The Blogrush Herd. Moo.

Written by: burt
Date: September 17, 2007
Filed under: Life of Burt
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Over the past few days, all I seem to have read on a substantial number of blogs & forums is "BlogRush". I won't go into what BlogRush is, go and see the homepage at blogrush.com

So, are you a part of the BlogRush herd? Moo.

Why is that? No-one yet knows if the service actually works and yet almost all the blogs I read on a casual basis are pimping it.
I suppose the idea behind people pimping it is that they get credits for "free" views. In other words if `Blogger A` gets 20 different bloggers to sign up, and they each get 20 different bloggers to sign up and they each get … ho hum.

Hey, here's an idea..

Rather than use this (or perhaps, if you feel the need, in ADDITION to this), why not get together a group of like minded blogs - grab each blogs RSS feed - use Magpie to mash the feeds up into one larger feed. Then display the Magpie script/feed on your blog. It ain't Rocket Science.

I don't understand the point of using a Javascript solution to try to get traffic. Why not promote the blogs you like and give them the benefit of a followable link.

Comments

  1. Comment by SarahG — September 17, 2007 @ 9:30 am

    I've been thinking about setting up my links page to show the last post off each blog that I link to using Magpie. Trouble is I've not quite worked out the cache method (besides using a database and a cron job to update the db cache every X hours), and I don't want to hit every blog's site with each page view.

    I'd be quite happy to list the last 5 posts (1 per blog) on my side bar too, if I knew how to control the cache! It's something I may do as despite following the herd on BlogRush (call me nosey), it appears it's already having some issues.

  2. Comment by Chance — September 17, 2007 @ 1:14 pm

    You have to respect their marketing though- you must be doing something right if its been out 1 day and already I am so tired of seeing it I want to punch people in the face.

  3. Comment by Paul Forcey — September 17, 2007 @ 4:38 pm

    I agree with you Gary, why not spend some time swapping real links with people so you get some link juice going on.

    I read a post from someone on the warrior forum that they have already integrated it into their blog and used css to hide it, so they get the credit for views but never lose a visitor to one of the links.

    People will always take the easy route, one line of javascript is easier than having to actually find people to swap links with.

    Chance
    if you had powerful friends like John Reese has you would be able to launch a product with just as much fanfair. He could release a shiny turd and some people would buy it.
    I am not knocking him, he is a great marketer.

    Paul

  4. Comment by Will — September 17, 2007 @ 5:54 pm

    if you had powerful friends like John Reese has you would be able to launch a product with just as much fanfair. He could release a shiny turd and some people would buy it.

    LOL! I can just imagine the swarm of affiliate emails, bonuses and "scam" AdWords ads… Gross!

  5. Comment by Gary — September 18, 2007 @ 12:47 pm

    Multiple Blog Feeds Plugin that I found…

    Might be useful?

  6. Comment by Gary — September 18, 2007 @ 2:12 pm

    It is possible to use the Blog Rush system to your advantage, here's a quote I found;

    The Posts listed are usually freshly created…therefore you have a chance to be the first person to post a comment to these blogs.. For blogging that is gold dust as the comments are listed in order so like google the earliest blogs get most traffic ..

    I spent an hour so far going through the posts that appear and have so far managed to post about 10 comments in first place there were 1 pr 5 blogs and 4 PR 4 blogs and several of them look to have lots of traffic. (not all the blogd had the nofollow removed but some did)

  7. Comment by SarahG — September 18, 2007 @ 8:44 pm

    Well I've removed the BR widget today for 2 reasons. The first being that their site just isn't complete, there are no stats etc. which isn't good in my opinion. The second and the clincher was seeing a pornographically titled post in the widget on my blog. Not something I'd repeat to my Mum for example ;) Certainly not something I want on any of my sites, so it came off.

  8. Comment by ProfitsGuru.com — September 18, 2007 @ 9:14 pm

    Hee Hee,

    It is worse than that!

    At least one respected blogger is suggesting that BR is against Adsense Terms of Service. Follow the fun here……
    http://www.45n5.com/permalink/warning-blogrush-may-violate-the-adsense-terms-of-.html

    Ray

  9. Comment by Gary — September 18, 2007 @ 10:26 pm

    Sarah; not good!

    Ray; you probably realise that Mark posts mostly linkbait???

  10. Comment by Dave Starr --- ROI Guy — September 19, 2007 @ 2:31 am

    If you asked about 90% of the 'fools rush in" crwod who signed up to BlogRush for their email address so you could bombard them with offers … which is what John Reese's full time business is, they's tell you "no way". But give them a gimmicky, ugly widget and a _10_level_deep_ MLM! scheme and they offer up their email as if they were actually _getting_ somehting for it! Moooo indeed.

    Read any tutorial on IM and what is the number one subject? The list, the list, the list … how many opt-ins has BlogRush collected already? Just one fancy "squeeze page". … but wait, there's more ……

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