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
Things have been very quiet on the affiliate marketing front. September is shaping up to be a pretty large disaster area in terms of commissions so I’ve been applying my brain to figuring out what the problem is. Now, my brain has come back with an answer and I’m entirely sure it’s correct if a bit depressing. The answer is that I’ve been doing bugger all.
That’s the truth. I’ve been so caught up in my experiments that I’ve not taken the time to apply my new knowledge. I’ve been sitting back waiting to see what my SEO, PPC and other acronyms have been up to. I’ve also, if I’m honest, been relaxing a bit too much with a short holiday and a boozy weekend away.
Some day I’ll get round to writing a blog posting about all the things I’ve learned in my short time as a semi-pro affiliate but, for the moment, it’s time for action. Tomorrow. Honest.