I meant to edit the previous “we need feedback” post and instead deleted it. That’s what I get for having 3 windows open at the same time and trying to do some clean up… anyway, thanks to everyone who posted their feedback. I was asking people’s opinions about widget placement and should we require everyone to place it high or have no requirements. The majority of comments leaned towards not having any specific requirements. So as of now, that’s the direction we’re leaning towards. We may, however, issue bonus credits for anyone that gives the widget higher placement.
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September 21st, 2007 at 8:23 pm
but but but, what about my little suggestion??
Leave an option for us to to manually include which blogs to show in the widget.
Reason I say this is, because I run a religious blog. But religions clash with each other all the time. So that is the reason I ask to give us an option on which blogs to show on the widget, rather then block.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:53 pm
John you should hit 1,000,000 in google for blogrush tomorrow.
Well done !!!
September 21st, 2007 at 8:56 pm
*smirk*
September 21st, 2007 at 8:59 pm
i don’t think that adding the facility to choose which blog will be shown in ur blog, you can use filters Samir
September 21st, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Oh, i am double posting again, Sorry
if you will make a bonus for users that will put it higher, i want to ask how will you know that they put the widget in higher space ?
if you will use an auto check to check the widget place automatically ( if it possible ) it would be better because you can recalculate the score due to the position, higher place get higher score for 1 impression than the lower place
a suggestion : why don’t you make “suggestions topic” so many users can share you their ideas ?, low clicks may not be a place problem only, so let users tell you what they think to make blogrush better
another sugg : topics with long titles are cropped in the widget, why don’t you add something like the alt tags in HTML that allow the user to rad the whole topic title when he/she point the mouse to the topic title that is already cropped
Thank you
September 21st, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Reason I say give us the option to manually controls blogs shown on the widget, is because I tried blocking, but there is too many to block. And I always run the risk of losing my readers if they see something they don’t like on the widget.
I already tried showing it on the blog but readers were raising concern about the blogs shown on the widget.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:21 pm
I signed up and the had computer crash.
So how to I get the “Feed URL” ?
Please advice, as I can not find any detaisl re this on my
site.
Thank for your advice
Chris
September 21st, 2007 at 11:30 pm
If anything we need more options for size and shape of the widget. I’d love to place it higher up just not in the current configuration.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:07 am
I agree with A Blog about Nothing, it would be nice to be able to resize the widget. I like the new flavors. I decided to stick with the original. I am lazy I guess. I filtered of stuff so I don’t see that porn anymore.
GREAT JOB!
DEE
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:44 am
maybe you could bo more security on valid impressions generated by blog owners. Should be like what Goooooogle people do. track the badguys.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:45 am
Even a 9 year old kid can google how they can break blogrush syndication validation.
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:31 am
Go with the bonus points, there are better than requiring placement. Don’t become a dictating company with where you think your importance should rank. Your widget is a tool, a good one but a tool none the less if you go and dictate placement you are going to turn people off.
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:53 am
another suggestion, I think Dom Delimar already made this, and I wanted to strengthen it a tad… The possibilities to be able to style it some would be great… Not locking the widget to a certain look. I have talked to several of my friends which have a more narrow design than me, and they willl not use blogrush however much I say it’s a good tool on account of the lack of design choices or possibilities to change width and so forth… the widget itself with any number of links and the top headline, and the bottom referral link could still be there, but more choice in order to make the thing fit more designs would be even greater as folks do actually not choose it depending on this feature’s not being here…
Thanks for a great tool - Patric.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:03 am
For 2 Days everything worked fine, now I am fad up, nothing shows, all empty space. Then I find the message of Cheating. How can one ever be sure what all the code and technic behind works fine for whom?
To much gadgets messing around.
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:31 am
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September 22nd, 2007 at 8:38 am
I agree with what a previous poster said, .. We should be able to filter out adult content — especially if our blog is family oriented.
This is a new system, and it is becoming very popular. The negative aspect of this growth is that there will be those who attempt to manipulate the system.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:45 am
What does the widget look like…is it on this blog? I wanted to see what it looked like on a blog…
I understand we can put the code anywhere on our blog but without knowing what the end result look like I wasn’t sure where to put it.
I’m new to this so I could use any advice
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:56 am
Taylor… look at the top right corner just benieth the search bar… that’s the widget.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:10 am
I would like to see the computer/internet devided some more… It’s just too wide an category… suggesting adding of subcategories like:
Sublevels to comptuer/internet:
continue in next post….
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:12 am
I just cant add my suggestions, can I ?
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:42 am
Hi John,
I think we need an option for people to delete blogs. I added the same blog 3 times accidentally and can’t get rid of it now.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:01 am
Please put a link on the widget - Report this blog. Then when people come across a spam blog, they can just click the link to report it.
Here’s one spam blog to take off - http://indonesiamorning.blogspot.com/ - he’s just posting links to articles elsewhere, no content.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:11 am
What if we were allowed to sell our extra credits, either to you for you to re-sell, or to other bloggers.
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Sami-
Don’t you think that more sub-categories would help this?
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Can anyone help? I’m looking for the widget code for BlogRush. I’d seen it on the video during the joining process, but I only have my referral url in the back office - no widget code. Am I missing something?
Too, for the supplied widget code, will I have to include my referral url - I would think so, so please, can you let me know where.
I’ve referred a few people by word of mouth and they are amazed at this. I’ve got a new site coming up - can’t wait to see how this helps.
thanks very much ahead of time
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:27 pm
I agree with Richard. We need a way to reports the splogs.
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:10 pm
How you would possible “compensate” for someone pushing blogrush “higher” on a page. After all, blogrush is just a minor (!) element in one blog, not the SPONSOR of a blog - at least: for most blog owners that is!
