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John Cow dot COM: Brushing Off Blogrush

  • Scam · 1 year ago
    Did you ever get any quality traffic from Blogrush?
  • sir jorge · 1 year ago
    For smaller blogs, like mine, it has worked out quite nicely, gaining readership and subscribers.

    But with millions of credits? Wow, they definitely have to go.
  • ryan · 1 year ago
    Blogrush sucked. Plain and simple. It just didn't make it like it should of and I am glad that I got rid of it a few months ago. :)
  • Mr. Rajawang · 1 year ago
    I hardly got any traffic from blogrush..maybe you are right - it got to go! :smile:
  • Neil Duckett · 1 year ago
    I gave it the flick ages ago .... i got donuts from it. Truth be known i never looks at anyone elses widget either.
  • Kiwipulse · 1 year ago
    I have removed my blogrush on my sidebar since november 2007. I couldn't believe such thing could bring us some traffics. I wasn't ready to click on any of the link on their widget, why my visitors should they? :roll:
  • JoeTech.com · 1 year ago
    You should have ditched it long ago. Good to see you finally give them the boot.
  • Sly from Slyvisions.com · 1 year ago
    I guess I'm not the only one to remove the widget. I found it useless after a while and removed it without hesitation.
  • Affiliate Confession · 1 year ago
    I removed BlogRush a long time ago from most of my blogs right after I signed up with EntreCard. EntreCard is bringing me about 10 times the traffic I got from BlogRush.
  • Simon · 1 year ago
    It's almost comical really. Here's a 2 step plan to sure fire success online:

    1.) Ban 10,000 users without warning
    2.) Stop all communications shortly afterwards

    I'm struggling to come up with any reasons as to how that helps the project? Or does my lack of guru status mean that I couldn't possibly comprehend the above actions, and see them for the pure genius they no doubt are (regardless of the furure outcome)? :wink:
  • Celebrity Scandals · 1 year ago
    Blogrush is a huge failure...whenever bigshots promote something it becomes a utter waste and a big failure....John Chow and Problogger promoted it as if its their own child...but everything failed...Atleast Reese should respect the status of such high profiles and should have updated the blog regularly,he didnot so he is facing the "Consequences...As Newton says "For Every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction"...Anyways COW did Darin gave u what he promised?
  • Mathew Packer · 1 year ago
    I think I've had a grand total of 5 referrals from Blogrush, I think this might be a good time to nuke it after reading your comments JC..
  • Chris Jacobson · 1 year ago
    I'm thinking of removing my BlogRush widget too. It's not really doing anything for me anymore.
  • Think Like An SOB · 1 year ago
    I got rid of it last week too. Just didnt quite do it for me, plus those blogrush widgets are an eye sore.
  • hookey4 · 1 year ago
    All the blogrush widget was doing for me was taking up space. Along with everyone else, I got rid of it a month or so ago. So much buzz and hype, but so little returns.
  • Timothy Sykes · 1 year ago
    Yeah I deleted it a few weeks ago, entrecard is much better
  • Mike Huang · 1 year ago
    I removed the BlogRush widget for about 3 days from my blog's footer, but then it got too plain so I put it back. I guess I don't mind it taking space since it's advertising other blogs. Free is good :)

    -Mike
  • Video Games · 1 year ago
    I gave up on them a long time ago.
  • Denny · 1 year ago
    I'm glad I read this post because I totally forgot about blogrush. I received less than 1000 visits and I have over a million credits that seems to never get used. I'm removing blog rush from my website right now. The space is better used for something else such as making my website look less cluttered.
  • Wayne Liew · 1 year ago
    Never tried them out but since everyone is ditching them after the New Year, it seems like the widget is just a space eater. :mrgreen:

    Ditch the widget, everyone!
  • Making The Money · 1 year ago
    When Agloco went BlogRush was always my favourite to go next. Of course I was biased seeing as how I manged to get banned within a few days of starting to use it but it never delivered any decent traffic anyway. Entrecard on the other hand...
  • GreatReefTanks.com · 1 year ago
    I got rid of the widget about a month ago too. Did receive any traffic from it.

    Rich
  • InvestorBlogger · 1 year ago
    Yep, I did follow the bandwagon on this one when it first came out, but after a few days, I saw just awful traffic levels, junk in the links, and an ugly big widget, I removed it. Permanently. There is little reason to waste time on it. BlogRush wanted the placement to be higher, GEEZ... why should I advertise another company prominently on my website, when I get so little back from them in the way of traffic. The only real people who benefit from this are BlogRush...
  • Simon · 1 year ago
    "When Agloco went BlogRush was always my favourite to go next."

