I talked to John Reese the owner of Blog Rush last night and he said based on my traffic I should get minimum 45,000 impressions per day on the blog rush network in the business/marketing category. So wow thats a lot right. Well people made some good points in the post that I don’t really need more people and am already probably known in the marketing area…. this is true…
So I have a idea!
If you signed up under my referral already or if you sign up before the end of this month under my referral and you are running the widget on your site. I will run your code in rotation on shoemoney.com starting October 1st until THE END OF THE YEAR. This should give you plenty of time to get the ball rolling on your blog. Of course if someone signs up under the blog rush widget you will get credit for them signing up under you (not me) for life!
This means shoemoney.com will be giving you points so you will get impressions of your blog topics and get a piece of that 45,000+ impressions on the blog rush network.
So now I just eliminated one excuse for you not to be successful.
This should be fun. I can kill 3 birds with 1 stone.
1) I can help my readers get more exposure
2) Help my friend launch his blog rush widget
3) Get more referrals for myself! (not quite sure the value of this yet)
Besides all the cool kids are doing it.
Just check out Andy Beal, John Chow, Dosh Dosh
So why do I like Blog Rush so much?
Well first of all read my disclaimer. John Reese is one of my best friends in this industry and was a guy who was very instrumental to me as a mentor in launching AuctionAds. John has the financial resources and the technical resources to make this thing fly.
Also several months ago when John was designing Blog Rush I came up with the idea of doing a friend roll. I can tell you this is working really well and I have heard nothing but positive comments about it. The only downfall with my friend roll is that I get nothing in return for giving traffic to my friends. Blog Rush is the answer to people who want reciprocal traffic.
Blog Rush launched less then 60 hours ago and you can bet there will be a ton of changes to make it better. I am looking forward to talking more with John at the techcrunch40 conference and seeing what he has in store for it.
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January 26, 2010 at 12:13 am
ideas for the spirit in business adsense thanks shoemoney
December 12, 2009 at 11:42 pm
blogrush is shutdown
any suggest?
August 21, 2009 at 2:29 am
Thanks shoe.
July 15, 2009 at 9:24 am
is the link broken for anyone else ?
April 15, 2008 at 1:13 pm
tell me when this offer is available again ? I really want to be your referral
March 5, 2008 at 9:26 am
I signed up under your referral yesterday.
February 23, 2008 at 10:05 am
when i can sign up again ?
February 10, 2008 at 7:27 pm
One thing that I don’t like about BR is that it does not blend nicely. If John’s programmers add the same flexibility to change size, colors and shape (like in Adsense) more people will use it, as it will blend perfectly with a blog’s theme. Saying that someone else had the same or similar idea before is totally stupid. Is the ONE car maker? Or ONE softdrink maker? How about clothes factories? Or software? And in when it comes to the web, we can’t even count the social bookmarking sites or other Web 2.0 projects that do exactly the same at the moment. So what? Different people will use different solutions.
January 18, 2008 at 3:54 am
when this offer open again ? also do you have any rule regarding which website that can join this?
January 12, 2008 at 2:24 am
Is that a targeted visitor or not ?
October 14, 2007 at 1:07 am
The Blogrushe is quite a nice innovation for getting massive page impression
September 22, 2007 at 8:06 am
hi bro, the only problem about BLOGRUSH is that you can’t use your spanish written blogs (or any other language), thats a huge deal, since most of us still read your english written content, and there’s where i get most of my content from, I think you should do something about it quick :-S we deserve a piece of that cake
September 19, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I came up with a trick almost as clever
http://blogsformoney.com/post/Clever-Trick-Getting-45-Times-More-Traffic-From-BlogRush.aspx
September 19, 2007 at 7:39 am
Hi Shoe
I’m one of those who signed up with your referral code
thank you
Dorothy
September 19, 2007 at 2:12 am
i sign up yesterday, but still not have any visitor from blogrush… hope soon i can get moree….