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Hi John,
You have some very thought provoking comments on your blog, as always.
I personally think that it should be the blog owners decision
as to where he or she has to place it.
Thanks for letting me share,
Jeff
http://www.crisp100dollarbills.com
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:38 pm
OK . . .I admit I am a Dumb Ass . . .I went to step thru the blog rush thing. I could never find my “code” . . . .and yes I pressed the “code” button on the dash board
I saw a referral link, however no code to copy to cut and paste to add to my blog. As no surprise I wrote tech help, would you guess . .drum roll please . . .no answer
What the hell is a feed URL? Go ahead show me how much a dweeb I am . That’s fine just show me the way
Thank you Danzig
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:28 pm
@Taylor
Categories and Sub Categories are so easy to manipulate. Event if it was monitored.
@John Reese
I don’t know much about how to run a business. And I very much appreciate your advices that you give on this blog (I actually print it out one of them, it is safe in my little folder). I also appreciate BlogRush. I will be using for a blog I am planning to start. But I cannot add it to my current blog, simply because, the readers are a bit sensitive about what I post. I have a fair good number of readers, and it is still rising.
Now the reason I ask if you could put the option on BlogRush, on manually including the Blogs rather then just reject them.
Categories and Sub-Categories, are so easy to manipulate. Even if your team manually checks every blog, don’t you think that is just wasting precious business and development time? IMO it would work much better if you pass on control to users. That way you and your team, think up great of more great ideas, instead of being slowed down by administration.
Please say if I have completely missed the point. Just thought I’d speak out instead of just complaining and criticizing.
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:54 pm
I agree - more shapes and sizes. Amazon’s new product cloud lets you set the width to what you want - great for fitting into peoples sidebars
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Is there any way to know WHICH blog posts were are getting impressions on?
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:29 pm
is you make it mandatory to place the widget where you want us to, then consider it gone from a ton of sites. you need to add more sizes and shapes.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:38 am
One problem w/the above the fold rule would be what constitutes above the fold…on my site, my widget is “above the fold” for me, but would not be for somebody at 800×600 (and probably not for 1024×768 although I haven’t tested that) - I just put it in a spot where it fit.
I would like to see click stats for people who click on the widget from your sites. I could not really move the widget somewhere else unless I saw how well it performed. Right now, I can see how few people click to my site, but have no idea how many click from my site.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:39 am
Another option is rather than awarding bonus credits based on placement, why not award bonus credits based on click throughs?
September 24th, 2007 at 8:04 am
Sounds good, Blaine. like performance-based blogging (marketing). People only click on headlines when they are compelled to do so. Maybe a “CTR Award” or recognition for “better bloggers” would be appropriate.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:36 am
I’d very much like to have some way to report a cheating blog… or at least to flag one that doesn’t appear to be conforming to terms. This morning, for example, I’m getting a Romanian Blogger blog’s non-English headlines… and the BlogRush widget appears nowhere on that blog. It would be nice to be able to flag such things for scrutiny, instead of having to filter them out one url at a time…
September 24th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Hi John & team.
According to my dashboard, I’ve got a number of bloggers signed up under my referral code (which is great). Although they are driving my credits up, it seems that they themselves aren’t promoting the widget and driving their own referrals (and hence my level 2, 3, etc etc)
I’d love to be able to send them a message encouraging them to promote the widget to other bloggers…but of course I don’t know who they are or how to contact them…. but you guys do! So…here’s my feature request:
- the ability to send a message to the people I’ve signed up under my referral code (my level 1s)
Any chance?
mcrilf
http://itsanonlineworld.blogspot.com
September 24th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
I just saw today one of my post in my blogrush widget. I want that my blogrush widget displayed just post of other blogs, not mine.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Category: Real Estate
I would like to make sure you have a real estate category.
Thank you.
September 24th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
I know this is a bit tedious but I think more granular categorization would improve things.
Example:
My blog is about bicycling and everything that goes with that. The only category I really can pick is “Sports” The problem with that is now I’m getting mostly Golf, Soccer (Football or Futbol), Poker, and Baseball blog links. I think if there were subcategories the traffic would be more targetted and the click throughs would be higher.
September 25th, 2007 at 1:28 am
John, I have been talking to Sami and I agree with his points. Please allow open up more categories and allow us to select preferred blogs.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Can you filter the phrase “Hello World!” from appearing in the titles? Just remove them all and please don’t allow new items with that title to get posted, from ANYONE. That would be my biggest request, thank you!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Although not quite working for me yet, Im hopeful, click through rates very low, still giving it time http://makingsalesmakingmoney.com/blog/
September 27th, 2007 at 6:27 am
I wish I could have more flexibility in customizing the widget design. Right now it looks totally “out of place” on my blog. I would like to edit the link colours, border designs, border colours, width etc.
September 29th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
There should be a link in the widget that says “more headlines” that allows site visitors to get more new headlines in their search for something interesting. The site should get extra impression credits for each set of links that gets displayed.
October 6th, 2007 at 11:41 am
I don’t know the best place for giving you guys suggestions but I have a feature request:
“Ability to choose a widget which will open links in new the same window (or tab).”
I know some people will find this request strange thinking why would they want visitors to leave their website simply by using BlogRush’s widget? Am I nuts wanting this?
Maybe, but I feel the visitors should have a control over the navigation and I don’t like website that enforce something on me. My browser still has the Back button and even the least experienced users know what that is for. And I know I can’t force them to stay on my website if they don’t want to because no matter what I do they still have the highest control over browsing. Why would I make their surfing experience difficult then?
Besides, there are even studies telling us that links opening new page inside the same window (or tab) are more natural and generally what an average user expects. (Look at the mistake number 9 in Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html )
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