    Any predictions on who's going to be next to bite the dust in (traffic-driving) widget world? I'm struggling to think of what else there is... EntreCard, Bla.st, MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog...

    The last 2 aren't going anywhere, and I really know very little about Bla.st (seems to be making some referral money though). EntreCard has the buzz factor for now, but long-term I'm not sure about it.
  • Steve · 1 year ago
    I didn't even get Blogrush in the first place!
  • allen johnson · 1 year ago
    blogrush is useless I think the entrecard widget is a thousand times better than the blogrush and I see you are like in top tier on etrecard of as internet marketing. Also the reason John reese stop caring about blogrush was that he probably has so many projects going on if I was him I would pay someone to write the blogrush blog.
    www.livelymoney.blogspot.com
  • redspace · 1 year ago
    Good for you John! Actually I don't like people use free advertising to make themselves people with the expense of the other people's resources or time. Just take a look at Agloco. They all have the same concept and biz models. IMO when it has the matrix or MLM type biz they would never work period.
  • Jim Kukral · 1 year ago
    You should be running a custom ScratchBack.com widget. ZacJohnson.com is using one at $25/tip and he's cleaning up. www.scratchback.com
  • Argentina y Yo · 1 year ago
    I've always thought that blogrush was a complete waste of time......
  • vhxn.com · 1 year ago
    I saw many bloggers are removing Blogrush widget they also say the same reason, I think it's a good move (moooooooooooooooooooooo) Cow :mrgreen:
  • Adam · 1 year ago
    Blogrush sucked as bad as their customer service.

    www.getrichmagazine.com
  • Hyder · 1 year ago
    I BlogRushed, and all I got was 10 Million Credits!
  • Chris Hartwell · 1 year ago
    I was just thinking that your blog's been pretty lame lately, then you put up a good "controversial" post about dumping blogrush :mrgreen:

    Blogrush has sucked for me too; a bunch of credits (whatever that means), and 0 traffic.I dumped it last week.
  • Shari Thomas · 1 year ago
    I rode the horse as long as I could... tried to get it to drink, but it wouldn't. Finally took it out and shot it... it's name was BlogRush.
  • Stock Exchange News · 1 year ago
    I have also signed up for blogrush. But after a while they canceled my membership. I dont know why?
  • David Chew · 1 year ago
    I haven't try blogrush yet because it looks not that good and the comments from other blogger about blogrush is not that good too. Probably wont be using that.
  • Brad Shorr · 1 year ago
    Blogrush bounced me a while back because they said my 100% original content blog lacked original content. Glad to hear I'm not missing anything.
  • Sucker · 1 year ago
    I can't believe anyone is still using this. I never bothered with it although I studied it enough to launch BlogCrap ;)
  • Nick Sullivan · 1 year ago
    I removed it a while ago to. Maybe November last year. Probably much sooner actually... Although... I say removed. More like banned lmao.

    I think I was banned anyway, probably because I gamed it to get thousands of credits and made a post about the method I used to rub in the fact that such a simple tactic could be used to cheat it.

    I also was the first online to post about gaming BR :)

    If John Reese kept pushing and developing it I think people would still use it but it's just like he's lazy and just leaving it flounder. He doesn't care so why should other people. Income.com has been 'coming' for about a century.
  • geomarkq · 1 year ago
    It seems the bigger bloggers like you give these crappy new services way too much time and attention. Maybe it's because you are trying to be a nice member of the blogger community, which is fine. But seriously, it became obvious pretty early that BlogRush was crap. I ditched them months ago.
  • John Cow · 1 year ago
    Geomarkq, so it'd be ok if we were a smaller blog and blog about it?
  • Blog Contest Central · 1 year ago
    The thing about blogrush is that that it does not send targeted traffic and the widget itself looks out of place on most blogs.
  • Natalie · 1 year ago
    I only keep the BlogRush widget on my site because Shoemoney and JohnChow use it as well.

    I was thinking that they must know something that I don't, however now I feel that BlogRush may be paying them to keep the widget on their site.
  • eSeduce.com · 1 year ago
    Everyone else in my blogging niche jumped on the BlogRush bandwagon while I didn't. After reading similar posts to yours I'm glad that I didn't add it to my blog.