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 UPDATE: Tuesday, October 16th: We’re experiencing a delay with some minor server issues. We are working on them and will start releasing Phase 2 piece-by-piece very soon. Thanks for your patience. BlogRush will soon unleash PHASE 2 of its network. This is a MAJOR update. The service is not even 30 days old, yet we’re about to release more changes than most Internet startups do in their first 6 months. Here Are Some Of The Changes - New User Interface More options, more reporting, more features. Here’s a “spy photo” of what the new Dashboard looks like:  - Per Post Statistics & Addition Of “Buzz Meter” Now you’ll be able to see how many times each of your posts is syndicated across the network and how many people clicked to read that individual post. Next to the statistics for each post you’ll see a “Buzz Meter.” This new meter will tell you if that post is HOT, COLD, or somewhere in between. The meter ‘temperature’ is calculated based on the average click-rates per headline for your blog’s category. This data, if used properly, can be extremely valuable for your blog — you’ll be able to know what types of posts are getting the most attention in your blog’s niche. - Custom Reports You’ll be able to run custom reports and view your account activity by specific date ranges. - Bonus Syndication For All Users, But Weighted Towards Low-Traffic Members All members of our network will be receiving bonus syndication but we’ll be giving more bonus credits to our members that need it most — ones with low-traffic. - More Categories! (A lot more) We’re introducing tons of new categories to our network. You asked, we listened. We’ll be adding a lot more sub-categories and niche topics; this will help our users’ widgets serve more relevant headlines for their own blog readers as well as increase the click activity on their own headlines shown across the network. - Improved Security & Abuse Measures (We’ve already squashed 95% of the cheaters!) We’ll be rolling out improved security measures, but we’re happy to report that we’ve eliminated about 95% of the cheaters in our network. We’re sure to continue to get a few new ones ‘trying’ from time to time, but we’ll work hard to zap them as quickly as possible. - 100% Manual Review & New Quality Guidelines We’ve already launched our Manual Review process… all new users as of today (and for good) will have their blogs manually reviewed BEFORE the widget will even load on their pages. Their posts will not be syndicated across the network until they are APPROVED and meet our Quality Guidelines. If they are not approved the widget will not load on their pages and none of their content will ever be syndicated on the network. We’re almost finished with manually reviewing all the existing blogs in our network. We should be done with this massive ‘audit’ within about 7 days. As soon as we complete this full audit there will be a MAJOR SWEEP of our entire network. All the blogs that don’t meet our quality criteria will be REMOVED from our network. Say goodbye to all the non-English blogs, junk blogs, and any low-quality blogs you may have seen from time-to-time in the widget. We are committed to maintaining the highest level of INTEGRITY and QUALITY for our network. We know that you only want great blog posts and resource links showing up inside the widget you serve on your blog and we’ll do everything we can to maintain that. It will now be a PRIVILEDGE for a blog to be accepted into our network. - Widget Performance Monitoring One of the biggest contributors to some of our low, average click-through rates (i.e. less traffic for our members) is due to some of our members giving the widget POOR PLACEMENT on their blogs. Some of our members have placed the BlogRush widget at the very bottom of their blog templates, or very low where most of their visitors don’t even see it. THIS IS ABOUT TO COME TO AN END. The BlogRush system is based on TWO things: QUALITY and FAIRNESS. On the “quality” side of things we have it covered — manually reviewing all blogs against quality guidelines, and continuing to improve headline relevance; through more categories and better technology. But the “fairness” element is one that we haven’t really had to address… until now. We are adding Widget Performance Monitoring to our network. If a member’s natural widget performance (the rate at which visitors click headlines and other factors we aren’t making public) falls far below the average activity of other members in their category… THIS MEMBER WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE BLOGRUSH NETWORK. We are working on something that might give members with poor widget performance a “warning” to let them know they are in danger of being removed from the network; which will give them a chance to give the widget better placement on their blog so they can, hopefully, rectify the situation and remain a member of the network. We are not going to require our members to place the widget at the very top of their blogs or put it in any specific location. However, it’s common sense that if someone places the widget where normal visitors aren’t going to see it much, that they will achieve poor widget performance — and will most likely be removed from the network. DO YOU HAVE THE WIDGET PLACED REALLY LOW ON YOUR BLOG? If so, you need to move it higher on your blog to give it better placement. Don’t want to do that? THEN PLEASE REMOVE IT COMPLETELY. As I said, BlogRush was designed as a FAIR system. There’s a reason it was created as a COOPERATIVE network. It’s so its members can work together to generate more targeted readers for their blogs. But this system doesn’t work if all members aren’t contributing at least somewhat equally. Why should any member give the widget high placement if other members are not going to? And yet those other members stand to receive the SAME REWARDS? It’s just not fair and, therefore, we have no choice but to make this change. So any member that’s only willing to put the BlogRush widget at the very bottom of their blog isn’t a member we want in our network — and our network will deliver more traffic, per member, without them. UPDATE: We’ve heard from several members that are unable to give the widget higher placement because of their narrow blog design. We’re trying to create a solution. OTHER THINGS WE’RE WORKING ON… We’ll be adding more features and additions beyond this giant Phase 2 roll-out. More customization options for the widget. New syndication methods and features for generating even more traffic. And much, much more. And, oh yeah, there’s also the upcoming release of TrafficJam.com that instantly benefits all members of BlogRush — but we’re not quite ready to let the cat out of the bag on that one. Stay tuned. SPECIAL NOTE: This major Phase 2 roll-out is taking a bit longer than we originally expected, but we hope to have it completely released within 7 days. Thanks to everyone for their patience — I told you it would be worth the wait.
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October 8th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Wow John..this was totally worth the wait. I am especially excited about the Buzz Meter and Bonus Syndication. The Buzz Meter will basically be free marketing research to see what posts are viewed as the most informative to my target market. I am a pretty low traffic blog as well so the Bonus Syndication to us lower-traffic blogs is much appreciated by me and I’m sure by all the small blogs out there. I also appreciate the addition of more categories, but was wondering if it was possible to be listed under two categories? My blog provides content relating to both sports and music. Because of this, I filed myself under entertainment so I wouldn’t have to chose one or the other. Having the ability to be listed under both would be a huge help for me. Thanks.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
I’m looking forward to seeing the changes as they come. I’m still getting my trickle of
visitors via Blogrush, who are all welcome, and I’m looking forward to this increasing
as the changes come about.
I have one question. I’m setting up a new blog at the moment. I put my first post
on it yesterday. One of the first things I did after that was to add the blog to my
blogrush account and insert a widget. I see that you now have a verification process
set up. Once the widget code is placed on the site you click the verify button. Anyway
when I added the widget and clicked on verify the result came back that my blog
was rejected.
Was this because the blog was too new or didn’t have enough posts, or was it just
some malfunction where it didn’t read the code on my blog? I’m just curious really.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Cool beans.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Will be looking forward to waiting another 7 days
This whole fairness thing, does it mean your widget does need to appear above the fold, or just somewhere that it is like to be seen, and clicked (so can be under the fold too) ?
Good luck rolling things out!
October 8th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
SEAN - it means your new blog was reviewed and didn’t meet the quality guidelines. Not enough posts is one of the new guidelines. So you’ll want to resubmit it after 30 days and when you have at least 10-12 posts.
KOEN - no, it doesn’t necessarily mean your widget must appear above the fold.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Nice dashboard layout–very spiffy!
October 8th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
John,
It all looks GREAT to me, but one
small question for the woefully
ignorant, but climbing (climbing
due to my membership to the
Reece Report which is a STEAL
for what you charge vs what
you get) -
I still don’t know
how to get the widget into
the sidebar and the original
tuturial said another tutorial
would be available to show
how to put the widget in via
‘themes’ on wordpress.
Without this I have the widget in the only
place I could get it, so although
I know in the big scheme of things
a small thing like this is not a priority,
but without that info my widget would
be removed per the new and GOOD
guidelines…
Is there a new tuturial coming out for
the newbie and ignorant, but willing
such as me?
Thanks!
Thad Winston
October 8th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
I kicked it up a notch — the widget, that is.
October 8th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Wow, what great news! I’ve verified every day if BlogRush is back. And now I’m very glad about your announcements. So glad, that I write quickly a post about this
October 8th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Good job JR !
October 8th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
John Help Please? My Credits Earned Today arnt showing up as of today?
Credits Earned Today: -
Credits Earned Last 7 Days: 4,909
Your Traffic Today: -
Your Traffic Last 7 Days 1,809
Total Referrals In Your Network: 22
Referral Traffic Today: -
Referral Traffic Last 7 Days: 3,100
October 8th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
My blog is on my own domain, but I use a Wordpress theme. My BlogRush widget is down close to the bottom because that was the only area it would work when I entered the code into my sidebar template. Any suggestions? I don’t want to get deleted because of this. Thanks!
October 8th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I know that some people arn’t getting their blog to show up. But people you cant just crap on there. Just so you know John. I have visited some of the blog from the widget and they are hopeless.
Some people just realize that you cant put cr@p up and expect blogrush to accept it. If you want to get noticed build a big blog with great content, not some piddly lil advertising place full of advertising spam and adsense.
I can see now why John is getting fed up with some of these people. The cheats and spammers think that they will overun the place, But think again. Just build a nice loooking blog and you will get noticed…the others can leave.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Wow, looks nice. My BlogRush widget was almost near the top, but I was wondering if you could have two or more widgets, or are you only allowed one? Two or more widgets would allow more blogs to be advertised, or at least, a variable widget that allowed you to specify more than 5 blogs to be featured would be nice.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
I figured out the Widgets on my theme editor and I was able to move my BlogRush widget up further on the sidebar!
October 8th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
we’re getting some good quality traffic. My members signup asks how people found us and several now have said “blogrush”.
Also one new client — that’s $10,000 baby!
Considering I only invested about $400 to advertise the widget to get affiliates originally, I’d say I did pretty damn good!
thanks Mr. Reese!
Victory ( http://www.WorldVisionEntrepreneurs.org)
October 8th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Excellent!
October 8th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
only needs changes cos its so fucking useless.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
ah my last bit didnt get through
“less than sign” 0.5 ctr - ffs!
October 8th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
I’m looking forward to the changes. Blogrush have been running smoothe on my blog, I noticed in my stats I have been getting quite some clicks, compared to the page impression, it could be higher but that’s what testing is all about…
Terrance Charles
http://www.terrancecharles.com/blog
October 8th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
I’ll be looking forward to this.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
ooo… it will really look nice
hope to finish it ASAP
October 8th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
It would be a LOT EASIER TO GIVE GOOD PLACEMENT to the blogrush widget if you followed common sizing guidelines like the ones google ads use. Most layouts are designed for a 160 wide side column, NOT 175.
So until you give your users what they need . . .
byebye Blogrush.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Wow! Great tools John but you should release it soon. I cant access my dashboard. I think the wait is too long.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
I have to put the widget lower on the page bcase it breaks the layout if I try to put it in the sidebar. I’m sure I’m not alone. How about making the widget resizable before you throw out everybody with narrow sidebars?
October 8th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Hey John,
This is great news! Thanks for this wonderful service. Currently I have my widget above the fold on the right hand side. I think it’s decent placement. You’re welcome to check it out if you want. I’m hoping that it can drive some traffic to my marketing blog (I could really use it). Thanks again, and I’m happy to be a member of BlogRush!
October 8th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Thanks, John! Congrats to the dev team.
2xKnight: I put mine on top. It depends on your css layout. How did you do yours?
October 8th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
I’ve written an email about this, but you have to understand that the widget is really big right now. The reason it’s low on some of my sites is that it just won’t fit into the ui. Most of my nav columns are about 120 px wide. The widget is 180 px wide. Give me the option to resize it and I’ll put it right there in a prominent spot. Leave it as big as it is and I don’t have much of a choice. A choice between prominent placement and screwing up my navigation is no choice at all.
Thanks for the custom color addition. That helped. But this is even more important.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Let me know when you work out a deal with wordpress.com.
i signed up for your service then discovered that WP.com doesn’t allow widgets with java for security reasons and now I
can’t use BlogRush.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Healthy Nerd: We shouldn’t have to redesign our entire template around this tool. It’s only an iframe. Allowing different sizes would be easy. Until that’s done, it will remain on the bottom of my pages. Make a 125px wide version, and I’ll put it above the fold on every one of my sites.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
I think you need to rethink your placement theory. I purposely placed my
widget towards the bottom so it would come up with individuals posts that are
search results. By placing it this way, my widget is seen by many more thousands of
page viewers than if I put it as far up toward the top of my blog as I would like it.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
I’d really like to know if we’ll get penalized or banned for clicking on our own widgets? I don’t know how many of my visitors have clicked on my blogrush widget, but I have clicked on it everytime I’ve seen an interesting headline. I’ve added quite a few new blogs because of this, to my reader.
I ask, because other traffic and marketing solutions WILL penalize you if you click on your own widget or even refresh too many times.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
this looks like a great innovation, I am waiting for you to get this up and running.
bazpas.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Just thought I’d weigh in as well so you’d know…
I’m having issues fitting it into my UI as well… too large for my columns…
other sizes would be nice…
gregw
October 8th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
JACK - I just updated the post with a little note in RED. We’re going to see what we can do about users like you with narrow designs.
BRONWEN - if that placement ends up giving the widget high visibility then your widget’s individual performance should be high; thus you have nothing to worry about. Like I said, it’s not necessarily about a specific placement.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
what do you mean by “this week”?
