What Went Wrong With BlogRush?
Remember BlogRush? It was the little widget created a year ago by Internet marketing kingpin John Reese. BlogRush exploded on the Internet as everyone and their dog installed the widget on their blogs. BlogRush was suppose to help everyone get more traffic to their blogs.
I worked out that if BlogRush worked the way it was intended to work, it would send me upwards of 5,000 visitors per day. BlogRush had a ten tier referral system and I had over 2,200 blogs in my network generating millions of views. The only problem was, those views credits I built up never got served. What went wrong?
30 Million Credit Balance
A check of my BlogRush control panel showed I have a credit balance of 30,911,614 views. If BlogRush can serve all those impressions, and assuming a 0.25% click rate, it would result in over 77,000 visitors. Since BlogRush started, they have served less 800,000 impressions for me. My credit balance continues to increase everyday because there are blogs in my network that are still using the widget.
I removed my BlogRush widget when I saw there was no way BlogRush would be able to serve all the credits in my account. I imagine many others did the same. That means the chance of BlogRush serving the ad credits build up by all the bloggers in their network is next to impossible.
If you’re still running BlogRush, I’ll be interested in knowing if its able to serve your credit as fast as you can accumulate them. Amazingly enough, I still have enough blogs in my network to generate 17,000 credits per day. Too bad BlogRush will never be able to serve them.
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I removed the Blogrush widget from my blog many months ago. It was not bringing me any meaningful traffic. Besides that, I have big problems with these referral schemes because only high profile bloggers like you benefit from them. It is very easy for people to pick up your referral link and join under you due to the popularity of your blogs. Agloco had the same problem.
Reply to this commentI forgot all about BlogRush, but I see some big name bloggers still use it. I think it’s a lost cause.
Reply to this commentWell I’m still using it, some of my articles do get syndicated but without having referrals my credits soar up without being used!
Reply to this commentI agree with Clement - the only winners in those schemes are the websites with large traffic.
Reply to this commentI removed Blogrush a while back but I always thought that if you could get enough referrals it could be a good source of traffic. But since you with a such a huge network isn’t getting any decent traffic from it I guess I was right to drop it. I started using Entrecard and getting some traffic but I see that you have removed it. I think it was there in the old theme
Reply to this commentI have had mixed experiences with EntreCard. I had this widget for a while and the credits just kept accumulating. At the end of the day I was able to advertise on a couple of prominent blogs, but my traffic was low and the time on the site was pretty low too.. I think that entrecard might be useless as well..You can purchase credits with real money but you can’t readily sell them..
Reply to this commentStill have it in place on a number of blogs, not bringing any meaningful traffic however. Still punts about 5 a day so its staying for the time being…
Reply to this commentI kept checking my BlogRush stats and kept wondering why posts that were getting a lot of hits by my count were cold and showing nothing on their site. I decided it wasn’t worth anything and removed it. Seemed like a good idea, but it just crashed and burned.
Reply to this commentI removed the BlogRush widget from my blog many months ago, because it slow my loading time,
Reply to this commentoh… thanks for the info. I never used that widget
Reply to this commentI wanted to use that widget, now what to do cant decide.
Reply to this commentBlogrush is history now, don’t bring back the dead..please
Reply to this commentBlogrush died the second it started!
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Reese did EVERYTHING wrong when he started it! he had a bad plan.
Reply to this commentBut it wouldnt be that hard to buy it from him and fix it!!!
I did install it, now I’m checking the stats to see if it brought any traffic. 2 visitors in 2 months and each stayed for 00:00:00 … Now I know why they use the image
It’s blogrush that’s frozen over, not my blog…
Reply to this commentI never bought into the BlogRush hype.
Reply to this commenteven shoemoney stopped using it
Reply to this commentSame here, I got 6.3 million credits and although I kept in on longer than most people, in the end it was removed. In fact I think BlogRush has already stopped syndicating feeds, I don’t see any of my latest posts in there.
But at least it was some sort of effort to bring traffic to all bloggers. Hopefully a newer model will emerge from someone else soon.
Reply to this commentI got banned after about a day for showing people what a useless piece of crap it was! I did follow their story closely for a month or 2 afterwards but is was very clear early doors that it was going nowhere and I wasn’t missing anything.
Entrecard on the other hand still brings traffic, sure it’s not great quality but if you’re looking for a way of increasing your visitor count (not that you need it John) it’s worth a go.
Reply to this commentI would like to call it “BLOG-RESTS”
Reply to this commentDid the emergence of Entrecard contribute to the demise of Blogrush?
Reply to this commentI’ve ‘earned’ 21,522,507 credits since last September. hey owe me 18,476,748 credits. Not sure what my CTR is but I’d estimate at a glance of my reports that of the 3 million impressions of my posts that they have actually served I’ve probably had around 600 visits to my actual blogs over the year (probably less actually as the last 30 days has seen about 20 visitors). Underwhelming to say the least and pretty embarrassing as it was something I actually thought had merit at the time, promoted and even defended publicly.
