I did! Well, at least some part of it. What I liked was the ability to get targeted traffic in exchange of... targeted traffic. What I also liked was the 10% goes to BlogRush idea, I think that’s a more than fair share to provide the service. I also liked the idea that members would receive in relation to what they give. What I did not like was the mlm scheme; although John Reese claims BlogRush is not a pyramid game, It is however a fact that you only receive 20% back on your own effort and then have to rely on your referral network to work on the remaining 70% of the 90% (very few people gets to the full 90%) I thought to myself: someone should work this out, and shortly after: that one could be me. I started a process then, to figure out how to make it useful. What I have figured out is I like the idea of sharing traffic, if I can convert 1-5% of my traffic to a Network and receive 1-5% more traffic immediately, I can turn 1-5% of that 1-5% into more traffic to the network And then again receive 1-5% more traffic myself and so on and so on, it could have a nice effect on my blog. Wait a minute, blogrush generates a click through rate of 1-5%% at the most, how can I do 1-5% or better? Hmmm, I have to do better targeting; the widget should not be a widget, but an integrated part of the blogs. Ok, what works... adsense works wery well, I should look at adsense ads and get inspired. Yep, ads that blends in to the blogposts, the possibility to change the look and feel as needed And channels to make sure the posts in the widget are more targeted. one blogpost -> one blog-content targeted syndication ad with 1 - 5 blogs in it. Hey man, I just invented *******.** (the name will be revealed later) Well seriously. I have been working on a blog syndication system for the past 4-5 weeks and I am about done. I can not afford 8 web servers to serve millions of syndication ads a day (I expect this to be a Hugh success) And a wery high end database server so I have programmed my own specialized web servers to serve the ads - no php, scripting or anything else to steel threads, memory and processor ticks, just raw http servers that can only serve syndication ads located within the heart of the server. And I need a few bloggers to help testing the system before making it public available. I think I might need about 100 bloggers and that number might increase during the test phase. I expect the test to start over the next few days and that it will last about 14 days. If you are interested drop me a mail at blogsyndication@yahoo.com stating the URL of your blog, the URL of the blogs rss feed and the number of daily page-impressions. And I will get back to you. I might just mention that I am also working on a add on to the syndication system that gives the users a chance to make Money while syndicating and the test users will also get the chance to testing that and the advantage of being the first to refer new users with benefits. Kindly regards, Ken
I used it when it first started up, but never got any traffic.. I "guess" it's still sending me traffic as I had 30 some referrals, but I never see it in awstats and certainly not in google analytics..
No traffic and a strange acceptance policy (reject site that meet all criteria) make BlogRush a no-no for me...
Since 2.0, it's sending me decent hits.. Nothing compared to google, but total hits are in my top 10 referral list. I'm averaging 35,000 credits a week from my own traffic. no downline.. it sent over 50 hits to my last 12 posts, and many more to my previous posts.. I'm letting it ride for a while, and I like the clean up that they did.. Many will bitch about being banned, but personally, I'd rather see only higher producers on it.
It doesn't send much traffic at all... although it be targeted. You have nothing really to lose by having the widget, although it might look ugly and send visitors away from your site.