BlogRush: a Waste of Programming.
Posted on December 17, 2007 by
Adie 
Blogging, Internet Marketing, Promotion 
8 Comments
No Pain No Gain…
I added this worthless widget over a month or two ago and so far here are my results, granted the understanding is the more views your blog/site gets the more your Blog posts will be shown. But this is just a joke - my new theme is almost ready and I’m not sure wether I’m going to include this useless Widget!
I have noticed the single most important job you must do to get click throughs is to write an “Amazing Post Title” that’s if you want this promotion tool to work. And what may you ask is the good title…I don’t have the answer to that question. Well…I do, it must have trigger words that match your target market Audience, that is one key fundimental.
By looking at my stats you’ll see - Syndicated is the amount of times my Blog Post is shown across the network, talk about a bad CTR “Click Through Rate”. This is like playing Google Adwords.
You can see my last post was shown 963 times and had one click through! (reader) They are ethier not targeting my posts to business blogs or I’m just shit at Writing Click Worthy Posts (bit of both I’d say) This is not the point though. I just don’t get Blog Rush and what it is capable of doing for the benefit of this blog.
I think a better business model for BlogRush would be to get paid everytime someone clicks through to our blog, simple solution I think. That would at least motivate me to keep the crappy widget on my blog, in a prominent area anyway.
Right now the rewards for having it taking up some (advert) space on my blog is just not worth it. I’m not happy with my results so far and unless things change there just doesn’t seem to be any good reason to keep it showing right now.
Maybe others have had it better, Are you using this widget and getting outstanding results?
Watch how “John Reese” confuses himself with his own system and the contradictions are funny. Especially when he talks about the Unique Visitor only to then tell you it’s actually impressions - which is the number of times your blog post is shown on another blog which means the chances of your blog post being clicked is very slim. It all amounts to nothing. John, you’re not selling benefits here!
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I had reasonable success (for my blog size) at first, but For over a week, no clicks. I think this widget is going away, at least for the time being.
I dumped it a day after implementing it. No regrets. After communicating with several bloggers (including many so called a-listers) it seems like only a few people are having success.
It is funny how everyone thought it would be a “rich get richer” scheme - but it seems like even high traffic blogs like John Chow have had little success with it.
Yeah same here, it has been gone from one of my blogs about 2 months now, a load of nonsense.
Yes, I agree that Blogrush will fail more and more due to “ad” blindness, but if you want to try one last trick before you dump it, try changing the Title and the post you drive visitors to.
If you’re interested, it’s very easy to implement:
http://www.seedsforwealth.com/Blog/how-to-get-over-1000-more-traffic-with-blogrush/2007/
Wow! 3,000 syndications and 2 hits? I wish I had that kind of success with BlogRush. Maybe it would have been worth keeping it around.
What a waste. I stuck around through the rollout because I thought it couldn’t be bad an a free service was a free service. Was I wrong. Blogrush never lived up to its promise and is now gone.
The last straw: I did the “Hack” Where you create a new feed channel to highlight only a baited headline and post. I used one of my most successful posts, one that got 1500 hits on reddit, and got one hit from Blogrush.
Gone dude.
Yeah, the claim that the 1000% increase was due to a sexy Title that said “Huge List Of The Hottest Flickr Babes”. Completely unrelated blog topic.
Sexy headlines do work better that’s for sure. But in the end, the traffic never returns.
What’s funny is that one obscure ‘long tail’ post brings in more Search Engine traffic then this widget the whole time it sat there.
Oh well, John Reese failed. Live and learn.
I have Blogrush installed and I am not getting hits from it since a week ago. So much hope for this widget, but it failed to live up too it’s name.
At least, i made up my decision.
Good Bye.. blogrush, nice to meet you.