Anyone still excited about Blog Rush?
So who’s still talking about Blog Rush? I’m shocked that so many bloggers are yet to remove that monstrosity of a widget that does nothing but drive traffic out of their blogs. For a start, the hype surrounding Blog Rush was enough to put me off right from the start. People were working very hard to convince their readerships that this was the next big thing.
I chose to stay off the Blog Rush bandwagon because I didn’t want to clutter my sidebar up with something so large and intrusive. It’s not as if you can blend it in with your color scheme. The fact that it sticks out so much draws attention to it and the links it displays. Do you really want people clicking those links and reading someone else’s blog? May as well shoot yourself in the foot.
As 5xMom rightly points out, you not only randomly link out to the rest of the blogosphere, but you link out to people who you would otherwise avoid. Where’s the sense in that? Then there’s the fact that I’ve seen the same thing as Blog Rush before, albeit using HTML links.
Ben Cook benefited from a staggering one click through to his blog with Blog Rush from just under 600 impressions. Pro Blogger got less than 50 clicks from 70,000 impressions. John Cow managed to generate 172 clicks from almost 30,000 impressions, which was great for him, but as Ben proved, for smaller bloggers with less potential to generate massive amounts of referrals (John Cow has 460 already), the widget is redundant. Even John Chow only got 91 hits from 27,000 impressions.
I also keep arriving at blogs and seeing an error message in the place where the Blog Rush widgets should be.
Ditch Blog Rush! It’s clogging up your blog and making it look hideous.
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Digg it for goodness sake! Stumble your heart out!
4 Responses to “Anyone still excited about Blog Rush?”
It’s in my footer. It’s there because it breaks the sidebar, and there’s no way to resize it. I’m thinking of dropping it all together. I wasn’t that crazy about the idea to start with, but I thought I’d give it a shot.
I may be starting to agree with you on this. I am monitoring my traffic very closely. I have noticed a sharp decrease!
When I see the instructions telling me I need a snazzier title for my posts I’m thinking what kind of B.S. is that?
Goodbye BlogRush! I no longer use it well I was going to stop using it anyway but before I had the chance found out I got banned XD
Probably because I was refreshing the page to get more impression but not sure.
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