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We’re hard at work improving BlogRush — thanks to your suggestions! We’ll soon be adding A LOT more categories to our network — Fitness, Fashion, Crafts (and specific hobbies), MMA (and other individual sports), specific religions, political types, and much, much more. UPDATE: I’ll add categories that others post in the comments (along with the ones I mentioned above) that I am pretty certain we will add: FITNESS Want To Suggest A Category? Let Us Know (Post A Comment) By adding more specific categories we’ll be able to serve more relevant blog headlines and thus increase the click-rates across the network — which increases the traffic for everyone. Bonus Traffic Reporting We’re working to add “Bonus Traffic” to the Dashboard. Right now many users are getting a lot of bonus credits and clicks and you’ll soon be able to view that data. This is only the beginning… we have TONS of improvements in the works. Stay tuned.
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September 21st, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Category Suggestion: Work At Home
Thanks!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Category: fitness (sports is too general)
September 21st, 2007 at 10:57 pm
How about B2B for a new category? And John, thanks for listening to your base and moving to make changes to improve the system. There are always challenges with any new service or system. How you handle those challenges make all the difference.
Well done so far.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Eric - what kind of B2B info? Do you mean services? Give me some examples please. Thanks!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:32 pm
How about a general category for those of us who don’t blog in a single niche? I mean I can switch categories depending on what category fits each of my latest posts, but it might make more sense to have a category like general. Or misc. I’m sure there’s more than me who blogs outside of the “popular” niches.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Hey John. Yeah, B2B Services would be what I had in mind.
BTW, glad to see MMA is getting a category!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Tips For Generating Traffic With BlogRush…
BlogRush gives your headlines a vast reach across the net and it can generate traffic for your online project. If you use it wisely, BlogRush can continue to deliver a steady, targeted traffic stream to your website.
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September 22nd, 2007 at 1:09 am
Nature… please!
Teri
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September 22nd, 2007 at 1:09 am
And how about the possibility to select more than one category? For those of us who don’t have a blog that fits in only one category. It’s not unusual at all that a blogger covers a range of topics in one blog.
Pretty please
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:22 am
Categories:
Shopping
Photopblog (Under Photography)
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:24 am
I agree with Dom. Whilst I don’t need the functionality of multiple categories, that idea popped into my head straight away. If it didn’t have this I think many blogs would have skewed headlines showing.
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:20 am
I am very pleased to be a part of your trafficing program. Thanks for the opportunity
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:24 am
Suggested categories:
*Online Betting
*Poker
Could go under 1 general category: Gambling
Thanks,
Andy
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:24 am
Category Ebay Tips And tricks
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:48 am
Hello John, you may want to change the category of “Health & Medicine”
to “Health & Wellness” and then add a separate category for “Medicine”;
reason being, the demographic profile of each market. Thanks for the
great work here.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:20 am
Yes, please, multiple categories. My blog tends to focus on technology, games, and movies and right now I have to pick which of those three areas I’d like to focus on for a category. Multiple categories would be the way to go.
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:06 am
Sub-Categories for Religions and then Sub-Categories of that as well
Check this out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:26 am
Hi .I think a category for day trading would be great and fun ! thanks john ..
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:29 am
Categories on HTML, PHP and blogging software will help.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:00 am
I think Business is a little broad, too.
Maybe break it down by adding sales, advertising, etc.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:07 am
I can’t post a comment it seems… Or can I ? Are you managing the comments before they’re visible ?
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:14 am
subcategories to computer/internet
1. Comp. games
2. Comp. marketing
3. Building websites
4. Comp. hardware
5. Comp. software
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:22 am
Hey John, some other popular themes around the net for blogs are:
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurship
- Productivity
And you forgot the most important category!! Blogs about …
- Blogging
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:48 am
Hey man,
Looks good.
I think it would be cool with “Dating”
Neil //
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:08 am
Category suggestion: Political - Humor
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 am
I don’t know where the appropriate place is to ask this, so I’m just asking anyone that can help me here.
