Comments on: Rushing for BlogRush?

By: McBilly

McBilly — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:54:48 +0000

Thanks for giving me the heads up on the Google TOS. I removed the blogrush plugin just to be sure.

By: itot54joni

itot54joni — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:05:04 +0000

Do what you think is good for you.M nt on d earning side bt to recognze my blog by other blogerz through my feeds.Anyway,blogging is all about sharing.Nevr thought of earning m0ney at all.

By: Blogrush Flavors : New Colors!

Blogrush Flavors : New Colors! — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:14:37 +0000

I changed my mind.

BlogRush really works for me. I just have my site running 3 days ago and I’m now having 1000 hits on my stats.I’m not sure sure if its pretty low for starters. About 60% is coming from the blogrush widget. And Dont have any idea why I have link-in coming from technorati.

It works for me! I’m no professional blogger with 3 day old blog.Here’s more info about the widget. My referral network on blogrush is adding every 4 hours.

I suggest you look around. you have nothing to lose. http://www.blogrash.com/blogrush-widget/

noypi din

By: Manuel Viloria

Manuel Viloria — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:05:42 +0000

I’ve opted into mailing lists of John Reese in the past. I’ve also opted out easily, with just a couple of clicks. That’s why I’m not worried about the BR mailing list.

While ignoring the effects of signups and referrals, it looks like visits to my site will grow by 75% over the next 12 months, based on a tiny 0.16% clickthrough rate via BlogRush.

For those trying Ken Evoy’s CTPM model (Content – Traffic – Presell – Monetize), you might consider testing BlogRush. Notice that traffic comes ahead of monetization.

If it BlogRush doesn’t work for you, then remove the widget and opt-out of the mailing list.

By: Dave Starr --- ROI Guy

Dave Starr --- ROI Guy — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:24:53 +0000

Good summation. Also insightful questions from Mar. It amazes me how many of these “butt ugly” widgets I see now, taking up tons of real estate on blog, simple providing another vehicle for John Chow to blog about his traffic count. The scheme is flawed because:
There is no opportunity to make the widget “fit” your site
The heavily trafficked sites get much more traffic value per click than the lightly trafficked blogs
There is no actual benefit … if you take up the equivalent space with an ad, you might get some revenue .. with the BR widget you just give up,
And the last point which I havene’t seen mentioned often … did anyone ever consider that, like AGLOCO, this is just a huge MLM email opt-in collection scheme? How many millions of email addresses is BR collecting for future “sales mails”? And you can’t call them spam, because the users of BR signed in and gave permission… Ill-advised, in my view.

By: JC John SESE Cuneta

JC John SESE Cuneta — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:00:56 +0000

wee, just the confirmation I needed for my suspicions.. was really hoping you’ll blog about it to shorten my time of studying it… it looks like an MLM to me, and it doesn’t seem to work as advertised. But I’ll leave it for a few more days and see how well this one is..

But in the long-run, it is not worth it, especially if you watched the video first, you will really have more doubts about it.

By: mar

mar — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:18:24 +0000

One quick question. Doesnt’Blogrush violates google TOS? Or wouldn’t you be loosing credibility with spammy links? Traffic exchange?

By: jhay

jhay — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:36:35 +0000

Thanks for making this all clear master Abe

By: nel animo

nel animo — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:21:16 +0000

Thnx sa tip. I already removed it from my blog. Check this link http://www.michaelmartine.com/2007/09/17/blogrush-does-not-violate-adsense-tos/

For me its better to play safe.

By: Manuel Viloria

Manuel Viloria — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:25:19 +0000

How about using it on non-Adsense sites? You can also use BlogRush not to get clickthrough traffic, but as a stepping stone for future traffic.

(Try not to think of traffic trades. Instead, think of the other bloggers you’ll get to meet. That’s the secret.)

By: sylv3rblade

sylv3rblade — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:19:44 +0000

Because it relies on page impressions, it’s quite easy to cheat the system to increase your credits. I took it down from my main site awhile ago after reading Problogger’s post on it.

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:50:14 +0000

I’ve recently joined BlogRush to try it out for a few days. But after reading this post and the Marketing Pilgrim’s post regarding this issue, I’m convinced that it’s not worth it and not worth risking violating Adsense’ TOS.