September 19, 2007 at 12:05 am
Woo! 45 thousand impressions is a hefty sum. I wonder how many will convert.
September 18, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Shu,
I dunno if this has been said yet or not, but you’re in breach of the terms of service if you rotate the codes. It would mean one code could be appearing on two blogs at the same time. That’s a no-no and John has in mind to kill accounts that have that happening.
Or have I misread that?!
-Alister
September 18, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Signed up using your ref link Shoe. Looks pretty cool.
September 18, 2007 at 3:02 pm
I signed up under your referral! I think. Anyway I sugned up from your post on blogrush.
September 18, 2007 at 12:06 pm
I signed up and will try it see what results I get.
September 18, 2007 at 11:38 am
I signed up under your referral. I hope everything works and I get an increase in traffic. Thanks for the referral shoe.
September 18, 2007 at 10:11 am
ditto
September 18, 2007 at 9:45 am
Signed up under your referral the day you posted…the service seems to be down now though. I have not seen any stats yet either.
September 17, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Yep, I’m trying out BlogRush as well.. have had it for a few days now.. We’ll see in a few weeks how it handles everything.
As a side note: I’m running a contest with a $195 prize attached to it for the winner. For designers and web folks.. try it out.. you’ve got nothing to lose.
http://insanemoneymarket.com/blog/2007/09/17/1st-insane-contest-one-prize-worth-195/
thanks and take care..
Insane Seb
September 17, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Jeremy, I signed up under you.
And blogged about it also.
September 17, 2007 at 2:59 pm
There is so many posts about BlogRush… I am wondering how many real visitors you get in return for 45.000 impressions.
September 17, 2007 at 11:37 am
You said “less than 60 hours”, surely it should be “fewer than 60 hours”?
September 17, 2007 at 11:29 am
Read about it over the weekend through Yaro Starak and John’s own blog:
http://www.income.com/blog/
He’s looking for Technical Writers to help him write good how-to’s. If you’re interested, get in touch with him fast!
September 17, 2007 at 10:33 am
Even when they are all blogging? Some things are best not followed but where’s the harm in trying it out, the earlier the better, and Mr.Reese is also giving an incentive to sign up sooner rather than later:
September 17, 2007 at 9:57 am
John and you are both rockstars. If you point to something and say ‘all the cool kids are doing it or should be doing it’ I’m on it. Thanks for the heads up and a pre-emptive thanks for those hits you’ll be sending over…will be interesting to how this animal moves.
- Sean
September 17, 2007 at 9:57 am
I just joined from your referral and am now running the widget on shawnblog.com
Cool idea!
September 17, 2007 at 9:57 am
Too bad I’ve allready signed up with Blogrush yesterday, but what keeps me from signing up again with another account
Thx for the offer!
September 17, 2007 at 9:52 am
Props to you on this one Shoemoney there’s good karma coming your way!
September 17, 2007 at 9:15 am
I’ve already signing up under your referral shoe, what next?
September 17, 2007 at 8:36 am
Shoe, I signed up under your referral yesterday. The widget has been up on my blog since yesterday. I havent seen any additional traffic yet but I hope to see a lot soon.
September 17, 2007 at 8:35 am
Shoemoney,
I had just signed up MINUTES before I saw this post. How can I still get in on this great deal? Is it possible to cancel my account and re-sign up through your referral?
September 17, 2007 at 8:10 am
I can’t remember if I signed under your referral. How can I check ?
September 17, 2007 at 7:51 am
So, I heard about this a couple days ago, and I deleted the email as another “too good to be true”. But if you believe it will work, I’ll give it a shot.
September 17, 2007 at 7:46 am
John Reese certainly knows how to create buzz – this thing is all over the web at the moment!!
September 17, 2007 at 7:27 am
I signed up. I’ve been seeing this all over the net and my inbox (invites). I was pretty pessimistic at first but figure to give this a real decent try. Thanks Shoe.