Why do I keep ending up with negative credit balance? Does this hurt me? I’m not worried about it, exactly, I just don’t have much traffic to my new blog yet. I’m not going to be one of those negative folks who just jumps ship, I was just wanting to know what is causing it, and what I can do.
Also, after reading Darren Rowse’s article at problogger about throwing the baby out with the bathwater, i started thinking that we bloggers (on his suggestion) should start to be more proactive and figure out together how this thing works.
Yesterday, I just started surfing the widget…. I found several cool blogs this way, and I didn’t find much that I thought was a “cheat” or a fake blog. But I don’t know how someone would cheat anyway….. I’m not very expert at this thing… I don’t even know how to post video to my WordPress blog.
Categories: K12 education, more breakdowns of the current categories, like niches withing politics, etc.
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:02 am
Help. Not being the brightest light in
the universe when it comes to “techie” stuff…
I’ve personally Introduced 8 direct (thus far) but the thing
is I won’t be able to benefit from the “blogosphere”
as I need a rss feed “thang”. i read up on what feeds
are but how the heck do I get my own as I cannot submit
a blogosphere of my own til I do.
Thanks,
Kevin
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:22 am
One of my blogs is a blog about growing bonsai trees. Maybe the ‘Home & Garden’ section could have a gardening sub-category to eliminate all the DIY nonsense!
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:53 am
Hey John,
How ’bout “Food”?
(Then, we’ll get into more specifics later…)
Thanks & Congrats!
Randy
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:03 pm
John, I think that LinkMetro has a very detail breakdown of Categories and Subcategories.
Thanks,
Roger
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Games
- Video and computer games
- Tabletop games
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I would suggest a category: “Make Money Online”
Congratulation for your successful launch of BlogRush!
Hans
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:14 pm
A science category is necessary I feel. Also maybe a social science section too (perfect for my blog)
-Jamie
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:08 pm
You neglect a big one: POKER
Guess what is #1 in
http://50.lycos.com for example
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Hey John,
Can we use your RSS feeds for BlogRush on our new site,
http://zedomax.biz ?
It’s a new social network for money making ideas.
We are looking for 30 money making blogs to participate in our beta testing.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Suggested Categories:
- Internet Marketing/SEO
- eCommerce
- Hiking & Backpacking
- Camping
- Photoblogs
- Dogs
- Cats
Besides more specific categories, I’d like a way to block groups of sites: “adult”sites, gambling sites, etc.
Perhaps some options in the Add a Blog area, where we would select if our site is “family” or “adult” oriented. And then some further refining with options to indicate if our blog contains content that’s perhaps not universally acceptable: nudity, gambling, AdSense prohibited content, etc.
Then under filters, an account holder could indicate content to block based on these indicators by ticking a check box.
It would be especially helpful if we could indicate, by a check box, if our site displays AdSense, and have BlogRush automatically filter out any content that might endanger our AdSense accounts.
Thanks,
-Anita
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Please add these categories:
Food
Freebies
Health
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:45 pm
John ; I would like to see a model rail roading category.
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:37 pm
I would like you to add the category Charity/Nonprofit.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:39 pm
I would like the category Online Recruitment added.
Thanks
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Hi John,
I saw a comment above by Willie Williams - eBay Tips and Tricks.
I agree totally.
There are so many blogs on the internet devoted to
this subject, that it only makes sense to add it to the category list.
Thanks
Jeff
http://www.crisp100dollarbills.com
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Blogrush widget DOWN? I cant see it anywhere. And alexa stats is also going downward.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:01 pm
John and BlogRush Team,
Nice job and thank you!
How about a sub category for outdoors sports.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:29 pm
I will second the above suggestion for camping or at least a general outdoors cat.
Thanks
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Please anyone here can tell me? I cant see any blogrush widget on any website. Server down? Anyone? can you see the widget? weird..
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:49 pm
I am so pleased to see you are adding a crafts category. I’ll second the request for home based business.
