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You’ve asked and we’ve listened! Introducing, BlogRush Flavors. (They’ll be available in a few days.)  * Click to see a larger version in a new a window. You’ll be able to choose the color of your choice so it more closely matches the design of your blog. MORE NEWS… It seems that some people are trying to call BlogRush a “pyramid scheme” or stating “there’s just no way the future impressions will ever be able to be served based on the promises of what referrals will bring. The math is impossible like other schemes of this kind.” Anyone that is saying this doesn’t understand how BlogRush works… EVERY SINGLE IMPRESSION GETS REWARDED FOR *THAT* IMPRESSION AS IT HAPPENS. There is no “promise” of future rewards based on referral activity today. Each and every impression of the widget (and impression of the 5 headlines per widget) is rewarded AS IT HAPPENS. And when all the math is said and done, it also leaves 1 out of every 10 headline spaces left-over for BlogRush to use to monetize the service. So apparently some people think it’s all based on false promises that the network will eventually “catch up” and pay rewards in the future. This just isn’t the case. Every single impression that occurs is calculated and rewarded to the generations ‘above’ — that’s how the math has to work. We’re working hard to move to the 100% Manual Review Process as quickly as possible, and other improvements. As I’ve now said many times, our SOLE FOCUS is helping our members generate quality, targeted traffic. So we’re hard at work to make that happen.
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September 21st, 2007 at 12:51 am
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September 21st, 2007 at 1:23 am
I think so many people make the easy assumption that it is a pyramid scheme because the referral networks are somewhat shaped like pyramids.
With the new styles, has any thought gone into making a few of the elements within, such as row colors, link color, font choice, etc controllable with CSS?
I think that the CTR would be better if it was a bit leaner and more blendable into a blog’s look & feel. These colors look like a great start though!
September 21st, 2007 at 1:26 am
Cool.. Thanks man
September 21st, 2007 at 1:29 am
I love the orange one, the blue ones eh and the green ones!
HAha..
This is will be fun
Terry
September 21st, 2007 at 1:49 am
Well.. Maybe later on we can also customize the background with JPGs =) sorta watermark? what do yah think @terry ?
I love the red one.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:24 am
Great JOB John!
Those really look great.
Nice touch.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:36 am
As in similar traffic-generation schemes, the proof will be whether sites continue to use the widget beyond the testing phase. If people keep it on their site, the widget could prove useful for some. However, if people in large numbers stop using the widget, its benefit will decrease and BlogRush will be tossed on the scrap heap of interesting idea, but flawed follow-through.
Its just a personal analysis. Anyone could be wrong.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:48 am
[…] Reese, on his Income.com blog has announced the soon-to-come BlogRush Flavors, a much-requested feature that allows BlogRush users to select a color for the BlogRush widget to […]
September 21st, 2007 at 6:12 am
But it is free, so it is not MLM.
September 21st, 2007 at 6:18 am
Hello peoples
Are you going to offer some sort of affiliate program for income.com? I want to promote the bajesus out of it but there has to be some banana money in it for me.
Whaddya say?
The Mad Ape
September 21st, 2007 at 6:28 am
I can’t wait fot this tool to really be useable. Don’t get me wrong, I love it as is, but there are “cheaters” and there are those one really do not want to link to throught Blogrush, so with the anticipated changes a’coming, I will continue to “rush blogs” and hope it evolves to the great tool it has potential to be.
Patric.
September 21st, 2007 at 6:39 am
First question I asked, was can I have it in red???
You obviously are listening….
I dunno why people are worrying about pyramid schemes? are they paying for something?? As far as I can see it’s a win-win….. lighten up people!
September 21st, 2007 at 7:11 am
Hurray! I’m so glad about the color choices being on the way
Good work!
September 21st, 2007 at 7:17 am
Great! I just installed the widget yesterday, and the lack of color choice was one of my concerns.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:27 am
Thanks for listening. Actually, I was hoping for the possibility to control some parts with CSS but this is a start.
I hope you get rid of the abusers very soon…
September 21st, 2007 at 7:30 am
Thank you for the options on the colors for the template. Will blend so much better. Thank you for this free service to help us get out blogs out!!
Sherri
September 21st, 2007 at 7:34 am
You guys are delivering an incredible tool. I really dig the dashboard graph and now the choice of colors … wow!
Good show!
September 21st, 2007 at 7:37 am
Nice colors! But I think that now You have to start with other languages. The great weak! I’m italian and I’m sure that we could do a great job. Why don’t you begin doing something like a “second category” (by language), and linking first when this field has the similar arguments, and just then all the english post ?
About colors… well done!
September 21st, 2007 at 7:37 am
Pyramid Scheme it may be, but it does work, my referrals have gone up, and have been tracked to the BlogRush widget. I have also found my blog displayed on other peoples BlogRush. You aren’t paying any money, there is nothing to lose on using this widget, just traffic to gain.
Signed,
Happy Customer #232
http://ufd.blogspot.com
September 21st, 2007 at 7:39 am
Hi,
I waiting for the flavors, because I need a green color which matches to my site http://freebooksstore.com/
September 21st, 2007 at 7:42 am
Hi John,
Are you aware of the fact that none of the WordPress.com bloggers (myself included) can benefit from this because the widget uses javascript which is not allowed on Wordpress.com for security purposes?
