Great New System To Get Free Traffic

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Earlier this week internet marketing superstar (and also my good friend) John Reese launched Blog Rush. Its pretty sexy I must say. Basically you display the widget on your site and for each impression the widget loads you get credit to get your posts displayed throughout the network in similar categories.

Also because its javascript you don’t have to worry about reciprical links or even linking to people or nofollow tags….. it just works. I think this might be the first cooperative link network matt cutts might even get behind ;).

Watch this video, I cant explain it better:

Get going on blog rush right now!




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  • posted on September 15th, 2007:
    Written By: ShoeMoney

    113 Comments

    @September 15, 2007 5:19 pm

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

    @September 17, 2007 11:18 pm
    mark Says:

    Definitely a great concept. A friend of mine would be very interested in this. Thanks.

     
     
    @September 15, 2007 5:29 pm
    Bulbboy Says:

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

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

    @September 15, 2007 5:34 pm
    ShoeMoney Says:

    yes except its javascript so you dont have to worry about linking to sites you hate… also you can block sites and even add negative keywords (watch the video) ;)

     
     
    @September 15, 2007 5:33 pm
    Israel Says:

     
    @September 15, 2007 5:38 pm

    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.

     
    @September 15, 2007 5:48 pm

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

     
    @September 15, 2007 6:07 pm

    Oh, boy! Yet another blog widget!

     
    @September 15, 2007 6:10 pm
    saco Says:

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

    @September 15, 2007 6:32 pm
    ShoeMoney Says:

    Assume I own or have a interest in writing about everything.
    (please see disclaimer).

    Does it change anything? Are you really not smart enough to make up your own mind about a product?

     
    @September 16, 2007 1:20 am

    Doesn’t change anything for me, but I would be surprised if it was. Just doesn’t seem very “Shoemoneyish”

     
     
    @September 15, 2007 6:24 pm
    Sami Says:

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

     
    @September 15, 2007 6:30 pm
    Klaudio Says:

    Yeah cool!
    I’ll try it too!

     
    @September 15, 2007 7:02 pm
    saco Says:

    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!

     
    @September 15, 2007 7:47 pm
    Geordie Says:

    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.

     
    @September 15, 2007 8:17 pm
    King Jacob Says:

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

     
    @September 15, 2007 8:25 pm
    eco Boris Says:

    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…

    @September 16, 2007 3:03 am
    Andy Beard Says:

    I didn’t include the video because there wasn’t clear usage rights defined and when I wrote my in depth review John was most definitely asleep after a 40 - 50 hour session before launch.

    If you had clicked through one of the links on my review you would however have seen the video on John’s landing page.

    @September 16, 2007 5:55 pm
    eco Boris Says:

    Wow you read your comments… Went back and read your post. Definitely more informative… I am hoping the video gets on youtube so I can embed in websites…

     
     
     
    @September 15, 2007 8:28 pm

    Sounds cool, hope they get an auctionads type buyout lol

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

     
    @September 15, 2007 8:39 pm
    jim Says:

    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).

    @September 15, 2007 8:48 pm
    King Jacob Says:

    Im sure they wont mind because its javascript, google likes links being shared as long as you use the nofollow attribute, and google doesnt follow javascript

    @September 16, 2007 8:36 am
    jim Says:

    I referring more to the traffic exchange aspect, not the linking aspect (which blogrush seems to have sidestepped).

    @September 16, 2007 10:45 am
    King Jacob Says:

    I guess the keywords “artificial” is the traffic from blogrush artificial? currently no but id email google just to be safe, I dont really care as their is no adsense on my blog.

    (Comments wont nest below this level)
     
     
     
     
    @September 15, 2007 9:06 pm

    [...] have been getting emails about a new system called BlogRush. I have been reading all about this at ShoeMoney, JohnChow, Entrepreneurs Journey, etc. So I decided to go a head and just join. You have all [...]

     
    @September 15, 2007 9:17 pm

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

    @September 15, 2007 10:47 pm

    @Travel Notebook: It is javascript code, which means it is 100% loaded clientside through the browser, so Google does not see any links, or pass any PR/Authority.

