Blog Rush - Yes or No?

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I’ve been incommunicado for a few days. My hands have been more sensitive than usual and swollen, so I haven’t done much blogging in the last week, despite being in a Fantastic mood. (As you know if you are one of my Facebook friends.)

One of the things that took place while I was out is that John Reese put out his excellent Blog Rush program. I vote yes on it, though, for obvious reasons previously stated, I’ve yet to implement it.

Many folks have concerns that only the bigger sites that already have traffic could benefit from it, but here are a few articles from two of my pals, Andy Beard and Yaro Starak, that should put your minds at ease. (I’m not linking to Blog Rush purposely, in the hopes that you’ll first read their articles, and only join after making an educated decision.)

Click on the blog post titles to read the articles (in case you can’t tell they are links in some browsers, a CSS issue I keep meaning to fix).

  1. Blogrush - Free Blog Traffic - In depth Review - This is the one to read first if you have no idea what I’m talking about.
  2. Blogrush - 7 Critical Mistakes Andy is spot on with these and corrects some fallacies in thinking about Blog Rush.
  3. BlogRush - Will It Increase Your Blog Traffic? - Yaro has a less optimistic take.

There are also a bunch of articles out there that think that BlogRush is rubbish. For my part, having worked specifically on traffic related issues for both small and large companies, not just on search but on ALL aspects of traffic, I can tell you that my unbiased opinion, without having tried it as yet, and without asking you to sign up for it through me, is that it’s a good idea that has built on what several other similiar systems have offered in the past.

But there are plenty of people who disagree with me, and that’s okay by me. In fact, here’s a list of people talking about Blog Rush on Sphinn, a great search marketing social news site. Just remember, before you choose who to listen to on any traffic issue, think about what their background is in that specific area. Then do your own testing and tracking.

And remember, you should NEVER rely on only one method of traffic to get visitors to your site, blog or not.

I’m going to do a bit of testing and tracking on my own and give you my results. So consider this a preliminary review.

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September 21, 2007 | Filed Under increase web site traffic 

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13 Responses to “Blog Rush - Yes or No?”

  1. Andy Beard Is a Niche Marketing Genius Who Caught This Spammer (1 comments.) on September 21st, 2007 5:22 am

    I changed my mind.

    BlogRush really works for me. I just have my site running 3 days ago and I’m now having 3000 hits on my stats.I’m not 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. [link truncated - see comment policy]

  2. Andy Beard (14 comments.) on September 21st, 2007 10:22 am

    Background is really important.

    One of the hottest stars of social media marketing when I asked whether he had ever experimented with using some kind of onexit float over advertising with social media didn’t even know what I was talking about.

    For most social media optimizers, the aim of linkbait isn’t the flood of traffic and converting it, but for the links.

    In my most recent post I have actually provided some traffic numbers from real stats packages, which is something most of the detractors haven’t bothered with.

    Also in the comments of that post I went in deep on the math behind it all. Small blogs could potentially receive around 1500 free visitors over 12 months although I have made a lot of assumptions.

    Based upon my stats from MyBlogLog, over the last 10 months I have received 2600 visits directly from MyBlogLog, and that increased a fair amount once I hit the top50 communities which only happened fairly recently. I would also gain a small surge each time I was included as a hot member.
    Bumpzee has delivered…. 3700
    Blogcatalog…. 985

    It should however be noted that Blogcatalog I don’t play a huge role in the discussions because of the signal to noise ratio… however they have just added a “groups” feature.

    But these are just numbers, it is what you do and how you interact with the visitors you receive that matters.

  3. Andy Beard (14 comments.) on September 21st, 2007 10:34 am

    Hmm Mar… how much content have you been “borrowing” from other sites?

    You are not a professional blogger, closer to a professional splogger

    You are publishing full articles from other sites which I am sure violate their copyright.

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  5. Tinu Abayomi-Paul (247 comments.) on September 21st, 2007 3:15 pm

    Hey Andy,

    Good looking out on the Splogger- they’re getting sneakier and sneakier. Or I’m getting lazier and lazier! LOL!

    As to Blog Rush, I struggle with keeping things like BlogRush in perspective. First, it will have a great launch and then someone will try and break it to exploit its flaws. Not to mention that eveyr program changes over time.

    Then there’s the fact that what will be just a little bump of traffic to you and I may make or break another site. So I’ll see if I can figure out a way to test, and do another review later. In the meantime the next best thing is to find voices I trust and link to them - that way my readers stil get the news, minus the hype.

  6. Lucia (3 comments.) on September 22nd, 2007 6:14 am

    According to Google Analytics, I’ve gotten a total of 3 visits from Blogrush. The good news is they average 2 page views a visit and stay an average of 2 1/2 minutes. So it’s targeted.

  7. Tinu Abayomi-Paul (247 comments.) on September 22nd, 2007 7:27 am

    Thanks for coming by with numbers. I’ve yet to try it but I trust the opinion of my two pals Yaro and Andy enough to do a test run soon. :)

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  9. FCGrabo (1 comments.) on September 22nd, 2007 11:42 pm

    I just put BlogRush on my site this evening. After reading many reviews I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s certainly worth a try.

    I hope it works.

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  11. Tinu Abayomi-Paul (247 comments.) on September 24th, 2007 10:34 pm

    FC,

    If that is your real name, LOL, we’d love to see you back here with your results. :)

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