it and without much traffic coming my way … i think its overhyped
should call it Blog-Not-so-Rush instead
Hello there David, where are you? I am looking forward to your response to my comment as well as the comment from clumsy fergie. The latter does not seem possible!
I guess he’s on a vacation of some sort.
It’s working for me.
^^Care to explain more about that? What’s your CTR?
Hey there it’s me again
from BONTB, yeah I have blogrush on my blog as well, I must say after couple of days it gives me just “some” traffic just like you said.
But honestly if its not going to be any better in 2-3 weeks ill remove it.
Btw got any cool wp themes for me? I am ready for a change…….plz help? email me thanks.
The major problem with Blog Rush is that there’s no quality control for what’s displayed. It’s not a trusted source, so why would anyone bother clicking on what it displays?
Also, it doesn’t blend well with sites - it’s too noticeable as a produced piece of content.
Blog traffic is built largely on site credibility feeding qualified traffic to qualified sites.
I didn’t understand all of the hype around this widget when it launched, and I certainly don’t understand why it still resides on so many sites. Waste of space, IMHO.
That’s nice.
I have had not luck with it either and I have had it running since it started. I don’t know that it will really work.
Where are you David?
I recently developed a free wordpress plugin called “BlogRush Click Maximizer”. By using it you can vastly improve your Click Through Rate.
This allows you to control what you want to display in BlogRush. You can even write alternate - short and catchy title just for BlogRush.
You will have total control of what appears over the BlogRush Network.
Check it out here:
http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/bcm/
Very intersting inormation, try add this widget to my blog.
Great site keep up the good work
How much unique hits have been added to your traffic since you’ve started using blogrush?
I took that thing off
for good. Let me know how your’s is ?
The widget just doesn’t invite clicks. I scan straight past it and avoid it as a click. It looks like an add.
Im not setisfied with blogrush to. I thought it will bring more trafic, let’s wait a little bit and see if it will help when more visitors will came to my site..
I added Blogrush on my site and removed it. It just ain’t what it should be.
Seems to work but not what it is all cracked up to be!
BlogRush fell apart and was a big mistake.
i love this blog
burçlar
I am going to try this on my site. Thanks for the information David
WOW!
You site may be banned for using services like BlogRush
I gave blog rush a shot and man was that a bad idea.
Give it a shot, but don’t expect too much out of it.
It sounds like it’s sleeting, but every time I turn on the outside light & look, nothings happening.
I’ve been very disappointed with BR, another of those launches that promises teh earth and delivers very little.
I might just give it a shot. It seems OK. I’m a small blogger, so what do I have to lose. I have been promoting my blog heavily and writing a ton of content, but any other source of marketing works for me.
I don’t understand the hype around this widget. It is nothing but waste of space.
its a waste of your website real estate. not delivering what they promised to do.
I was disappointed by BlogRush.
I’m sitting on the fence here. Not convinced it will live up to the hype but what have you got to lose from trying?
I can imagine a clicktrough of two clicks dissapoints you, it would dissapoint me too! But I think that in the blogrush has become more expanded and better
thanks
thank you ^^Care to explain more about that? What’s your CTR?
? love you blog thanksss
The only problem I see is that the poor guy who hasn’t heard of this won’t get nearly all the clicks as the first guy because he won’t have the generations as large…if that makes sense. I’m not sure I buy into this whole thing very much… We’ll see though.
It’s a simple link exchange system but made only for blogs. I think google will ban it soon.
thanks for the posting.
really helpful
Personally I found there are some problems that keep BlogRush from being a great new viral product such as titles that are not optimized for BlogRush etc…
Don’t have much luck with it too, 4000 views with 3 clicks…
It looks like this blog has been abandoned and taken over by the spammers.
Yes NYC, this is not false.
But I think this game won’t be long.
I have read in many places that BlogRush is a hopeless widget which does not actually bring any value. Of course, if you have an extremely popular blog with a lot of page views, and you have that small square of space for it, then why not? If there are no negative effects then surely it’s not all bad.
John
Blogrush CTR is very very bad. So good luck to you getting more than one visitor/day.
I had considered Blogrush but hadn’t tried it. I’m still not convinced.