September 17, 2007 at 7:07 am
This entire post is a very clever trick by shoemoney’s part. Not only is he not missing out on anything by showing your code, he’s making a boatload of referals. Very clever. Read here for details:
http://blogsformoney.com/post/Shoemoneys-Clever-BlogRush-Trick.aspx
September 17, 2007 at 6:54 am
Very interesting i shall be implementing this soon.
Best Regards
Instadigi
September 17, 2007 at 6:20 am
Thats cool, i will use your referral ID and install blog rush widget , hope i will get good traffic.
September 17, 2007 at 3:40 am
Already signed up but never used, will try it out now – stats would be something to watch out for.
September 17, 2007 at 3:27 am
Well, signed up under your account id, so I’ll see how this widget works. Cheers.
September 17, 2007 at 3:26 am
Thank you Shoe
just registered with the referral link
September 17, 2007 at 2:48 am
I’m glad I signed up from your referral code. I wonder hoe many others did it.
It would be nice if they would have something where you could see people that signed up as your referrals
Looking forward for the stats.
September 17, 2007 at 12:58 am
It’s fascinating how such a new widget has gained so much popularity in record time.
September 17, 2007 at 12:14 am
Can I sign up twice? Or does BlogRush only accept one site URL in their system?
September 17, 2007 at 12:11 am
more impressions in the rotation
September 17, 2007 at 12:04 am
Already signed up, but I’m trying to start my blog up and could use some traffic. Time to register again
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September 16, 2007 at 11:42 pm
I signed up. Thanks for the original article. I read the feed and saw your post about BlogRush. I personally think it is very similar to the digitapoint coop ad network, but without a lot of the hassles involved with having to change files and such.
As for the post by BlogRish, I think he is right and wrong. Sure, most systems like this reward the top blogs, but most of those blogs are already getting a lion’s share of the traffic anyway.
I will gladly have a link to my site show up once in a while on a blog with heavy traffic in return for showing other links rather than to never have it show up at all. So little blogs can get some traffic from it, but it sounds like you think that folks are only going to sign up just to get traffic. That is a wrong assumption to make. I think these folks are leading the way in finding another source of traffic to ADD to the ones they already have in SEO, content, podcasts, etc.
Good luck to all.
seogeek
September 16, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Giving it a shot. If it doesn’t show any traffic in 48hrs I’ll take it off. Takes up too much real estate.
September 16, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Yes, I suppose we need to create a new account?
September 16, 2007 at 10:09 pm
LoL I love it.
I can’t blog at work
Filters
September 16, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Hi, I signed up under your referral link on your post. I hope this ‘free traffic’ concept with BlogRush really works.
September 16, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Hi, I signed up under your referral link on your post. Please include me on your list for ‘free traffic’. Thanks!
Jocelyn
http://www.moneymakingideas4you.com/
September 16, 2007 at 9:21 pm
I just registered with your referal code..looks good so far. Will see any traffics coming from blogrush widget.
September 16, 2007 at 9:20 pm
I am most probably going to take it down if it doesn’t show different links within the next 48 hours. Why is that and why do most blogs currently show the same links (from top blogs)?
September 16, 2007 at 9:01 pm
It’s basically a banner exchange (but using text). Been done in most larger niches. I don’t really see the innovation here or how this hasn’t been done. Sounds like a lot of hype to get it big, which is probably working. Kudos for that.
September 16, 2007 at 8:54 pm
You’re making a generous offer for those who sign up under you. But, I’m still not convinced that Blogrush is for me. Call me cynical, but when everyone is doing something, it’s usually best not to follow them.
September 16, 2007 at 8:53 pm
what do you get for signing up people under you?
September 16, 2007 at 8:52 pm
If you clicked his link then im sure you must be under him
September 16, 2007 at 8:51 pm
If you run someone elses code then you wont get the referals. Or are you going to rotate and only show their code sometimes?
