Goodbye Blog Rush, Hello Blog Catalog
Blogging November 16th, 2007Well it’s officially time to remove the blog rush widget from the site. I think it’s nice to have streaming content on the site, although I think people have already become “blog rush blind.” It’s not that they owe me a ton of traffic or anything, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that the traffic they do owe me comes in once a week, one visitor at a time. How many visits do I give to other blogs? I would rather just write about things I see going on in the blogosphere rather that have a widget dictate that at this point in time. As I said I think it’s just “blog rush blindness” that’s killing the conversion rates. I would be interested to see what other guys like Shoemoney have to say about it considering they have a ton more traffic to work with.
Anyhow, goodbye Blog Rush - Hello Blog Calatog.
By the way, if you are a member of Blog Catalog and post this little widget on your site, your site moves up in the rankings there. They have a healthy amount of traffic and also a great group of people to network with. I will keep you updated as to whether or not it works out better than Blog Rush did.










December 21st, 2007 at 3:11 pm
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February 6th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Entrecard is a good replacement for Blog Rush, even though your blog must suffer from a much higher bounce rate.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I have a new blog, only been in existence for a little over 4 weeks. I signed up with BlogCatalog soon after getting my blog up and running, and it supplies me with 2.5% of my referral traffic. Or about 80 hits a week.
-zach bass
www.zachbass.com
April 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
What a bunch of hype blogrush was in the beggining, then you don;t see it any more.
I removed it and forgot about it till I came across this in google,