October 8th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
The standard sizing is a really good point. You should relaly make the widget fit standard sizes, and/or offer a range of sizes.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Wow… that’s good news… Have been going to the members page everyday for updates. Finally… the long awaited information…
Thumbs up to John
October 8th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
I am not getting the widget to show up properly, although the title is showing up, near the page top and anywhere else.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Awesome updates John. After the first week of usage with BlogRush I wasn’t holding out much hope for it, it seemed like such an awesome idea that just wasn’t working. But these updates look fantastic and I think BlogRush should become a very lucrative thing. Thank You.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
this new changes look great. I hope to see more traffic to my blog soon
October 8th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Yahooooooooooooo!
I’m really looking forward to
seeing all the enhancements.
Thanks for all your hard work
to bring the best BlogRush
forth!! It’s appreciated.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
This sounds awesome all around…I can’t wait!
Bradley
The Egel Nest
October 8th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
looking forward to the narrower blogrush widget - can’t wait to get started!
kathryn
http://www.homereporter.co.uk
October 8th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Cool, I am looking forward to see better changes from BlogRush; thanks for sending some great traffic to my blog. Keep it up!
October 8th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
I have joined it.But I can not login in.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
John,
Seems like kicking out members is the wrong way to go. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a function that weights the number of clicks due to placement. Then using this function to determine how many times the advertisement is displayed on the network.
I.E. IF the placement is less than average, it should count against them for incoming traffic, but I think kicking them off the network is going to be frowned upon.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Wow! I love changes especially to the better one.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Thanks John for the hard work for the new features!
October 8th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Greetings all, well cool to that we say, we are happy with the network so far and now that we have eyes again more the better.
I can say I will be blogging the efforts later on my blog and showing the great results we have seen so far over at managedspaces.
launch beta 2.0 good luck John.
have a B L O G G I N G good day!
October 8th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Hi John,
That is some crazy amount of development in such a short time. Great job! It really shows your commitment to this project and to the blogging community.
Take care and I know you won’t need good luck because you make your own,
Rod
October 8th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Good job John. Keep the pace.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Fantastic! Congratulations on the changes and THANKS!
October 8th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
widgets with different sizes and dimensions will be a great feature.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
To Quote:
“The service is not even 30 days old, yet we’re about to release more changes than most Internet startups do in their first 6 months.”
However true that is, many come more prepared and with a longer testing period, I dont know SEO and/or blogging much but to me, it appears things we’re rushed on the basis of “net buzz” thus the system was not even close to ready - my opinion
On the flip side, nice to see progression continue.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
I really like the manual review feature It’ll defintely save people’s time
Thanks John
October 9th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Given the comments made about displaying the widget in a more prominent position. I shifted it up the page.
Not QUITE above the fold, but I managed to get JR’s name visible!
Steve
October 9th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Wow, the new dashboard sure is useful, and it looks good!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:04 am
I would gladly place the widget higher on my blog, but there are two problems:
1) I have a 3 column template and the widget is too wide to place in the sidebar where it would best go.
2) The colors look awful with my blog.
If only there was fundamental customization available… as has been asked for since Day 1.
Telling me where to place the widget is a pretty ballsy move for a product that’s been basically broken since day 1.
Good luck with your project, I wish you sincere success. But I’ll be joining the cadre of people removing Blog Rush.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Thanks for the hard work.
I would like to suggest that we have several designs on the widget, such as thinner borders, different border designs, and a Flash version.
It will be good if you can also include a way to sell or give credit between members.
Thanks!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:11 am
More power to BlogRush. Keep the creative juices flowing. BlogRush PHASE 2 is good news to new blogger like me.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:13 am
I know what all of us are thinking. Why couldn’t I have been this smart about 5 years ago?
You guys are the sh!t.
Great concept and great help to my websites. I hope you all die buried in unmarked 1$ bills.
You guys rock.
Thanks.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Keep Up The Good Work! BlogRush Rocks!
Regards,
Jack Lan
http://www.lanzijun.com ( Add me as your friend)
October 9th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Hi John,
I know Blogrush has increased my viewings considerably.
I’m one of those people who tend to meander a bit with my blogs
and quite honestly have not enjoyed the benefit of ‘natural’ traffic
until recently.
This HAS to be down to Blogrush so I thank you for this amazing
concept, and the fact that it’s free.
I do surf quite a bit using solely the blogrush template on my blogs,
(refreshing constantly). It’s a shame that there are still quite a few
who think the system is designed purely to promote their affiliate
links etc.
Good luck, and thanks again,
Pete
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October 9th, 2007 at 12:24 am
O_o This is starting to smell like burning
October 9th, 2007 at 12:32 am
But I still cant install the widget!
Where did I go wrong?
I do hope I’m not going to be removed because this blog is really about tips and hints for writing websites - not all people are born journalists, and know-how is helpful
October 9th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Hey, this seems super!
Good work - keep it up!
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October 9th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Hmm… this will be a little unfair. There are blogs whose lower position is more attractable than being in the middle (if not the top).
There are also blogs where the visitors scroll down and thus the lower portion gets more frequent attention. In reality, these blogs actually gave BlogRush a good position. Removing these blogs from the network is very unfair if they gave BlogRush a very good spot.
The notion of “lowest position = less viewed” is half-a-decade old. It doesn’t work for blogs, as these blogs are meant to be read, to be browsed, to scroll-down. That’s what a blog is for, so the lowest position gets more attention than the middle.
This is just my view, but as someone who reads more blogs than websites, I notice more of the lower portion than the middle. In fact, I don’t even care about the middle part of the sidebars. It’s the TOP and BOTTOM that I look at.
It is sad if us who actually are giving fair treatment to the widget will be removed. In any case, it is still unclear how you can all “manually” check the “quality” of the thousands or millions of blogs in your network. Also, “quality” judgment is impossible to be perfect or be even “fair” at all. It is “human” judgment. That will be very bias towards the reviewer.
I’ve seen services like that before, and almost all of the time, the same site is accepted - removed - accepted - removed - accepted depending on who is reviewing the site.
Please clear your “manual” review and clear this “bottom positioning” problem.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:37 am
I’m looking forward to these changes! I’ll see what I can do to get the blog at the top of the fold, but we may be limited. Maybe you can submit your widget to typepad’s widgetbox? http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/widgets/
October 9th, 2007 at 12:42 am
I LOVE Blogrush!!!
Its the best thing EVER that iv come across to do with increasing blog traffic!!!!!
And love it how they are going to treat everyone the same, not treating others better with higher traffic !!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.CashHints.blogspot.com
October 9th, 2007 at 12:44 am
John ty for fixing my stats much appreciated. I think your right and I moved my widget to top . Its now under my recent posts and it blends in perfectly. I think google is going to buy your widget idea. Looks way better than a blog roll. In fact I spent allot of time now reading blogs that show up on my widget. You guys are visionarys rock on bro!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Yah! A way to reach BlogRush - hope someone reads this.. found no contact on your site..
I want to add the widget but it is TOO WIDE for my blog. I have narrow columns and it
screws up the whole symmetry
Can you please offer a narrower widget?
Thanks!
October 9th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Excellent work..this is one thing that i’m sure people are expected…
October 9th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Wow, I had no idea you guys are this young. When I signed up it already felt like it was well-established and super popular. And now this massive upgrade. You guys are awesome! Hope to benefit even more as you guys keep getting better and better.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:09 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 1:22 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Hi,
This is good news John…
Please take me as a reviewer, kevin…
Anish
October 9th, 2007 at 1:25 am
As amtog said, I also want your system to work with the many quality blogs hosted at Wordpress.com. Please make it happen.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:26 am
Hey John, Any chance of an Extreme sports category & a Surfing Category?
Many thanks, PP……..
October 9th, 2007 at 1:28 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 1:28 am
John - about widget placement:
My blog income is dependent on my few product sales and AdSense clicks (diddly though those amounts are). You aren’t taking into account that probably most of us bloggers would prefer that visitors clicked on OUR product links or AdSense links, and not depart from our blogs by clicking on some other blog link. While most of us legitimate bloggers write about stuff we are interested in, most of us probably aren’t doing it “just for our health”, and want some income. That is why the low placement positions of the widgets.
Are you just looking for blogs that are just for “ego-boo”, saying look at me and my babies or drunken friends?
Now, with BlogRush, maybe we will get more visitors, but what good is that if they click away to some other blog? How would we determine the tradeoff between more visitors, but less value per visitor with BlogRush, vs. fewer visitors, but more likely to provide some income by us not having BlogRush?
There has to be some sort of tradeoff between putting the widget where it will be the first thing someone sees and so clicks away (at the top), or where a visitor is more likely to see our product or AdSense ads first and clicks away giving us some income.
Regards,
David Bean
October 9th, 2007 at 1:33 am
I must say I have had the widget up for a week or two now and cannot identify one single verifiable visit to my blog(s) that I can attribute to Blogrush. OK, maybe I have small traffic and maybe I need to think about headlines etc. But still… How do I actually know I am getting traffic from Blogrush - does Blogrush allow the http referrer? Should we see Blogrush appearing as the referrer in our stats? Or the referring site? Either way, until we get comprehensive stats I am totally in the dark.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:34 am
Wow!! Can’t wait for it! Really looks great and as the others say - will be well worth the wait!
October 9th, 2007 at 1:35 am
Remember when you launched flavours? You didn’t really. Everybody got an email saying blogrush new color schemes, but they wouldn’t be available for a few more days. Same thing now. You have a huge list of updates and features that will be available in 7 days or so. Why do you keep teasing us? Most companies only announce changes when they are ready to be used.
These premature announcements are annoying. Fix your problems and then let me know about it… you guys have been under construction since you ‘launched’.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:39 am
I use wordpress and therefore can’t use your blogrush service…looking forward to doing so once you get WP on board…
October 9th, 2007 at 1:43 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 1:45 am
But for the not english user?
October 9th, 2007 at 1:52 am
A little over a week ago, a similar German-only service has started: Blogfever.de. Within DAYS, they added color customization for every item, and after ONE WEEK users have an optional “professional mode” with almost full control using their own CSS. No Iframe, no width constraints. Now how about that?
(You can see its widget on my blog if you switch to “deutsch” (top blue bar), then it’s on the right below the RSS icons as “Themenverwandter Linktausch”.)
October 9th, 2007 at 1:57 am
http://bagyam1953.googlemp.hop.clickbank.net
I wish to promote the above site and would like others to follow to lucarative potential.
October 9th, 2007 at 2:11 am
[b]UPDATE: We’ve heard from several members that are unable to give the widget higher placement because of their narrow blog design. We’re trying to create a solution.[/b]
I’ll be waiting for that; I can’t place the widget other than on the bottom because of that.
Maybe customizable sizes for the widget (for example like AdSense) ?
October 9th, 2007 at 2:19 am
I was a bit concerned to read that you would not approve a blog if it didn’t have a lot of posts. I’m just now in the process of setting up a new blog and I added the widget precisely to help me start getting traffic.
In fact, I’ve loaded the blog up with about 20 posts datestamped to appear at intervals over the next month or so. When your checkers check my blog and it’s only showing 3-4 posts, will they remove my widget?
October 9th, 2007 at 2:20 am
Will be well worth the wait!
October 9th, 2007 at 2:31 am
the new Dashboard looks interesting…can’t wait!
October 9th, 2007 at 2:31 am
I have up loaded blogrush to all my blogs and it doesn’t show up and I’ve dne everything right.???
October 9th, 2007 at 2:32 am
“UPDATE: We’ve heard from several members that are unable to give the widget higher placement because of their narrow blog design. We’re trying to create a solution.”
Variable height would be good too. For example, we could specify a width and choose how many articles are exposed (perhaps 3 to 10) .
October 9th, 2007 at 2:43 am
Oh BlogRush, if I had a fair skin, I would probably be blushing. No, am black, am Nigerian, am proud to be on BlogRush.
Ok, back to serious business.
October 9th, 2007 at 2:43 am
It is nice to know that BlogRush team is working hard and introduce improvements for the benefit of the members, but I do not quite agree with the widget performance monitoring. It says that if the click through rate is low compared to others in the same categories, the widget will be removed. This is not fair to those who are new to blogging. Their click through rate will definitely be lower compared to the old timers. Talking about fairness. This is definitely not fair.
October 9th, 2007 at 2:49 am
Is there somewhere we can see the blog requirements for acceptance. Like the 10-12 articles etc?
Thanks
October 9th, 2007 at 2:57 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 2:58 am
I posted on the last update topic about people putting the widget at the bottome of a blog page. it is a slap in the face to other BR users. So it is great to know that your finding away to fix this issue. great job as always.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:12 am
Very excited about the new developments!!
October 9th, 2007 at 3:20 am
Bob Meyer, blogrush work fine on wordpress blog
Blogrush shd introduce, 120px width widget. This fits most of the sites. Present size is
too big to fit on sidebars… also u can look for scrolling wigdet options
October 9th, 2007 at 3:20 am
Great idea kicking out all the users whose blog referral rate is below the average. Keep going and there’ll be one user left.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:21 am
I know wishing doesn’t do anything but I wish I had your brains/money. I have never seen so much ‘good stuff’ come out of a free service launch ever! Keep going, its all good.
Phill
October 9th, 2007 at 3:24 am
Question : WHEN!?!?!
And probably it’ll be good if we can customize text size and widget height/width. hrmm……. too much to ask for i guess.
Again, this upgrade exercise is damaging to BlogRush. I found it interesting when it was launched but after that………. -_-
So John, do you have an ETA?
October 9th, 2007 at 3:29 am
I dont get much traffic yet as my blog is very new. If you penalise those with below average blogrush clicks are you not penalising those who need your help the most?
October 9th, 2007 at 3:31 am
I do not get much traffic either, my blog being new and not well advertised.
Maybe with this new system even small publisher like us can make us of the beta version of the widget.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:35 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 3:40 am
While your upgrades sound promising, I have some issues with your decision to police where I decide to place the widget on my site.
