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.
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