Comments on: Banned by BlogRush!

By: Albert | UrbanMonk.Net

Albert | UrbanMonk.Net — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:59:34 +0000

Hi Steve, just found your blog, and having a GREAT time digging around. Don’t worry too much about blogrush, they don’t really send that much traffic so you’re not losing anything :)

By: Simonne

Simonne — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:46:43 +0000

I’m curious if they will answer you. I also got that message from BlogRush, and I want to tell you that I’m very much honoured by the company I found myself in, because of them. I even made some nice acquaintances thanks to that happening.

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By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:09:16 +0000

They never wrote me back. I don’t know.

By: Michelle MacPhearson

Michelle MacPhearson — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:59:17 +0000

Have you found out why you were “banned” yet?

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:41:27 +0000

I just read about Blogrush the other day. I will be interested to hear what happens.

By: pril

pril — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:14:16 +0000

Wow i never hear of blog rush but on a real level Stick with what works!
You have a tone of readers here why do anything..
Now how in the HECK DID MY PHOTO GET ON YOUR PAGE!
wtf

By: John Wesley

John Wesley — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:38:59 +0000

It’s funny how hype works. First everyone was pushing BlogRush, now it seems like a ton of people are bashing it. I don’t see what’s so exciting about it. It’s not much more than a traffic exchange program, and those are notorious for send worthless traffic.

By: Mark Silver

Mark Silver — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:20:34 +0000

Well, they got the viral part right, but the implementation doesn’t really hold. From the first I heard of it, I’ve had a sense that it’s a flash-in-the-pan.

The big problem, it seems, is that it needs to get above the fold- and most bloggers are putting it way below the fold, where no one will see it.

If I were them, I would have started out much more slowly, hand-picking a list of really, really good blogs- maybe 1000 of them, spread out across various topics.

Then, started by approach a top-100 list of most influential, and trust-worthy, bloggers to build personal relationships with them. Talk to them. See what it would take to get it above the fold. Trouble-shoot it. Fix it up.

If that worked, then you would have the example of having it above the fold. And the people who signed up through, for instance, John Chow or Chris Garrett or whomever, would more than likely follow the example- people tend to do what others are doing.

Once that second tier started to work, and things seemed to be working smoothly, then I would have unleashed the larger viral campaign.

It takes real patience to build these things- most people just want to go for the gusto, but that’s where small problems suddenly become big problems, and end up sinking you.

It was a valiant experiment, but it seems like it’s doomed to fail at this point. Interesting, though.

I don’t think it’s so horrible that you were shut down, Steve. It’s probably a good sign, actually. ;-)

By: Deron Sizemore

Deron Sizemore — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:58:14 +0000

Wow, that’s the first I’ve heard of that happening.

BlogRush may gain momentum and start feeding all the users a bunch of traffic, but as of right now, it looks like it’s not going well. Most of the huge blog names out there are seeing dismal stats from it, so the small bloggers like myself can expect next to no results from it. I’m giving it a few more days just to see what happens, but it’s on the verge of coming off my site. :)