"Blogrush?...um, well, it sucks" - The silence is golden.....

"Blogrush?...um, well, it sucks"
19.9.07

Well I wrote earlier about blogrush and asked...why bother?

A few days later and looking around it seems people think its sucks!

I couldn't say, I didn't have any idea what was happening with mine but now...
My stats have appeared in my blogrush dashboard.

A few things that bother me are...

A very low click through rate, I also notice others say the same.

No idea what widget on what blog people click on, to find my blog here, if any. :o)

When the widget goes down temporarily, a blurb replaces it, but I feel this badly worded.

I understand it's in beta, and opinions are raging all over forums and blogs about it.

Addressing the concerns I have...

Low CTR rate....write better captivating titles...like the one used here. ;o)

I could do a search around to see if I can find out how to know which blogs widget drove me the visitor, this may well be part of the process being refined during the beta stage.

That blurb...Not happy with that, the wording had NO mention of blogrush, just saying this is temporarily down but the site will soon be fixed.

IF I was the reader I would have assumed it was the blog itself that was down, or that part of it at least.

NOT looking good doing that!
That blurb should be changed.

So, what about my opinion on if "it sucks"?

I think it's early to say, the traffic I have had from it is very small, almost nothing, of 660 impressions I got ONE click!

That's rubbish, I am GIVING more than GETTING with blogrush.

I will give it a week or less if things don't improve fast.

I know John will improve it, but how fast is the key.

It is pyramidal feeling, MLMY if you like, and yet it was the early adopters, Johns friends, inner circle, and the big influential bloggers that stand to benefit the most.

If you have a brand new blog, hardly any traffic I would skip it! ;o)

Whats your opinion?

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9 Comments:

At 9:49 PM, Steve Jobs said...: Why won't give it more of a chance? Just ignore it for two weeks, and then come back and check. You need to give it some time. BlogCatalog wasn't all that useful when it started, but look at it now. Bu the way... lover the blog! Keep it up.
At 10:06 PM, Rob :-) said...: I am giving it a chance mate. ;o)

I always said I would try it out for a while, hopefully things are already improving anyway.

If it bombs everyone will be shouting it, seems some already are, but I am happy to keep trying it out.

Thanks for the nice comment. :o)
At 6:30 AM, Vanessa said...: Hi,

I've been giving it a run on a couple of my blogs and I know I've received traffic from it (and which blog it came from through my statcounter) but you're right that the reporting methods in Blogrush itself need to improve - and I imagine they will once things settle down a bit.

With the click through rate - like me and all other users you've probably already received the email explaining how they are addressing that and trying to resolve the problem etc along with making sure we improve post titles etc.

I'll be keeping an eye on it but at this stage it seems to be sending me at least some traffic I may not have received otherwise.
At 12:54 PM, Gerri said...: I'm not so sure about the whole idea. I have however signed up just to see what the outcome will be. Keep me updated with what you come up with.
At 11:34 PM, Lovebabz said...: Well, I just added it today. So I am going to wait and see if it does anything. It doesn't seem to interfere with the feel of my blog. I will check back with you to see if your feelings change or if you have further insight into this. I hope you are well.
At 6:26 PM, Sheylara said...: Well, I stumbled onto your blog through BlogRush (your link displayed on my blog's widget). That's gotta be a good thing, however minor. :P
At 6:05 AM, Vic Grace said...: I contacted a couple of blogs through it but no one came back to me. I will keep it up for a while and see what happens.

Thanks for popping over to my place.
At 5:45 AM, JFC said...: Don't bother with it if you have a new blog, their robots automatically assume you're a splog if you have any ads on your site.

Plus, traffic from it is very small unless you're a A/B lister in a high traffic niche.
At 3:09 PM, Detached said...: I have come across you via Blogrush, and I have found it kinda sucks, too. However, I got a thingy from Feedjit and I have noticed a few every day from Blogrush, so maybe it takes time?

Sweet blog by the way:)