Blog Rush got the Boot.
I’ve been changing a few things around on the Home with Heather’s side bar the last few days. Change can sometimes be a good thing, keeps things fresh. The first thing that got the boot was the Blog Rush Widget.
I was one of the very first on the band wagon with the BlogRush Widget back in September of last year. It was really exciting at the time. John Reese had the whole blogosphere talking and adding it to their blogs. The promise was that it would bring traffic for the “little guy”. In October, it actually did bring me a small bit of traffic - about 2 % of my unique visitors were brought in through the widget. In November and December combined, it was about .6 of a percent. That’s it!!
Now, I’ll take traffic from any source that I can get it… BUT that widget was taking up a huge amount of my most valuable real estate on the sidebar for 12 clicks in December. That’s just not worth it.
I have found many other sources that bring me much better targeted traffic than the Blog Rush Widget. I even played by the rules, displayed the widget ‘about the fold’ on my sidebar so that it would always be seen.
I really respect John Reese and what he has to say. Generally it’s bang on. Why did the widget fail so miserably? Not sure. My original thought was that all the credits were being given to the blogs with more traffic. I don’t really think that is the case because of read of some of the bigger blogs taking the widget down as well. Blogs like Problogger, and Clicknewz.
Are you still using the Blog Rush Widget? If so, is it bringing you in traffic? If not, why do you think that it failed?
Now I guess I’m curious about what others are thinking, so leave me a comment won’t you?
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January 29th, 2008 09:13
Hi Heather, I also had the same results so I removed it from my site too. It was a great idea, but in business not every great idea is a success. So we do what entrepreneurs do best, we revise and restrategize.
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January 29th, 2008 10:58
Blog Rush got the Boot. | Home With Heather…
After almost 4 full months, I recently took the blog rush widget off Home with Heather. The widget had been displayed on my blog faithfully from mid September. I was even following the "rules", and kept the widget about the fold.&…
January 29th, 2008 11:05
“Flushing the Rush” is something I’ve been advocating for some time. Congrats on taking this step. I’ve actually gotten more traffic from attacking it than I ever did from the widget itself before I got banned.
You might want to try EntreCard. It’s not for every blog and isn’t perfect but it can bring in traffic. About 80-90% of the traffic from it is high bounce but you will get about 10-20% in longer term visitors.
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January 30th, 2008 06:46
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February 1st, 2008 14:48
Heather, well that is interesting.
I’m a German and just went global with my 1st blog in English.
And i just registered at Blogrush.
But it seems many bloggers are already disappointed because the widget brought only little to none traffic.
Well, i had a similar experience with the German clone “Blogfever”, but i thought that it might have been a cultural problem of German bloggers to not click, hehehe …
Anyway i’m going to give Blogrush a try.
I just discovered entrecard.com. Do you know it? What is your opinion?
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February 1st, 2008 14:55
Hi Michael,
Thanks for stopping in
You should give BlogRush a try, form your own opinion. Test and track the results. Might I also suggest registering for an account at Blogging Zoom as another option. It is a newer site for bloggers to display content and is totally free.
I have not taken a look at entrecard.com though I’ve heard it mentioned a few times. I will have to spend some time and check it out.
February 3rd, 2008 12:42
I generally was not a big fan of it
February 26th, 2008 12:21
Blogrush kicked me out because I didn´t have enough content
Well, they didn´t deliver any significant traffic anyway.
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