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Posted by Abdul on November 5, 2008

Well if you’re still running the BlogRush widget on your blog then better take it off because BlogRush is all out now. The first time I applied to BlogRush and started using it, it was working fine and getting me some traffic but soon I noticed thousands of credits were gathering up and not used, I smelled something fishy in the system and took off the widget, that was about 2 months ago and never heard of BlogRush ever since then and even before that the big bloggers had taken it off. Last week, John Reese wrote about the whole thing on his blog explaining the flaws and the mistakes that led to the downfall of Blogrush as well as emailed all the members.

Why it was a loss for all Small Bloggers

The whole blogrush project cost John Reese a loss of $500,000. But being one of the internet’s big marketing king, it wasn’t a very big one for him. Without doubt, the concept behind the whole project was immatchable and cannot even be compared to Entrecard. The reason being is that using BlogRush people actually want to read the article’s link they click and are not intending to run away, whereas at Entrecard most droppers come only for clicking the ‘drop’ link and normally the bounce rate is about 85% which is pathetic and if entrecard is your blog’s sole traffic source then you’re getting no where. This was a way small bloggers could et good and reliable traffic to their blogs. Well, what else can we bloggers do but be in with every fad, share your experience with BlogRush as it is not disappointing for all.

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  • prabakaran said,

    i think flaws and the mistakes show be rectified when other such project entered

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  • Dennis Edell said,

    I was shocked when I heard this, as I thought it was already gone long ago.

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  • Skidzopedia.com said,

    I too had joined BlogRush, when I started blogging, that is, about 9 months back. It wasn’t good either. Also, I am sick and tired of EC, I wonder why i still have their widget on my blog. May be for small blogger to atleast get some exposure out of it. :)

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  • Sue said,

    I took it down months ago. About two months after joining Entrecard. I never got any traffic from it. Maybe 5 clicks in 5 months. I get over 300 a day through Entrecard.

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    Abdul Reply:

    Actulually it did work in the beginning, big Bloggers showed good conversion rates up to 0.5% which is a lot and as I mentioned before, the quality of traffic you get from Entrecard can no waybe even compared to BlogRush’s traffic, droppers just come to your blog for dropping and the bounce rate of the traffic from entrecard is always out the roof!

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  • Ben Pei said,

    Sad to see this go… Quite surprise to hear this in the first place actually..

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  • Diana Rupert said,

    Thank you for the update. I’m looking forward to see more articles regarding this article.
    Thank you and keep it up

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  • Tom Lindstrom said,

    I was never a big fan of Blogrush.It seems that there are similar services coming up all the time, but by using mybloglog and blogcatalog you can get even better results.Just my 2 cents…

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    Abdul Reply:

    It depends on how you used BlogRush, because in the starting it did help a lot of bloggers get good traffic!

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  • Geoserv said,

    I blogged about the death of blogrush earlier a couple of weeks ago, it didn’t bring the traffic it promised.

    I too removed EC, but maybe just temporary. I’m tired of all the widgets in my sidebar.

    What widget does bring traffic?

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