Comments on: Despite Recent Criticism, Blogrush Means Business

By: brian

brian — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:25:09 +0000

@maxblogpress: cool, we’ll have to check it out.

By: MaxBlogPress

MaxBlogPress — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:44:23 +0000

I recently developed a free wordpress plugin called “BlogRush Click Maximizer”. By using it you can vastly improve your Click Through Rate.

This allows you to control what you want to display in BlogRush. You can even write alternate – short and catchy title just for BlogRush.

You will have total control of what appears over the BlogRush Network.

Check it out here:
http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/bcm/

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BlogRush - The Easy Way to Get More Readers? — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:18:23 +0000

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By: brian

brian — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:17:42 +0000

@chessnoid: I appreciate you following over to the new blog! As far as I’m concerned, the jury is still out for Blogrush. I have been seeing a couple of referrers from them from time to time, but their stats are still down.

By: CHESSNOID

CHESSNOID — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:43:26 +0000

Hi, I found your site from your old site via stumbleupon. I had the blogrush widget up but just didn’t get any traffic from it. Then when I got the long winded email why it wasn’t working, blah, blah, blah, I just took it down. They promised big things and didn’t deliver after the initial buzz died from lack of performance. How is it working for you now. Would you recommend me putting it back up?

By: brian

brian — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:02:45 +0000

@aaron: good point. If you invite people looking for trouble, you just might get it. No need to make people upset like that.

@cubus: yes, I’m not a big fan of caps, either. I posted the excerpt of the letter just because I found it so unusual. When you write a letter like that, you’re really putting yourself out on the line.

By: cubus

cubus — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:08:48 +0000

Strong statement indeed. But ONE THING I KNOW is that since is subscribed to their service (and added the widget to my blog) I started to receive SPAM EMAILS. So maybe they do have strong service commitments but maybe they also should RESPECT their users privacy.

Personally I also DON’T LIKE when people are using capitals to MAKE THEIR POINT.

The traffic I received – for a small blog I have – wasn’t that bad though.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:59:59 +0000

He also might have prodded people into just screwing with the network for the principle. If you’re not gaining anything (traffic or money) from an exploit like that then his “…we will follow the trail” statement flies out the window.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:30:46 +0000

@dan: yes, it was a strong message. Was it over the top? Perhaps. But there is no question of where he stands on the topic.

Yes, many people don’t click on ads. Unless they are relevant. But these aren’t ads – they are other’s blog posts.

Not sure if I agree on clicking on other people’s ads to be nice, but hey, that’s your choice.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:43:51 +0000

Wow, strong statement indeed. You might disagree, but its statements like these that turn me off to a service or company. Instead of resorting to threats and what not, he could have stopped at “You see, we have other plans in the works…” and added a winky face, and that would have conveyed his point more effectively imho. Every company, service, or software that can’t keep a level head about people who work the system has had more important core issues to worry about than “creative” users.

As for poor CTRs, people understand what ads are and aren’t going to click on them. Users are getting very adept at identifying Adsense and PPC ads.

On the other hand, be nice. Whenever I see Google AdSense on someone’s page, I control+click one of the links, keep browsing the site, then close the ad tab. Next-to-little effort for me, a couple tenths of a penny for the site admin.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:03:18 +0000

@andy: good comments. It does seem that John will see Blogrush changes through so that we may start to see better conversion rates.

And yes, each widget serves a different purpose. Some are to help build or promote one’s profile (i.e. LinkedIn, StumbleUpon), while others to show one’s traffic (Alexa, pagerank, Sitemeter).

Lots of other companies have had a similar idea of what Blogrush is doing right now and have claimed to bring in more traffic such as Spicypage and Blogskinny.

CTR definitely changes based on the type of categories that you are talking about. A mortgage site is going to have a whole different CTR than a humor site.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:41:34 +0000

John Reese is a very serious guy in everything he undertakes and probably knows the owners of many CPA networks.

There is always going to be a limit to how much traffic any one widget is going to deliver, after all have you ever studied the CTR through to your own categories?

By: Business » Despite Recent Criticism, Blogrush Means Business

Business » Despite Recent Criticism, Blogrush Means Business — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:17:34 +0000

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