I have a SiteMeter widget embedded on my page which contains simply a hyperlink pointing to an asp script hosted on their server. Is there any chance BlogRush could work similarly or it’s just WordPress.com blogs are out of luck in this one (forever)?
Appreciate any response
===
Sorry about reposting this but last one didn’t get seem to get thru (http://www.income.com/blog/2007/09/20/over-40000000-blog-headlines-served/#comment-9497)
September 21st, 2007 at 7:43 am
Hi.
Iam waiting for this . Good work.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:43 am
Hi,
I am waiting for this . Good work.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:46 am
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September 21st, 2007 at 7:50 am
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September 21st, 2007 at 7:50 am
Yes
It will be nice to choose the colour to match your site or blog.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:51 am
We would like one where we can have just the links displayed so we can blend it into our theme.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:52 am
Someone always has doubts about just about anything out there. They need a boss
not a business.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:54 am
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September 21st, 2007 at 7:55 am
This was a crucial upgrade for blogrush, I know a LOT more people are going to use it now that there are flavours… great thinking!
September 21st, 2007 at 7:59 am
I haven’t seen comments by anyone else who has this “condition.” I had to put the widget in my footer which, of course, puts it way at the bottom of a long page. I wanted to put it in my sidebar but the thing is so big it sticks out into the page or post. Can I resize it or resize my sidebar through the stylesheet? Even if I could put it in the sidebar, the thing is sort of ugly (the new colors might help)
September 21st, 2007 at 8:01 am
John
Dont let these people worry you.
Blog readers and Worry warts this is for you
Folks there is more to worry bout then colors
and claims of pyramids….. If you take your energy and focus on networking
and promoting the rest will come natural. I have followed John Reese since 2000
and the guy has done amazing things with online marketing. The last thing he will touch
is anything affliated with schemes or so forth. Give this a chance and set the code
on your blogs and forget about the rest will come natural if you do your part
thanks to all that are sending good traffic and shame on the scripts that are cheating us
but how are they cheating us when its all been free
Thanks Joe
September 21st, 2007 at 8:01 am
The basic color scheme worked fine for my blog but the new colors may fit other designs more seamlessly.
In the future, will the format of the widget also be more varied, perhaps a square or a larger rectangle?
September 21st, 2007 at 8:04 am
The new color scheme (blue steel) will go nice with mine. I like the original for my other blog. I’m with ya to the end John, keep up the great work.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:07 am
I love the flavors. Very cool. Can’t wait til I can use them….
http://bodypad.blogspot.com/
d
September 21st, 2007 at 8:08 am
Love the new colors. I think I’ll stick with classic gray though for now =).
September 21st, 2007 at 8:09 am
The blue is perfect for my blog, thanks! I love BlogRush
September 21st, 2007 at 8:14 am
Good to see you’ll be offering color options, great job!
September 21st, 2007 at 8:22 am
The colors are a great idea. I’m waiting for blue. There will always be critics, half of what they saw may actually be useful. I thankful for the work you have put into. I only wish 1) it didn’t count my page loads (is that even honest) and 2) the categories were a bit more specific. I know “maritime” doesn’t burn up the internet like Paris Hilton but I’m sure these things will be ironed out in time.
Keep up the good work!
September 21st, 2007 at 8:23 am
i like the yellow ……………….gold.shining shining.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:25 am
How About some different Sizes…
Although I can get it working with css Others might Not
This seems like a great Idea
Nice One John
Regards Bill BAILEY
September 21st, 2007 at 8:26 am
Another issue that i’ve noticed: My site appearing on the widget on my blog to me.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:30 am
hi,
Thanx for providing such vital information.I love the flavors. Very cool. Can’t wait til I can use them….i would like to promote my website..
http://www.moneygalaxy.page.tl.
Thanking you,
Somen chakravarty
September 21st, 2007 at 8:31 am
i think using colours is a fabulous idea..it customizs the look of the blog…
September 21st, 2007 at 8:34 am
Great - I love the new colors! I like the idea of being able to make it esthetically pleasing.
Now if you can also work on adding to the categories!
The Abundance Place
Holly
September 21st, 2007 at 8:39 am
Good Work!
Can you add the possibility to resize the widget? For a lot of Blog is too big.
Thank you very much.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:39 am
Awesome work!
Dustin
September 21st, 2007 at 8:40 am
Hi,
One of the things I quickly discovered about BlogRush, is that I love how I find myself clicking on the headlines & reading blog posts that I never would have come across in my normal daily routine. It’s a great way to find new and interesting writers.
Sincerely,
Meg Meyer
Writing, Business Coaching - Center of Muse
September 21st, 2007 at 8:41 am
My Balance went to 0 almost instantly, I’m patient, it will be good, when are the colors available?
http://makingsalesmakingmoney.com/blog/
September 21st, 2007 at 8:42 am
nice thanks, I will take the orange one!
September 21st, 2007 at 8:42 am
Great to see the color options, BUT how about letting users customize the color to their liking instead of having predefined templates? Also it would be nice to have a few size and shape options as well. Not everyone believes the sidebar is the best place for this thing.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:42 am
Pyramid scheme? The very concept of scheme involves the loss of money. These arguments hold no legal basis or grounds and should be summarily dismissed as idiotic. Don’t waste your time responding to, or worrying about these things.
