BlogRush a must or bust?
Sep 17th, 2007 | By knup | Category: Blogging
So all the buzz around the blogosphere is about this new ‘traffic exchange’ program called BlogRush. I have never seen so much hype around a program of this nature. Most of the biggest bloggers in the industry are treating this thing as though they feel it’s the next BIG thing. Why? Do they have some sort of stake in it? Do they truly believe BlogRush is going to bring them that much more traffic?
I have a strong feeling that some of these A-List bloggers are on the ‘inside’ of this BlogRush project. It’s well known that the founder of BlogRush has money. He knows what he is doing and the quickest way to spread any product is to get the big fish on board. Also, some seem to be getting really defensive when anything halfway negative gets posted regarding BlogRush. Why would other bloggers care if they didn’t have a stake in it?
Now I just haven’t seen what is so darn cool about this BlogRush thing. It’s basically a pyramid scheme where the top level, huge traffic, sites will see most of the benefit. The smaller sites and sites that join in the end will get very little. Another reason I can’t use BlogRush on this site is that it only has one ad format. One size… One color scheme… Come on! And lastly, there has been questions brought up on some of the top forums and on some credible blogs that BlogRush might go against the adsense terms of service. I don’t know if this is true or not, but I’m not willing to risk my adsense account for the latest flavor of the day traffic exchange. Especially one that just seems blown out of proportion. I am trying it on a couple of my smaller sites just to play around with it but nothing too serious.
Thoughts? Am I the only one that thinks this thing is getting way more pub than it’s worth?
that is true “one size does not fit all”
I was a little hesitant to put it on my blog, since it was limited, but then just decided to join since all I am reading about is blogrush
Knup you are certainly not the only one with reservations. Because of my location … I live in tomorrow compares to the majority of many bloggers I got a note about BlogRush 6 or 7 hours before the ‘news’ started pouring out of the the “big name” sources.
I was intrigued for a little while so I signed up and then took a look at it. Reminded me of the “fabulous” rel;aunch of Auction Ads .. you take what we give you and like it.
The principle it operates under is backwards from what I thought at first. For little, low traffic blogs like mine there is no benefit at all … it is biased to make the big blogs bigger and the small blogs smaller … if I want space on John Chow’s front page, he’ll sell it to me for $xxx bucks, but if he wants space on my front page he expects it for free via BlogRush. When I first looked at it I thought it was a way to get my posts out into a wide network, but with the traffic bias it won’t work that way. I think not.
Everton Blair has also raised the question about the AdSense TOS … I have queried AdSense diectly, expect it will take a while for a direct response but in the meantime I think I’ll work on cranking out more posts rather than toying with this gimmick … even if it does tuen out that Google ok’s its use.
This is getting way too much publicity, they dont even have even a beta release of their portal.
Too good too be true. But then again, it may be worthwhile looking at it. Anyway it’s FREE. How nice if we are to get huge publicity similar to what blogrush is getting now. Imagine the traffic will be. Massive…..
I got some traffic buy using this widget and also their is some syndication credit and the product is launched by well know Internet marketing Guru John Reese. So it is nothing wrong in trying it.
I agree, seems like a “hype”, I’m not into it I think it will deliver as promised.
I already commented in Chow’s blog and also had a blog post about blogrush math. What you get is one impression for five impressions you provide. We used to get at least 2:1 (two for one) in the early days the web. However, early movers will get some traffic. Traffic will always go to the A+ bloggers