BlogRush - Free Traffic for Your Blog

[virruss]

Hello,

I've read this article about a new blog syndicate on InternetBabel Blog... great method... Briliant! Tell me what you think:


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This is a new idea from John Reese. The well known Internet marketer, anyone who has been in it for a while will know and have a great amount of respect for him. I only actually heard of him recently… ish but have been impressed with everything i’ve seen from him.

If you have heard of him recently then it will probably be in relation to his new site income.com which has been in sub-launch mode for longer than I can remember but looks like it will be amazing.

Anyway, this new idea is going to be part of the ‘income.com network’ and it will launch 14th September… mid-day (US time) I’m actually in the UK so it will be a different time for me… but anyway, that’s when it launches.

This new idea is going to be a sort of… traffic sharing network for bloggers. Basically you sign up (for free) and grab some javascript code for the widget, put the widget on your blog and that widget then displays relevant posts on relevant blogs. Also you get syndication credits for people you refer to blog rush which will build up and ultimately get you more traffic. You can see an image of the widget below:



So if somebody clicks ‘Add Your Blog Posts - FREE’ or the BlogRush tab then that counts as a referral as they can tell what blog it came from.

You will also be able to filter out certain keywords so that no posts with those keywords appear on your widget and you can even filter out specific blogs.

Personally I think this is a great innovation and I think it will become huge. It’s got a huge viral aspect, it’s free and it gets you free traffic. You actually give your readers relevant posts, targeted relevant posts as aposed to just ads so i’m sure that will be a good thing which people will latch on to.

The only downside I can actually pick out is the fact that your sending people to potentially competitors blogs, I mean you can filter out what you want but still… your inviting competition which brings me to a new point that this will actually make people try harder! so forget that downside I think this may actually improve any blog that uses it as you will want to be better than anyone else in your widget.

Amazing innovation from John Reese, bloggers get ready to sign up soon! - Blogrush.com

Also keep a close eye on income.com which will be launching after this and should be amazing.

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[Lincoln]

Sounds like a good idea but I hope they offer the ability to resize widgets soon. As it is now its a few pixels too big for my sidebar.

[virruss]

I've noticed the same problem on some BlogSpot templates... At this moment the widget doesn't look so flexible, indeed...

[Lincoln]

I gotta love seeing the a-list bloggers hawking this though. As if they needed the extra traffic.

My understanding is that these widgets sometimes have a worse clickthrough rating than your typical banner ads, so it's likely this will be another fad that will fizzle out in the long run.

[virruss]

Originally Posted by Lincoln

I gotta love seeing the a-list bloggers hawking this though. As if they needed the extra traffic.

My understanding is that these widgets sometimes have a worse clickthrough rating than your typical banner ads, so it's likely this will be another fad that will fizzle out in the long run.

You're right... in a way. But the multi-level system gives us the possibility to get a ridiculous number of syndication credits... And, even if the click rate will be very low, the traffic will increase by a few percent anyway. And that's a good thing, I guess.

[Lincoln]

I'd love to experiment myself and find out for sure, but until I can resize the widget I'll just have to watch from the sidelines for now.

[F8soldier]

Originally Posted by Lincoln

I gotta love seeing the a-list bloggers hawking this though. As if they needed the extra traffic.

My understanding is that these widgets sometimes have a worse clickthrough rating than your typical banner ads, so it's likely this will be another fad that will fizzle out in the long run.

Ahh but accordingly its not just down to CTR. Your page views also count, for example say if your blog is visited 100 times a day, your newest post will be dsiplayed on relavent blofursh widgets elsewhere 100 times. Ive signed up and I think its working, im seeing an increase in traffic. Its a new technology so I think early adopters will benefit more.

[virruss]

Originally Posted by F8soldier

Ahh but accordingly its not just down to CTR. Your page views also count, for example say if your blog is visited 100 times a day, your newest post will be dsiplayed on relavent blofursh widgets elsewhere 100 times. Ive signed up and I think its working, im seeing an increase in traffic. Its a new technology so I think early adopters will benefit more.

I've also got my first visitors form BlogRush today... I've seen the referral page in the statistics of my blog... seems like it works!

Good luck!

[hakanwar]

I have taken almost 1500 impressions on my blogs, but only 3 clicks. now i have 4 referrals. System CTR is terrible.. (

[F8soldier]

I know what you mean i have four blogs and seem to only get 150 impressions a day and no clicks, yet some people get sveral clicks for less impression. The mind boggles. I am not able to check my stats yet Virruss, it keeps saying it's in progress.