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Blog Rush - Good, bad, indifferent
By Mike | September 17, 2007
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.
You can check out Blog Rush here.
Yes those are affiliate links of mine to Blog Rush.
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September 17th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Mike, I agree this needs to be studied and will not be for rvryone.
I also noticed a bug…
The editing feature on the Blog URL in not working, so one must be very careful.
I am sure it will be fixed soon.
Just got back form the World Internet Marketing Event…
What an Experience!
September 17th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Nice post, Mike. Will add it to my list of 12 reviews.
By the way, I just posed my own ‘review’ of BlogRush - it carries the provocative title: “Why I Don’t Think BlogRush Will Work - And Why I Hope I’m WRONG”
Dr.Mani
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:06 am
Hi Mike
Totally agree that if you’re doing a pre-sell blog then it would be leaky to put blog rush in any prominant position.
The beauty of blogrush is that it will be embraced by people who probably aren’t looking to blog for profit, so I’m actually more excited about how the follow-up trafficjam site will evolve, and all the new eyeballs it will bring.
Andrew
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:01 pm
The idea of BlogRush reminds me a bit of Mark Joyners original Start Page, done in a widget.
I’ve posted it on a non-monetized blog to see what it brings.
One thing for sure, it should make folks write interesting headlines. After all, when your headlines are shown, that’s your hook from somewhere else (meaning someone else’s blog).
As far as how it will score with SEO remains to be seen.
I’ll give it all the time John needs to determine how well it flies, and if he has to make serious changes, then so be it. He’s hit some home runs in the past.
September 27th, 2007 at 2:05 am
Hi Mike,
Yes I agree BlogRush is a good way to lose readers and buyers. At the moment I’ve put it on one blog I write purely for fun (is there such as beast?) to test what happens. And I’m watching the stats…
We’ll see how it works out.
Jim
February 28th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Blog rush appears to be penalised in google…i could be wrong but its not coming up for the term blog rush….
September 17th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Blog Rush, Seminars and more…
Well John Reese as he usually does has created quite a buzz with his release of this. The hype is growing and most aren’t looking at it clearly. Check out the review of Blog……
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