Comments on: Tips for Using BlogRush to Generate Traffic for Your Blog

By: Marc Money

Marc Money — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:33:28 +0000

I have thought about using Blogrush but after reading through a few other posts it seems it can get you banned from Adsense. They don’t seem to want to give a definite answer but a couple of people have claimed they got kicked out because of it.

By: Gene

Gene — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:50:49 +0000

i heard that blogrush can drop you off from their list.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:58:16 +0000

I tried out BlogRush and found they brought me *some* traffic, but not a rush.

Overall, BlogRush ranked #14 on my list of referral sites, and by my judgement, that’s not enough traffic to justify the cost to my blog’s look and feel at http://arriive.blogspot.com and at http://aspirenow.blogspot.com.

I find it interesting that of all the major bloggers – including problogger.net, hardly any of them are using BlogRush – a tell-tell sign to whether this tool makes sense.

Cheers!
Scott

By: http://online-money-makers.blogspot.com/

http://online-money-makers.blogspot.com/ — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:09:14 +0000

Been thinking about trying it but waiting to see reviews like the comments in this thread. Google didn’t exactly give it an A OK.
Why can’t they give a straight answer to anything?

By: William F

William F — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:07:58 +0000

I have tried Blogrush and find it doesn’t offer nearly thr value of Stumbleupon. The nice thing about Stumbleupon is that is a great tool for the end-user (finding new sites and rating stuff they like) but also a very nice marketing tool for the blogger as well. Its rare that a social networking site would benefit both sides so equally. I’ll keep my eye on Blogrush (love the name) but I would bet including my link here will generate more clicks than they do. (lol click thru and let’s see!! but on the other hand, dont click if you are easily offended!)

http://iblogfat.blogspot.com/

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:21:21 +0000

One wonders why Mr Reese has disabled comments on the BlogRush blog. Now there will not be “bloggers’ suggestions an comments” Aaron.

Strange.

By: Aaron Cook

Aaron Cook — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:07:58 +0000

Actually, BlogRush has worked very well for me so far. Here’s the audio commentary I did on it recently:

BlogRush Audio Commentary

I just hope that they continue improving things, as well as listening to bloggers’ suggestions an comments. They seem to have done a fair job of that so far.

Shine on,
Aaron

By: PrintnPost.com

PrintnPost.com — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:42:26 +0000

So..I am hearing people concerned about blogrush breaking google TOS, Anyone have some insight on this? I do not see how, considering it is justa networked blog roll.

By: Wade Harvey

Wade Harvey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:22:54 +0000

Nice article – I would like to see more tips like these. How about strategies for promoting it through commenting on others blogs?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:57:27 +0000

I was just doing some looking today. I clicked on some of the links in my BlogRush widget and almost 90% of the blogs that were listed on my site DID NOT have the BlogRush widget installed on their sites, ANYWHERE. How can that be? I know – this is probably beating a dead horse to death, but it seems a tad weird.

By: 4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra

4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:30:29 +0000

Hello,

I added the blogrush widget to my blog for test, but I don’t see results of increasing my traffic.

All good things,

By: LayDdee

LayDdee — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:22:43 +0000

I’m real excited about this service – however, when I tried to get the code it linked me to an email that is not even running anymore. I’m real frustrated. How do I get the code – I already sent them an email and haven’t heard back from them. Could you please contact me and help me with this? Thank you.

By: Hans Chee

Hans Chee — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:27:35 +0000

Hi Darren, now that the blogrush stats are out, will you be giving us a review on what you see for your stats; click through rates, the number of levels in your network, etc?

I’m going around blogs to gather information about these to complete my blogrush review lens at squidoo. “Heavy hitters” bloggers such as you are great candidates to be considered ;)

For me, I’m getting like 300 impressions to 1 click…hmm, and that’s after optimzing the titles and such.

Also, I don’t believe that it’s easy to reach 10 levels of referral; but maybe that’s just me. The thing is that this has a big implication on what the company claims as only getting 10% of the left-over ads space – I think it’s much much more than that if most heavy hitters are the company’s direct downlines (such that there’s no levels above them).

Of course, how much stats to reveal is your prerogative.

With an average view gather from these data, we can at least know how effective it is and that’ll help everyone in weight our options against other similar widget.

Thanks for considering!

Cheers,
Hans

By: KiwiPulse

KiwiPulse — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:26:02 +0000

My blogrush stat is Up!
I received more with my referral Network. :D

Credits Earned Last 30 Days: 6,304
From Your Traffic: 2,906
From Your Referral Network: 3,398

By: Major

Major — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:40:31 +0000

I Also Use This Tactics In Recent Past Times…. And Its Really Worth….Try It Guys….

By: mark

mark — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:27:40 +0000

Prevent Fraud: If that’s true, that would certainly suck for Blog rush.

By: Prevent Fraud

Prevent Fraud — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:18:07 +0000

Beware of the use of blogrush. We were sceptical about the use of such a “traffic exchange” program and sent a question to adsense about the compliance with adsense TOS. Here is their reply;

Thanks for checking in with us. We don’t encourage or endorse the use of a program like this Thus, we’re unable to give specific advice regarding BlogRush.

I appreciate your understanding regarding this matter.

For additional questions, I’d encourage you to visit the AdSense Help
Center ( http://www.google.com/adsense_help ) or the official AdSense blog ( http://adsense.blogspot.com ). Alternatively, feel free to post your
question on the AdSense Help Forum (http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help?utm_source=txft ).

Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team

By: Anthony C

Anthony C — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:00:56 +0000

Thanks for the tips Darren; my blog, Blog Attack, recently just signed up for this so I’ve been looking for some pioneering bloggers with tips.

By: Richard Rinyai

Richard Rinyai — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:14:57 +0000

Hi,

I agree with most of these comments. This type of service needs to be ironed out before it can be presented to the public, since spammers are always going to be around and the categories need sub-categories, so that we don’t get traffic that we don’t want to our sites. Any traffic is good, but the traffic that is best are the people that want to read on a regular basis.

Thanks,

Richard

By: Melody

Melody — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:22:17 +0000

I am still on the fence about this… I think especially Andrew G.R.’s comment is the type of thing I would be worried about. I also am hesitant since you can’t remove an account from the site. I am anxious to hear some reedback after a couple of weeks of use from people. I just would hate to be an early adopter and it backfire with my blog being such a new blog and a passion project.