As for me, I have had some issues getting some of my wordpress blogs to accept the javascript. Some do, some don’t. Are you working on some alternative coding?
Blogtommy
September 21st, 2007 at 8:42 am
Good start, but I’d really like the ability to apply a little CSS - or even just the option for a slightly smaller widget. The current one has required an expansion of my sidebar…
September 21st, 2007 at 8:45 am
I think it should be customizable colors as well. But at least now we can choose different colors. I don’t see Black though.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:45 am
Thanks, nice idea, but the display is still too wide. We need flexibility in sizing as well. As it stands at the moment, I can’t use Blogrush as I need 120px not 180px
September 21st, 2007 at 8:46 am
Yay! A purple one for my blog!! smiLes
September 21st, 2007 at 8:51 am
I agree that characterizing this as some kind of exploitation scheme is silly, since bloggers are offered something for free that may help. Worst case scenario, it doesn’t help and you’re out no money. The only way it hurts is taking up screen real estate, and there’s a simple solution for that — giving up on BlogRush if you don’t like the results.
One thing to consider is it’s not just about stimulating inbound traffic, but about giving your link-hungry readers some other interesting material to read. They may leave if they see a great headline, but you stand to gain regular readers by being a source of more content, especially if you combine it in your sidebar with other content sources, such as displays of your best posts, delicious link feeds, or other feeds.
But I do question the math. I’ve never been good with math, but hear me out. First, if, as John says, “EVERY SINGLE IMPRESSION GETS REWARDED FOR *THAT* IMPRESSION AS IT HAPPENS,” why do I have a credit balance greater than zero? Obviously its being rewarded with a credit, not an impression. And it can’t be promised that all credited impressions be displayed on other blogs immediately, because there may be an imbalance — more bloggers owed impressions than impressions available. Assume there are just two members — me and one other guy. I do 1000 impressions a day; he does 100. As I understand it, I get 1000 credits a day. But my posts can only be shown 100 times, leaving a daily shortfall of 900. Much worse if I recruit all 10 generations of downline, and he has none. Or does my widget draw blanks after showing his posts 100 times, since he has no remaining credits, so I do not get credits for the other 900 impressions? In this case, I get much less than the apparent potential from doing the math (as in simply adding up my pageviews and those of my downline and applying the appropriate credit ratios).
September 21st, 2007 at 8:52 am
[…] Due to a lot of pressure from the community John Reese has decided it’s time for more versions to the new famous boring black Blogrush widget. So in a few days you’ll be able to choose from a broader array of different colored widgets, that better suits your blogs theme. You can read a whole post about it on the John Reese’s blog. […]
September 21st, 2007 at 8:52 am
Great! Now it will finally blend with my décor! Great job guys!
September 21st, 2007 at 8:52 am
Adding more to what is already a great method to get free traffic. thanks jimi
September 21st, 2007 at 8:52 am
John,
My blog is only a couple of months old (since late July of 2007), and I have no other presence on the web. I have no product for sale as of yet. I haven’t uploaded any articles to directory sites (I know, I know, I have to get those things done). My point is, all I’d done to promote my site prior to Blog Rush was some social bookmarking for a few weeks (e.g. Stumble, Digg, Delicious and Technorati), and I was buried on page 18 of Google search results for my keyword — position 186 or thereabouts.
I jumped on Blog Rush the minute I got your email, which would have been 9/15, I think. Today, 9/21/2007, I’ve jumped almost overnight to page 8 and position 88! It’s not the Holy Grail of position one on page one, I know, but considering that I started at the bottom of the composte heap, this is phenomenal.
And my syndication credits skyrocketed today. You can’t tell me there’s not a correlation between my Google position and my installing Blog Rush on my site. This is definitely not FUTURE credits. This is real time and even my newbie site is benefiting. Thank you, John, et al!
September 21st, 2007 at 8:52 am
Thank You, for being flexible and help my web site look authentic.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:53 am
Thanks for making a pink one!
September 21st, 2007 at 8:57 am
Customizable colors are nice, but I’d really like a bit of leeway on the size. My sidebar is just a bit too small for the entire widget.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:58 am
Excellent! Just another example of how much you guys care! Can’t wait to see all the future stuff you got going on.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:04 am
Nice move. This should help for sure.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:06 am
Very Cool - LOVE IT! You guys are great.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:11 am
good choice of colors. Gets better by the day.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:12 am
you were right…. this IS a very welcomed feature!!! i *ahem* caught myself *ahem* wrinkling my nose every time i saw the old gray/black console! THANKS FOR THE COLORS!!
but i do agree with whoever said that making other things inside the color border be customizable too. excellent idea!
i’ll be waiting for future upgrades to this….
thx again!
September 21st, 2007 at 9:12 am
Support: Now that I have joined what do I do next. How do I get traffic etc.?
Thanks, Bruce, Seaweedman
September 21st, 2007 at 9:16 am
I’m very pleased to see that colour choices are coming soon. That certainly answers one big concern. More important, though, for the future of BlogRush, is this prompt and concrete demonstration that BlogRush is responding to user feedback. Good on you!
September 21st, 2007 at 9:19 am
Great work, I’ll be able to blend the blue one in much better than the original. As for the people who are throwing their negativity around … Go Get A Life!
