Comments on: I Pissed Off John Reese From Blogrush

By: The House of Husar

The House of Husar — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:30:45 +0000

I am asking the same thing about the value of BlogRush. Is BlogRush doing anything for my site? I have a small time blog and my posts get about 100-500 impression to the blog post widget. But I only ever about 1 click if I am lucky from those impressions. Here is my post about it and I would appreciate any feedback about others experience.

http://www.husar.us/blog/archives/1461

Cheers,

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:44:09 +0000

Hey, no one seems to be able to answer this question for me. After I sign up for BlogRush and install the widget on my site, do I have to write an actual post that mentions BlogRush in the post?

I have not done that (written a post) because I want to see if the product actually delivers. I’ve had it installed for about 40 hours now (trying to wait the full 48 hours before I rush to judgment.) I have seen ONE hit from it and that was from the BlogRush Administrator.

What say thee?

By: Iantrepreneur

Iantrepreneur — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:42:46 +0000

wow I love this post!

By: Jim Kukral - Marketing Ideas Online » Blog Archive » How To Sell Ads On Your Blog Even With Hardly Any Traffic - A Step-By-Step Guide

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:44:38 +0000

[...] really don’t want to keep harping on Blogrush. I don’t hate it at all, and I’m not trying to scare anyone… I just think it [...]

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:34:36 +0000

@manuel, ding ding! You win 10,000 points!

By: Manuel Viloria

Manuel Viloria — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:45:02 +0000

Is that from the movie “Dumb and Dumber”?

By: Yehuda Berlinger

Yehuda Berlinger — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:31:40 +0000

Then there’s the little problem about viewing your own page …

Yehuda

By: Yehuda Berlinger

Yehuda Berlinger — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:29:54 +0000

Ah, I just noticed that impressions are not 1:1 for further generation referals.

By: Yehuda Berlinger

Yehuda Berlinger — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:19:18 +0000

I also saw this as MLM immediately. I have an instinctive reaction not to “get in early” to anything that promises the most rewards to people who get in early, whether it works or not. Because, by definition, it won’t be working for everyone gets in but who doesn’t get in early.

Blogrush doesn’t say on which blogs your headlines will show up, other than “related” sites. If headlines from a small site have an equal chance of showing up on a big site, then the service will actually benefit small sites more than big sites.

Big sites probably don’t get much from a few thousand transient links on small sites, whereas small sites could actually benefit from a few hundred transient links on big sites. If the small site’s links simply show up on a bunch of other small sites, then they’re out of luck.

Also, you have no way of choosing which of your headlines shows up.

There’s also something about the math that doesn’t quite add up to me. It seems to me that they’re promising too many links per impression, if every impression guarantees another 1 to 10 links, but displays only 4.5 links.

And I agree with you: saying that you have to do nothing is disingenuous. At the very least, you have to write continuous good posts with great headlines.

Yehuda