Awesome concept. I guess i must try this out Thanks for sharing Jeremy

I signed up too earlier today. Almost as simple as AuctionAds.

Do you think it’s a bit like the DP coop?

I am in!

I blogged about this on the 13th and have just put it on my blog today. It’s a great concept, the expansion rate is unlimited so people with huge blogs (cough, shoemoney) should do exceptionally well from it when enough people start using it.

Okay done. I just have it updated on my blog too.

Oh, boy! Yet another blog widget!

Hey Jeremy, Please don’t lie to me, is this your own project?

I am just going to wait until more people start using it. At the moment, it lacks coverage of certain topics.

Yeah cool!
I’ll try it too!

hey calm down amazed guy it was just a kindly-kidding message. but i didn’t type a stupid smiley (i thought that you would understand it) assume that there is a smiley at the end of the message. good luck!

I’m in!

What a cool intro video too, I would have never read through all that info, but I sat there and watched it.

I had used adgridwork for a bit but it didnt really work but this one looks promising since its only blogs.

Could not explain without that video! Saw this on Andy Beards site too, but without the video. I was going to read it later, but I would of forgotten.

I wish I had more blogs. There is going to be a mad rush for this gadget. Its going to multiply fast just like all those BlogCatalog MyBLogLog widgets…. Will some people pay to have more headlines on and or will they have a little ad there at the bottom??

One thing I did not notice is how they are going to monitize…

Sounds cool, hope they get an auctionads type buyout lol

I am sure shoe is doing good on referring all our signups

Hmmm it’s like all the benefits of a traffic exchange without the fear of reciprocal linking, I wonder if adsense will dislike it (since they don’t like things like the digital pt co-op and stuff).

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interesting widget. Does google even see the links if its a widget?

ok I’ve thrown it up on my blog (using your referral) - but every blog i’ve looked at is showing the same links - they never change… is it broke already?

I can’t wait for this site to bring me lots and lots of traffic :)..I already added it on my site

I just added to my blog too and just posted about it.

Seems like a great service for newbies.

http://abhishek.tiwari.com/2007/09/15/blogrush-a-pyramid-traffic-scheme-for-bloggers/

Has this really sent you any traffic Shoe? It does sound similar to the coop without all the SE penalty worries, but I’m concerned this could just be a fly-by-night deal.

Man it works too, I just got carried away on someone else’s blog for the past hour, and totally forgot how I found it.

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I put the widget on my site, but so far I have not seen it installed on ANY of the sites linked from the widget displaying on ScreenRant.com. This was surprising to say the least, as I assume that to have a link show up, your site MUST have the widget installed…

What gives?

Vic

Just thew it up. My blog is brand new, so hopefully it drives some initial traffic and readers.

I threw it up too, will see how it goes!

Hey Everyone, John Reese here the creator of BlogRush. The reason why you’re seeing some blogs that don’t contain the widget is because we had to see the initial system with public RSS feeds so the widget wouldn’t display blank spaces initially before members started to populate the system. You’ll begin to see those disappear shortly and just be left with member sites. Thanks for the great comments, everyone!

Installed it - and came here by clicking on the link on my own widget!

But I gotta ask, given your relationship with Reese, and your post, how come you don’t have it installed here?

Worth to try.. thnx for the tip..

Its nice but that things is ugly.. they should get some more options..

Wow - there’s a lot of buzz on this thing already - I’ve signed up already works quite nicely so far…

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I was wondering how this would stand out against technorati, SU, DIgg, and othe rbuttons then I saw the size. I think the large size will get attention. I’m interested in hearing how this works out for others.

Cool plugin just added in my blog , hope i will get some traffic thru this links.

From what I can see - the people who are going to benefit most from this plugin are those who get heaps of traffic already.

I think this widget would be much better off going by clicks instead of impressions.

Joined the rush last night and things have been going great.

Joined the rush last night.

I think this is more about targetting the audience than anything else. When I want to read blogs about Costa Rica for example, I find one in Google, read a little and then normally go back to Google to find some more. It’s a lot better when you have similar blogs displayed on the post itself and benefit from being the one referring readers to the other blogs.