Regards,
Phill
September 21st, 2007 at 9:20 am
I have read various remarks regarding Blog Rush. Some people think it’s interesting
while others don’t trust it. I’ll give it a shot and see what happens.
I like the fact that they are allowing us to choose between colors. I hope that in the
future they will allow us to specify a color.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:22 am
John
He has made lots of money in this
business. Have you? I‘m trying for now! The
potential is enormous, free, Yes!
September 21st, 2007 at 9:27 am
The system will not accept my feed. Says no posts in the feed. Not so. It is an active feed but no matter to the Blogrush system. Until I get some code I am out in the cold.
Any suggestions?
email above.
TIA
September 21st, 2007 at 9:27 am
OK, you’ve got a color for me, I’ll give it a shot.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:27 am
The colors are a great idea, but what about making smaller borders. The current widget looks too much like advertising, which explains the low CTR rate.
I recommend to come up with a simple widget, without big frames and way less colors and text.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:28 am
[…] John Reese announced this morning that in a few days BlogRush will get new “Flavors.” The new flavors will allow you to choose a color for the BlogRush widget that more closely matches your blog. You can read the announcement here. […]
September 21st, 2007 at 9:31 am
Pyramid or not, my traffic has climbed noticeable.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:32 am
[…] BlogRush has is only one widget. (view it) BlogRush is taking care of this final issue by adding BlogRush Flavors. There will now be twelve different ‘flavors’ to the BlogRush widget (Check them out!) […]
September 21st, 2007 at 9:33 am
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September 21st, 2007 at 9:38 am
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September 21st, 2007 at 9:39 am
Don’t they know there aren’t any pyramid schemes anymore anyways?
They’re called Network Market Businesses now.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:42 am
Thats good news, I run forum that is all neat and slight greyish tone and I have this big black az black azz widget like a dark cloud hanging around.
Well that may be extreme but I love the fact we will be able to load diff. colours especially since many will have more then one widget in place.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:42 am
Thumb-up for you… impressive…
September 21st, 2007 at 9:42 am
Perfect flavor improvement!
September 21st, 2007 at 9:46 am
I am highly impressed.
thanks
Rana
http://www.earn-in-dollars.com
September 21st, 2007 at 9:47 am
Great! Thank you! Now, how ’bout a little bit skinnier one? I’m not savvy enough to change the width of my sidebar!
September 21st, 2007 at 9:52 am
I love the colours! Hope you can fine tune the system to improve the CTR and quality of traffic.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:53 am
Agree. A size adjustment in the widget generator would be a good thing.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:54 am
OOH! I want the blue one!!!! =)
September 21st, 2007 at 9:54 am
I installed the widget a couple days ago and I have been getting traffic from it already….not boatloads (and I do have a lot of credits) but it is traffic. I have also had a jump in my RSS subscribers.
One fear that I’ve seen addressed online is that the bloggers who display the widget are sending their blog’s traffic stats back to the BlogRush server, the fear being that this data will be used for something negative. My thought is - if you’re using any kind of stats package, whether Google analytics, statcounter, sitemeter, etc., they are collecting the same data.
Maybe you would want to address this fear for that sector of the blogosphere, too. (?)
Good job on the upcoming colors….I’ll also put in my vote for alternate sizes, thanks!
September 21st, 2007 at 9:54 am
It’s a pyramid, don’t deny that, in the sense that you build a pyramid of
referrals under you to get more credits.
On the other hand it’s not a pyramid scheme, as in bad, as you get all credits
for your own traffic and your referrals traffic in real time without
any condition that the network has to grow to support you.
I have checked the math and it seems ok to me, in addition to the 1:10
credits that John is keeping to support the network he will also get
extra credits from the “missing upline” of the early adopters.
If you signed up under someone that signed up under John directly there
is only two credits awarded, one to you and one to the one who
referred you. In that case John keeps 3 out of 5 credits.
Not that I complain, he has servers and employees to pay, and as the
network grows this will be a very insignificant portion of all users.
Hope you get the clickthrough rate improved soon, it was much better
in the first days running.
Simon
September 21st, 2007 at 10:00 am
Thanks so much for the new colors!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:00 am
Glad to see there’s other colours available. Can’t wait to try them out!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:03 am
Thanks for spicing up the widget! Now it looks far interesting!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:05 am
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September 21st, 2007 at 10:06 am
Wow…It`s really amazing to have blogrush in colors….The update is wonderful
September 21st, 2007 at 10:06 am
size does matters, so what about resizing the frame?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:06 am
Cool Work done by you..Keep the good work…
September 21st, 2007 at 10:08 am
very good idea!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:09 am
blog rush is a good idea. the “rush” part will end in a few days. People will evaluate the increase in traffic. Some will learn to understand its real uses.
At some point, people will listen wshen told how to get increases of meaningful traffic. That starts with getting traffic…period, and then sorting and culling that trraffic,
September 21st, 2007 at 10:10 am
Bom dia.
Parabéns pelo seu trabalho.
Abraços
Deste jornalista brasileiro.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:11 am
Quote>>>size does matters, so what about resizing the frame?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:17 am
I like the new colors as well, maybe someday you can make it css style so we can
manage all color variations like with Google adsense, so to even better match our sites..
