Blog Rush Opens for Beta

Blog Rush (referral link) is a blog syndication network. It works around a widget that the blogger needs to put in his website, and the widget displays headlines coming from the blogs on the network.

The goal of service is straight forward: to give you more traffic and readers.

There have been many similar services in the past, but Blog Rush is introducing some interesting innovations. First of all you earn “syndication credits” every time the widget is loaded on your website (i.e., one credit for each page view). If your blog has 500 daily page views, your headlines will be displayed on other blogs using the widget 500 times daily.

Secondly, you can also earn credits by referring people. Every time the widget is displayed on the blog of your referrals you will also earn one credit.

Personally I will not use the widget because I am trying to keep the design on DBT as clean as possible. If you are trying to find new readers and the widget fits into your template, though, Blog Rush could be an alternative.

Daniel Scocco on September 15, 2007 Subscribe to our RSS Feed

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39 Responses to “Blog Rush Opens for Beta”

Shankar Ganesh on September 15th, 2007 3:58 am

Very interesting concept. May be I can put it in my blog’s footer.
Daniel on September 15th, 2007 4:02 am

Another good strategy is to leave if for some weeks, in order to build a referral network, and then remove it if you think it clutters your blog.
Rahul on September 15th, 2007 4:05 am

Nice idea.. will use it on my new blogs.
Jamaipanese on September 15th, 2007 4:50 am

nice widget but I’ll pass for now
Everton on September 15th, 2007 5:27 am

is that a referral url I see before me Daniel?
Technobuzz.net on September 15th, 2007 6:26 am

Nice widget
Daniel on September 15th, 2007 7:47 am

Yep Everton, I thought it was clear enough, but I just added a parenthesis aside on the link to make it more.

As you know I am 100% transparent with all the stuff on my blogs.
pearl on September 15th, 2007 8:30 am

Its a nice widget and I think I’ll add it for a few weeks and then take it out…
Scoot on September 15th, 2007 9:34 am

I kind of like the idea that it may help to spark a fire in visitors to my site, that there is a lot out there to read about, and so inspire them to get into this whole blog thing. In my area there is not a lot o’ bloggin’ goin’ on out thar.
thewild1 on September 15th, 2007 11:57 am

I have it on my site. It seems like a good idea, but we will really see in the long run.
I clicked on some of the links that showed up, and these people didn’t have the widget on their site.
Daniel on September 15th, 2007 12:22 pm

thewild, you can earn credits by referring people are as well. Also they might have used the widget and them removed it afterwards.
WarriorBlog on September 15th, 2007 2:14 pm

Already signed up and ready to go! I didn’t add their widget yet though…
Danny @ Blogs For Money on September 15th, 2007 2:39 pm

Interesting idea - I’ll have to go sign up.

I like how you’re not displaying the widget but by linking, earning credits and getting your blog shown ;D
Geoff Foster on September 15th, 2007 3:08 pm

Thanks, Daniel,

I put it up immediately I saw it!

Now all I have to do is wait and see …
Mike Panic on September 15th, 2007 3:58 pm

I’ll pass, I’d rather just do link exchanges with other quality writers and focus on making quality content.
Scoot on September 15th, 2007 8:53 pm

I HAVE TRIED OFF AND ON ALL DAY TO FIND ONE BLOG ON BLOG RUSH WITH THE WIDGET AND HAVE NOT FOUND ONE. I think we should all step back and think about weather we have been duped.
Scoot on September 16th, 2007 7:25 am

Ok, I found one, through the blog rush. http://www.spokanerealestatebu.....employees/
maybe they are just trying to catch up.
JoeTech.com on September 16th, 2007 12:20 pm

I added it to JoeTech.com. It will be interesting to see if it brings any additional traffic. One upside is that it could bankroll overnight digg traffic if one of your articles hits the front page.
Marko Novak on September 16th, 2007 12:39 pm

There are some posts about Blog Rush violating AdSense Policy.

Does anyone know if this is true?
Lincoln on September 16th, 2007 6:07 pm

Can the widget be resized? Inquiring minds would like to know before signing up.
Daniel on September 17th, 2007 3:11 am

I don’t think so Lincoln, that is one of my main concerns as well.
Mike Panic on September 17th, 2007 7:44 am

Scoot - John Chow has one on his site.
TitoB on September 17th, 2007 5:28 pm

Hmm sounds interesting, will have to give it a go

take care & thx
JTPRATT's Blogging Mistakes on September 18th, 2007 5:56 am

funny thing about this widget is - the concept is basically “borrowed” from the adult industry (trading traffic, widget, etc.)…it only seems novel in the blog world.
Small Potato on September 18th, 2007 9:25 pm

Even if it fits your blog’s design perfectly, you shouldn’t try Blog Rush. Don’t get wamboozled.
Jacob Sikais on October 7th, 2007 4:19 am

Blog Rush is on the right track and it seems like a great widget… I am spewing though that Wordpress.com doesn’t support Javascript widgets… we need to fix that right away!!!
blogr on October 14th, 2007 11:10 am

nice thing. i too signed up.
Edward on February 28th, 2008 5:46 am

I have it on my site and over valentine day I noticed that my traffic jumped through the roof. Still trying to figure out what happened but I think blogrush might be the culprit. Too bad I cannot check links from widgets yet on my site statistics.