Personally I don’t care what they do with stats they collect – they’re providing a service and they should reap any benefits they can while they’re at it. If they don’t succeed, the users all lose out, so I don’t see why their users would want them to fail or not make money!

I still think the product isn’t going to be worth it for most bloggers, but hey, not everyone can like everything! I understand what you’ve built but I can’t figure out why you’ve built it.

If you’re not reselling the data, I’m guessing it’s to collect a “list” of people to promote something else to monetize down the road. I know you don’t do anything without a money making reason… that’s what you do. Nothing wrong with that.

John Reese here. Thanks for the constructive criticism. Good or bad we appreciate all the feeback we can to make BlogRush the best it can be to benefit bloggers and help them generate more targeted traffic.

For the record, we have ZERO plans to use people’s traffic data. The only data we may end up using is the click-rate data to publish a “most popular” type of list showing what’s getting attention in each category. We plan to publish this information on a “sister” site to help generate even more traffic to our bloggers’ blogs. But we’re very concerned with privacy and know our users don’t want their individual blog traffic data exploited. Even, though, there are plenty of services out there that are somewhat able to do that anyway (i.e. Compete, ComScore, etc.) it’s not something that appeals to us and is actually something that we feel would piss off our users.

Thanks again.

John Reese

It doesn’t surprise me what’s in store with BlogRush. This is valuable data that they’re getting off the backs of many bloggers.

I wouldn’t expect anything less as they’re in this to make money (fair enough) – it’s just that bloggers should better understand the ins-and-outs of this system.