3TeraByte - My widget is working fine and I haven’t noticed any down time with it tonight.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:35 am
Please kindly consider to include TECHNOLOGY category.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:35 am
It would be interesting to setup a poll for new categories and have readers vote for them — not as the final say in the matter but to help get input. I’m sure there must be some polling systems that allow suggestions too.
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:37 am
I’d like to see:
1. home business
2. Australia
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:55 am
Wow, it’s a veritable cornucopia of categories here. I like Shane’s suggestions
for adding Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Productivity.
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Some “make money online” style categories would be good. My blog details how to make money using PPC (AdWords) with referrals (eg. Amazon Associates) but currently there’s not really much it fits into that doesn’t result in lots of unrelated headlines (and my headlines showing on lots of unrelated sites!)
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Alternative Medicine
and/or
Natural Health
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:27 pm
John,
Will there be anything for non-informational dating consulting?
Like live coaching?
-D
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Gambling & Poker.
I see no need to eliminate all gambling related blogs from the network. Just let us be separate from the other blogs. There are plenty of white hat gambling websites out there, and with a manual review of each blog on the network already in place, I see no problem finding and eliminating spammy blogs.
Thanks,
Nick
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Category Suggestion: Sales.
I write Sales Tips for sales people. The Marketing Category is way too broad to give be relevant to my target audience.
I would like to see a category entitled Sales or Selling.
Thanks.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Hi John here some are that could help. Could we also have a section which country blog rush can show from and also the time as well.
Home Improvements, Gardening, Sports indoor, Sports outdoor, Education, Software Development, Managment Training, Graphic Design
Web Development, Programming, Outsource, DIY, Call center service, Trucks, Motor spares, Travel, Selp Improvement ,Investments
Medical Help
Here are B2B examples:
Consulting , Engineering , Training and Development , Research and Development , Publishing Outsource, Office Equipment, Manufacturing Supplies
Manufacturing Equipment, Wholesalers Import and Export, Dropshipping.
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:08 pm
May I suggest two categories:
Rubber Stamping
Scrapbooking
Thanks!
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
How about adding different sized widgets? The current size is too big/small for some of our blogs. We would love to see some different sizes soon
Great tool though!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
what about a career section
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:26 pm
A section for extreme sports or something specific like rock climbing.
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Kevin, I just happened to post an answer to your question on my blog tonight. Other people are asking the same!
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:18 pm
BlogRush is a great concept, John!
BUT…the category of “Marketing” is way too broad. Please consider the possibility of breaking it further down into:
Marketing for e-businesses
Marketing for Bricks & Mortar Businesses
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:52 pm
PLEASE add beauty or a combo beauty/fashion!
thx!
September 24th, 2007 at 1:38 am
natural health and dating
Those would be good.
September 24th, 2007 at 3:26 am
You knew someone would suggest this sooner or later. So I’ll jump right in and make the request.
Category:
Gay/Lesbian or GLBT or LGBT
Whichever one you prefer as long as one of them gets in. Thanks.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:11 am
Please consider a category for renewable energy, there are 1,000s of clean technology blogs out there!
September 24th, 2007 at 7:08 am
While the category list is necessary, as can be seen from the comments so far, there are problems with lists of categories. There are too many to keep track of and too many means it’s harder for people to choose the right one. And even too many is not enough.
A far better approach will be to integrate a prediction engine as they do at Amazon or Google that sifts through the text in a blog, compares it to text in another blog, then predicts which blogs are the best matches for people’s interest. The engine then keeps track of it’s success at prediction and throws away the bad matches (the ones that don’t result in clicks) and reinforces the good ones.
Do you think Google can serve the page you wanted, or Amazon be so amazingly accurate in its suggestions by having long lists of categories?
September 24th, 2007 at 7:35 am
I like the idea of multiple categories or parent categories etc - one good way to implement it is to have a primary category (as now) and then allow sub-categories that will aid your algorithm in picking something relevant, especially when there isn’t something to serve from the main category.
Fitness is an important one to add; I’d like to see a running subcategory, but would be happy with fitness.