Why don’t you take a little time and prove that the updates and added categories will actually generate some traffic for me before you decide to tell me where it should go. As of yet, I haven’t seen a single click, so why should I bump it up and replace my proven revenue and traffic generating links with your obnoxious looking widget? Show me some stats and results, then maybe you can get an attitude about it. This isn’t pay per click…
October 9th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Yeah…the new user interface looks great, but it’s really not important about the placement of the widget! At least the widget’s getting put on the blog…or your going to find that you’ll soon see a decline and people just removing their blog.
And the fact that you have to have at least 10 posts now! Does that mean me with 3 posts on my blog is suddendly going to have it removed? I think if thats the case then I might just remove my blog myself…it will save your guys the trouble!
And that’s well said IM Junkie! Goldfires…your absolutely right there!
That’a all I’ve got to say on the subject at this point and time John…but I thought income.com was setup to help everyone…
October 9th, 2007 at 3:58 am
Another good point Sean!
As you can see John…if you look at my blog. The widget is in a place that I’m happy with. I’m still not having a go…but go easy on us.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:00 am
very good changes and hope that it will benefit all of us.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:10 am
I was wondering if you are going to delete blogs that are quite new and don’t really have a lot of content yet. I have a new blog and am always looking for new content and I am now worried that it may not be good enough to meet your criteria. Will we be warned first or just lose our account. I have referred several people and my account goes up by several thousand visitors a day from referrals although I myself am only getting a small number of hits to my new blog. I assume we will also lose our referres as well, which may be taken as traffic theft if you delete my account but keep my referrers…
Please clarify if we get a chance to improve or just lose?
Warmest Regards
Mark
October 9th, 2007 at 4:13 am
Healthy Nerd: I have a narrow sidebar that’s floated left so that my posts can be first in the code. The widget is just too wide, even if I put it in the sidebar template under the actual sidebar code it winds up in the footer. If I try to put it at the top the height is a problem. It pushes my content down too far.
I’m glad to see the size problem is finally being looked into.
I’d like to see some banner and leader board sizes too. Those could be placed at the top of the page and we wouldn’t have to worry about a broken layout. I wouldn’t mind replacing the adsense leader board because I don’t really make anything off of it anyway.
A selection of sizes would really help. If the bloggers have a few options they’re more likely to use one of ‘em instead of dropping it all together.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:18 am
Ok … I’ve moved the BlogRush widget up a couple of notches on all my blogs. Looking forward to the release of Phase 2!
Bring on the flood of traffic!
October 9th, 2007 at 4:24 am
I do however love what you are doing and think it is a great idea. I also love the bit about helping the people with less traffic instaead of it all going to the big guys. Us small guys need help :o)
Thanks and keep up the good work.
Warmest Regards
Mark
October 9th, 2007 at 4:34 am
I hope you keep inspecting compliance with quality requirements on a regular basis for already enrolled and approved blogs, too. Otherwise people sign up with clean blogs, and start to game the system later again. It makes sense that you are asking for TOP placement of the widget, but every widget supplier does that. Though you seem to be really hard working on making it worthwhile for us. Thanks.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:49 am
The changes look mostly great. I would like to join with other commenters and ask for a bit more about what you mean by poor widget performance.
My blog has good quality posts that I think would appeal to decent-sized audience in my particular niche. However, my readership is very small at the moment - about a dozen visitors/day. BlogRush is one of the things that I am doing to try to build my audience.
I think it would be a shame if is was kicked out of the network simply because I don’t yet have enough readers. More information would be greatly appreciated. Can you either set my mind at ease or let me know how big a readership one needs to be cool enough for BlogRush.
Thanks.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:50 am
Looking forward to all the new categories. Hope you have one for homeschoolers.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:51 am
The changes sound good. I’ve moved the Blogrush bar up the page in anticipation of New categories. Looking for something like “Writing and Literature - Bookselling - Rare Books”
October 9th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Looking forward to the new dashboard features.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Wow that looks really cool keep up the great work BLOG RUSH
October 9th, 2007 at 5:06 am
this is one of the best internet marketing strategies i have come across on the web so far, and its good work.
Keep up the good work
Muna wa Wanjiru
October 9th, 2007 at 5:10 am
Hallo
October 9th, 2007 at 5:27 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 5:33 am
Well, I’m really excited to see the new changes ! Hope they come out sooner
October 9th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Since two days ago I am not earning ANY credis from my own blogs or from my referrals and my two blogs that have been on the network since the beginning are marked as Pending Review.
What does this mean? I there anything I need to do? I think it’s unfair that I display the widget but get no credits in return. Is it the report system that is broken?
Hope you get the new reporting system up soon.
Simon
October 9th, 2007 at 5:45 am
This is all very exciting, and I’m anxious to see what you have up your sleeve. Congrats on a job well done, so far!
October 9th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Not sure I can wait for this one! I am very exciting for this major upgrade.
October 9th, 2007 at 6:08 am
I have to say that I agree with David Bean and Sean. I have two blogs, one a few months old and the other about a month old. I post on each of them daily — quality, on-topic content.
I put the Blogrush widget on both of them several weeks ago to help give them the jumpstart that they needed. While my traffic has seen dramatic increases, to date I have had ONE clickthrough thanks to Blogrush. Not one visitor on each site — ONE CLICKTHROUGH IN TOTAL.
David Bean said it quite nicely. Why in heaven’s name would I then go and promote the Blogrush widget whose sole intent is to send visitors away from my blog when I have no verifiable data that this widget will help my blog?
I hear your comments that you will give “extra help” to us newbies that need it. Well, I’m still waiting. You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. Start sending me some traffic and I’ll be happy to post your widget not only higher on my blogs, but also on my forehead while I stand in the middle of Broadway singing the Star Spangled Banner.
October 9th, 2007 at 6:11 am
How low on your blog is to low? If we have to have it above the fold, my widget is leaving. That space is to valuable!
October 9th, 2007 at 6:12 am
just release it already, this is a “Long” rollout
October 9th, 2007 at 6:13 am
One other comment: The blogrush widget would naturally fall higher on my blogs if someone could tell me how to create an automatic drop down list for my Blogger category post labels. For both of my blogs (food related), it is essential that my site visitors are able to quickly scroll down the list of labels (categories) to see what’s available. Since I cannot find a way (other than manual) to put them in a dropdown or scrollbox, they take up quite a bit of room.
Any Blogger experts out there that can help with this?
October 9th, 2007 at 6:18 am
Already loving it!
October 9th, 2007 at 6:22 am
It’s great that you’re keeping us informed of what’s going on, and that you all have been honest about being caught with your pants down, lol. It must have been embarrassing to have been caught unprepared, but you all appear to be going all out to roll out a working system. Props for that.
I’m expecting good things.
*Lisa*
There are tons of Javascript drop down menu sources and tutorials out there on the webs, and I think you can point to your individual categories by linking to http://yourblog.blogspot.com/search/yourcategory
So you could use a sample Javascript menu (or even just a standard blogger link list) with a link for each category.
Automating it wouldn’t be so easy, but once you have a comprehensive list of categories, you shouldn’t need to edit it again other than to add new or remove existing categories. Hope that helps
October 9th, 2007 at 6:31 am
Slippy - I’ve been trying out many of the different scrolling menus and drop-down boxes and haven’t been able to find one yet that I can make work. I hear ya though. I’ll keep looking.
October 9th, 2007 at 6:46 am
I’m one of the people with a narrow blog design. When I added the widget, I had to make it hidden, so someone has to click another link to see it at all. If I didn’t do that, it would cover some content. Please come up with a solution for this!
October 9th, 2007 at 7:04 am
Will wait for update. Hope this helps for your CTR.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Whoo…
You guys need a break!
I’m VERY happy to hear that BlogRush is taking such brave steps. I CANNOT fail.
Although I am worried about one of my blogs meeting your quality standards
October 9th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Hello John Reese,
How active you are, congratulations.
Expecting something very useful and good for my webcashmotor and for the
new Economy 4G3W.
Regards/Filipe Alves Ferreira (1942)
October 9th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Hey John;
I would love to provide better placement of the widget, (we get almost 10,000 impressions per day) but the problem is THE WIDGET SIZE!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can I put it in better placement if it breaks my design template (which was designed before BlogRush came along)… I mean, come on…. offer people options before you start making threats to remove them because of YOUR issues.
Also, I have sent you a few emails about how I would like to contribute many of our impressions to lower traffic blogs in exchange for a link - but no response??? Is this a bad idea - or is it that you just don’t have the time or resources to respond to the concerns of those who are doing their best to promote you??
October 9th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Hey Kelly,
You need to go into the Template and adjust the margin settings to enable the widget’s appearance on your blog and get it up onscreen. Though since I can’t see your blog to give more detailed advice.
I had to make the adjustment on my blog site to accomodate the widget in the left hand section as it was being “clipped” by the main body area.
If you have any other questions just skype me on flyingscot54
October 9th, 2007 at 7:17 am
Great news, except for the “Performance Monitoring” idea. If a small blog managed to make a great hit on eg. digg.com then later its performance level went down to its normal (eg. 1-5 hits a day), you would ban them? You’re not really giving the small blogs a chance then are you?
October 9th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Good news!
Thanks for continuing to make it even better
October 9th, 2007 at 7:44 am
I like where you’re heading with this service but am a little concerned about the low performing standard. Widget placement may not be the issue. Those with brand new blogs that receive little traffic need some time to get things established. They should not be expected to produce the clicks of the blogs that have been around for a long time. In addition, there are benefits to BlogRush from low performing blogs on the system - they are advertising BlogRush! If someone visits a blog and sees the BlogRush widget, even though they may not click on a headline, it is helping to spread the word and visibility about BlogRush. That viewer may later type in the URL of BlogRush into his browser to go see what it is all about. I hope you’ll take these points into consideration and not kick all the newbies out of the system.
Steve
October 9th, 2007 at 7:53 am
It’s great to hear that sites will be manually reviewed for quality. Many of the other great blog services are doing this, and it really makes a huge difference. It’s too easy to throw up a spam site to try to get free and easy traffic.
But I’m not sure I would completely ban sites for underperformance. I would think higher referrals would lead to increased exposure for a blog, and fewer would lead to a reduction until referrals increased. Rather than banning a site completely, the blog’s traffic would take care of the results. Bloggers would have the chance to make improvements to increase traffic without needing to be concerned about being dumped.
I realize you have limited space on your widget, and you want to be sure to provide the best material to viewers. But you have to be careful. Most tools that become too exclusive usually end up extinct within a short time period. I would prefer to see you let the user community make those decisions.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:03 am
I HAVE TO TUNE IN WHAT IS BEING SAID ABOVE:…
“The notion of “lowest position = less viewed†is half-a-decade old. It doesn’t work for blogs, as these blogs are meant to be read, to be browsed, to scroll-down. That’s what a blog is for, so the lowest position gets more attention than the middle.”
1. I don’t know why it takes you guys so long to offer a narrow widget design, if you want to have people put the widget in a “higher position”.
2. I will drop blogrush if I get dictacted to have the widget moved above the fold,
or in that matter getting forced to have it displayed on top of the site or else…
3. Blogrush for god sake is a TOOL, a WIDGET. For you John it is another business venture to analyze and control part of the Internet trends. But I will not make ANY of my blogs or sites revolve around Blogrush. My sites are about what I have to say and what I have to offer for my audience.
Gosh, so many people here don´t get it: Yes, it is a free tool, and it is not even bad, but John Reese is not a philanthropist in regards of this project.
If it looks like that this whole thing turn out just to be another branding machine to give some Internet marketer names even more exposure, blogrush will be gone for my personal and business websites.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:04 am
One thing that really has to be controlled is: blogs are in wrong categories all the time. What is under “marketing” is often anything else, but Marketing related!
October 9th, 2007 at 8:09 am
I agree with Steve above. You should allow newer bloggers more time to build up their contents. I like the fact that you are all about quality which is hard to come by in this crazy internet world. The cream always rises to the top. And I have to say this has to be the cream!
One more thing, will there be a script that works for wordpress? I tried doing it with the current version and it doesn’t allow javascript, only HTML.
Thanks for all the hard work you are doing!
Michael
October 9th, 2007 at 8:13 am
John, you’re definitely one of the white hat dudes. I really admire your dedication to excellence. So things aren’t perfect out of the gate…doesn’t bug you. You just tweak and improve.
Like you say, when you put something up on the Internet, it’s the WORST it will ever be. From then on, it just gets better and better because you improve and tweak it.
Your diligence to quality is rare in a get-rich-quick society.
Just a pep talk. I know you get haters. But you totally ROCK.
With respect,
Lorrie
October 9th, 2007 at 8:18 am
I love the positive attitude here. Things may not be perfect all around but with improvements like these, things will look up for sure. Thanks John for your patience and hard work.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:20 am
i feel it sounds very interesting
October 9th, 2007 at 8:29 am
I’ve written my request here because I’ve sent two e-mails to support and never receiveded a response. I’ve watched the tutorials on inserting the code on my blogspot blog, which I understand, however I still don’t understand how to get the code itself. Thanks
October 9th, 2007 at 8:32 am
The traffic that Blogrush says I’m getting is MORE than the traffic that my Performics stats say I’m getting. That’s ridiculous.
Nice try, Blogrush.
This little rant by Mr. Reese tipped the scales. His elitist attitude toward the importance of the widget shows that he has no regard for the webmasters that would like to use this tool. I should have the right to dictate where everything on my site goes, NOT YOU. I know what’s best for my blog, YOU DON’T. You can try to manipulate your user’s websites, but don’t be surprised when people push back.
Many well respected bloggers and professional affiliate marketers have already decided that Blogrush isn’t going to be used on their blogs. I’ve just joined them.
Inaccurate reporting + elitist attitude = loss of customers.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:39 am
I sent a help desk ticket in ages ago. I am very new to all of this, even thought I know how to create blogs. I just do NOT know what an RSS URL is???? I couldn’t even get my account set up without that. So can someone please tell me what an RSS URL is?
