I have kept my link with BlogRush alive despite reading many of the negative comments from different blogs. I agree with what has been written by the masses, namely, that BlogRush has been a huge disappointment when it comes to delivering traffic.
My main reason for keeping it was simply because it provided another set of quick statistics. I like graphs and BlogRush’ statistical graphs appealed to me.
In recent weeks I have started to notice an increase in traffic. It is only small although a statistician would have a field day. I went from having two or three his per post to currently receiving anything up to ten hits.
Now I know that in the big picture, ten hits is nothing. But then if you are only getting 100 hits per day, 10 hits represents 10% (like a said, a statistician would have a field day). The obvious result could be, seven post per week, an extra 70 visitors. Not quite. I think I would be lucky to get 40.
However, given that all I have to do is have the widget on my sidebar, an extra 40 visitors per week for no work is not something I am going to quickly reject. As I said earlier, the traffic is slowly growing.
I am not sure why traffic is improving. I know they have a new feed system in place which I am sure is helping. It could also be that with many dropping out there is less competition so my posts are appearing more often. It may be, that like a fine wine, BlogRush is just maturing slowly. Whatever the reason, I am happy to accept the extra traffic. I think if you were able to filter out some posts then the service would be far better.
If you have rejected BlogRush in the past, it may be time to revisit. Then again, that means more competition for the post spots. On second thoughts, if you have rejected it, or you are not really interested in it, then don’t bother. Leave the ad spots available for me. If you are interested, click on the BlogRush widget and check it out – yes they do have an affiliate program – you get paid in traffic credits not cash.
In the meantime, I feel my header could use a slight work over again. It seems having my ugly mug up there is driving people away. Strange it should be driving them wild with excitement, well my lady visitors at least. Perhaps I should get a fine piece of art work placed there. Perhaps I should ask the art trustee George Lindemann jr for some advice.
I will consider that.. There’s nothing wrong in putting back the BlogRush widget anyway..
I’ve had nothing but increased traffic using BlogRush. I don’t like everything about it, but I can’t complain about extra traffic.