September 16, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Genius now write a post on it, so you can get digged,
September 16, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Read the comments on that post, chances are thats not true
September 16, 2007 at 8:37 pm
hmm.there is a lot of pros and cons about this – btw shoe, how will you rotate or know who signs up under you? maybe its me because I do not see my stats yet and I signed up late yesterday
September 16, 2007 at 8:30 pm
AGREED.
Same old schmo, different bucket.
I’ll be looking for improvements that signal some sort of intelligence, rather than the usual self serving sales gumph. Time will tell.
September 16, 2007 at 8:25 pm
I agree with many of the above posts, so far there is no evidence yet how it actually will impact traffic and how many will see the pages listed in the blogrush widget, right now it seems to be only one more thing cluttering up a site, once they do more to make it integrate better into the sites then it might take off more than just with the Make Money Online crowd or Specialized Niche crowd.
September 16, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I think its really too soon to give a real review about BlogRush. Right now only big players* have reviews about it…and suspiciously they all sound the same. Real reviews will start pumping when small/medium blogs start writing about it and its results
September 16, 2007 at 8:09 pm
I would do this but i’ve already signed up plus with the amount of people which will sign up under your referral it’s probably not worth it.
September 16, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Come on guys…getting traffic is not that hard that you need some sort of help with it. I have a simple 3 step plan to getting traffic to your blog.
1. Ignore your family and friends
2. Stay up late creating your content
3. Get busted at work for blogging
These are the simple things that will net you an extra 100 visitors per month, translating into $0.02 adsense revenue
September 16, 2007 at 7:57 pm
The only problem with this site is that it is 100% positive reviews because people want their referral links everywhere, which stops a lot of the big guys from giving an honest review, that it might not benefit the little blogs, and that it can be easily gamed. We shall see where it leads us though.
September 16, 2007 at 7:51 pm
I’m stoked…signing up right now. Thanks for clueing me into this hot shizzle
September 16, 2007 at 7:50 pm
“as blogging is now in decline”…….
I started to take you seriously until I read that
September 16, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I did the same thing…so that is pretty cool
September 16, 2007 at 7:32 pm
You really hate BlogRush, don’t you? Have you even tried it out to confirm your suspicions? Or are you just talking out your rear end?
September 16, 2007 at 7:26 pm
honestly i want to see how things shake out before I jump with both feet in
i want to see how they address the adsense traffic exchange issue
September 16, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I disagree, and believe that for niche blogs, this idea might work to create virtual blog networks with mutual visitors.
There are many forces at work in the world to keep blog communities from developing and becoming viable with repeat visitors (ie bookmarked) and it is those forces that bring to bear many tactics to make ventures like this fail, not the least of which are both greed and psyops.
nada
September 16, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Well that explains a lot about BlogRush. It’s a great idea, I can’t wait until some changes come though.
Also, too bad I signed up through JohnChow. Didn’t see your post until later.
September 16, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I already signed up under someone’s referral… I think Daily Blog Tips.
Can I get a cookie at least?
September 16, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Just registered with the referral link. Looking forward to some link juice for my new baby.
September 16, 2007 at 6:57 pm
cool! I just signed up another account using your referral, its currently running on my site now
September 16, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Thanks ShoeMoney – you’re a champion!
September 16, 2007 at 6:12 pm
actually, me and some friends have done something similar in italy, during the last 2 years. I’m part of a community of webcomics creators called “nuvole elettriche”. We have developed a rudimentary widget which show the last updates of the the blogs belonging to the community. I think the principle is similar: i have no intention to take ownership of the idea (i am copyleft person) ! Instead i’m gonna sponsor it: it has worked quite good for us and it’s still going strong.
September 16, 2007 at 6:05 pm
It’s the same principle of the banner exchange formula, good things it’s now rss based
September 16, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Stats not available yet.
September 16, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I did sign up BUT I heard this now Violates googles TOS,
http://www.45n5.com/permalink/warning-blogrush-may-violate-the-adsense-terms-of-.html
Thats the source!