Thanks for any assistance.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Hi,
My blog is about digital scrapbooking and I wish you had a category only for scrapbooks or digital scrapbooks. There is so
many sites outthere and it would be fun to only see digital scrapbook sites
on my “blog rush” window.
I would like to know if you would consider this.
Thanks!
Norma Aguilera
Scrapbooks gone Digital! Founder.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:47 am
I hope you do not become over zealous when it comes to judging the amount of traffic you receive from member web sites.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Hey,
I signed up, but have wordpress and it won’t allow javascript on the sidebar. Will that be changed?
October 9th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Dear John,
In response to people like Daniel M. Clarke - it’s kinda sad you have to develop a tougher skin. I know you get a TON of criticism (and it’s simply human nature to pay more attention to the bad than the good - I know firsthand, unfortunately.)
But your friends and colleagues KNOW you’re doing something bigger that will change the Internet forever. We GET IT.
So don’t let small-minded thinkers bring you down. I know what’s in your heart. And I really admire what you are doing. So do many, many entrepreneurs who truly have an abundance mindset rather than one of scarcity.
xo
October 9th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Pam, maybe this plugin can help you.
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/interstitial-ads-plugin-for-wordpress/
I quote “This plugin allows you to automatically add javascript (or anything else) to all links on your WordPress site.”
October 9th, 2007 at 9:19 am
John,
Everything sounds wonderful! But, I’m having trouble placing the widget to start with. The wordpress blog I had absolutley will not take it in the text box and there is no place in my dada.net photo blog except as a blog entry. Also, I have started three new pages on blogger which I have not made public yet, but the widget will not show on blogger except as a blank box. I’m really at my wit’s end here. A little help please, I don’t want the others to suffer because of these issues. Thank you.
Tracey
October 9th, 2007 at 9:24 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 9:25 am
I love BlogRush, except the widget is to wide for my blog, that’s why it’s at the bottom..for now. When you guys make it adjustable, then I will put it higher.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:26 am
I know you guys have heard it a hundred time already, but just to reinforce. We really need that narrow widget design soon.
Am glad to see all the effort on your part to improve this service and wish your entire team success.
Thanks,
Anmol
October 9th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Sorry to post here!
Please feel free to delete it!
Who should I contact to give my name to help BlogRush to review manually blog’s? I suspect that in the very very near future you will need to hire more people, even part time to start with!!
Thanks
Roger Pilon
October 9th, 2007 at 9:37 am
BlogRush is a must-have widget for your fine blog.
This will definitely be worth the wait !
Post great content.
Give the widget fair placement on your A-List blog.
Don’t even think about trying to game the system.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:11 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 10:31 am
I’m looking forward to the changes. Blogrush have been running smoothe on my blog, I noticed in my stats I have been getting quite some clicks, compared to the page impression, it could be higher but that’s what testing is all about…
Very excited about the new developments!!
Dennis
http://www.forex-gurus.blogspot.com
( get the latest information in the world of forex)
October 9th, 2007 at 10:37 am
While BlogRush is a great idea, I have to agree with some of the criticisms here that the tone and language used in this post by John Reese was unfortunate. I understand that you have to scare away the cheaters and such, but along the way you may scare away people you want to be using your service.
And from a strategic point of view, it’s not a good idea to use this type of language when a product is in the middle of an upgrade. You want people to give you the benefit of the doubt, not the the other way around
Having said all that, I still like BlogRush and I will continue to use it and promote it.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:38 am
I’m with Lorrie: “Your diligence to quality is rare in a get-rich-quick society.” This is a great tool, an awesome concept, and I applaud John for his principles. Although I’ve heard of John before, this is my first experience with one of his products. I’m impressed — and shocked at the amount of negative comments I’ve read here about a totally free tool!
I do have one question/clarification. I *think* the performance monitoring is measuring click-thru rates…meaning not total clicks, but the ratio between views and clicks. ***John is that right?*** If so, low-volume blogs needn’t be so worried
I also have some words for the *whiners* out there:
1. If your blog is new, why in the world would you *expect* (much less demand!) that John or anyone else (us) to do all your promotion for you free of charge??? I run a similar cooperative venture (not related to blogs) and I expect my participants to have at least two established marketing channels besides the coop. It’s unreasonable to ask others to help you and give nothing in return.
2. This is a free tool, folks. And it’s new. It’s not perfect, but I’m certainly seeing a strong commitment to improvement. And that development takes time — although compared to other software I use, BlogRush is raising the bar on rolling out upgrades. So be patient — the thinner widgets, new categories, and probably loads more is coming.
3. If you have products and you wait until they are perfect to release them, well then you are missing a lot of opportunities. I signed up for BlogRush knowing fully well that as an early adopter I’m a sort of beta tester. If you want a marketing tool that works perfectly and meets all your needs NOW…pay your own programmers and see how long it takes.
4. For those concerned that their visitors will click away from their site — so do you not have links elsewhere on your site? Exchange links? Recommendations? Blogrush clicks open to a new page — so your site is still there for the visitor to come back to. Certainly there will be some folks for whom the cost/benefit doesn’t work out; then BlogRush isn’t for you. And I don’t recall any guarantees that it would.
5. For those worried about being kicked out because their widget isn’t above the fold…John clearly states: “We are not going to require our members to place the widget at the very top of their blogs or put it in any specific location.” If you get better clickthrus with the widget at the bottom of your blog, go for it!
And if anything I’ve said above offends you…don’t bother clicking to my name. You won’t be interested in my site — we don’t have a “get rich quick” category.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:40 am
i am just waiting on the widget size changes.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:03 am
I’d love top move it higher, especially since the traffic has increased about 10-fold since adding the widget, BUT….
In order to add my Blogger blog to my webpage, I had to go back to the original template, which give you precious little versatility as far as placing add-ons. I can’t even get Google Analytics to work right.
If anybody can lend their expertise on this, I’d be grateful!!
Melissa
October 9th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Much more detailed categories are needed for niche writers.. Everything will be better I am sure
October 9th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Hi John,
I understand that you are a guru for blog marketing. Maybe you can give me some
advise, and let me know if your Blog Rush would be a smart way to go.
My 7 year old son wanted to start an internet business, and he decided he wanted
to do a site about legos. I thought it would be a good learning experience, so I’m
going with the flow on this.
The main theme of the site is that he is doing video lego reviews, showing off his
lego creations, and giving lego tips. It’s actually pretty cute…
but of course I’m his mom so I naturally think it’s cute.
I’ve been fortunate to get some great tips from people, such as monetizing it through
creating an Amazon store, putting it on technorati, putting up adsense, and
joining some affiliate programs.
He’s coming up with all the ideas for his videos himself, and I’m basically the one
posting it. I’m also the one who is collecting all the information from experts such as
yourself on what to do next.
If you have suggestions for us, we’d appreciate it.
The mom of a lego kid
http://www.LegoAdventures.com
October 9th, 2007 at 11:35 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Would be nice if I could actually access my Dashboard. It’s been “currently unavailable” for quite a long time. Looking forward to the new changes. Hopefully they will improve the BR experience for everyone.
Shine on,
Aaron
October 9th, 2007 at 11:58 am
“If a member’s natural widget performance (the rate at which visitors click headlines and other factors we aren’t making public) falls far below the average activity of other members in their category…
THIS MEMBER WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE BLOGRUSH NETWORK.”
It sounds like I could place it at the top center of my blog with big flashing lights, and still get removed if readers don’t click enough to make Blogrush happy.
Thanks, I feel really valued.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Good news on the major update. I’ve had BlogRush on my blog since day 1 and I think its helped my traffic. Kind of hard to tell though since BlogRush stats aren’t working.
Anyway good to hear about the new features and look forward to seeing them in action.
-Rick
http://www.daelectronics.com
October 9th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
i would love to use your service, but i simply cant until i get my blog privately hosted. im using wordpress.com at the moment. any chance you will support it?
rel
October 9th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
I’m really excited about all the changes, and look forward to seeing how things will
come together. I currently run wordpress and my placement is above the fold on
the right-hand side.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Rather than kicking people out, you could go for a phased move-out where they only get a half of a credit or some such for each view instead of a whole credit.
How would this work for referrals? Let’s say John has a terrible click through, but he got Jane to sign up and she has a great click through. Does that count in John’s favor? You could always stop awarding full credits for page views on John’s site, but still give the full credits for the bounce-up referrals from Jane’s.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
John, very excited about the phase II rollout. Especially the advances you’re making to help drive traffic to our sites. Please keep up the good work!
October 9th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I’ll be delighted to place the blogrush widget on my sidebar — even near the top –
IF, IF, the newly designed widget will fit in my sidebar without sticking out and if the options are more attractive than the big black bullet. Here’s hoping!
October 9th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
I don’t seem to be getting any traffic from your widget and all it seems to be doing is slowing down my page load…. you have about 2 day to get it together then I’m going to remove your widget.
October 9th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Gratz on BlogRush only one month old and I see it everywhere.
Also getting some traffic!
Phase II sounds great… Keep up the excellent work.
JD
1to1million.com
October 9th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
I’ve now gotten more two visits from the trackback dropped — that’s more than I get from the widget. Wow!
I followed the referrer back to, and I need to ask John: Is the comment above really you? If so, you don’t really expect blogrush users are going to read your request and remove the blogrush widgets now?
If the comment is from an impersonator, you might want to delete the comment rather quickly.
October 9th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I’m sorry if I’ve missed it, but are there any plans to
provide html code for the widget (as opposed to javascript)?
Thankx!
October 9th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Hmm.
Not sure about the strong attitude towards widget-placement.
Not only is it too wide for me, but I find it a little garish. Can’t make it fit with the theme of my site at all - so I stuck it lower down.
IF I could style it a bit to make it fit the look of my site a bit better, then sure, I’d be glad to put it above the fold.
The most webmaster/designer/developer friendly would be if it output plain markup that we could apply some CSS to. Of course, then you have the challenge of people hiding it in CSS.
Go some way to solving both those problems by weighting credits towards actual clicks rather than impressions. Then if someone wants to place the widget less prominently, it’s them that takes the hit.
To be honest, the tone of this update makes me wonder about using the service anyway.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
John,
In defense of those who put their widgets low, you had, at the beginning of this great launch, a helpful article on Blog Rush that said to this effect: If you’re putting the widget above your own content, you’re missing the point. It wasn’t exactly those words, but I believe I have the sentiment, because after reading that, I moved my widget DOWN and put a little text widget “ad” about Blog Rush right at the top. Then after you started talking about placement, I moved the widget back up.
That article isn’t anywhere now that I could find.
For those who say the bottom is best, I have a question:
If I’m sending people directly to my permalinked post, they’ll arrive on my blog at the top of the page, not the bottom. I don’t make them scroll or have to hunt (one of my pet peeves) for the article that brought them there. So how can bottom placement be best? Just curious. If I’m doing something wrong here, I’d like to know.
Finally, I’ve written a post with a possible solution for those having sidebar size issues who use Word Press. It’s too long to post here.
Don’t worry, I won’t be selling you anything. I don’t even have Adsense integrated yet. This is pure information. My gift to you all.
http://debgallardo.com/virtuoso/80
October 9th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
MARK — there was no intended “bad tone” etc. We have no choice but to make some tough decisions. There’s no “gray” area here that can be used. All active members either contribute equally, or it doesn’t work. Either people are willing to give the widget higher placement or they aren’t and are choosing not to participate in the network. We don’t have a choice. It’s not fair to make exceptions and therefore we cannot. We’re working on some different customization options, but if at anytime what we have isn’t good enough for your blog (or anyone else’s) then it’s probably best that you just don’t use it. We will never be able to please everyone with what they want and we can’t do anything about that. So each person just has to make the decision for themselves.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Deborah — thanks for the feedback. I don’t actually recall what article you are referring to or what was recommended. We didn’t officially release anything like that. I can tell you this, our users that place the widget higher on their blogs are the ones that are achieving better widget performance (their visitors are clicking more.) Widgets placed at the bottom of a template get very little activity and will, ultimately, run the risk of being removed from the network. We WILL do our best to give users a warning if this happens to give them a chance to correct the problem — we definitely want to be as FAIR as we can with everyone.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Finally changes so I can actually use this service. =] Now they just need to add the feature to remove blogs from your account.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
John,
If I read correctly, this post said that people will receive a “warning” BEFORE they gey banned, or as your site says “Blog Not Approved For Network”. well I submitted a blog and your site disapproved it so fast my head was spinning. Funny thing is, I didnt receive a warning, or suggestions, or help or anything to guide me to an approval.
How is this system “FAIR” or “COOPERATIVE” when you don’t even consult/advise the publisher before banning them?
P.S. How many comments + emails to blog rush support does it take to get a response?
October 9th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Thanks to a suggestions by Moviego my little blog is not only picking up new readers, but a lot them are commenting on my blog. Hopefully, when Blogrush is finished I will use all its goodness to achieve greater readership.
Thanks Moviego and thanks to Blogrush for all your help!
October 9th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Idea! I don’t know if this has been discussed before, but how about making the BlogRush Widget Links also available as an RSS feed?
This would have a two fold benefit:
1) Users who have formatting issues with the widget can instead install the BlogRush RSS feed.
2) The RSS feed could take the formatting of the blog, at least that’s what happens in Blogger, so people could move the BlogRush RSS even higher in their blog structure without worrying about their readers complaining about too many widgets/graphics.
October 9th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Another vote for a widget that will fit into sidebars please!
October 9th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Hi John
I have been attempting to promote BlogRush in a couple of private forums I have joined. There is a fear of the click away aspect and not returning to their blog. I don’t know why since the links open in a new window. Oh well, I’ll keep trying!
