Blogrush … But Wait There’s More
Posted on September 17th, 2007by Michael Gray in Random Thoughts
I’ve been reading about Blogrush all weekend, and sorry I’m gonna call it as I see it. This looks like a late night informercial combined with an Amway pyramid scheme, complete with “but wait there’s more …” taglines. Don’t believe me check out the video below …
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September 17th, 2007 at 6:12 am
Ha ha! What a “great way to exchange traffic” (wasn’t this something Google calls “traffic schemes”?) and send your traffic to your competition. Also… what a nice way to annoy your visitors and slow down loading times by adding unnecessary widgets.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:49 am
I agree with you, but decided to go against my gut and give it a try per Shoemoney’s suggestions. I’ll keep it up until October. If nothing - then I’ll simply take it down.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Isn’t this just a web ring 2.0?
September 17th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
yeah a few more shiny moving parts but no different than a webring
September 17th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Give it a try Michael and let us know your results. I would like to see if the potential in traffic lives up to the hype.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Is This Really A Cool Idea Or Its Just Fake….
I Don’t Think so Its A Cool…..
September 18th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
“TO: All BlogRush Members
FROM: John Reese, Founder of BlogRush
Hi,
I am sending you this urgent message to give you a special news “update” about several things happening with BlogRush.
Firstly, I want to sincerely thank you for joining BlogRush and for your interest in our service. Please know that our primary focus is to continually improve the service to help you generate more targeted traffic.
The first 60 hours since we launched the BlogRush public beta has been nothing short of EXPLOSIVE. We knew that we were developing an exciting tool that many bloggers could benefit from, but we had no idea how fast the ‘word’ would spread across the Web.”
no press is bad press
September 18th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
@greg - “Isn’t this just a web ring 2.0?”
Nice. I wonder how many bloggers signed up yesterday and removed it today.
September 18th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Not only is it a web ring rehash it doesn’t even work 2/3s of the time. I have it for all of 5 minutes. I’ll reinstall it this weekend though after I write a referral spam program for it.
September 18th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Nice — I love to see the backlash in full swing on this! These blogrush widgets will be dropping like flies this week.
September 18th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
I actually like the premise and the interface is quite clean. I’m giving it a try and will see what kind of results I get. The ‘exponential’ is an interesting take. Any thing with an exponent of 1 equals itself, so we’ll see if I get some traffic or it remains the same.
September 18th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I’m with you 100% Graywolf:
http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/seo/join-blog-rush-for-free-get-an-iphone-for-free/
September 18th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
You get 1 credit for each time you promote random garbage on your site. But you get scammed because you don’t know who’s content your stuff is getting show on or who’s stuff you are marketing, plus there are 5 ads in each units. You get 1 credit for serving 5 ads and the whole time are promoting blogrush for free.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:35 am
What got me was the ‘blog rush’ to blog about this. Just about every metablogging site I subscribe to was waxing lyrical about this.
This is the new MyBlogLog - another shitty scheme to con traffic starved bloggers into subscribing. And of course, most of them bought into it and started freely promoting it.
Sometimes the blogosphere sucks…
September 19th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Well, I did put this up yesterday…
Saw ONE referral out of several hundred impressions. I was getting spam blogs in the titles displayed on my site…
Promptly removed today.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Per post entry #2 - I’ve already removed Blog Rush. After thousands of impressions, I saw very little results.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Well - it’s John Reese, what do you expect? lol great domain name though with Income.com. It’s the whole internet marketing connected with SEO, usually the eMarketers screw up when emarketers try hard to be SEOs. Look at Ken Evoy with SiteSell….God, you get no control with big link exchange rings
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:17 am
http://www.seo-blackhat.com/article/exploiting-blogrush-big-time.html
you should prolly look at this
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:40 am
Good call, Michael. So far there’s you, me and abut a small handful of others who recognize a scam when they see it … caveat, I have it running on two blogs right now for purposes of some evince gathering …
The first thing _every_ one of these bombastic 300 scree-full sales letter guys says is, build a list, build a list, build a list. So without another thought the lemmings sign up.
If you look at the way it works it is biased (as in loaded dice) to drive more traffic to the bigger blogs that don’t need it. I was mystified yesterday when I read this post by John Chow where he was carrying on about how many “credits” he had already accumulated. And he can take those credits and buy how mnay cups of coffee? yep, zero. But oooooh the downline!
There is more money. for sure, in selling Amway … plus some of their soap products actually produce cleanliness. Sad to see what a huge following this useless waste of real estate … oh wait a minute, it’s not a waste, it sells advertising space for BlogRush? Anyone want to put my banner on your site for free? I’ll pay you 275,000 credits … or air kisses or something … you just gave away the pixeels to BlogRush …. so why not give them to me? Even a mediocre site makes a vfew pennies from Adsense.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
your video such nice information about Blogrush.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:20 am
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/