I could finish that title in all kinds of ways
I have been discussing various kinds of blogging community widgets as a core topic for close to 10 months now, first Mybloglog, then Bumpzee, and shortly after Blogcatalog.
From every single one of those communities I have possibly gained more traffic than I have given them in return, though it is very difficult to judge exactly when you start gaining traffic, and maybe that isn't really the point. You can't easily track RSS clicks to a site unless you destroy the SEO advantages of syndication by having nice clean links and ultimately you hope for people to discover you once, and
There has been a lot of criticism thrown at Blogrush and very few of the reports I have read really took any time to analyse how Blogrush is currently working using 3rd party tracking tools.
I am writing this article because I keep on being asked the same questions, not with the intention of beating the drum about Blogrush, or to promote my referral link. In fact you won't even find my referral link in this article. Go and use someone else's, or look at one of my previous articles.
I thought about adding some "notice me" links in this post
Blogrush has just launched and is promising to help bloggers generate more targeted traffic to their blogs.
Blog bling, blog community and blog traffic widgets are becoming quite a conjested marketplace, so what makes Blogrush, the newest contender something to take note of?
I have a lot of respect for John Reese. People talk about The Digg effect, John Reese can send Digg like traffic to a site just by sending an email, and what is more important is that he sends qualified traffic, buying traffic.
I am fairly sure Blogrush won't have any need for immediate funding. They have launched
Over 11% CTR From BlogRush Is Possible
Alex managed to get 457 visitors from BlogRush to one of his posts with only 3888 headline impressions
Yes… the headline he used was hype and a little controversial, but ultimately as he concludes, often that is what will draw traffic.
As a bonus he also gained 90 visitors from TrafficJam
Ultimately success with BlogRush is really down to the blogger. If they don't get traffic from BlogRush, maybe they need to work a little on their headlines and experiment.
Note:This is targeted traffic who know what the article they will see is about before they read it, unlike something like Stumbleupon, and