I corrected my problem with the widget and am awaiting the new sizes patiently. While going through the posts here I noticed one thing in common. Adding to WP sidebar has been an ongoing problem.
If anyone is having trouble adding to the sidebar in WP, you can send me your question using my support link at: http://www.wmgsystems.com/support
This is done to prevent spam. I promise you will not receive any email from me other than to answer your WP question. Please include your theme and sidebar code plus your css. This will make it easier to see where the problem is.
Thanks John for the update and all the KEWL stuff in the making!
GB
Walter Gavurnik
October 9th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Walter — what an incredibly generous offer. This kind of cooperation is what BlogRush is all about!
Terri Z
October 9th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
It looks good except for the part where you are going to ax the members that don’t get enough traffic, I don’ t think a user should be forced to place the widget in a “certain” place on the blog, if they won’t low stats thats their problem.
October 9th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
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October 9th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Blog Rush is the best thing thats happened to the blogging world sine it was invented!
behold my stats all due to blog rush I cant even count how many emails I get now because of new readers via blog rush!
Credits Earned Today: 855
Credits Earned Last 7 Days: 4,806
Your Traffic Today: 387
Your Traffic Last 7 Days 1,850
Total Referrals In Your Network: 22
Referral Traffic Today: 468
Referral Traffic Last 7 Days: 2,956
BLOG RUSH OWNS!!
October 9th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
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October 9th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
I do no yet have the Blogrush widget on my site since I was not given the script to insert, because I do not know how and where to get the RSS feed. I am a newbie who would like a little bit of helping hand in getting the widget onto my site.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
for people who need a feed try using Feed Burner http://www.feedburner.com
October 9th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
In answer to your post here and the mean one you wrote on your blog here is my answer to you sir!
hmm sounds like you need to get laid my friend so bitter!! Blogrush works perfectly for me. Maybe your just to brilliant for us regular bloggers. Considering my blog is even crappier than yours am grateful for a hit any hit even if its by mistake . Btw mr smart wheres your ideas for getting traffic so easily like blogrush? As far as John Reese the man is a genius!!
October 9th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
I like finding New Interesting Posts via BlogRush from my fellow Bloggers*
;))
I’m curious what my Stats are so far I’ll have to take a Look*
Cheers Everybody!! Billy ;))
Peace*
October 9th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Dude…. there is way too much @ss kissing going on in here! “Please John, Please….can I get a sniff too?”
October 9th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
“Britney Beers Says: October 8th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I know that some people arn’t getting their blog to show up. But people you cant just crap on there. Just so you know John. I have visited some of the blog from the widget and they are hopeless. Some people just realize that you cant put cr@p up and expect blogrush to accept it. If you want to get noticed build a big blog with great content, not some piddly lil advertising place full of advertising spam and adsense. I can see now why John is getting fed up with some of these people. The cheats and spammers think that they will overun the place, But think again. Just build a nice loooking blog and you will get noticed…the others can leave.”
LOL. Too funny from someone linking their name from a squeeze page selling a bunch of traffic hype. Sorry “Britney”. Couldn’t pass up you judging other people and what they sell while you build squeeze pages to hype your “web traffic” project.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
“David Bean Says: John - about widget placement: My blog income is dependent on my few product sales and AdSense clicks (diddly though those amounts are). You aren’t taking into account that probably most of us bloggers would prefer that visitors clicked on OUR product links or AdSense links, and not depart from our blogs by clicking on some other blog link. While most of us legitimate bloggers write about stuff we are interested in, most of us probably aren’t doing it “just for our healthâ€, and want some income. That is why the low placement positions of the widgets. Are you just looking for blogs that are just for “ego-booâ€, saying look at me and my babies or drunken friends? Now, with BlogRush, maybe we will get more visitors, but what good is that if they click away to some other blog? How would we determine the tradeoff between more visitors, but less value per visitor with BlogRush, vs. fewer visitors, but more likely to provide some income by us not having BlogRush? There has to be some sort of tradeoff between putting the widget where it will be the first thing someone sees and so clicks away (at the top), or where a visitor is more likely to see our product or AdSense ads first and clicks away giving us some income.”
EXACTLY ON POINT. I own or manage more than 50 blogs. Most are client blogs, some I own. Before I add blog rush to all of them, I have to see the benefit to my clients. Business Blogs are different than diaries. If blog rush is going to cater to personal blogs and daily diaries, let me know so I know it will not be a good fit for my clients.
October 10th, 2007 at 12:01 am
“Bob Meyer Says: I use wordpress and therefore can’t use your blogrush service…looking forward to doing so once you get WP on board…”
I have it installed in 2 wordpress blogs. Working fine.
October 10th, 2007 at 12:23 am
John, I give you props for trying to build a good traffic tool, but I have to take the wait and see approach. Nothing wrong with trading traffic but “traffic holes” are adifferent story altogether, especially for business bloggers.
So far I see this as a good tool for personal blogs, nonprofit blogs, etc., but just not sure it will benefit business or company blogs. Care to comment on that for me and tell me how you think it will work out for business blogs?
I read your comment about making our own decision. But like to hear about your vision of how this will work out for professional bloggers before I decide it isn’t worth the time, effort, or space on my blogs.
I’d like not to discount the idea without hearing more first.
October 10th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Mine is just my own lil blog, not a seo blog or a business blog. It really serves no world problem solving purpose other than a diary for me. I wouldn’t know a keyword if it sat on my face. So I use traffic pods and blog explosion to get the few hits I get as it is. That means you have to click on their services and cruise through 100’s of pages to get somebody to visit my blog. With Johns widget I don’t have to do a dam thing. More importantly I get to read blogs via the widget that are of direct interest to me. Thats alot of time saved surfing through blogs to get hits to mine. Time is money and John has saved me a small fortune with his widget. so John heres a kiss sailed through this post right to your BUTT!
October 10th, 2007 at 12:40 am
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October 10th, 2007 at 12:54 am
The idea behind BlogRush is good. IMO it’s just the upgrade process that’s making people turn away.
Well initially it was the CTR, then it was the upgrade matters. Like i said, it the upgrade could’ve been done in a LESS damaging way towards BR.
October 10th, 2007 at 1:57 am
I am a little surprised/confused about this vidget placement now….
To start with I placed every vidget at the top. However, after reading the resource suggestion you had at blogrush from snowboardjohn I got the impression that if you ad the vidget at the top this wasn’t a good idea. So as a results I changed every vidget and placed them a bit lower. Only for to discover now that this can/probably will make my blogs to be removed…
October 10th, 2007 at 2:33 am
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October 10th, 2007 at 3:10 am
You guys are doing a great job!! Thanks
I too placed the widget at the bottom after reading the post from snowboardjohn,
I guess his thoughts on it were about distracting & directing people away from your blog if its
at the top but a degree of fairness to BlogRush for this great idea is also required….Im off to move my widget :o)
October 10th, 2007 at 3:20 am
You’re missing the point.
If you have a “website” not a “blog”, then the top part of your site is more important than the middle and the bottom part.
If you have a “blog”, the bottom part is more important than your top part. Why? You blog because you have something to say that is not “news” - your opinions and point-of-views.
In other words, your visitors READ your blogpost, and so THEY SCROLL DOWN. And since you are posting your OWN opinions and PoVs, then they will also read the existing comments WHICH are at the bottom of your page AND they will also post comments, which is AGAIN AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR PAGE.
Now, if you are blogging by copying someone else’s “NEWS” then your visitors will certainly stay at the top of your page.
A REAL BLOG will make their visitors SCROLL DOWN. Why will you read a blog if there is nothing original and new to it? Go to a website, not a blog.
A REAL BLOG will make their visitors SCROLL DOWN, because these blog offers opinions and PoVs not found elsewhere, and THUS his/her visitors will read to the bottom, read the comments, leave their own comments.
So which is important now? The top part of a REAL blog or the bottom part? Which is seen most of the time? The top part or the bottom part?
Which GETS ATTENTION THE MOST NOW? The Top part or the bottom part?
You know the answer, it is very obvious.
Simple: If people read your blog, then they scroll to the bottom. If they don’t, then there is no need to blog.
If BlogRush is really for REAL BLOGs, then the bottom part is as important or more important than the top part.
October 10th, 2007 at 8:30 am
I can’t remember when I’ve read so much complaining about a new product.
I’m glad my niche is not nearly so critical!
October 10th, 2007 at 8:33 am
Looks good to me. Check out my website though…
October 10th, 2007 at 9:43 am
I am commenting here becuase evidently Blog Rush doesn’t think I’m important enough to reply to. I signed up for it over 3 weeks ago. Got my code and it won’t work on my Wordpress blog. I have emailed a couple of times asking for help to fix this and no one has relped to it yet. If this is what customer service is like I will blog about it and get the word out that BlogRush isn’t worth the time. I’m just asking for a little help to help get it up and going on my blog. Is ANYONE from BlogRush willing to offer to help?
October 10th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Well said Jay! So many don’t seem to realise that in fact a blog is properly read from the bottom up. You explained very nicely.
October 10th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I can’t believe you guys denied my newest blog, I mean I just started it.
I’ve been researching into the wee hours just so I can write original content, not the regurgitated crap on competitors sites. I was hoping to get a boost in traffic from this BlogRush and loaded the script last night and what do I see this morning?????
> Are you kidding me??? I thought you cared about folks just getting started??? Am I considered a scammer??? I don’t even have adsense on this site.
Was there any effort to tell me why??? No.
And now I see my others are all under review.
I don’t know who you finally hired to review my blogs, but tell them to just delete me from your network, since I’ve deleted all your scripts from my blogs.
You can also remove me from your list, cause I don’t need you either.
Roy
October 10th, 2007 at 10:40 am
My only concern is that since my blog is just a personal diary and is very new with few readers, I’m concerned that my blog will be removed because of low traffic. I’ve got the widget pretty high up on my sidebar, and I adjusted the blog margins so that it would fit better, but I’m not sure what else I can do to cause more traffic for you. I’m not willing to put the widget above my own personal links or blog profile field. My blog is supposed to be about ME, you know, and I want people to read it, not just click away to another headline that grabs their attention first. But regardless, the widget is still in the top scrolling half of the page.
The reason I joined Blogrush is to get more traffic because I’m not a business or networking blog and never will be. I didn’t join to be threatened that I’m not big or important enough to keep around. I’d like some traffic pushed my way too, and I thought that was the idea. I’m not doing this just for Blogrush’s benefit.
Thanks for your help and efforts. I do appreciate Blogrush so far and hope for the best. I’ll continue to give Blogrush a fair shake and every focus opportunity I can without taking away from my own blog, but I hope you’ll give us little blogs the same courtesy.
October 10th, 2007 at 11:46 am
After two weeks of running “BlogRush” on my website, I’ve decided to remove this widget for some very good reasons.
Reason 1
For the past two straight weeks I have displayed BlogRush at the very top of my site so it would be one of the first things you see when visiting my site. I couldn’t fit the widget in my side menu because of its over sized design.
Reason 2
I have yet to receive ANY traffic from BlogRush even though my site’s dashboard stats are huge leap above what most people’s BlogRush stat are.
Credits Earned Today: 520
Credits Earned Last 7 Days: 11,864
@ 12pm
Reason 3
I’m feeling like “BlogRush” isn’t being straight forwards with their work flow efforts.
2+ weeks and 80% of the program is still broken? Common be real. I have beta tested for quite a few companies and this is the WORST “Beta” I have ever seen. I’m sure a lot of other people expect this to help boost their new blog/sites, but I don’t need BlogRush if BlogRush is only going to be dead weight on a fully functional website.
Fix your widget then I’ll use it. I put faith in John Reese, I waited the week like he said, nothing, I gave him another week and he shows me some half-ass “spy photo” of the new Dashboard which are probably fake and he is just feeding the public to keep people interested in a broken product.
October 10th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I am gaining a ton of traffic to my blog through BlogRush. Thanks a million!!!
October 10th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
updates are looking great.
cant wait keep it up guys
October 10th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Stephen:
If your blog is what these guys are looking for, I can see why I was rejected. I’m glad you’re happy.
Roy
October 10th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Jay — excellent analysis of positioning on blog vs. web page. I never thought of it that way!
Thanks,
Terri Z
October 10th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
The Evil Man Says: I’m feeling like “BlogRush†isn’t being straight forwards with their work flow efforts. 2+ weeks and 80% of the program is still broken? Common be real. I have beta tested for quite a few companies and this is the WORST “Beta†I have ever seen.
My thoughts exactly. I’ve not come by any company that has such a long down-time, or half-operational time.
IMO the logical process would be to do all upgrades / enhancement on a development unit. After the process is completed, testing should be done to ensure all systems are operational.
After that, schedule 12 - 24 hour down-time for upgrade purpose.
It’s all about maintaining great user experience! ….. which unfortunately is what BlogRush doesn’t do well.
All the posts so far (supposedly updates) look to me like “oh hold on guys we’re just about done……I hope……… please don’t give up on us yet.”
October 10th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Is it really ?
October 10th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I am so excited about the new upgrades. I look forward to the launch of the new features!
Thanks,
Angelique
October 10th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
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October 10th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
What is the policy for blog content? I have a financial market blog that analyzes stocks and investment strategies etc., and my blog rush widget is 80% of the time filled with blogs that are “debt consolidation” or “credit repair” “bad credit personal loans” etc. and when i navigate to the site, the post just spoke to the advantages of the products that are advertised on the site. In my mind, these are spam blogs, and offer no insightful content, rather just credit spam. My readers have no desire to click on those links in the widget, thus I am not very inclined to place the widget on my blog if no real financial blogs are promoted. I think this holds true for all the other “real” financial bloggers in my space. I am pumped about the blog rush widget potential, and want to use it, but I would like to recommend that these types of blogs not be approved for the fairness of other who are writing actual articles of value.
