BlogRush Is Shutting Down

Hopefully there are coming someting similar to the market place soon.

dang, any other other sites like this?

i did not try their service at all. most of the people got huge rush of traffic from them for free

it is sad news to hear

it is sad new to hear

BlogRush widget is big bad burden on many blogs with no accompanying good results. Thanks Heaven for its demise.

I used BlogRush on some blogs but I must admit like many widgets I have long forgotten it exists!

John Reese is a true entrepreneur and has many successful ventures so I guess it's no huge loss for him. Just another adventure in the online business arena!

Damb it was free so what the heck!

I just received the email a couple of days ago that Blogrush was ending.. I was sooo bummed out because I had just started the program..

This isn't a huge surprise, but it's also sad that a great, cooperative concept wasn't able to succeed, long term.

I never used BlogRush, being a little skeptical and cynical from the start, and concerned about quality control issues. (My sidebar is overloaded already. I'm very careful about what I add.)

That said, I admire John Reese's vision and idealism, and the decision to do what's right instead of what's merely a means towards profits.

Perhaps BlogRush can be reinvented with safeguards that will make it more viable. I hope so. The basic idea was good.

No big surprise about Blog Rush. I ran it for several months on a couple of blogs I have and got almost no traffic in return.

what a shame :( i didn't even get to try it either :(

I can't fault John Reese. He put up $500k of his own money if not more to start BlogRush. That's what entrepreneurs do. They put there money where there mouth is and take risks.

John, since I'm going to be removing the widget, care to advertise on the site? That spot will only run you 100 million dollars.
Thanks for the heads up!!!

That sucks, I didn't even get to try it.

Yeah just removed it.. Sad to see it go!

lol @ all the bloggers who believed in John Reese.

Good riddance. 'Course, I'm a little bitter because they turned my site down :)

"Not enough original content".

What was interesting to me is that I checked out the logs, and they only looked at one page of the site, and it wasn't the front page. I'm not clear on how they decided it didn't have enough content :)

Never liked this service anyway, no care...

I hate to say it but, Good Ridden's!

It started with a boom with traffic shooting up like anything in the first few days and then gradually dead. It was an instant fame for John. He is smart in pulling wildfire traffic. I'm sure he'll come up with more such ideas; although of not much worth to anybody else.

Yes... Its dead.... But still I want to know the ways how BlogRush managed to grow so so soooo fast.

I could've sworn it was already dead. Didn't the development stop about half a year ago? They didn't really do much to fix any of their problems.

-Mike

The traffic it brought for me was pitiful and I really wanted something off my sidebar. Now I had the perfect thing to muck. Oh, and loading times have improved as a result. Whoopie!

It sucks when something like this happens... Especially when it was a benefit to so many.

Only coming on blogrush now, but their demise does give me pause when evaluating other services. We bloggers often want to be the first adopters, but when failure comes how do we look? Plus, the sheer amount of programs and services available, there is only so much room, time, and money. Myself, may start looking at some qualifiers like how many years in business and good reviews before trying a new service.

Then again, I haven't been burned yet. Newest services I am using are Picapp, TNX, and Voxant on different sites. So far so good.

I'm not surprised in the least. Perhaps John has a better project in the works.

I used them and never got any traffic from them. So I am not surprised. It's nice that they are so honest.

It was fun while it lasted.

It's unfortunate that BlogRush is shutting down but I never liked BlogRush on one of my test websites anyway.

Saves time for people like me =)

that too bad that BlogRush Is Shutting Down

Yea BlogRush is a tool I used but early on I saw that it was failing and removed it. It had potential too!

I didn't really like the service, but i am guilty of installing the widget. Greg Ellison

and i was trying to get signed up for them also.
O well

What a co incidence. I added their widget and even removed it in 7 days. It was of no use though.

Wow, this sucks. I installed the widget for the first time yesterday and today it shut down.

That's too bad. Best of luck though to John, it was a good try.

Many thanks to abusive users that caused a good service closed

It is soooo horrible how people mess it up for everybody. I bet you that Google probably had something to do with it as well.

Thanks for the heads up

I wonder how entrecard will do in the next 6 - 8 months

I for one am not surprised.

In today's marketplace, you do not have the luxury of turning away business.

My BlogRush account was simply DELETED after I got 50 blogs under me signed up for it. I had an Alexa in the 300,000 range and some of the blogs that I recommended that signed up had Alexa's in the 50,000 and one had 50,000 visitors/month.

And the way they thank me is to delete my account and give me a multiple choice form letter, it was either this, this or this. Adding insult to injury was the lame replies from their "team" of "you can reapply in 60 days. No thank you. Is John Reese really that ignorant and ungrateful? Apparently so. No one cares how great your tools are if you are a pomopous ass.

You cannot treat people this way in this economy and expect to have any kind of success.

What goes around comes around I guess.

one more of many, and surely many more to come, shutdown stories. i work for a dotcom, and i am paying attention and trying not to worry!