September 24th, 2007 at 11:43 am
I’d like to see a site for music. Although that may be too broad of a topic so you could add in the different music genres ie: hip hop, country, rock, r&b, etc.
September 24th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I’d like to see a category related to dating advice added, please.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Category Suggestions:
Security
Privacy
Thanks!
September 24th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Category Suggestion: Islam
You can see the need for this request by visiting our post: http://islamcrunch.com/archives/muslim-blogrush/
Thanks!
September 24th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Category Suggestion: Relationships
and Personal Development (although is that same as self help?)
there is nothing for dating tips/relationship info blogs
September 24th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
metaphysical
September 24th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Just another suggestion, why not have a report this blog button if you right click on a headline in the blogrush widget so that people can report spam and illegal blogs and if there are enough reports they will be flagged for your team to have a look at them, will make cleaning up the crap blogs a lot faster.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
I definitely agree that a hierarchical system is the best way to do this. A top-level and a sub-level. There are two sides to this in my opinion: a) It allows the blog owner to have more-targetted reciprocal blog entries, as well as those from the top level, should there be a limited number to choose from in the specific category. But the issue is b) How does the admin categorize such content? Does Music go under Entertainment, and then Rock under Music? Three levels is too much. Does “Internet Business” go under Business or Internet? It could be both, depending on how the blog owner actually focuses their site. I ran into this issue when trying to write a system to categorize music for a client.
Bottom line: Two-levels deep — Good. Forethought into how the subcategories will align — Difficult, but worth it IMHO.
Keep up the good work! Can’t wait to see the next rev…
September 24th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Agreed with Carlos Xuma on dating.
He’s the man! Hey man, I’m glad your here.
Expect I want to see something about live coaching/workshops/dating-consulting, as I said above also.
-D
obstruktion@gmail.com
September 25th, 2007 at 11:01 am
you have internet network marketing and network marketing?
Terry
September 25th, 2007 at 11:01 am
I’d like to see cool niches like BOARDRIDING (that’ll include skate, surf & snowboarding = boardriding = no inline, rollerblading nor ice skating!) category and MANCHESTER UNITED (no soccer nor football), just cool football clubs.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Category suggestions:
Blogging Tips & Tricks
Writing
Personal
September 26th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Environment!
September 27th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Skateboarding and rollar blading
September 27th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I understand there needs to be a limit on multiple categories, but I blog on history, religion, green construction, and fitness, so I’d need 5 checks. More categories without multiple picks pigeonhole even more. So please allow us scatterbrains a few more check marks.
thanks. I am already getting hits from the widget so thanks.
God is good
jpu
September 27th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
My blog is not limited to one topic, it has an interesting variety. I need to be able to include more checks, like John Umland in the above comment. My blog categories include: Spirituality, Pets, my Photography, Quotes, Hobbies & Crafts, Health related as in weight loss, weekly memes, poetry, other writings… and various other topics. So, as you can see, listing under one category just doesn’t work for me. I think there are many of us bloggers out there that have the same issues… I’ve seen many others like mine that post on various topics.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:40 am
Please Please consider ‘Textile Art’ as a category
October 1st, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I run a web design blog, so if it hasn’t been added yet ‘WEBDESIGN’ would be a very useful category.
I also run a Photo blog featuring images of my cats. I’m using the ‘PETS’ category but
I’m getting post for dog, horses and other animals, even though I’ve filtered them out.
Can you add a ‘CATS’ and ‘DOGS’ category to cover the main types of pets?
October 1st, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Hi John!
I read most of the comments so maybe it was already mentioned..
My blog is about Internet Marketing Seminars and I get a lot of really weird stuff on the widget!
Something like Seminars, Internet Marketing Seminar, Conferences (maybe) would work a lot better as a choice for me.
Thank you very much,
Pam Hoffman
http://seminarlist.blogspot.com
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 am
Sports could use further breakdowns or subcategories like:
Hunting
Fishing
Golf
Surfing
Skiing
etc.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:31 am
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