Your thoughts???
Thanks,
Financial Alchemist
October 10th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Turley,
I run a Tech blog and now I’m seeing
1. Reef Aquarium Basics
2. Farberware Selects 10-Piece Cookware Set
Hrmm…….. something’s amiss. It used to show blogs of the category that I’ve chosen.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
goldfries,
That’s interesting, in my case, I am seeing posts all in my category, but they are junk. I think they should designate a specific category just for credit/debt type blogs. I am so sick of seeing that type of garbage. I get endless credit card/loan solicitations in my actual “snail mail” box at my home, I get the same stuff in my e-mail, spam box, I see those type ads all over the internet, and now I have that crap on my blog. Won’t be for long if blogrush never addresses the issue.
October 10th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
after having the script work fine for a few days, i changed themes to give better utility, and now no matter what i do the script doesn’t run. an email to tech support is unanswered. the feed is valid. the site has posts, there’s room for the script..every detail has been checked.
and what do i see on the simulated dashboard? no help.
this program is an excellent idea. the idea of “hand-checking” thousands of blogs is not, simply becaue i can’t believe its being actually done, given comments here.
October 10th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
How far up is far enough…
I like the new colors…
My blog is a religion blog with a focus on postmodernism and the emerging church. I also have a huge focus on egalitatrian marriage and male/female equity. I don’t know how to tell you to “niche” this, but I hope you will try! Thanks!
October 10th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
It very hard to wait..
But we have to do this..
October 10th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
whew…. new articles and new celebrity photo on the go…. pls visit my website..
October 10th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
I have been waiting to try this out and the most recent news about different emails going out had me a little gun shy to try it, but the new stats look good. I look forward to seeing how this new enhancement goes.
October 10th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
i’m tired uploading new article but ….. i have a good news for you all….
again i uploaded new and latest issues about your favorite celebrity….
October 10th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
The interface feels like home, now that i’m so addicted to Google Analytics
October 11th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Such a useful widget.
The PINK one goes perfectly on my blog =)
October 11th, 2007 at 12:51 am
I’m with the Evil Man on Reason 2.
My temp stats show huge amounts, but I don’t find any sign what so ever of increased traffic or incoming hits from Blogrush.
I have my widget at the bottom of my left side and I don’t mind putting it up higher as I like it’s look and feel, no prob there, but I just have the feeling that its not generating traffic for me. If I see traffic coming in from BR, I’ll give it a better position and I think thats only fair.
So, can’t wait for those new stats. The categories interest me as well as I’m having trouble placing my blog.
Cheers & good luck with phase 2
October 11th, 2007 at 1:12 am
By the way, I’ve just been jumping around from blog to blog using the widget. I like doing that to discover new posts/blogs. 5/10 didn’t even have the widget in sight, not on the page I was taken to, nor on their homepage. How can this be?
October 11th, 2007 at 1:22 am
I hope that there is no penalty for clicking on links in my own widget. A lot of the value in having the widget is having five fresh links come up to sites I’ve missed until then. I can’t do that with my AdSense bar because there’s a monetary conflict of interest but there was neither an incentive nor a disincentive to do it with my BR widget. Seems like it would be better left that way. I can’t see people spending time clicking and refreshing their widget and following every link that pops up unless (a) they’re really really bored or (b) they have an incentive to do so.
Low click-throughs to my site don’t really bother me because they’re probably coming from a website that has never sent me a visitor before, so I’m expanding the type of audience I have. The only reason they got to my site through the widget was because I said something in my headline that got their interest. If that’s only two a day, it’s two a day more than I had before I started using the widget.
As for the new “fairness” requirements, they’re all well and good; it’s your service and you’re welcome to demand anything you want of people who use it. I signed up with the intention of “trying it out” to see how well it worked because it’s a neat concept. But I’m not comfortable having the widget displayed prominently on my blog just yet because it appears that there are still kinks in the system. Yet, if I don’t, you’ll get mad at me and boot me out (or your algorithm will). I don’t think I’m deliberately burying your widget on my blog, but I’m not inclined to pull it higher until I’m reasonably confident that the service is stable. Would you be?
I know you have a lot of things to think about with this service, and I’ve spent enough time listening to guys who run traffic exchanges to appreciate the headaches that you have to go through to get a reliable, useful service. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t have standards for your users, but please be patient with us as many of us have been with you.
October 11th, 2007 at 2:08 am
nightstsands right have been seeing blogs through my widget and many dont have a blog rush widget? This is Sparta!!!!!! (Random)
October 11th, 2007 at 3:48 am
Hi,
I recieved an email that telling me that your email address bounced??
I do not know why: system@blogrush.com
Is this right?
Thank You.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:22 am
What has happened to the Dashboard - does not load today. Is this the update happening?
October 11th, 2007 at 5:01 am
[…] can check out all the cool stuff Phase 2 will implement at Income.com. My […]
October 11th, 2007 at 6:57 am
Thanks for the heads up. I agree with the higher placement.
I for one have the widget on one of my blogs in 2 places , Top and middle;
I think it works better that way. I am going to check to see
if it shows up when I use deep links to get to other pages of my blog.
If not then I will add it to them ASAP.
I do see that I am getting a little more traffic to my blogs but I don’t know
if its from advertising or BR. Is there a way we can check?
Have a great blogging day
Kowgirl
October 11th, 2007 at 8:33 am
I’m still waiting for the narrow widget. C’mon John (and the rest of the team), work your magic and get the phase 2 up and running
October 11th, 2007 at 9:35 am
The blind loyalty to a free service that is this young is staggering. Reporting is BROKEN. You’re NOT getting all the traffic that BlogRush says you are. A few people have talked about that here, but not nearly enough. Do the rest of you not run your own tracking?
October 11th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Suddenly the widget isn’t appearing on my 2 blogs.
Does that mean it’s been rejected?
Are those that are rejected at least getting an email and informing them.
It’s a shame because I have put a lot of work into those 2 blogs.
October 11th, 2007 at 10:08 am
I’m still waiting for this widget. but why my blogrush can’t show my articles
October 11th, 2007 at 11:06 am
It’s not loading on my side too. Removing it until further notice.
October 11th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Daniel M. Clark, I’ve checked out your blog, Modest Opinions. It’s an exemplar of professionalism and preeminence. I have subscribed to your feed using Bloglines.
I really enjoyed your first-class blog!
Keep on blogging!
Have an excellent day!
October 11th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Like the new updates
http://www.seantheblogger.com
October 11th, 2007 at 11:23 am
@Oom, I just saw your blog and your widget will be taken down anyway because you’re a non-English blog. One of the things John and company are reviewing before phase 2 rolls out is to make sure all blogs are up to standard which means enough posts, no spamming, and no non-English blogs.
October 11th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I am not getting all the traffic to my blog that BlogRush says I am. This is confirmed by both Google Analytics and SiteMeter, as well as my main server logs.
On the other hand, I HAVE received some traffic to my blog from BlogRush.
Ever since I installed the widget on my blog, I have experienced a surge of new RSS subscribers.
One of my greatest compliments to John Reese and BlogRush, is the fact that I have discovered at least 100 new blogs through the widget. I must admit that it’s quite the challenge trying to keep up with reading all those new blogs, as well as the 1,000 or so “old” blogs that I love to follow.
I’ll continue using the BlogRush widget for now, and I have lots of patience left and confidence and faith in John Reese and his crew. They will get the remaining glitches in this fine widget all sorted out with time. Then all bloggers will be able to kick back and enjoy the fine benefits to their A-List blogs that this widget can bring.
October 11th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
If someone signs up to BlogRush from your BlogRush widget, does that count as referral?
If yes, then there’s an additional benefit to putting the widget higher, you can increase your referral traffic.
October 11th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
At one point my widget wasn’t showing as usual, just text but it was showing about 12 ads.Last I checked it was ok.I guess it’s due to the upgrade.
October 11th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Well, now the fun starts!
I estimate about half of the posters have been sucking up to you these last 3 weeks, because they know their blogs aren’t going to pass muster. And perhaps you have been swayed by them. Junk blogs are still appearing in the widget.
You now have the unpleasant task of removing these smarmy bloggers and facing their wrath. If you had thought things out carefully before launch, you wouldn’t have to go through with this now.
“This is a MAJOR update.
The service is not even 30 days old, yet we’re about to release more changes than most Internet startups do in their first 6 months.”
Pardon me, but your ego is showing. That statement might impress some of your readers but not the web designers/developers.
You can’t compare this 30 days old service to 6-month-old Internet startups. Those startups are all done with their betas and almost fully operational upon launch. They don’t NEED the changes.
It’s not a good sign to have “shocking” changes and “major updates” during the first 30 days. Shows how buggy the system is and how inefficient your team is. You did promise us it would take only a week to make the update. It is now 3 weeks on and still not ready, and now you say you “hope to have it completely released within 7 days”.
Frankly, I don’t see anything major about the changes. It’s still not fully operational, with lots of basic stuff still not fixed. Looks like all you did was plaster on a bunch of Bandaids.
“New User Interface: More options, more reporting, more features.”
“Per Post Statistics & Addition Of “Buzz Meter†”
These aren’t absolutely necessary. But okay.
“Custom Reports”
IMO, another unnecessary item. Since we don’t have much control over who sees which blogs, custom reports don’t help much. The stats are good enough. Why give yourself more work by offering custom reports which most won’t use or need anyway?
“Bonus Syndication For All Users, But Weighted Towards Low-Traffic Members.
All members of our network will be receiving bonus syndication but we’ll be giving more bonus credits to our members that need it most — ones with low-traffic.”
Uh, what does this mean in plain English? So low-traffic members get extra credits? Why?
And how does this tie in with the following statement?
“We are working on something that might give members with poor widget performance a “warning†to let them know they are in danger of being removed from the network;”
Some posters said they did not get any warnings before being removed.
“More Categories! (A lot more)”
Well and good! But, um, who drew up the list of categories? And who decides which category each blog goes into? Several posts in here indicate that there is a problem with this area of the system.
“Improved Security & Abuse Measures (We’ve already squashed 95% of the cheaters!)”
Really? Most of the quality blogs have long abandoned ship. Leaving you with a motley collection of mostly low-quality blogs and cheaters, and only a handful of quality blogs. The cheaters are in the minority, I would say 10% or 15% of the total. If you’ve gotten rid of 95% of them, you’re still left with a whole lot of junk blogs.
“100% Manual Review & New Quality Guidelines”
“Widget Performance Monitoring”
I repeat. It’s impossible to manually review all blogs and re-review them periodically to ensure they stay within guidelines. I wondered about the rationality of this statement when you first said it. And I’m still wondering.
You do realise too, don’t you, that quite a lot of the posters in here will have to be ditched. The desperation in their flattery of BR and you is just too obvious.
“We are committed to maintaining the highest level of INTEGRITY and QUALITY for our network.”
“It will now be a PRIVILEDGE for a blog to be accepted into our network.”
This is just plain hype. Why not just ’show us the money’?
The fact is that bloggers will be the ones who choose to join or not, based on their assessment of not only the system’s effectiveness but also of its quality. Right now, I would say you have a serious problem with quality.
I also think you are being too protective of your “early adopters”, from the way you sounded in an earlier post. Early adopters or not, if they are junk, they are junk. You need to dump them. Where’s the integrity in keeping “early adopters” who are junk at the expense of shutting out newer quality blogs?
“The BlogRush system is based on TWO things: QUALITY and FAIRNESS.”
“As I said, BlogRush was designed as a FAIR system. There’s a reason it was created as a COOPERATIVE network. It’s so its members can work together to generate more targeted readers for their blogs.”
Doesn’t look like it. Poster Roy above of FortuneSeeker blog has a very good point. Compare his blog, which appears to have been disapproved (and which I think is a quality blog), to FindCash blog, which appears to have been approved (and which I hope will not appear in my widget).
“DO YOU HAVE THE WIDGET PLACED REALLY LOW ON YOUR BLOG?
If so, you need to move it higher on your blog to give it better placement.
Don’t want to do that? THEN PLEASE REMOVE IT COMPLETELY.”
“So any member that’s only willing to put the BlogRush widget at the very bottom of their blog isn’t a member we want in our network — and our network will deliver more traffic, per member, without them.”
It’s not nice being told how we should layout our blogs. You’ve fixed the widget colour and width issues. Why can’t the system be such that where you place the widget dictates how many credits and impressions you get? That will take care of the problem. If members want their impressions, clicks and credits, then they will know the best placement for it. Why do you want to have to force members to put the widget in an ‘in your face’ placement?
The whole purpose of BR is to generate traffic. Or is it not? Is it just to benefit the “early adopters”? It may not be a pyramid scheme, but it sure has a pyramid structure.
C’mon. People don’t need the traffic just so they can read tons of blogs all day long in order to ‘help’ other bloggers.
Why does anyone need traffic? To get better search rankings. To get more click-through rates. To get more sales conversions. Ultimately, to earn more money.
October 11th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Blogrush has such a great potential that goes beyond link exchange, and things move so fast, I just can’t wait to be a year older and see more of Blogrush.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
another reason why the widget may not be showing for some people is modification of theme. after 4 different themes and numerous edits, its working fine.
there’s needs to be some tech support developed. after that, things should work.
for some realistic comments about some of the other complaints, see the jbpublishers blog, were my web guy answered the question about views vs page views vs etc…
October 11th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
corrected url for blog
October 11th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
In reply to LPF.
Nice long post with some good points but ultimately Blogrush is new and like most new internet ventures they will learn from their mistakes. I know I am still learning with most of my websites. The choice to leave or stay is yours to make but personally I will give it a chance. If I am rejected then I lose an interesting widget with great potential but there are others to replace it.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
when are the new categories coming. without good matching of blogs and subjects there aren’t any clickthroughs.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
well..i cannot wait to see the changes!