Reply to this commentJohn,
Reply to this commentI get WAAAY less visitors than you but I did have a network of 14 people. Even with my low amount of credits I found that Blogrush only served BlogRush and it just took up space on my sidebar. I tossed that soon after I put it on my blog.
Like others I installed the widget when blogrush was born,and have since removed it.
Reply to this commentI never really saw any traffic coming from it,and it slowed the load time of my site.
I have not saw a blogrush widget on any of the sites I frequent for quite sometime.
I believe we will see the entrecard widget going down the tubes right along with it in the near future.
When I started my blog, i was ‘too young’ to join the BlogRush. I was not accepted. I see that I did not miss anything. Oh well…. Another website to forgot about….
Reply to this commentDo the mathematics in BlogRush even work? 10 levels of referrals seems to me like that’s too many credits to even be able to serve. Anyways, I probably won’t be installing it. Great idea though. I just needs to be refined.
Has anyone tried TNX.net? How are they?
Reply to this commentSound like a scam. I think Entrecard has got a much better model and thus a better survive chance.
Reply to this commentI also never installed BlogRush, though I do see it from time to time. Thanks for this discussion:)
Reply to this commentuntil now, I don’t use BlogRush
Reply to this commentI run a manual traffic exchange, and sitting credit balance is something you really have to think about. If you don’t play the numbers right it’s only time before people notice that you can’t deliver and then everyone leaves and the site implodes. It happens all the time with new exchanges, so while this is more of a link exchange it’s the same concept behind it.
Reply to this commentI never bothered with it, but I did add BlogCrap to my sidebar. It’s way better than BlogRush.
Reply to this commentLooks like the only person getting traffic from BlogRush was the guy who created it.
Reply to this commentBTW, great photos so far of IzeaFest. Let’s see some more.
Reply to this commentNot much happening.
Reply to this commentYep, I only have 1 other blog in my network and I am accumulating way more credits than they are able to serve. I don’t know why I kept it on. I am either lazy or curious to see how it all played out after everything settled down.
Reply to this commentit was a good application , but never went beyond the first level to address complex issues
Reply to this commentIs blog rush similar to entrecard? I just stared using entrecard and it seems like a good concept but not so optimistic will generate any quality traffic.
Reply to this commentI share the same doubt. It maybe useful when you’re starting your blog. I guess one should remove it once the blog gains ground since they don’t bring in quality and targeted traffic.
Reply to this commentNever heard of it.
Reply to this commentI removed it then added it back for a bit. I never saw any traffic from it. It is so gone!
Reply to this commentHey, you’re John Chow.
Why don’t you ask John Reece???
Stop speculating and just go ask the guy himself!
If he refuses to talk to you… that’s a good blog post to write, right there
Cheers,
-Alister
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Reply to this commentAlister Cameron // Blogologist
http://www.alistercameron.com
I am happy I never did blogrush.
Reply to this commentI still use Blogrush, I get some visitors out of it. I like seeing how many times my posts have been published across the widget.
Reply to this commentI had entrecard as well, and that truely was a waste of time and space.
For now, I’ll keep Blogrush as it doesn’t take to much space in my layout, and it still serves me…
My blog was rejected several times - I guess I can stop crying myself to sleep every night now!
Reply to this commentBlogRush never did anything for me. I have it, in addition to EntreCard which generates a fair amount of very poor quality traffic, so I don’t know what’s better. How’s Spottt? I’ve been thinking of adding that.
Cheers,
Reply to this commentDavid Lamb of KillerBuffalo.com
interesting site it really learns me a lot…
Reply to this commentthanks for the information i will apply that….
Reply to this commentgreat post i really like that…
Reply to this commentJust like many others, I removed the widget months ago. I had over 60,000 credits when I removed the widget and that’s with a very small site. Hard to believe they couldn’t keep up with a blog that small. I do feel bad for them. I know they had some serious scripting problems at launch and after going over each account by hand they worked very hard to grow very quickly. I thought they were sitting on a gold mine, no pun intended
It seems like many of the commenters are happy to see the failure. That’s a little hard to understand.
Reply to this commentI also didn’t have much traffic from them - pity, as I thought it was a good idea. Has anyone tried publicity wheel? I only heard about it recently, but it seems like a similar concept where in exchange for displaying a 125×125 button of their current “featured site” in a particular category, you stand a chance of becoming the featured site yourself, and being featured by everyone in the category for a period of time (currently 5 days).
Reply to this commentI removed the BlogRush widget because it slowed down my sites’ load times so drastically. I’ve been using the Adoptic widget for a few weeks and I like how it lets you spend your credits promoting individual posts. Still not sure how much traffic it’s bringing me though.
Reply to this commentI never go to use BlogRush, there was just too much hype around it.
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BR is a failure…. I thought it was a nice traffic booster site and social network for bloggers.
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