     
     
    @September 15, 2007 9:48 pm

    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?

    @September 15, 2007 11:20 pm
    King Jacob Says:

    Ive noticed this too and the blogs linked too dont even have the widget on their site.

     
    @September 16, 2007 3:14 am

    The script is new, and has thousands of new sites signing up. It might take 24-48 hours to realize what kind of blog you own… hopefully that is the case.

     
     
    @September 15, 2007 9:53 pm

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

     
    @September 15, 2007 9:59 pm
    Abhishek Says:

    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/

     
    @September 15, 2007 10:22 pm

    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.

    @September 16, 2007 1:36 am

    Agreed, no one is going to be able to answer that now though because it is so new.

     
     
    @September 15, 2007 10:45 pm

    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.

     

    [...] merupakan satu servis yang baru dilancarkan dan sedang hangat diperkatakan oleh blogger-blogger profesional. Apa yang menyebabkan BlogRush hangat diperkatakan ialah kerana ia merupakan satu [...]

     
    @September 16, 2007 12:02 am

    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

     
    @September 16, 2007 12:27 am
    SUP3RNOVA Says:

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 12:51 am

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 12:56 am
    John Reese Says:

    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!

    @September 16, 2007 1:19 am

    Just what I thought. Income.com - sweet domain btw!

     
     
    @September 16, 2007 1:23 am

    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?

     
    @September 16, 2007 1:28 am
    rxbbx Says:

    Worth to try.. thnx for the tip..

     
    @September 16, 2007 2:51 am
    rxbbx Says:

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 3:25 am

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 4:47 am

    [...] it until we’d get some results. The hype created around this widget is massive. JohnChow, Shoemoney and Problogger all have posted about it and are all very positive. That’s because idea simply [...]

    @September 16, 2007 12:14 pm

    40 uniques…. not bad!

     
     

    [...] was reading this morning on ShoeMoney’s blog about BlogRush, a system that allows blogs to display similar posts from the same network, based on the topic of [...]

     
    @September 16, 2007 6:21 am

    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.

     
    @September 16, 2007 6:36 am
    Seo Next Says:

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 7:31 am
    CatherineL Says:

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 9:13 am

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

    @September 16, 2007 12:17 pm

    Interesting angle, maybe they will look at this (or already have).

    @September 16, 2007 4:23 pm

    Yea it would be a great thing and help both sides out a lot.

     
     
     
    @September 16, 2007 10:51 am
    tony gee Says:

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 10:52 am
    tony gee Says:

    Joined the rush last night.

     
    @September 16, 2007 11:00 am

    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.

     
    @September 16, 2007 11:10 am
    Tracy Says:

    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.

    @September 16, 2007 12:17 pm

    Still doesn’t look too bad for a first effort, and I’ve seen worse (MyBlogBlog).

     
     
    @September 16, 2007 11:19 am
    LA Says:

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 11:39 am
    Scorpiono Says:

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

    @September 16, 2007 11:42 am
    King Jacob Says:

    unless you want an infraction i wouldnt use referall links on dp.

    @September 16, 2007 12:44 pm
    Bulbboy Says:

    Ok in the DP sig, not stuck in the middle of a post.

     
     
    @September 16, 2007 12:15 pm

    Yeah you and 90 other people

     
     
    @September 16, 2007 12:13 pm

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 12:19 pm
    Lynn Terry Says:

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 12:26 pm
    oyunlar Says:

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 1:26 pm
    PrintnPost Says:

    Already telling my authors!

     
    @September 16, 2007 3:03 pm
    Richard Says:

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 3:07 pm
    mcrilf Says:

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

     
    @September 16, 2007 3:27 pm
    saco Says:

    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 ;)

     
    @September 16, 2007 3:46 pm

    great tool. its up on my site.

     
    @September 16, 2007 3:47 pm

    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

     
    @September 16, 2007 3:55 pm
    dapyx Says:

    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.