October 11th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Why don’t you accept non-english blog? You can always show only chinese related link in your widget if the widget is place in chinese blog (for example).
There is a huge market for non-english speaking people out there!
October 12th, 2007 at 1:23 am
To those of you who did notice some traffic from BR: how?
I mean, doest it actually say blogrush in the referring link? Because my traffic here numbers in the thousands but I don’t see a single visitor extra coming in.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:42 am
My Nightstand: I had very few clicks and those were only in the first few days, nothing since.
They show up on my analytics as widget.blogrush.com
October 12th, 2007 at 10:21 am
I’ve just clicked on a few links in the widget on my blog and not one of them had a widget installed! How come?
Not only that but none of the links were in the same category or even in a similar category as my blog. Odd!
October 12th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Click the title to see a successful Blogrush widget.
This is in part due to it’s positioning and sales pitch text. I’ve got new affiliates coming on every day.
Most of the new members at my site have mentioned Blogrush as the way they found me.
Also, I’ve joined many people’s blogs from clicking on some good blog titles. So I am finding the links on my own BR definitely are relevant. In fact, I’ve just done one very serious JOINT VENTURE DEAL from someone I found through my own widget!
Also I recently got one client ($6,000 job) who found me through Blogrush.
My current blogpost is generating lots of traffic to me:
************ $8,000 banner ad for $1,000 donation ************
much better than earlier posts I did. Obviously this title is very clear with a broad appeal. (ignore the ****)
For everyone complaining, do a critical analysis of your own blog page compared to mine and see how it measures up.
Victory Darwin
(Linkedin-Entrepreneurs.com)
October 12th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
How do i place my blog rush code into my sidebar? Iam currently using WordPress Default 1.6 here is what it looks like http://johnnysreviewsite.com/blog/ The blogrush banner looks out of place. I would appreciatate help on doing this. Thanks in advance to anyone who responds. You can also email me directions on how to do this info@johnnysreviewsite.com
October 12th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Well, It’s getting to be Close of business and still not up.
I knew it was too good to be true. I was hoping it would help me get off the ground…
October 12th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
I think both my blogs have been “Pending Review” ever since I first signed up with BlogRush (3 weeks ago) Is anyone else experiencing this?
October 12th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
ok the n ext issue, which is nothing for some of you guys but means something to me is that i am showinh a downline of 0 when iwatched aguy signup ioff my link….a client, who pays me to make sense.
and who has been quoted in AdAge magzine, which means something in the real advertising world, twice.
that sux for me more than the random issues of the widget being only compliant with certain wordpress themes, etc…
October 13th, 2007 at 12:20 am
http://bagyam1953.1free.hop.clickbank.net
I wish to promote the above site
October 13th, 2007 at 3:06 am
Heheh I change my widgets flavor every day hehe.
October 13th, 2007 at 8:13 am
No Problem, Glad i could help a little.
Hopefully you will start to get thousands of hits soon.
October 13th, 2007 at 9:43 am
I emailed you and never got a response. I found blog in your network with SIX widgets on the same page!!! In fact if you like I will gladly post it here or send it to you again.
This is hardly fair! A user gets SIX impressions per view! You need clear document on what is allowed and not allowed. Of course this fits under common sense and has to be gross cheating. It can not be n honest mistake!
I have even once went to a blog that sounded interesting where the widget was not present!!! Most likely he hid it under something, but I did not take time to examine the source code. Let me refer to anther post a few posts above this one:
_____________________________________
# The Evil Man Says:
October 12th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
I think both my blogs have been “Pending Review†ever since I first signed up with BlogRush (3 weeks ago) Is anyone else experiencing this?
________________________
Blog rush is earning a bad reputation in the blog world. I have been loyal so far, but am beginning to wonder!
October 13th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I signed up for Blogrush, but got stuck when asked the url of my blog feed. I have no idea and, with no one to clariify it, never finished the setup….So, can anyone answer my question?!
October 13th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I am looking forward to these changes.
October 13th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
I just found out about this widget, and these new updates. FANTASTIC!
October 13th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
I’m reading the posts from a number of people who are having problems with the widget. I’m not. Installation went perfectly smoothly, and I’m happy.
October 13th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Sandy Morgan I had the same problem. You need a feed burner. Google has one of the best and its free: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home
Set up an account its fast and they will give you a feed address. Its really simple, you will see.
Best of luck. :O)
Don
October 13th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
So John, when will I know if my site will pass the muster? I don’t know if I get enough traffic to justify your BlogRush gadget, after what you were saying a few days ago.
October 14th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
We should start a proper forum to discuss these issues. I have an independent tracker and so far no traffc reported from anyone’s widget in the 3 or so weeks that I have it installed.
October 14th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
@Jim. May not be a bad idea, although I know it takes time to make something like this a reality. Especially when it’s this big, I am seeing the widget on about 75 - 80% of the web sites I visit. That’s HUGE!
October 14th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Hi John! Help please same lil problem as last time stats now showing up
Credits Earned Today: -
Credits Earned Last 7 Days: 5,593
Your Traffic Today: -
Your Traffic Last 7 Days 2,519
Total Referrals In Your Network: 23
Referral Traffic Today: -
Referral Traffic Last 7 Days: 3,074
October 14th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
[…] BlogRush will soon unleash PHASE 2 of its network. […]
October 14th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Hi wallybanners,
Same here, today is my first time with no stats….
Hi Sandy,
To find your feed, view your site and click on the small icon feed at the top of your browser (small orange square on the top right of your window)when new window opens up you will see your feed url in browser
If you still can’t find leave your link here I will get it for you and post it.
October 14th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Yeah, i don’t know what these other peoples problem is:
*until the changes are done you are probably NOT going to get good dashboard results , stats, referral traffic, or current points…etc.
*I use a three column by wordpress and it supports 220pixels so how does the narrow 2 column not allow enough pixels
*I use a text box in wordpress 2.3 and drop the blogrush code in it, no problems
*My wordpress is also hosted on my own domain. Just move your text box up in edit widgets mode under presentation
October 14th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Looking forward to phase 2
October 14th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
I just checked last months stats. On BR and my own stats. Here I have thousands and thousands of “traffic”. In my own stats not a single visitor, not one, came from BR.
I think I need another niche, so maybe phase 2 is a solution. I’m removing the widget though, I’m not giving my visitors five extra ways to leave my website without getting anything in return.
I’ll check back in a month to see if phase 2 arrived or not and if so give it another shot.
October 15th, 2007 at 5:53 am
To answer to some question above: I have 2 sites in pending review, too. I also signed to BR from the first beginning. I have a few visitors from BR.
It’s just me or today is the last day from these 7 days and BR will be up? I count the minutes…
October 15th, 2007 at 6:51 am
I m begin to think you may be onto something! keep me posted!
# My nightstand Says:
October 14th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
I just checked last months stats. On BR and my own stats. Here I have thousands and thousands of “trafficâ€. In my own stats not a single visitor, not one, came from BR.
I think I need another niche, so maybe phase 2 is a solution. I’m removing the widget though, I’m not giving my visitors five extra ways to leave my website without getting anything in return.
I’ll check back in a month to see if phase 2 arrived or not and if so give it another shot.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:54 am
[…] is John Reese. John, I’d be grateful for your thoughts on point 3. Would you be concerned by the Blogrush […]
October 15th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Hi there,
I get some errors when I try to change my blog category…When I change the category and submit the form I get the following messages:
Please Enter Correct Blog URL
Please Enter Correct RSS Feed
I don’t get that…Both the URL and the Feed are working correctly and are supposed to be already working a couple of weeks in the category I selected when signing up. Does anyone knows what’s going here and how to fix it?
Regards,
Bart
October 15th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Hi Bart,
I guess with the upgrade we could expect glitches, my stats still don’t show.
Hang in there!
October 15th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
so… can we have at least another “spy photo” for this 4th week?
October 15th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I’m Concerned that 4 weeks into the upgrade the Home page of the service still gets spammed:
# New WordPress Plugin To Help Slow Widgets | More Than Scratch The Surface Says:
October 15th, 2007 at 9:54 am
[…] is John Reese. John, I’d be grateful for your thoughts on point 3. Would you be concerned by the Blogrush […]
October 15th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I’m getting (rhymes with list) off at this stage. Three weeks later and the links in my widget bear no relation to my blog, nor have I seen my blog in any widget that I’ve visited, and I’ve searched a lot. Wish people would stop praising something that doesn’t seem to be working… be honest.
October 15th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Lou,
I’m sorry you feel that my pingback above was spam. It wasn’t intended to be. I’m about to release a WordPress plugin which lets you load widgets like Blogrush in an IFrame (for performance reasons). My post was asking for feedback on this from several prominent people, including John.
I’ve seen people use pings as way of getting people involved in discussion before and Scott Jangro (BUMPzee) and Andy Beard didn’t have a problem with me pinging them (and responded on my post). However, I won’t do it again if people consider this as spam.
I should point out that my post is directly related to this one - some people are putting the Blogrush widget in the footer because of performance reasons. John says above that people should give the widget a more prominent position. I’m asking how would he feel about it being higher but in an IFrame.
Sorry if I’ve cause any problem or offense by doing things the wrong way.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
So when is this update going to happen ?
I’m still seeing this message - Your Dashboard is currently unavailable as we are in the process of rolling out all the new changes to BlogRush.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
>>>>>>>>sandy
October 15th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
and now blog rush won;t post my posts on its forum right.
sandy….. if you load your blog in internet explorer, and tap the orange square button, it will freload the page as its rss feed, which ucan then copy paste…
i comment about this and the current pro/cons on my blog, along with actual ways to earn actual money, instead of just giving the gurus time/money.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Keep up the good work John. Can’t wait to see Blog Rush when it’s fully functional!
October 15th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
I must say, I’m impressed. You guys have kept good on your word, and this new buzz meter is a GREAT TOOL.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:30 am
Time is tickin’ and it’s coming to a month soon.
October 16th, 2007 at 6:02 am
BlogRush works fine in my view. Here’s a snapshot of headlines as they appeared this morning on my blog. Item #3 doesn’t appear to be relevant on the surface however, it is a business so I’m okay with that. The popularity of these blogs ranges from moderate to massive and because clicks open a new window, I don’t mind readers clicking away particularly if they find the information useful. The way I see it, I did my part.
BlogRush Widget Headlines 10/16
1.) A case study: Blogging for Business Growth
2.) How To Optimize Your Site
3.) And We Support World Peace
4.) Free Report Reveals Smart Way to Make Money Online
5.) Google Adsense Launch Video Units
October 16th, 2007 at 7:40 am
jbpublisher:
I tried to find your blog, where is it?
roy
October 16th, 2007 at 8:09 am
I have to echo the concern about widget placement. I am getting a handful of hits each day from Blogrush and I want to keep it but there is no way I would place it above the fold and I would hate to see that become a requirement, since I would have to drop it altogether.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:37 am
All I can say is that I can not complain. I just installed on another Blog of mine and it was approved no problem. I have two Blogs with widgets now. I see a steady traffic flow, but only 5 to 10 hits per day. The widget looks good and I am happy. It is free!!!
Thanks John,
Kyle Keeton
October 16th, 2007 at 10:17 am
“…but we hope to have it completely released within 7 days.” kinda missed that mark… What is really frustrating is that there has been no update since last monday. Gonna be late? That’s fine, but update the end users…
October 16th, 2007 at 11:55 am
[…] The problems started with the dashboard which was basic, then slowed to a crawl then finally gave minimal information and an assurance that a great replacement was on the way. That replacement was scheduled for ‘this week’ last Monday and not a word except: This is a MAJOR update. The service is not even 30 days old, yet we’re about to release more chang… […]
October 16th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
I’ve just added a few more words to my widget filter: “soon”, “next week”, “later”
October 16th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Am having a fraking ball with my widget! Visitors love it as a way to get an informal poll on topics shared by others in chosen category. I depend on my widget daily for my reading blog needs. Not to mention I change flavors as the mood strikes me
Live Long Blog Rushers!
October 16th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Hi John
I have not yet received the script to place the widget on my site. How do I get this script and also when I do. As I am new to this —
2. Who places the ads on the widget?
3. Will all my articles have the widgets or just the one?
4. Can I use the same script on my other websites?
{….} Thanks a bunch {….}
October 17th, 2007 at 12:44 am
[…] A “major update” that will be delivered next week… since almost two weeks ago […]
October 17th, 2007 at 3:06 am
Hi! I´m receiving about 10 hits per day as of now from blogrush.Hopefully this will increase when the release is done.
October 17th, 2007 at 5:04 am
Man, you guys really know how to leverage publicity. That first release had to be staged. Either way, the suspense is killing me. I look forward to the sequel!
October 17th, 2007 at 5:35 am
I enjoy using the widget myself, I have found some good articles and some good blogs with it.
BUT … things seem screwier and screwier.
1. Between 1/4 to 1/2 of the blogs I get to a by a widget don’t have a corresponding widget on their blog. Those sites make me more than a littel cranky.
2. I am in a law category. A week or so ago, I followed the widget off of my site eventually onto a porn site. Which I reported but never heard anything back about.
3. Today I followed the widget off my site (remember, law category) after a couple of clicks onto a homeschooling site. No, not a hopeschooling site dealing with any legal issues. Just a homeschooling site.
And a little slow here, guys. Yeah, maybe. Just a little!
I sure hope you get these things worked out soon. Or maybe just that you’re even aware that they are happening.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:27 am
I’ve noticed also that close to half of the links on my widget did not have a widget on their blog. What I think is occurring is that these people signed up for BlogRush, put up the widget, but then got frustrated with waiting and the bugs in the system so they erased the code from their blog. However they probably still had some credits left so their blog is still being distributed amongs the widgets until their credits have been depleted. I think this is what is occurring more than people trying to “scam” BlogRush.
