Comments on: Why aren't you Blog Rushing?

By: Anja

Anja — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:28:09 +0000

I got it on my site as well. You have to make sure to post frequently and you must have good content, if not they tell you to take the code off your site and you are not getting any exposure. Happen to me on one blog, didn't made enough posts.
On the current blog it is working fine. no trouble at all and my posts get more exposure, showing my site on the BR widget of other blog sites.

Anja

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:35:28 +0000

Correction, I just saw my first BR referrer string. Looks like this:

http://widget.blogrush.com/box.php?f=89111667&url=http%3A//www.shoemoney.com/2007/09/17/uh-oh-uh-oh-here-comes-the-hammer-techcrunch40-coverage/&ref=http%3A//widget.blogrush.com/box.php%3Ff%3D20535461%26url%3Dhttp%253A//squeezednews.blogspot.com/2007/09/generate-web-site-traffic-with-video.html%26ref%3Dhttp%253A//widget.blogrush.com/box.php%253Ff%253D89111667%2526url%253Dhttp%25253A//www.shoemoney.com/2007/09/16/how-to-get-45k-impressions-a-day-from-blogrush%2526ref%253Dhttp%25253A//www.theultimatepublishing.com/blog/blog-rush-review-collection%2526r%253D0.9667470198901124%26r%3D0.38680653711166535&r=0.6010764462878352

I feel like I’m flying blind because BR still isn’t showing any stats and reports are still “in development”. One clickthru on X amount of impressions = I have no idea.

I have seen my site on the BR widget across other sites though.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:26:25 +0000

I hear ya on #2. I haven’t seen a single referrer from BlogRush yet. Although, would the referral string be from BlogRush.com or from the actual site that your headline appeared on? I didn’t see any redirects happening when I clicked through a few sites.

By: John

John — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:19:11 +0000

@Jason & CFernandez – I was only suggesting to steer clear for Adsense sites until something definite could be figured out. If you are going to bend the Adsense rules, I would rather do that for something that has been around longer than a few days.

I’ll be happy to add the BlogRush code to my other sites if:
1) There is no Adsense fallout
2) I see some amount of incoming traffic from the BlogRush network.

We shall see.

By: CFernandes

CFernandes — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:44:47 +0000

I have also signed-up to try and gather some referrals, should this thing be around in a few months…

but I will also be doing a post in a couple of days explaining exactly why this will not be a success.

PS. You are however off base on the Adsense issue, we shouldn´t even be calling this a “traffic exchange”

By: All the cool kids are smoking BlogRush these days. by Jason Murphy

All the cool kids are smoking BlogRush these days. by Jason Murphy — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:58:38 +0000

[...] others, I’m testing it out to see how much extra traffic it will bring to the site. – Geeeek on Why aren’t you Blog Rushing? Traffic Equals [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:28:35 +0000

If you are using Google Adsense on your site, you should probably steer clear of BlogRush for the time being. This post from the Google Adsense blog suggests that traffic exchange programs are against the rules for sites using Adsense.

Nah. IANAL, but I don’t think this violates any TOS. Contact your AdSense rep if you’re unsure though.

This isn’t really a traffic exchange program. You’re not forcing anyone to involuntarily visit your site for credit. You’re not falsely generating any traffic. In fact, StumbleUpon would be closer to a traffic generation program than BlogRush is. You’re displaying headlines in exchange to get headlines displayed. Users can click if they are interested, but there isn’t any direct traffic benefit for doing so. This is strictly impression based.