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DotSauce Magazine: Get a Rush of Traffic to Your Blog

  • fruityoaty · 2 years ago
    A few bloggers have said that running BlogRush and Google ads on your site, it might be a violation of Google TOS. On the other hand, I might try out BlogRush, since I don't run Google ads on my blog.
  • Mark Fulton · 2 years ago
    Interesting, I wonder why exactly. I am about to remove adsense from DotSauce so it's not a big deal to me. I am really not a fan of it.
  • DeMerchant · 2 years ago
    Since it isn't paid it shouldn't be a violation of Google... and if it gets as big as it could google wont bother fighting them anyway... whatever will make them the most $$ imo
  • Gyms & Health Clubs by Aar · 2 years ago
    This seems like a pretty cool tool to have... i would imagine it does pretty well in terms of conversion as well.
  • Israel · 2 years ago
    I dont use google ads. my blogrush hasnt gotten me any traffic.
  • Doris · 2 years ago
    I've just heard about that recently. I am still testing it out on some of my sites. I hope it works out
  • Amanda · 2 years ago
    This seems like a very interesting program. I've tested it on a site, but don't see as much of a difference in traffic as I would have liked. I'll stick with it for a little while longer, because I have to remember that they are still in Beta. Good luck with it.
  • Ventrilo · 2 years ago
    I think this whole blogrush thing is over hyped
  • Addiction · 2 years ago
    RSS Feeds have been popular in the past years, and many people find it useful since it allows them to easily get updates and news from their family, friends, colleagues, and favorite friends. There are already many websites offering RSS feeds, so I think this blog traffic through RSS thing is going to stay for a while.
  • Mahesh Mohan · 2 years ago
    I've used this for my blog and got some 100 credit but I didnt get any traffic from it so I removed that on the same day...
  • Vic · 2 years ago
    The CTR is horrible at least in my case this are the stats from BlogRush for my site in the past seven days:

    Credits Earned Last 7 Days: 45,992

    Your Traffic Today: 4,868
    Your Traffic Last 7 Days 45,414

    Total Referrals In Your Network: 1
    Referral Traffic Today: 97
    Referral Traffic Last 7 Days: 578

    So according to them you are looking at a CTR of .012% LOL

    The other thing I am not sure how they determine page views because according to my server logs I have had until right now 11,458 page views with 5,012 unique hits so there stats do not agree with my stats mmmm
  • Streaming Base · 2 years ago
    It brings 0 traffic to my site.
    I give it away. No thanks.
    Or maybe I did something wrong....
  • James · 2 years ago
    There are so many mixed opinions, I will have to try it out for myself. Thanks for the interesting read.
  • Matt · 2 years ago
    It would be interesting to see how it turns out - only time will tell.
  • JS · 2 years ago
    I will try this on one of my blogs and see what kind of response I get.
  • T. O Donnell · 2 years ago
    In reply to your remark about Google.ca liking your site: Maybe your site's IP number is seen as Canadian? I had a site hosted in the UK with a .com domain, and because of the way IP addresses are doled out, it was registered as being in the Netherlands. Result: site wouldn't rank in Google UK SERPs.

    As for Blogrush, I'd wondered about its value. If it's not some form of link exchange _and_ it doesn't bring traffic, I don't see the value.
  • Racheumeuneu · 2 years ago
    This seems like an interesting program. I will try for one of my blog
  • Joshua Jabin · 2 years ago
    A lot of people are saying that after a couple weeks of trying BlogRush out, it has generated very little or no traffic. Does this fit with your experiences? Do you still think BlogRush is worth trying?
  • Mark Fulton · 2 years ago
    Josha and everyone else, thank you for your comments. I too have removed the BlogRush widget from DotSauce. I may return when they release a more stable version that is coming sooner than later.
  • Work at home · 2 years ago
    This is very timely. I've been posting on forums all over the place to try and determine how critical the domain name is for SEO. I've always thought that it didn't matter because you could always put words after the /. However, your blog has helped educate me. Thx
  • - Spaceman Spiff - · 2 years ago
    I heard that a more stable release is iminent and I think i will wait for everyone else to try it out and make sure it works before putting it on my blog. I don't want to put useless widgets on my site.

    - Spacemen Spiff -
    http://thedailyfuzz.com
  • okinawa · 2 years ago
    Unfortunately, for most of these blog syndication sites, they always leave out the feeds for Joomla based sites. It kills me that you need to have wordpress or something like that.
  • leslie · 2 years ago
    I am going to give BlogRush a try. But have to be careful with Adsense thingy.
  • Lisa · 2 years ago
    Hope they release the dashboard soon. I'm starting to get some pretty good traffic from BlogRush.
  • Jacob · 2 years ago
    I've only gotten six or seven click-throughs from blogrush thus far.
  • Pinny Cohen · 2 years ago
    I guess most people here agree it doesn't work too well. I've read about the bad CTR elsewhere, but if it doesn't even track the stats properly, that's even worse.
  • evpstud · 2 years ago
    The whole concept of BlogRush is great, but it's going to take some time before it runs optimally. It's like a free Awords content network ad, which I'm all in favor of. BR has already brought me some more traffic so I can't really complain.

    -evpstud
    http://www.youcanworkthenet.com
  • musictech · 2 years ago
    I first came across blogrush a couple of weeks ago, and since then have begun to see it in more and more blogs... I think it is gaining quite a bit of momentum now...
  • Michael · 1 year ago
    Blog Rush has performed poorly to me too. I will give it one more month and then throw it out.
  • MAC · 1 year ago
    I am surely not a Blogrush fan. It does badly for my blog. I got so little traffic using it. Already get it out from mine.
  • StuffGuy · 1 year ago
    BlogRush really is terrible. I earned thousands upon thousands of credits and got 10 clicks if I was lucky, maybe if they jazzed the widget up from time to time it might have helped.
  • manifestmoneytalks · 3 months ago
    Blog Rush has performed poorly to me too. I will give it one more month and then throw it out.
  • blogideas · 4 weeks ago
    Looks like a legit Idea, but I've seen tons of other types of systems that work like this, I'll give one of them a try one day but not now and not while I have Adsense running on my blog.