How To Control BlogRush Headlines

John are you getting many credits?

I still see 0 credits. To me it appears the system is screwed up. It is supposed to give me summary stats, but it shows 0 credits. That can't be right. My blog isn't that bad. :???:

Wow... This is really a big boon for me to increase the traffic from Blogrush. Thanks for the post!

thanks...this is great trick

Cool hack.

I might try it out myself. Good point about that you probably want to regularly have new headlines rotate - because people aren't going to click headlines they've read before.

Read My tutorial also
http://www.miraztutorials.com/blog-rush-tutorial-g...
i spent alot of time putting this together hope you like it

it wont work for bloggers. this is not something that will get you tons of traffic. why? read here …… http://www.successonline.in/the-rise-and-fall-of-B...

Of late i’ve been seeing a lot of blogs promoting the new Borush offering. For those who are unaware, Blogrush is basically like a Banner or Link Exchange system. Bloggers sign up at Blogrush to get an embedded widget code that they can place in their blog sidebars. Everytime your page loads, the widget displays a set of 5 blog post heading links, from other blogs that are part of the BlogRush network (just like you) and are in the same category as you. These links are displayed inside the nice looking widget. An example is shown below.

For every one display of the widget (which ultimately results in 5 links being displayed) you get one exposure of your blog post on the network - on other blogger member website widgets. This sounds fair, but if you look deep into things you will realize theirs a defect. I will come to that later. But irst another important trick thats going to work like viral marketing on steroids for BlogRush…

For every blogger you refer - when they sign up by clicking on the BlogRush logo at the bottom of the widget, you benefit. For every direct referral you also will get one free link exposure everytime your referral displays the widget. If this referral refers another member - you get the same benefit again… gaining one more exposure for a two level deep referral. And so on … 10 levels deep.

This trick is absolutely fantastic, because it will cause bloggers to start promoting this new exchange service to fellow bloggers immediately in hope of getting referral bloggers before others snap them. Bloggers can see the potential of the 10 level deep credit system. It can really balloon to a large amount of free link exposure. Which *could* result in traffic.

This is where I tend to differ. Blogrush is claiming that - bloggers should sign up right away to get a huge rush and volume of traffic to their sites in a short span of time. There is however 2 issues here.

The first one is that - if this is a 1:1 exchange network, and BlogRush is displaying only 5 ads inside the widget - then they are creating an excess of 4 ads per display - which they can then distribute to the referring members. So, the excess credit of 4 ads can help them - BUT only 4 levels deep. As the system grows and referral lelvels start to get deep and aproach 10 levels of depth - how will BlogRush maintain the 1:1 ratio? The answer is - that well, now all members will have referrals of 10 levels deep. So there will always be member whose widgets display 5 expousres, and get one credit exposure in return and therefore create an excess of 4 credits for the system. This will help BlogRush.

And if it doesnt, and the excess exposures being created are geting close to zero - they can always simply increase the widget size or make it scrolling and display 10 links!! This will immediately create a larger excess for BlogRush on every widet exposure. Super!

Super for BlogRush, but bad for members.
I can already see a very very very low CTR on this network. Although the links displayed are in your category and may match your sites content - the CTR is going to be extremely low. A standard ad on yor blog post probably has a CTR of half to one-and-half percentage. This widget firstly may not be placed by bloggers on the top of their sidebar / page - and will probably be tucked away at the side bottom - is my guess. My guess is that the CTR for this widget will probably be around 0.1% ( or one-tenth of one percent. ). Now, if your blog post title appears with 5 others - your CTR will be further reduced by a factor of 5 or 20% of 0.1% which is 0.02% which is 2 clicks out of 10,000 page views or 1 click every 5000 page views!! Now, what kind of rush of traffic is that?

And, if BlogRush decides to increase the number of Blog Links inside their widget tomorrow (to compensate for excess credits being given to members for referrals) - then you can be assured that the paltry traffic and CTR will get even worse.

Nice try BlogRush. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. This is just a passing fad.