Hopefully the first change will be to make it able to blend in better, most of my blogs color schemes make that thing stand out like a sore thumb.

should be interesting I am going to keep an eye on this

I’ve started my thread on DigitalPoint to grow up a network of referrals!

Just came to your site after I clicked on the widget! It works!

I found your post on MY BlogRush widget and clicked through. How ironic is that! Great social networking tool - I love it.

Okay done. I just have it updated on my blog too

Already telling my authors!

Just added it to my site using your referral Shoe. Let’s see what happens!

I’m in - it’s a cool concept, and really simple

i forgot to say;
“Are you really not smart enough to make up your own mind about a product?” you are a genious and this sentence is the proof

great tool. its up on my site.

The targeting doesn’t seem to work. I tried inputing some keywords that i want to block but It seems like it’s just ignoring them

I just dont like this. It’s way over rated, it’s everywhere on every SEO blog. And what you do is show 4 titles from other blogs, in exchange of getting one of your articles title listed somewhere else.

Once again John Reese shows that he is one of the true visionaries of the Internet.
I set this up just once and can load all of my sites and blogs, etc.
Damn! this is good stuff

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Kudos to John Reese for coming up with this idea. This has great potential to take off big time.
Thanks for sharing the video, Shoe.

Wow that looks pretty awesome!

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Well I’ll be darned, this seems great! I’m signing up tonight via ur referral link, Shoe

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Yea, i am rather confused about how the numbers work.. if the share is 1:1 and they display 5 results… theres a huge .. surplus of available content here..

Are they planning to have a pay model to fund this? If everyone is sharing 1:1, then the surplus number doesnt make sense at all..

It’s been 24 hours now since I installed the widget and I’ve seen my traffic go up quite a bit. I’m impressed.

I’m definitely trying this

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This is great! I cant wait to try it out and see what kind of traffic it brings in.

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Well how many real visitors you get with exposure?

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ill be on this shortly

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great and inovative system. no longer time will be populer.

great and inovative system. no longer will be popular.

Very good job
Congrulations John Reese.

My blogrush stat is Up!
I received more with my referral Network.

Credits Earned Last 30 Days: 6,304
From Your Traffic: 2,906
From Your Referral Network: 3,398

That would be a great way to bring in visitors, thanks. I’ll be checking it out.

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it wont work for bloggers. this is not something that will get you tons of traffic. why? read here ……

For every one display of the widget (which ultimately results in 5 links being displayed) you get one exposure of your blog post on the network - on other blogger member website widgets. This sounds fair, but if you look deep into things you will realize theirs a defect. I will come to that later. But irst another important trick thats going to work like viral marketing on steroids for BlogRush…

For every blogger you refer - when they sign up by clicking on the BlogRush logo at the bottom of the widget, you benefit. For every direct referral you also will get one free link exposure everytime your referral displays the widget. If this referral refers another member - you get the same benefit again… gaining one more exposure for a two level deep referral. And so on … 10 levels deep.

This trick is absolutely fantastic, because it will cause bloggers to start promoting this new exchange service to fellow bloggers immediately in hope of getting referral bloggers before others snap them. Bloggers can see the potential of the 10 level deep credit system. It can really balloon to a large amount of free link exposure. Which *could* result in traffic.

This is where I tend to differ. Blogrush is claiming that - bloggers should sign up right away to get a huge rush and volume of traffic to their sites in a short span of time. There is however 2 issues here.

The first one is that - if this is a 1:1 exchange network, and BlogRush is displaying only 5 ads inside the widget - then they are creating an excess of 4 ads per display - which they can then distribute to the referring members. So, the excess credit of 4 ads can help them - BUT only 4 levels deep. As the system grows and referral lelvels start to get deep and aproach 10 levels of depth - how will BlogRush maintain the 1:1 ratio? The answer is - that well, now all members will have referrals of 10 levels deep. So there will always be member whose widgets display 5 expousres, and get one credit exposure in return and therefore create an excess of 4 credits for the system. This will help BlogRush.

And if it doesnt, and the excess exposures being created are geting close to zero - they can always simply increase the widget size or make it scrolling and display 10 links!! This will immediately create a larger excess for BlogRush on every widet exposure. Super!

Super for BlogRush, but bad for members.
I can already see a very very very low CTR on this network. Although the links displayed are in you