http://www.arkayne.com

It does not appear to be a winner.

They did this to over 10,000 people just this weekend.

I can see sites not accepting a submision. But don’t accept someone’s submission, get them to promote your site, and then turn around and screw them over.

I would recommend using a legitimate blog submission service. You might just find that you put BlogRush on your blog and promote it, and when they are done using you, they will screw you over too.

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/

If the system has enough users i would get rid of the referral system.

No money involved ? lol, be patient … :-P

As about pyramidals required something paid or money, – don`t shoot the messenger – you are thinking to much “online”.

But for the sake (not that japanese drink) of conversation, please consider I replace “pyramidal” with “vertical”.

Rule number one of any comersial activity : client rulz ! my “master” is my client!
If this mean vertical relations, I`m the next pope. :-)

On the other hand, any refferal system is build to give advantage to one on higher position.
(sidenote – guess who are allways in top 5-10 highest levels ? No, wrong, are .. “gurus” !)
If refferals mean :

a
b1 b2 b3 .. b(n)
(cb1-1 cb1-2 …cb1-(n)) ((cb2-1 cb2-2 …cb2-(n)) ………

and if this “scheme” centred on page is not looking as a pyramid, I may need to re-learn geometry.

Yet, I`m sure egyptian pharaons would see it as a pyramid.
Pyramids on biz = mlm.
mlm = failure for 99% (see the above sidenote where were pointed who are the others 1% …)

By now, this “thing” was successfull in only one point, which was not said by none in plain english : tousends of link back to blogrush dot com.

I know what is wrong with the BR system and how to make it work. REALY !
Somebody intersted ? I have a contact link on my blog.
Yet attention, that would reset all “credits” earned … and would mean cut off (somehow) refferal system too ..

Valentin, I agree with some of your points, but to me this really isn’t a pyramid scheme. A pyramid scheme involves lying to people and either losing your money to stealing other peoples money. This is purely based on traffic and traffic alone, BlogRush makes their money from 1 ad in the 9 listings… but hey most of us run ads on our blogs.

I agree on the part that the javascript widget lags the site a bit, on my site it seems to jitter. Micheal and ProBlogDesign.com even reviewed my site and noted that as one of the drawbacks to our layout so if we remove that widget it would be due to performance issues.
http://www.problogdesign.com/blog-design-reviews/design-review-starfeeder/

mlm died in `80`s … despite lot of people keep promoting it even crossing the scam limits ..

“I know it is still very early days..” – and so will stay…

Is a widget, widgets slow down big time site loading.
Is ugly and despite color schemes and eventual resize, it will be ALLWAYS a widget.
Is to big – everybody will put it lower – bottom, who wants to get rid of PAID position on top to put that ?

ntz ntz ntz …

For me, any new visitors are good, I’m very new, and very small. Even better, they’ve all come from really relevant sites. I haven’t seen any spammy or inappropriate content in the widget, but my niche doesn’t have a lot of that anyway.

Honestly, tuck it down somewhere where you aren’t making money anyway, and then whatever traffic it brings will be better than nothing.

Here’s my report on the BlogRush experience:
http://www.someuseless.info/internet-marketing/blogrush-poor-performance/

I will respond here because you force people to register to comment :(

You are not reporting accurate click stats because the Blogrush stats do not (or didn’t) account for the bonus impressions which are most of the traffic on the network currently.

There are some weird things in the Blogrush stats that just don’t add up currently.
For instance I have had a sudden burst of 5000 credits allocated to traffic in the last 24 hrs, but I have no way of telling where those came from.
Clicks in the interface only

You really need to track referrers using other forms of tracking such as MyBlogLog or Google Analytics.
I went into the reasons why, and demonstrated the difference in this post about Blogrush Testing and Tracking
As you will see, there is a huge difference between the traffic small blogs receive, and

Many people are generating the majority of their credits from their own traffic. For me, most of them have come from my referral network.

I give a full screen shot of my stats on my latest blog post:
http://myideaguy.com/blog/is-blogrush-working/

I only see it getting better as they refine the system more and more.

That’s my two cents.

Take care.

Stu

That’s useless

At least you’re beating my CTR!

That said, I’ve seen at least 2-3 referrals in my stats, so I suspect it’s not counting right :-(

If you want more visitors, you can be your own 10th generation referral and earn 4.5 times more visitors!

http://blogsformoney.com/post/Clever-Trick-Getting-45-Times-More-Traffic-From-BlogRush.aspx

:D