I've used this trick to show "YOUR BLOG HERE" and linked to my BlogRush referral url. I wonder if it'll work (I hope they link to the post, and not your blog url with the text!) :evil:

Has anyone found a way to do this with Blogger? :shock:

Thanks for this trick John :lol:

nice tip, I just wrote up an easier way to do this with wordpress. thanks for the inspiration

Wow, I love it! ::gets::

Great tip JC really impressive :)

This tip is really worth!

John, Thanks for the great info and blogrush coding. I will try that :)

--blog for dream--

"August Blog Income: $17,828.61!" ... If that doesn't attract clicks, nothing will

Very good tip, now to decide which one of my posts will get the best ctr

If you've tried BlogRush for a few days and were thinking of taking it off... then how can you say it didn't work when you only have a few days of statistical data to calculate the worthiness of it?

I don't think you really know until 3-4 weeks in whether or not a feature like that is worth having.

I've got a different approach that has helped me handle this within Wordpress itself. The way it works is I've use a Custom Field in Wordpress to provide the alternate titles for posts I want to include.

Additionally, there is one Custom RSS file that needs to be dropped into the Wordpress root. I've got the download and instructions here for anyone that is interested in checking it out:

http://www.smoblog.com/custom-rss-blogrush/

I haven't seen world-changing results on my blog with BlogRush. Controlling the headlines would sure get more results.

Anyway, I removed it from my blog because of adsense issues.

Here's why BlogRush is doomed to being a spammy failure: A Blackhat’s Diary: exploiting blogrush, big time.

I'm pulling it off my sites because the results are becoming increasingly spam filled.

Feed URL can't be update. So thats means I need to add a new blog for the new feed. Why isn't there a delete button? Whats the stats John for this trick?
don't you need to put in the publish date so your post goes ahead of other blogs
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00+0000
or is this just first in first out.

It looks like the major bloggers will get this way all traffic from BlogRush because they have eye catching titles like this.

Hey, where do we upload the rss file? is it in your ftp or for blogrush?
What folder is it in?

This was my biggest gripe with BlogRush. This is an amazing idea. Not to be repetitive, but thank you, John!

Great suggestion, John... I've added my blog again with the new feed pointing to my Win My Motorola Q Smartphone contest, so hopefully that helps with my click-throughs.

A few days ago super internet marketer John Reese launched the Blog Rush Widget to great fanfare. Over 15,000 bloggers added the RSS syndication tool to their sites on the first day alone! Now critics are bashing John Reese and attacking him personally, calling Blog Rush a scam. They have been very hurtful and malicious in their attacks.

People are coming to his defense…people like this angry young man. I found this on You Tube and posted it on my blog at

Very smart idea. Question... how often would you change your Blog Rush RSS feed? Thanks !

i did it, u r genius lol :lol:

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Nice ... I'll have to try that!
Darin

Wow, that's a clever trick. I don't know how well it will work out when all bloggers start adapting it. You'll be competing with other popular post titles.

Way to go John, that's a really great tip

good idea

Ha, that is a pretty nifty trick

So basically all the link that will show up in the blogrush widgets all over the place will all be the same. Everybody putting their best post in. If we've read that post, we won't click on the link again. We don't think this is a good idea.

Great tip, I'm hoping that Blogrush will live up to the hype. So far I haven't gotten a click yet, I'm hoping that will change soon. I tried putting it up as high as I could, but we will see how it works out.

vexa is gonna try blogrush for a short time.
i just wonder how long it will take before all blogrush headlines look like the contents caught in the akismet filter.

Very smart John. Nice one!
No wonder you are making over 17k a month

Good tip, if I go with blogrush I will give it a try. The click through rates sound really low so far. And none of the blogs I visit have given it even moderately good locations.

good tip, but this is something BlogRush must provide... like "Edit your feed titles".. is not that hard... I say is again, they rushed.

I hope that's not the code you used...because that link returns a 404. You left a couple words off of the URL.

90% of the headlines BlogRush serves are worthless crap. While your tip is excellent, it will mostly be used by people who want to make sure that their spammiest make money blah blah blah garbage is what gets syndicated. That will turn the BlogRush headlines into even more of a garbage pile than it already is.

BlogRush had great promise, but it fails in two crucial ways: 1) the crappy headlines mean your readers get NO value from it and 2) Most people will not get traffic.

Don't be lazy.