September 21st, 2007 at 10:17 am
Hi John,
Thanks for the upcoming New Great Flavors. Great addition to a Great Service. A few of the comments on here havent figured out yet what they actually have before them.
Keep up the Great Work!
Tracy
September 21st, 2007 at 10:19 am
Very nice will change this immidietly
September 21st, 2007 at 10:20 am
Hi John,
I am impatiently waiting for flavors.
Awesome work.
Thanks
Suwandi Chow
http://www.suwandichow.com
September 21st, 2007 at 10:20 am
it’s about time! the brown widget’s so dull it doesn’t stand out on my page!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:46 am
Boy, some people always find something to complain about. This sounds like a great idea - and it’s free to use. How can you complain about that?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:47 am
[…] am looking forward to the new “Flavors” as they call them. It will definitely improve the overall appearance of the widget and […]
September 21st, 2007 at 10:49 am
People will pick fault in anything, just ignore the idiots and listen to the constructive feedback from the users. You’ve got a great idea and you’re clearly working hard to iron out problems and improve the service. If people don’t like it, they don’t have to use it. I think the ideas are sound and I look forward to seeing how the service progresses
September 21st, 2007 at 10:53 am
thanks for the new features =)
September 21st, 2007 at 10:56 am
This is exactly what I wanted. Thank you so much!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:57 am
You got my number .. Oh, I mean Color
Thx.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:01 am
Love the flavours! Thanks! How is it a pyramid scheme?? It’s free!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:05 am
I am beginning to lose hope in Blogrush. My site gets a great deal of traffic and I find it hard to believe that I have not gotten any clicks.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:07 am
Its a shame that some will abuse such a great free tool, but I guess that’s human
to exploit anything that you can at the expense of others.
Why are people moaning about a pyramid scheme? are they taking any money out of their pockets?
Keep up the good work John
Lee
September 21st, 2007 at 11:14 am
Cool improvement! This is what my blog needed.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:21 am
Cool! Thanks for listening and getting these out so quickly! Way to go guys!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:23 am
[…] check it out here […]
September 21st, 2007 at 11:24 am
So far the clickthroughs are really unimpressive, but I’ll give this a whirl for a couple weeks
September 21st, 2007 at 11:27 am
Great idea, but currently i have had around no clicks, and quite a fair few syndications. But the manual review prccess should help this along!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:33 am
The default colors were sweet. I am looking forward adding some green flava to my blog.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:56 am
I wanted to use the use it - but I cant change the size. Any way to do this?
Thanks!
http://www.indramarketing.com/blog/indrablog.html
September 21st, 2007 at 12:00 pm
This concept seems like it could be very productive…it produces a mirror-like affect to your already existing traffic in real time…instantly doubling your traffic!
Although,I’m still unable to delete codes I don’t need within my account I’m sure everything will get worked out.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Great work on the colors guys! Now if we can just get rid of those pathetic cheaters so we can get a better CTR we’ll be all set.
Keep up the good work!
Shine on,
Aaron
September 21st, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Alright! This will go great with my green theme.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:10 pm
New colors are nice, but different widgets would be better — different shapes/sizes. This
one is too wide for some sidebars.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
I have only recently started my http://aboutblogging.info site and Blogrush is one of the tools I’m using to promote it.
The funny thing is that in the stats published on Blogrush I haven’t registered any clicks yet. However, in the logs on my site Blogrush comes up as a referrer. You seem to be underpromoting yourselves in your click-through statistics!
September 21st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Great news! The colors look great John, etal. I don’t get the pyramid scheme comments either. The only gripe/concern is click thru rates. Regardless, this is a FREE service. I have discovered some blogs I did not know about and made some contacts without even trying…………I think that is the point of this
September 21st, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Hey flavours are an awesome idea! I’m sure looking foward to getting more visitors to blog
September 21st, 2007 at 12:35 pm
I got my first referrals yesterday. Keep up the good work.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:37 pm
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September 21st, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Good move, John, with these new flavors. As I can see, most people are welcoming them. Next thing to do is to create codes for resizable widgets. Has anyone ever thought that the widget need not necessarily be placed on the sidebar? It could well be placed after a post, so another design will be much welcome.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Thanks John. I was wondering about a color change.
Now how about changing the color of the dark type on red box background that I cannot read? I blame del.ious.us for starting that and now it’s everywhere.
Got 376 referrals and 1 click. Guess I gotta make my blog titles more compelling. Great service!
September 21st, 2007 at 12:49 pm
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September 21st, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I am very happy that the flavours have been introduced. Now we can add widgets that fit our blogs. Good work guys!
September 21st, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Gambling categories please!! I have 1500+ imoressions and NO clicks.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I love the new colors! I would love it even better if we could customize the width of the widget to fit our sidebars better. As it is, it’s a bit too wide and messes up my site in IE, but IE sucks anyway, so it’s not much different. LOL!
September 21st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
These look slick John!
Great job.
Stu
September 21st, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Can`t wait!!!!!
September 21st, 2007 at 1:14 pm
damn it.. i mean auto blending adsense in blogger
September 21st, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Thanks for the new colors - that’s fabulous! I wrote a while ago asking if you’d make thebox more narrow - like 110 px - I see the one you have on this page is narrow - have you made ones we can get that are either 100 or 110 px wide, too? Thanks!
