BlogRush - Advertise your blog for free - We’re mad for it!
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There’s a new traffic building strategy that sending the Blogosphere into overdrive this weekend and that’s BlogRush.
Long story short: you sign up, tell them about your site and then. you put a little Javascript widget on your site. Said widget displays links to other people’s blog postings in the same genre as your own. In return the widgets other bloggers put on their sites displays links back to your posts.
It all works on a credit system. Each time your page with the widget on is loaded you get one credit. Each time your feed is displayed on someone else’s site it costs you one credit. It’s also a pyramid scheme: you get credits each time someone you refer to BlogRush gets a credit themselves.
So, does it work? It’s far too early to tell. Certainly a lot of the big blogs that I read are signing up and promoting BlogRush. The pyramid nature of it means that the big blogs who sign up early and refer a lot of their readers will get the lion’s share of the ad impressions. The long tail may struggle to get any impressions.
The big question that I see hanging over BlogRush is how they’re going to handle spam. There’s a warning on the site not to sign up unless you have a genuine blog but how they are going to police this as the network grows I just don’t know. You’re also likely to see an increase in linkbait headlines as people try to convert their impressions into clicks. Not dissimilar to the title of this posting(!) - you could almost believe I’m learning something.
It’s a simple idea and it’s pretty well executed for a beta (although the signup page for some reason spits back a PHP array of my feed. When you get to this point just go back to the BlogRush homepage to get your widget code). Check back in a few days for a progress report.
The video below explains it all in more detail. Have a look then click here to sign up
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