BlogRush has finally arrived and is quickly picking up the pace!
If you’ve been waiting for increasing the amount of relevant traffic to your blog, then I suggest you join the BlogRush and start enjoying its benefits.
For those of you who haven’t heard about it, I’ve compiled a very quick how-to on BlogRush.
What is BlogRush?
It’s a traffic attraction tool which helps you get relevant traffic. All the members of the BlogRush service place their blogs into certain categories, and by showing links to blogs in your category, you automatically earn points which will make other blogs show links to you.
There’s a lot of hype around BlogRush, and while some people absolutely love it, others have learned to hate it in a matter of just few days since the release. Visit the BlogRush website, watch the introductory video, and it will hopefully suggest how useful it will be for your blog. My opinion is that it’s worth a try. But whether it will be a huge success or not is still to be found out.
How does it work?
After your sign up to BlogRush, you’ll be asked to provide basic information about your blog – it’s name, main page link and the blog feed link. Then you’ll need to confirm the interest group your blog fits into most. The last step is for you to integrate a piece of BlogRush code into your sidebar, and it will result in looking something like this (browser-based readers of this blog can find the live BlogRush widget in my sidebar):
Every time someone opens your blog, they’ll see the BlogRush widget with updated links to other blogs in the same interest group. By showing links to them, you earn points so that the BlogRush widgets on their pages will show links back to your blog.
Why use BlogRush?
Here is my personal list of the best reasons to join BlogRush:
- It’s an absolutely FREE service
- It’s (really) easy to get started – feel free to contact me and ask for help if you’re stuck
- The traffic you get is targeted – so you’re more likely to get really interested visitors
- It’s a smart way to grow readership – one more thing is that new BlogRush users who sign up using your referral link will bring you more and more traffic
- It’s a fun way to explore new websites in your niche
How to get started
Simply follow this BlogRush registration link, and answer all the questions (there won’t be many). You can add as many blogs as you like, and pick a relevant niche for each of them.
The next few days will definitely bring useful advices on optimizing your experience, and I’ll be sure to post the highlights up on my Perfect Blogger blog.
That’s it. Not sure how successful BlogRush will turn out, but seems to me it’s definitely worth a try! Let me know how you find it once you sign up.
Looks cool! I just signed up (using your code) and have it up on my blog. I’ve been looking for some ways to drive more traffic to my blog and this seems like a good method, although I don’t love the widget design.
Hi Arthus,
Thanks for leaving the comment! I think it’s only a matter of (very short) time before widget design can be fully customized by the owner of a blog.
Like I said, it’s best to get started now, and we’ll always have the chance to jump off the train in case we don’t like it :)
Hope it brings you new visitors! I’ve just visited your blog using the old method – just following your link from the comment ;)
See you around!
I’ve seen this around a lot, but I’ve also heard a lot of concern that this mostly just gives you links to splogs (blogs that are chock-full of ads and little else). I’m still leery, how is really working for you?
I found it rather spammy and was embarrassed at most of the blogs which showed up on my widget, even though I only had it on a back page. I removed it. Maybe when they iron the bugs out and the categories are a little true to form. For a business blogger it may work out better but for some of the other categories it was rather a nightmare.
Thanks for taking the time to share your experience, guys!
It must be something to do with the category. And as always, personal development or self-growth wasn’t anywhere in the offered list, so I’ve opted for the Lifestyle one.
Surprisingly enough, it works out quite well and I’m already seeing some familiar blogs and names there. We’ll see what happens next! ;)
Hi Gleb, I installed BlogRush even before your post, but I haven’t really paid attention to it. I looked at its dashboard once or twice then forgot about it. Wanted to make an entry about this but I realized it would be better to just put a small info about it on the sidebar, then put a link to my own code so I can make referrals as well and drive a little spike to my small traffic. :P
Best regards,
Saedel
Let me know how it works out for you, Saedel! Are you in the Lifetime group as well? Well done, I have a good feeling about this service.
The BlogRush Dashboard is still under construction so I have no means of measuring my small traffic statistically speaking… but there are readers who clicked and visited my site via blogrush so I know it’s working. :-)
-Saedel
PS. Nope, I’m not a Lifetime member.
I look forward to the new dashboard myself, Saedel! Hopefully it will be as good as promised!