Blog Rush deletes 10000 blog sites
| by Derek Anderson |  Stumble this! |
October 22nd 2007 |
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…and promises more traffic!
BlogRush, the controversial traffic generating widget today announced the removal of 10,000 sites that didn’t meet their rigid criteria. This has been in the works for some time and has required the manual approval of an untold number of sites. I assume many people had to sift through the BlogRush network and see who was legitimate and who was scamming the system. If you want to be a part of the BlogRush network, your site will have to be comprised of more than plagiarized content and ads.
Where is Google?
As an industry leader, I’d like to see Google do some house cleaning as well. There must be a million ‘Scam Sites’ listed in their search results. I’m sure some of them are Blogger blogs as well.
BlogRush founder, John Reese says:
We’ve just completed a massive SWEEP of our entire network. We’ve
removed over *10,000* blogs (Yes, ten thousand) that did not meet our
new Quality Guidelines.We have done a huge “quality control audit” of our network and have
reviewed all the blogs one-at-a-time. We will continue to review each
NEW blog that is ever submitted to our network.You will notice the HUGE DIFFERENCE in the quality of blogs that now
appear in your widget. This major *sweep* of our network will also
increase the click-rates across the entire network and you will start
to receive more traffic.
Blogrush indicates that they will be adding many new sub-categories to better target widget traffic. A new dashboard to help in the deployment and configuration of your BlogRush widget. Also a new “Thin Widget” for those that need a narrower widget to fit in their blog scheme better.
All in all a welcome upgrade to the BlogRush service!
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got some questions for you Derek
- Do you get traffic from it? do you think it works? I mean, have your traffic increased because of the widget?
- Does it affect your “technorati” ranking at all?
- are the links in your widget really related to what you write here?
thanks for the news, looks more tempting now
Comment by Ernesto Quezada — 10-22-07 @ 8:47 am
Ernesto,
So far with the BlogRush dashboard being under re-construction, I haven’t been able to see what kind of traffic numbers the say I’m getting. I do however see an increase in new faces via MyBlogLog widget. I am in the ‘Marketing’ category on BlogRush because I see widgets as a potential marketing tool more so than just a tech interest.
I’m not too sure about the Technorati ranking yet. It has moved up a small fraction. To attribute it to BlogRush would be difficult.
This is the gamble. The links are marketing related but widgets are hard to pin down as pertaining to one or two categories. I have started writing my post titles to reflect the marketing aspect of widgets. But this doesn’t always work. What are the marketing advantages of a weather widget?
Thank you for the comment!
-D
Comment by Derek Anderson — 10-22-07 @ 9:03 am
They deleted 2 of our blogs - which is just funny - because neither one of them is spammy. but hey - whatever - I’ll let you know when we care - their loss. Till then - onto bigger and better things.
Comment by Matt Ellsworth — 10-23-07 @ 7:57 am
Matt,
That sucks..I think. At this point I don’t even know what steps a person could take to change or rectify this problem. Nothing has been indicated for any type of appeal process. Like you said…their loss!
Thank you for the Pownce search by the way! I plan to write about that! (and give credit)
Comment by Derek Anderson — 10-23-07 @ 9:54 am
I didn’t plagiarize a damned thing and they still removed mine.
The CTR is about as pathetic as their customer service anyway so good riddance.
A lot of folks I know are removing the widget voluntarily now to speed along its inevitable death.
Comment by Ryan Hogan — 10-25-07 @ 4:25 pm
Ryan,
the fallout from this ‘house cleaning’ is proving to be a thorn in the side of BlogRush that may cripple them. However, they will probably re-brand if the fallout proves to be too much. So keep a lookout for that as well.
I keep the widget on site to be able to have a perspective about this topic. I, however haven’t seen a working dashboard for the BlogRush service for more than a month.(I don’t login daily either) So I’m kinda flying blind here.
Thanks for visiting!
-D
Comment by Derek Anderson — 10-26-07 @ 7:49 am