    @September 16, 2007 11:50 pm

    I don’t really mind the 5 links part, but its the.. missing 80% of the blogs in 1:1 trade that I am concerned about…

    I doubt you can say ‘oh show it once and we will show your articles 5 times’ which is how the numbers work out.. but it doesnt appear to be that way.

    is there some marketing thing going on here?

     
     
    @September 16, 2007 4:25 pm
    Bob Cotto Says:

    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

     
    @September 16, 2007 5:02 pm

    [...] immagine qui a sinistra) che include 5 link; ne parlano (e lo espongono) fra gli altri John Chow, Shoemoney e Dosh Dosh… si tratta di BlogRush, l’ultima invenzione di John [...]

     
    @September 16, 2007 5:25 pm

    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.

     
    @September 16, 2007 6:02 pm
    Textlist Says:

    Wow that looks pretty awesome!

     
    @September 16, 2007 6:47 pm

    [...] is probably guaranteed a certain level of success thanks to early endorsements by ShoeMoney, John Chow, Andy Beal and [...]

     
    @September 16, 2007 7:48 pm

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

     

    [...] in for less than 3 days, BlogRush has already exploded onto the blogging scene. Top bloggers from Shoemoney to John Chow have already added the widget into their [...]

     
    @September 16, 2007 9:59 pm

    [...] blog I went to, including Shoemoney, Dosh Dosh, Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim and John Chow, had something written about Blog [...]

     
    @September 16, 2007 11:49 pm

    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..

    @September 16, 2007 11:52 pm

    Actually, is it some sort of pyramid scheme for the extra impressions? I see a lot of ’sign up under me’ type things.. I guess i should look into it further.

     
     
    @September 17, 2007 12:14 am

    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.

     
    @September 17, 2007 1:17 am
    lyricsreg Says:

    I’m definitely trying this

     

    [...] but now, also the blog niche is talking about his new site. If you visit JohnChow, Problogger and ShoeMoney you will that the big blogger name recommend [...]

     

    [...] is recommended by all big bloggers like Problogger (yet another post), John Chow and Shoemoney. I also added BlogRush to RedesignThis.Net because we need new traffic. I really recommend you [...]

     
    @September 17, 2007 1:22 pm

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

     
     
    @September 17, 2007 3:03 pm
    The Dino Says:

    Well how many real visitors you get with exposure?

     
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    @September 17, 2007 7:47 pm

    [...] Great New System to Get Free Traffic - This is a very short review and he lets the video do the explaining but he does mention about the widget using javascript so you don’t have to “worry about reciprocal links or even linking to people or nofollow tags.” John Reese told him that given his current downline network he can expect about 45,000 impressions per day on the blog rush network in the business/marketing category. That’s no surprise given the popularity of ShoeMoney’s blog and it didn’t hurt that he was one of the first to announce BlogRush. [...]

     

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    @September 18, 2007 12:48 am
    Joeychgo Says:

    ill be on this shortly

     
    @September 18, 2007 1:09 am

    [...] it work?  The jury is still out as it is still new but I have to say that a load of the bigger name bloggers are promoting it and I am seeing it spread all the way down into the ranks of the smaller [...]

     
    @September 18, 2007 10:46 am
    emha Says:

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

     
    @September 18, 2007 10:51 am
    emha Says:

    great and inovative system. no longer will be popular.

     
    @September 18, 2007 12:17 pm
    SweetGain Says:

    Very good job
    Congrulations John Reese.

     
    @September 18, 2007 3:26 pm
    KiwiPulse Says:

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

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

     
    @September 19, 2007 12:07 am

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

     
    @September 19, 2007 6:20 am

    [...] creata in jurul BlogRush a inceput cand cei trei mari bloggeri din industrie - JohnChow, Shoemoney si Problogger - au instalat acest widget pe blogurile lor. Conceptul BlogRush e simplu: widgetul [...]

     
    @September 20, 2007 12:06 pm

    [...] huge reason for the Hype with BlogRush. Lets use the highly successful ShoeMoney as an example. In his initial post about BlogRush he starts with “Earlier this week internet marketing superstar (and also my good friend) John [...]

     
    @September 23, 2007 6:40 am

    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