Yet another blogging widget thingie to experiment with. BlogRush promises to increase traffic to your blog by syndicating your post links across a network of other sites that also display the same widget. This way, blogs of similar subject matter exchange links of the latest content and exchange traffic. Sounds like a good idea, and it is free, so I thought I’d give it a try. I figure It’s all in the name of science, and also the deeper reason: why not?
Once you sign up your blog you will be given some javascript code to use on your site, just like Adsense, Kontera and many others. The best way to include this into your WordPress blog is to use a text widget. Add a new Text Widget into your sidebar and insert the BlogRush code into the box provided as shown below. Save the changes and you should be in business.
If everything worked out ok, your blog sidebar should now have a new widget that looks like the one here. Since this is new and “hot” at the moment, I foresee it spreading like wildfire at least for the immediate future. Many of the big names in blogging have been talking about this already with varying degrees of scepticism and/or hype, but at the end of the day, no one really knows how effective this thing will be BlogRush is a solid and viable idea for a above-board traffic exchange system. How it pans out over the coming months remains to be seen.
As far as I’m concerned, its a good enough concept to try out, so here it is on my blog. All in the name of science, of course. Try it out yourself see if the whole free website traffic claims work out for you. And, feel free to exchange notes about your results in the comments below.
Samir
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Thanks Samir,
I’ve been reading abou this on a few blogs these last few days and I;m going to sign up right now.
I hope it works and maybe even brings me some long term visitors!
Forrest, happy to be of service.
I signed up for this just to see if it had any effect. It’s still too early to say, but they are certainly sending out the right signals so far.
I just received the first BlogRush email newsletter, which is a nice and long explanation about how some people have been getting very low click-through rates with the widget, and what they are doing to try to correct the issues.
As long as they show the same commitment and attention to detail in the future, I thing this is going to be very worthwhile in the long run.
Let me know if you see any changes in traffic with this. I’m sure results will vary, so it should be interesting to exchange notes.
I recently developed a free wordpress plugin called “BlogRush Click Maximizer”. By using it you can vastly improve your Click Through Rate.
This allows you to control what you want to display in BlogRush. You can even write alternate – short and catchy title just for BlogRush.
You will have total control of what appears over the BlogRush Network.
Check it out here:
http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/bcm/
Sounds like a great set of features. Thanks for the heads up, and I will be sure to check out the plugin soon.
Well there certainly are new ways to online marketing nowadays. There are free traffic sites really work if you know how to work them. Thanks for this, I’ll check it out. š
Thanks I will start using this blogrush thanks for the update man š
I hope it works and maybe even brings me some long term visitors!
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