I see no quality-control in this tool. Most of the links are not topic-related so it is no wonder you get CTR of 0,04%.
I don’t think blog rush has really amounted to much I took mine off a while ago. No lost there
i have installed it about 3 months ago but its not bringing much traffic!!!!
Very interesting to read here. thank you for sharing the informations. Go on that way.
You may want to check this out first: http://www.seo-blackhat.com/article/exploiting-blogrush-big-time.html
I have no idea if the exploit still works.
You site may be banned for using services like BlogRush.
In my honest opinion, Blogrush is horrible!
Well personally, I’ve messed with blogrush and found it to be the holy grail of blogging. To each his own I suppose….
meh i dont like blogrush.
ya blogrush gets you banned
nice project… thanks for all..
i heard blogrush was bad but if they’re good make sure to tell us!
Blogrush does sound really good if you have a very attractive headline, so people will actually check out your blog when you get it on top. I’m going to give Blogrush a try and I’ll comment back here with my results later on thanks for the post!
Isn’t this something like commentluv?
Thanks for info
tkans..
This will really help me to get widget into my blog, i will try to get more like this, i am planning to install some more widget as well.
I think if blogrush enabled you to incorporate the links into your blog it would be more appealing to the masses. As it stands configuring the look of their plugin doesn’t do the service justice.
Thanks for the information
Is there a way to find out how many widgets have been downloaded and put on other people’s websites? You might have great headlines, but if the widget is not popular the headlines are not going to be seen.
It is really very helpfull and it is working for me.
It’s a simple link exchange system but made only for blogs. I think google will ban it soon.
This will really help me to get wideget to my site and I’ll try to get more like this .I’m planning to install more wideget like that. Thanking you for the information i’m looking for.
Blogrush is very usefull to generate the huge traffic for the blogs.
The BlogRush is the worst fail ever. It is really strange that some basic flaws were not seen by the creators.
With a year into blogrush, I would be curious to hear your thoughts now. I do not see it out there all that much. I think its a good idea, that has not been fully adopted by the blog community.
Thanks for info
Very interesting to read here.
David, this is spamer! He use my nickname for spaming his site!
Please we do not want people spamming on great contents, If you don’t have anything useful to say just stay off this site.
Back to you dav, thanks for the post, i used Blogrush when it was first launched but has seen gone down in MOHO
Very interesting.
I like it.
It’s working thx
Blogrush is not working that gerat noe as it use to be earlier?
i haven’t tried this, thanks for this info, i’ll try it on my own
BlogRush seems like a cool concept, and your observation that your titles were perhaps the reason for you only getting two clicks could pave the way for an interesting experiment. Create a very shocking title and see what clicks it generates. That should prove to be quite interesting!
What a great article, nice blog.
In every blog there is a mention of blogrush. I think it’s the most in thing for all bloggers.
My opinion In every blog there is a mention of blogrush. I think it’s the most in thing for all bloggers.
my opinion im blogger
It is a shame that Blogrush was shutdown, I had some success with BlogRush on some of my websites, I think it was a great concept, I am not sure why they shut it down though.
The bloggers who were already successful before BlogRush existed were getting the most out of BlogRush. New bloggers were having hard time with BlogRush because they couldn’t get any traffic at all. The whole idea was a total failure.
Its hard to get things going when your a new blogger. There are millions of blogs out there right now you got to have a good reason as to why people should spend time on your blog.
First you got to get them there and then you got to keep em coming back..
i haven’t tried yet before. Nice post
Didn’t know that until now…
i dont use that for promotion
I will give it a try definitely. Thanks for the headlines tip
I was not very impressive BlogRush …. but as you know, “how many people so many opinions”
This system sounds like its only for very high traffic blogs. I might check it out if some of my blogs reach the “high traffic” status. Thanks for the review David.
Havent heard of blogrush may try this out.
I’ve been moving up. We have some momentum now. I think this is going to be a serious race where voters get a chance to look at the differences in our positions and our personal characteristics to be president.
Update did go to blogrush and have tried it and is ok.
I am just getting started with Blogrush and let me tell you it really is something special. It is worth the money, check it out.
I would love to know if anyone is having real success with Blogrush? Let me know…
Why aren’t you updating your blog? Blogrush was a thing of the past!