September 21st, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Thanks for the cool widget and for the new flavors, Keep it up man
September 21st, 2007 at 1:54 pm
I’d love for there to be a narrower option box. As it stands I can only keep the widget on my home page since I collapse the right column of my site everywhere else (it’s the only column the widget fits in)…
Beyond that, via scrupulously tracking inbound referrals, I haven’t seen any indications this is getting us even remotely anywhere. But I’ll stick it out as an experiment for a month or so.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
That’s excellent news John!
September 21st, 2007 at 2:03 pm
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September 21st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
I would also like to have an option to adjust the width of the widget…. slightly to wide for me as well… I don’t really want to create a new template simply to accomodate it
September 21st, 2007 at 2:15 pm
I just love the lime green one. It will go perfectly with my wall decor blog. Thanks Guys. Keep up the great work.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:17 pm
hi, awesome widget, hopefully you will not stop here.
one of the most important improvements in my opinion would be an inclusion of “keywords”. currently, you allow to block the keywords, however, specifying the keywords pertinent to my blog (and possibly matching those with other blogs listed keywords or headlines), would help to list relevant headlines in a widget.
can you please also add “fashion” or “clothing” to your blog categories. thanks in advance and good luck with the venture.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I’m sorry if I have missed it somewhere, but are there any plans to provide .html code for the widget (as opposed to javascript)?
Thankx!
September 21st, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Blogrush is such a great product. Now it is even more attractive with the new looks. Absolutely great job. Thanks a lot.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Feature Request…
One thing I would like to see added, would be a way to delete a blog that we set up with BlogRush.
I created a blog profile in BlogRush, but I couldn’t get the widget to work properly on that blog. So now I have an unused blog profile in my BlogRush account.
It doesn’t matter to much, it’s just annoying to keep seeing
I also changed the name of the blog to “Please Delete”, just so that I wouldn’t get confused as to which ones were active.
Joel
September 21st, 2007 at 2:55 pm
I have been trying to get the code from the website to install on my blogs as shown in the video but all I get is a referral link and no code
September 21st, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Looks very promising. Getting traffic the first day. Good service in my opinion.
September 21st, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Great stuff, the color choices make it more universal for everyone now, very creative…
Terrance Charles
http://www.terrancecharles.com/blog
September 21st, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I think what has been produced is great and never done before. Well done for the effort. Can’t wait to see my site get million of traffic.
September 21st, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Help! This is probably not the place for this question but I could not find anyplace else on blogrush to ask. I have been attempting to place the code on my blog for several days but no success. I assume the link under “Get Code” tab is the one to copy and paste. I copy it but it does not paste (”Paste” disappears.) I even tried typing the link - that did not work either. Perhaps I’m not copying the right code?
I even tried copying the code on the video tutorial for blogspot but of course could not!
I hope someone can help - thanks so much!
Barbara
September 21st, 2007 at 3:55 pm
I’ve noticed some incoming traffic from the widget listed in my site’s traffic stats - yet the blogrush widget is only showing 1 click-through.
Also, yesterday my blog was hit harder than normal by stumbleupon. This earned quite a few impressions. This morning though, I was listed as having something like -50(NEGATIVE!) credits, and I’m still in the red. Any ideas?
September 21st, 2007 at 4:12 pm
John
Would be also Nice if you could add some ‘flexibility’ as for the Size to that ‘widget’.
It is screwing the layout on some of my blogs so much that I cannot use it!
It is simply too wide for my sidebars.
Doesn’t work even when I tried to put it into a table.
Also:
It ONLY works on a Home page right?
If I put it on my post pages the system did not recognize it
September 21st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Excellent work all!
And I agree with John’s (Dagmar) suggestion about size flexibility. It would be nice to be able to adjust the size of the widget. But I’m sure that’ll come eventually anyway.
Bottom line, things with BlogRush are looking pretty nice so far!
Shine on,
Aaron
September 21st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Barbara,
Yes, the code is under the “Get Code” link. It’s what’s in the yellow box. Try to copy and paste it again. Hopefully it’ll work.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Great!
Thanks for helping me increase my blog traffic.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Thanks, but my screen does not show a yellow box. The only thing that shows is the Direct Referral Link - is that supposed to be the code? I could not make it work.
Barbara
September 21st, 2007 at 5:34 pm
I am so happy I will not have to look at that black border forever. I felt like I was at a funeral. Colors is a great idea. Here comes my blue period.
Thanks for recognizing the artist in me,
Arthur
September 21st, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Hi Barbara,
No, the Direct Referral Link is not the code for the widget. What browser are you using? Maybe it’s just not showing the page correctly?
I took a screenshot of my page and circled the area where the code is. This is what you are looking for. See if you can find that in your account. Try logging again, then click on the Get Code button. That will take you to the proper page. If you don’t see the code box then I’m not sure what would be causing it not to appear. Perhaps someone else on here has an idea?
Here’s the link to the screenshot.
Anyway, I hope that helps!
Shine on,
Aaron
September 21st, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Finally, it was about time
hope we got the chance to PICK the colors and not just to pick from a SET (yeah, want to blend it better with the layout).
