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Loading ... It appears that several of the bigger players are abandoning ship in hopes that they aren’t dragged down with it. The promises made by BlogRush head John Reese have failed to materialize as more and more bloggers pull the widget from their sites in an effort to rid the web of such bloaty scripts.
I had posted back in November about my experiences with BlogRush and whether or not it was worth it and at the time, I decided to make some changes to the way I handled their system. Instead of giving them my main feed with every article in it, I switched to a specific blogrush feed that only showed the articles I wanted to show. It helped a little, but as the next screenshot shows, it still wasn’t the boon to traffic that programs like EntreCard, and even just making comments on other blogs has been.
My next step was to change the category my blog lived in as well on the BlogRush system. That did little more than drive my credits up as I received less and less exposure. So now, I have around 20k credits that aren’t being used (which is a far cry from the Cow’s 10,000,000 credits). I’ve noticed that as I browse the blogosphere, I’m seeing the BR widget less and less and with bigger sites pulling their widgets, I have to wonder if it was a good idea poorly implemented. One of the things that makes EntreCard worth while is that you have to get out and drop your card on other blogs and YOU get to choose who you advertise on and who advertises on you.
This form of self quality control enables you to make better choices that benefit you and your readers more than blogrush. Most of the crap on the blogrush widget is just that, crap. I really don’t need to know that you failed to make 28,000 a month last year. What I need is good incoming traffic.
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January 7th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I abandoned Blogrush a while ago.
Thanks for visiting my site!
Rudy’s last blog post..Lunch Bits - Edition 7
January 7th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Blogrush is long gone. I toasted it in november. I think their biggest mess up was telling 10 000 users to go away and find something else.
Entrecard is way better.
esvl’s last blog post..Niche blogging - How to take over a niche market step by step
January 7th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I will say, I do like their shiny graphs!
January 7th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Bumsrush told me my blog sucked and to go away. Since then I have felt left out, and when I see it on other blogs it just brings back bad memories.
Colin’s last blog post..I stumbled myself. It’s disgusting.
January 7th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Strangely I found your blog through the Blogrush widget. Normally I don’t click the headlines, but I found the title of your post interesting.
Haven’t decided if I’ll keep the widget or not, I’ll probably give it a couple of months and make a decision after that.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:44 am
It depends for me. I have a couple of sites that have the BlogRush widget that get zero traffic from it, and I have one blog that gets more traffic than it did before the widget was placed. So for me the jury is still out.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Its funny how the consensus is that BlogRush did not deliver on what they promised… while entrecard seems to be doing ok…
January 8th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
blogrush doesn’t work. they have values and stuff about my feed being circulated by I get no visits, not even peeks. I’d rather have a program that brings traffic in, and let’s that traffic choose between reading my blog’s content or not, than have my post title be a tuned-out sidebar feature in blogs. Waste of space, really.
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January 9th, 2008 at 9:07 am
I pulled it awhile ago, I think I got about 12 hits total on it. Not worth my time, plus, like everyone else said - it’s an ugly little thing.
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