Dot Com Note

BlogRush is dead. I had written about BlogRush traffic exchange math when it came out in Septemeber, 2007. My take on this pyramid style traffic exchange program was that the a few first movers and popular bloggers will mostly benefit from this scheme.

A lot of this type of traffic exchange programs popped up during the Porno Web days (1995-1998). Of course, those programs did not use widgets but the concept was the same.

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Lots of big time online money making and marketing blogs opined how great the program was and consequently it spread like wild fire. I will not name any name but you can easily find out those blogs easily.

The reason of its demise, according to John Reese, the founder of BlogRuch is

BlogRush didn’t grow without its fair share of problems — from security issues to abusive users trying to ‘game’ the system to much lower click-rates than expected. We also had some problems with trying to fairly control the quality of the network, and in the process made many mistakes in deciding what blogs should stay or go. All of these issues, ultimately, limited the service’s full potential.

You can read Jeff Chandler’s take on the death of BlogRush at Performancing.com and what others are saying about their experience with BlogRush in the comment section.

Getting free inbound links for your site is one of the oldest method to drive web traffic. The importance of inbound links is time less. However, the number does not matter. It is the quality. Quality inbound links are the staple of search engine for ranking a site.

What are things you should not do to obtain quality links? Say no to any automated or manual link exchange program. They are useless; they don’t benefit you and sometimes the search engines may even penalize your site for such links. Stop asking for link exchange from other sites where your links are placed in a link farm on a page along with hundreds of other links.

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The number one strategy is to write articles with your resource box attached. Your resource box should mention your expertise in the subject and only one link to your site’s home page. If you have already started frowning on the idea of writing articles to promote your site, you are not alone. Most probably, you already know that writing article for site promotion is not a new strategy and it has been going for the past few years.

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