September 21st, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Thanks for the screenshot Aaron! The code is NOT showing up on my screen - at least now I know I’m not completely clueless! I’ve sent an email to what I hope are the tech people at blogrush.
Thanks again!
Barbara
September 21st, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Aaron, I forgot - I’m using IE
Barbara
September 21st, 2007 at 7:05 pm
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September 21st, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Colors are nice. But like so many others who’ve commented here, I need a smaller width to fit my site design. 120px maximum.
I don’t use a “standard” template, I designed my own, and my site uses CSS layout not tables. I tried so many different ways to incorporate the widget without putting it in the sidebar. I was able to display it in a floated div, but then the links wouldn’t work! Finally I gave up, put it in the sidebar and added an extra left margin to the main content. And then I had to get to display right in IE! (Need I say more…)
All that tweaking took a bit of work, and a lot of hitting the refresh button… Now my stats show a minus value as someone undoubtedly thinks I was “cheating”. (It would be nice if we had the option to use a special code while working this into our custom designed blogs…)
All that said, I intend to keep the widget up as long as the service is available. As far as I’m concerned, it’s like chicken soup for the blog: It couldn’t hurt!
-Anita
September 21st, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Thank you and GOOD idea.
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September 21st, 2007 at 7:31 pm
wonderful and thank so much for your creation
agus
September 21st, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Hiya! Not sure who to direct my question to but I can’t get the widget to work on my Blog at Blogger. I must be doing something wrong somehow even though I got spun off in different directions while reading the instructions to install it (something about RSS Feeds and stuff) . I’m not worried about the other stuff but the color idea is cool.
I just think the widget is a great idea. I could use some help over here. Thanks! 
Mary
September 21st, 2007 at 7:50 pm
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September 21st, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Hi John,
I think some people just have to be a little more patient,i can almost see the future for this thing.The main thing is that you do listen and eventually you do deliver what you say.the colour scheme is a big plus also .keep it up!
September 21st, 2007 at 8:11 pm
You’re making great progress, BlogRush! I definitely love the colors! Not only have I received some traffic with BlogRush, I have seen a 70 percent surge in new subscriptions!!!
It’s amazing all the new blogs I have read because of BlogRush!!
September 21st, 2007 at 8:14 pm
ooh life so colorful….nice job
September 21st, 2007 at 8:15 pm
i love the greeny… cool
September 21st, 2007 at 8:31 pm
John, I only have one request…Please add a “Self Help” category.
I developed a new type of Dreamwork and Meditation but for the life
of me couldn’t find a suitable category. The Self Help field is certainly
large enough. What do you think? Could you do that?
John Paul
September 21st, 2007 at 8:35 pm
We are used to customize colors on the type adsense text ads. So, it’s very good idea to apply this change as the members have asked for. Great upgrade.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I know there are quite a few of us that don’t fit into any category very well, so a poll on what categories should be added would be great! I for one would love to see a beauty category.
Thanks!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:22 pm
i was wondering how your credit points work? as you can see in my graph provided by blogrush instead my traffic goes up it goes down and negative. why is that? i thought blogrush helps boost traffic?
if there is no visitors to my site the statistics should be stagnant, but apparently it goes way down into negative. what is the point in all of this? can you provide me with explanation? why negative?
September 21st, 2007 at 11:42 pm
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September 22nd, 2007 at 1:13 am
Thanks..its cool
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:14 am
Cool loving the different color…
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:37 am
Why don’t you allow us to set the colors ?
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:16 am
Hi John, Lov’in the widget, what a great way for us all to promote our blogs.
Waiting to test the flavors on my site. I can’t decide yet
Regards John
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:06 am
So how this thing works? =) I still cannot change the flavor of my widget.
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:48 am
I like the program, It is my first day and I have not recived any hits from it yet, but
I did manage to rack up over 8000 creds (not bad for 1 day)
I dont belive it is a MLM otherwise you should call Digg and RSS Feeds MLM
it is the same thing if you think about it.
one thing i cant figure out is how to change my email account listed with BR
when I signed up i goofed, and gave the wrong email….now i cant fix it, anyone know how to make the change ?
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:54 am
It seems we have a problem and BlogRush and Google must clarify this at once, a clear official statement from Google.
It is against Google Ads, read http://blog.webmasterforumph.com/blogrush-against-adsense-terms-of-service/113/
Someone clarify ASAP.
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:02 am
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September 22nd, 2007 at 4:40 am
This is great way to get traffic to my site.I join blogrush before site to be launched
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:54 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 5:59 am
Hey I wasn’t even smart enough to ask for a color change but I am certainly glad you are offering one. It so happens that you chose the color scheme for my alma mater’s cross state rivals at…
F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L
Good idea!
Thanks,
Rex
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:19 am
Is it true that Wordpress blog cannot use the template because of the javascript? Can anyone please clarify or explain more detatils on this ?If possible in plain language because may be most of us have no IT background.
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:43 am
Nice colors!
Here is a website you might like.
http://www.opportunitylinker.com
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:26 am
How do I find my url feed?
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:58 am
I agree with posters above that we need some way of resizing the widget to fit it within the sidebars. Also on the Dashboard we need more ability to manage the blogs. Eg I have somehow managed to get two blogs into the system, but there is no way to delete one.
On the credits it does weird things - such as when refreshed the credits drop dramatically. Now I am into negative! 115 impressions so far today - balance -15?