October 17th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Personally, I love the way the Blogrush widget looks, but I’m afraid to click on the links, even though I am interested in a lot of them. I fear, that like Adsense, if you click on them from your own computer you will be punished for cheating!
Until I here more, I shall let it sit there, but I’m still a little confused as tho what is going on. I need, like all of us, more info. We will just have to be patient I guess?
October 17th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Don, since we don’t pay or get paid from blogrush I would think its ok to click the links, in fact it’s probably encouraged.I spend about half an hour a day going from one blog to another solely via the blogrush widget - of course only the first one is mine -after that it’s all member widgets that get the clicks.
I too have clicked a lot of links only to find no blogrush widget on the site I land at - reported all of them also but haven’t heard back from anyone about them.I can’t wait to see what else is in store with blogrush…..
October 17th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
The dasboard above looks very neat. As some other BlogRush users have highlighted above there are still some teething problems here and there. It would be nice to be seeing articles related to your blog contents. I have had a similar experiences like Michelle. The Only difference is that it didn’t land me on a porn site.
Overall, I think users could see that the there are enormous amount of work involved in the development. I am begiginning to experience traffic coming thru. Well done guys. Keep up the good work although it’s difficult at times finding the voice of encouragements…
October 17th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I like the way it looks on my blog and thankful that I got it right the first time with installing the code.
My question is…can I customize the searches to my blog topic which is Multiple Sclerosis?
Right now “Home Remedies for Vaginal Yeast” is running and alot of my hits are male. They are not interested in home remedies for vaginal yeast. I’d love it if I could somehow customize the content to recent articles in the news about MS.
Thanks, Anne
October 17th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Initially I had the widget close to the top of my blogpage, but since it was a dark color and clashed with my theme color, I then placed it down in the recommended resources section of the sidebar.
But then the flavors came in and I was able to change to a more closer color to my theme, but I never thought of moving it back, but from reading the latest issue here on phase 2, I’m now in the process to move it to a location that blends with my sidebar theme.
Thanks for the updates.
Cheers,
Steve
October 17th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Ok John
I have the code on my blog and I’m leaving the rest of it to you.
October 17th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
* While we are rolling out a major update this week *
How long are your “Weeks” ??
October 18th, 2007 at 12:02 am
TEST
October 18th, 2007 at 4:34 am
I was so excited when this came out and now my enthusiasm is starting to seriously wane. I hope this next phase comes not only soon, but actually drives a ton of traffic.
October 18th, 2007 at 6:48 am
I joined blog rush right from start. I am still not getting any stats - dont know if am getting any traffic at all from blog rush. Just wondering if it is simply a waster of valuable space on my blog !
October 18th, 2007 at 8:08 am
UPDATE: Tuesday, October 16th: We’re experiencing a delay with some minor server issues. We are working on them and will start releasing Phase 2 piece-by-piece very soon. Thanks for your patience.
minor………hrmm……….again - how long?
This is a MAJOR update. The service is not even 30 days old, yet we’re about to release more changes than most Internet startups do in their first 6 months.
by the time the update is done the service would be nearly 60 days and half of it’s not complete (with temporary stats as usual).
in face the sentence above at first glance looks like a great feat but if you look at it carefully, it just shows a launch of a pre-mature product with many things to fix, either that or the developers just suddenly have a rush of ideas.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:23 am
I know I have some 4,000 referral credits that I can see. My stats have shown 14 hits from blogrush..lol
Hope things get resolved soon or I’ll drop the widget.
cheers
October 18th, 2007 at 9:32 am
This widget might be banished to my footer until something good comes of it.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Nice concept, but poor QoS & CTRs.
I’ve moved away from using BlogRush on my blogs now.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Bye All. Have fun.
October 18th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
I am also quite disappointed with the CTR’s in my stats. Heavily considering dropping the widget if I don’t see a dashboard soon… With real stats of the performance of this widget..
October 18th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I am with quite a few of the others here. I get MUCH more traffic from Google everyday than I do BlogRush. So far from Google just in October: 613 visitors. (Not too bad for the niche I am in.) From Blog”Rush” : 131. Today is the 18th. That would mean that on any given day, I get 7.27 visitors from BlogRush. Google alone sends me 34.05 on any given day. I had higher expectations for this widget.
This may be part of the problem as well:
Credits Earned Today: 4,270.25
Credits Earned Last 7 Days: 81,151
Your Traffic Today: 2,622
Your Traffic Last 7 Days 12,493
Total Referrals In Your Network: 56
Referral Traffic Today: 1,648.25
Referral Traffic Last 7 Days: 68,658
My blog alone is getting close to 1,000 more visitors than all 56 blogs in my referal network? WTF? Can that be right?
October 19th, 2007 at 12:19 am
aw common people its not bout ME and my blog. the widget expands your blog to more like us all then just a me me me blog. Since I have had widget people stay longer on blog reading my crap then normally without widget. I think the widget adds a seriousness to a blog. Anyways if your still bitter its time to get ya know….
October 19th, 2007 at 1:36 am
That’s the problem!
Because the widget “adds a seriousness to a blog”, junky blogs are attracted like bees to honey.
As we have seen, the ‘bees’ have become a large swarm, a plague even.
Okay, it adds the seriousness to junk blogs and ups their traffic…but at the expense of what?
The quality blogs are going to suffer. The feeds in their BR widgets will not only take away taffic but also affect how their audience perceives them.
Blogs which are already seriously run by seriously serious bloggers don’t need the hassle of floundering around in a sea of of so-so bloggers looking to add a seriousness to their blogs.
October 19th, 2007 at 3:04 am
Can someone be gracious enough to explain to me how to upload my pic into the sidebar of my blog and also to my posts. I am using wordpress Default 1.6
I would appreciatate help on doing this. Thanks in advance to anyone who responds. You can also email me directions on how to do this
info@johnnysreviewsite.com
October 19th, 2007 at 6:21 am
Hi John Reese,
Thank You for this opp, I like this, I hawe a qustion to You, I hawe write 3 letters to You to ask You to take one of my Blogg from tis program but nothing happent, I wonder way?
Best Regards
Baldur Bjarnason
October 19th, 2007 at 8:00 am
None of the links in my widget are even in a similar category to my blog. I have followed hundreds of links from my widget and not found even one that pointed to my blog. However I did find that about 40% of the links didn’t have a widget, several weren’t in English and some were blatant spam!
I trust this so-called phase 2 will address these issues. If not I’m removing my wiget to make space for something more useful.
October 19th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Jim,
Same with me. I see more with out the widget than do. And every blog that shows up in my widget is crap. I have a financial markets blog, and every link is debt reduction , or personal loans high interest credit cards etc. F’n spam I hope they can get that removed because I tried use the filters and they don’t work.
really don’t know why I am even using the widget. I have had it fpr 3 weeks and yet to get a referral my blog gets several hundred visitors/day. I guess my link is showing up on widgets that don’t exist or in the widgets on the spam sites nobody goes to.
October 19th, 2007 at 10:28 am
I’m removing it for now. The blogs that are coming up on the widget are crap and have no interest to my readers and some aren’t even in English. I’ve had very little traffic from it. This is taking far too long to rectify which makes me think there are only a couple of people working on it.
I’ll check back in a couple of months. Nice concept but not ready for prime time.
October 19th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
some of the recent complaints are the same as the old ones.
there are some easy ways to get rid of the major problem beoing described, if you actually have web developers working, and not somebody fronting rent-a-coder hacks as a “development team”.
other complaints seem to be value received for time spent, which was definitely an owner issue for not having skilled faq development.
the next issue is db management since referrals aren’t really registering properly.
all of these are fixable, fast enuff, by using an actual developer and abrand strategy . for all those just trying to get a break on making a beginnng, i add stuff to my blog when i know its credible and has no cost to get going.
October 19th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I will ask again.
Can someone be gracious enough to explain to me how to upload my pic into the sidebar of my blog and also to my posts. I am using wordpress Default 1.6
I would appreciatate help on doing this. Thanks in advance to anyone who responds. You can also email me directions on how to do this at:
info@johnnysreviewsite.com
October 19th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Wow! Today I seen my first visitor from the BlogRush widget! I was so excited! Of course, there may have been others, but this is the first time I saw a direct hit from Blogrush. I have yet to do any real SEO work on my blog, but that will be next.
Thanks BlogRush… keep em coming!
October 20th, 2007 at 1:11 am
Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us!
October 20th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Have fun you guys. With 56 people in my network and only 3 visitors per day through BR, I cannot justify taking up potentially income earning real estate with a widget that gives people a new way to leave the site. If I were getting a few hundred visitors per day from other BR widgets, sure! But 3?
Great idea (possibly), poor planning and even worse execution. When you have promised people a certain level of expectation (ie, visitor flow, revamped dashboard by a certain time, page for page impressions…) you have to live up to it. When you don’t, that’s fine, but a once a week update does not suffice. As other people have noted here, it seems as though John Reese is the only person working on this, rather than a team of crack coders who could have had all the kinks worked out by now.
Good luck, John. Just remember, nobody plans to fail, they just fail to plan. It looks as though you have fallen into this trapping. Credits keep piling up in my account, which makes me think that I am not getting the “page for page” impressions promised. Cheating seems to be rampant throughout everyone’s concerns. Then you tell us we have to place the widget in an area that I am sure everyone would rather reserve for income potential. Why should we give up prime real estate on our sites for your unproven, horribly flawed widget system? PROVE that your widget system works FIRST, then demand the placement in accordance with the results.
Good luck to all of you. But, if you are using this for the traffic, just remember that the social networks are where it’s at. And, you don’t have to send people away from your site in the mean time!
October 20th, 2007 at 11:45 am
So sorry hdr.
But you will be forced to wait…
and wait….
and wait….
Get it?
October 20th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
That’s it. I’m done with this thing. Over and out.
October 20th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
you complainers are bitter and stupid. If your blog is so hot as you claim and income producing as you wish it was.. Why did you get the widget then? You dont need the widget if your so dam smart. John don’t listen to these bitter worms.
October 20th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Way ar peapol complaining,
I will try to write You in english, I hawe never lern to write or read it but I will do my best. I got in to Program with Derek Gehl and pay $. 2.95 for it, to get som good rankning on Google, efter 4 hours I saw the results On Google, my Blogg was nr. 6 there.
So I thoght a bout You all my friends, who talk, write and reed english
What I Can Tell You Is: This Works I Got My Prof Yesterday ON GOOGLE
http://wholesale1.blogspot.com/
Baldur Bjarnason
October 20th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
ANYTIME NOW………
October 20th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
wallybanners your a dumbass!!!!!
October 20th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Looking forward to it all happening
October 20th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Both my blogs have been in the “Pending Review”status for a month+ What gives John?
October 21st, 2007 at 12:12 am
I have submitted my blog two times,but still now no answer.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:23 am
Just to give the “loyal” an example of what the “complainers” are talking about, I took my widget off my site yesterday afternoon. (see 10 comments up) I log on to BR today just to see if the “Beta 2″ was up and running and guess what?!? It says that I am still getting traffic to earn credits!
Credits Earned Today: 586
Credits Earned Last 7 Days: 10,132.25
Your Traffic Today: 217
Your Traffic Last 7 Days 4,550
Total Referrals In Your Network: 57
Referral Traffic Today: 369
Referral Traffic Last 7 Days: 5,582.25
on top of that, the “Your Traffic Last 7 Days” is way off. If it is going by impressions, my pageviews for the past 7 days have been as follows: 604, 1463, 2265, 3690, 3311, 2943 and 1140. Now, I am no mathematician, but I believe that those seven numbers equal more than 4,550. Maybe they are going off of visitors? Nope, I had an even 8,000 the past 7 days. Hmmm, anyone else smell the stench?
October 21st, 2007 at 11:07 am
PLEASE BE PATIENT.
We’re working on all of these changes. If you aren’t happy with the service, TAKE THE WIDGET OFF YOUR BLOG! It’s just that simple. We’re busting our butts for YOU to help you drive more traffic to your site. We’re rolling out Phase 2 and it’s taking a bit longer than we expected; but it will all be deployed very soon. (Thank You.)
October 21st, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Rolling these giant comments…..about “Non-perfecly Coategorized”.. well my blog is about Accounting, Corporate financial Control articles & tips. It’s dedicated for a beginner accounting/financial tutorial. I have post 8 long articles and tips in 3 days.
*****I have one straight forward question*****
How can my blog be on the perfect category in BlogRush….”IF” i could not fin accounting/corporate finance category?. If BR strict on category, then a widely spreaded catogiries should be provided.
If you guys keep those category which are all about blogging and e-marketing… I bet … BR will not exist on the next 5 years….
YET…. marketing just between monetize blogger ?, it’s not real trading… it just exchanging.. it’s not marketing… NO REAL PURCHASE…. ! billions of “clicks” create nothing, when they are just “click”…
I put BlogRush widget on my blog “AS IS”. Just simple as is. I don’t complain for unperfect category, the size, the upgrade, it doesn’t becouse of I Don’t care. But i take this widget as a purely free tools.
When tons of clausal come with it. Then, IT’S NOT FREE.
To The BlogRush Team. Thanks for reviewing my blog and taking a wise decision. Keep doing a great job. GOODLUCK !
October 21st, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Hi John,
Thank you for the brief update, I’m hanging in!
October 21st, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Seems like all that I’m doing is advertising your you damn site..
October 21st, 2007 at 7:47 pm
I’m dropping it for now, and might check it out again with “phase 2″
cheers
October 21st, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I’m not being flooded with BlogRush visitors, but I’m very happy to report that I’m getting more and more it seems with each passing day!
Thanks BlogRush!