September 16, 2007 at 5:52 pm
that shoemoney. nice of you to share.
September 16, 2007 at 5:49 pm
BlogRush is a pyramid scheme and it is NOT A NEW CONCEPT.
John,
Your service is nothing revolutionary, new or even original for that matter …
I’m the original owner of BlogExplosion.com, the original traffic exchange for bloggers (which I ended up selling to LiveVideo.com some time ago)
Both BlogExplosion and Blogmad.net had text link exchanges (essentially what you do), where you can target by category etc.. But that was a couple of years ago.. You can talk up your technology to match content etc. but it’s mostly just that – talk
RELEVANT CONTENT, TARGETED – Bottom line this has been done before with exactly the same functionality (except we had a much larger userbase than you do)…
Systems like these get abused by people that game the system (and they will), the clickthrough percentage is horrible and the actual amount of traffic you’ll see as a result will be a trickle.
The only person that will benefit from this will be of course the people at the top (mostly the program owner), whereby you take all of the extra inventory generated by the users and either sell that inventory or plug your own programs/urls.
The end-users will ALWAYS get the short end of the stick in a system like this. It’s been shown to be the case time after time, so I’m not saying anything controversial here.
Nothing personal, but I know what I’m talking about as I’ve been running traffic exchanges for 7 years and seen it all before. Again BlogRush is nothing new and certainly won’t be killing your traffic counter as promised. I understand the differences between the two compared, but again blog traffic exchanges also had text swap features based on content category (but with tens of thousands of users)..
This program is two-three years late in coming out. You kinda missed the “blog rush” dude as blogging is now in decline..
It will take this program months to ramp up before it has enough users to make it worthwhile.
All you need to do is watch your referral traffic and clickthrough percentages over that time to come to the same conclusions that I’m telling you right now. Been there, done that and the only person you’ll be helping is the people that own BlogRush…
From: http://mashable.com/2007/09/16/blogrush-2/
September 16, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Thats a good idea, as long as the blogs have good content on them.
September 16, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Well that’s cool, since I signed up on yours before I saw anyone elses. I haven’t checked to see if I have stats yet. I think this Blog Rush thing is a good idea. We’ll see.
September 16, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Looks great!
Thanks Shoemoney!
September 16, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Ya same here. I signed up direct before your post yesterday. Any way to insert a referrer code into your account?
September 16, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I think this is a good idea but it will really only work for specific niche markets. I would definitely try it for a while, no harm in testing it out.
I am anxious to see how it grows.
September 16, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I was thinking, instead of trading in impressions, Why not trade in clicks ? You can ask him ,it will be far better option.
September 16, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Great offer…
I registered yesterday directly
I would like to partake in your offer. Do you know how I can use you as a referrer?
September 16, 2007 at 4:45 pm
We’ll have to wait and see, right now it’s just in a beginning fase, the links shown aren’t always in the genre of your own blog, well at least that’s what I’ve experienced.
I’ll test run it to the end of this year before coming to an conclusion whether to keep or scrap it.
Hopefully it will just keep getting better on showing posts genres on blogs with the same, and some other cool features.
I think that this one could become a good hit.
But I wonder if he’ll add paid links , it will become like adsense for blogs or something targeting for specific blogs etc. If so I think it would become very bad and lose its main purpose.
And somehow I feel that, that is what John has in mind in some way.
September 16, 2007 at 4:44 pm
The idea looks great the problem it looks like a Multi Level Marketing (pyramid scheme) so eventually will collapse, first subscribers will get a great deal.
Let’s see how it evolves, best of luck.
September 16, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Well, I hope the John comes up with something serious and not one of those many widgets that at the end only slow down your pages. Are part of the Blog Rush project? I hope so…
September 16, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Just heard of it on John Chow dot com. I’m going to try it for a week. if it works OK if not then I’ll throw it out