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:15 am
Thats good and i also think its good for my traffic even its always up and down. By the way. I also love the flavour..the colorus..:)
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:23 am
John,
I think of everything. Please continue your great work.
All the best!
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:35 am
I think many of the pyramid conclusion was based on the earlier (wrong) assumption that 1 credit would be given from level 1 all the way to 10. The video wasn’t clear on this point.
With each serving showing only 5 ads and giving out 10 credits, of course there would be a deficit and the system would not be able to support.
It was quite clear to me from the start that only a max of 5 credits could be given out from levels 1-10.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:40 am
I agreed with Tony Dolling. It would be good if we are allowed to delete the url that we have added. At the moment there is no such flexibility.
I also don’t understand why is it that my balance is in negative?
Anyway John, thanks for such a brilliant idea.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:49 am
As has been mentioned several times here, different size widgets are required. When I add this to my sidebar it pushes the tables out. I don’t really want to go through the hastle of resizing my header etc. to accomodate it.
One other thing I have found is when I add it to the index page, my adsense will not show on that page.
I had begun getting traffic from the widget, but it’s useless traffic since my blog is only monetized with adsense. Catch 22 here!
Thanks for the start with the new flavors. Resize next…..PLEASE!!
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Cool! Great Job!
This is what I’ve been waiting for… more color choices.
Weldone!
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Thanks for an excellent job done!
JH Lee
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:00 pm
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September 22nd, 2007 at 2:55 pm
AdSense is just truying to protect their advertisors and those of us who are playing the game fair. It is too bad there have to be cheater but there are.
It might save you time and improve the service if a means for us the users to report sites that violate the member reiteria. I have seen three non-English sites and if there was a way to report such you could quickly find them and take approperate action. This will also reduce the possibility of people changing the site information to an unacceptable format after they think you have completed the manual check.
The system I am thinking of is like the “Report a Site” used by traffic exchances.
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I’m waiting for a new color which will match my website: http://www.mycardblog.com.
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Introducing BlogRush “Flavors†- And More News…
BlogRush has some new “flavors” of colors for their banners….
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Brilliant and thanks the orange will fit with my site perfectly
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Nice, the colors are needed.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:51 pm
The flavors look good. How about the sizing next. As it it, it can’t fit into my narrow sidebar, so I can’t use it.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:52 am
Please make the width editable. It doesn’t fit in my sidebar.
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:02 am
Given the choice of colors will be great idea. Perhaps if we can also edit
the size and the format like having it horizontal or vertical will be nice too.
Gamy
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:07 am
John,
One of the success factors of WordPress and other blog platforms is the availability of thousands of themes from 3rd party developers.
How about allowing us to customize or replace bstyles.css? That should take care of 90% of the requests above.
Sure you would lose control over the look of the BlogRush widget but it would allow people to blend in the widget with their specific blog theme, which would most likely increase CTR.
And you can focus your energy on more exciting development aspects of BlogRush.
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:12 am
Glad to see the improvements.
For those who are asking, I have this installed on two WordPress blogs and it works fine. There is a video on how to install it as a text widget and I’ve been up and running without a hitch. Take a look at http://PhoenixRecommends.com to see it in action. So far today I have collected 283 hits.
One problem. I have two blogs, but the stats only show a single value. Is that the aggregate value of both blogs or is there a way to see each blog separately?
There have been lots of good comments and suggestions here, so I won’t add to the noise. It’s looking good and I think the colors are neat. Anxious to give them a try.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:20 am
BlogRush works on WordPress.org BlogRush does not work on WordPress.com blogs.
Anyone else seeing the bottom of the widget not there at times? The “Add your blog Posts s -s - free” and the little BlogRush tab? On a couple of my blogs the bottom of the widget is there sometimes and not there at other times.
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:47 am
Thanks for the colors!! They look awesome. Can’t wait to change mine:)
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:12 am
I wish I could customize the color myself instead of having to choose from a fix-colored widget.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:46 am
good idea, the best would be if we can customize colors ourselves instead of choosing from listed colors. It could come later. thank you
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:19 am
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September 23rd, 2007 at 8:57 am
Good move on this blended color. Anyway any comment on Adsense TOS requirement for Blogrush?
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:55 am
Will be using red and blue to show off my Independent Amsoil Dealer web site - http://www.lubedealer.com/hiebert
Great stuff, John.
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:25 am
Well I finally got my wodget working late last night after finding out my RSS feed was not working properly its all sorted out now.. the concept of BlogRush is great in my opinion, Its just getting more traffic readers and posters that I would appreciate. I am a new blogger also.
peace
HB~
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:26 am
ps. a porno site came up on my widget so I blocked it in filters I hope it disappears lol
HB~
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:45 am
when will these widgets be available?? i will be waiting for them.. n thanks for intrducing new ones..
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Great Idea… but when willwe be able to add blogrush to wordpress hosted blogs… Cheers Mark
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:23 pm
John, nice idea. This will dress things up.
Steve
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I like the idea with BlogRush. However, it seems to take some time to get those clicks through.Nice idea with the colors.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Nice tool. Thanks for creating it. To heck with the abusers.
Mike
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:59 pm
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September 23rd, 2007 at 6:50 pm
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