My I have seen a lot of email in my indox about Blog Rush. Most of the buzz comes from the fact that it is John Reese behind the launch.

Now I have been involved with blogs and blog exchanges for a few years. I was the admin at Blogazoo for most of those.

One thing that I know is that there are really a couple schools of bloggers.

The bloggers that blog out of passion. Usually the Mommy blogs, political blogs, literary blogs and things along those lines.

Then you have the bloggers that are primarily using blogging as an adjunct to their marketing.

Now that doesn’t mean that the two sides don’t cross and intermingle because most people are looking for a way to generate extra income from their blogs. It is one of the biggest most common questions I get here.

Blog Rush has the potential to be huge because it is quick and easy to add. I am testing it on this blogg and a few other blogs also. How it will finally work is yet to be determined.

The big thing for me is to not be caught up in the hype of it as a traffic generator and leave sound marketing parctices ignored.

On the blogs I have that are targeted to presell specific items this is definitely not an item I want to add. If you are using blogs to market in niches primarily as a pre sell to a product or products think carefully before jumping in to this.

I am not a big fan of allowing leaks in a blog that is set up for a purpose such as this. My niche blogs have one primary purpose and that is to capture email addresses. If I miss there then the idea is to have them get to a product page.

Any other links are a leak in my sales process. It is like have Adsense on a pre sell page. Google is good at what they do and matches the topics quite well most of the time. Why would I want to get paid a few cents for a click for the same product that I am trying to pre sell at a much higher commission.

This will have the same effect on these types of blogs. If they get the targeting right and looking at the people that are behind it I think they will. Maybe not from the start but it will get better and better. Do I want to compete on headlines with others to lose a potential customer?

Adding this can make my job harder and definitely adds a distraction I don’t want in my niche sales process. If you decide to use this make sure that you are tracking your visitors and know what you are losing per visitor and what you are gaining. Okay to test but do keep track and see if this really is a plus or a minus for your business.

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