BlogRush Is Closing Down
Thursday, October 30, 2008
BlogRush, a blog advertising system, has decided to shut down. John Reese, the man behind BlogRush, announced The Death of BlogRush in his blog. I also understand that separate e-mails were sent to individual users instructing them to remove the BlogRush widget.
The Launch of BlogRush
When BlogRush launched in 2007, the news spread like wildfire all around the Web. It should be considered as one of the highly discussed topics, among bloggers of course. BlogRush worked hard to implement many changes after the initial launch. The second release came with attractive reports and much more options for customization.
The Failure of BlogRush
But, it remained a fact that BlogRush could not attract very high click rates, in spite of its many efforts. John Reese, himself, admits that “the click-rates across the network are dreadfully low”.In fact, I wrote about this in one of my posts titled "Does BlogRush bring any traffic?". I also noticed that BlogRush filters some posts being syndicated. It is not yet clear why BlogRush did this, and we may never know. It may be due to glitches in the system.
Bye Bye BlogRush
Whatever said and done, I should agree that BlogRush looked attractive at the beginning. It might end as an unsuccessful idea, but the effort has been made. My wholehearted thanks to John Reese and his team for doing their best to make BlogRush a success.
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The Launch of BlogRush
When BlogRush launched in 2007, the news spread like wildfire all around the Web. It should be considered as one of the highly discussed topics, among bloggers of course. BlogRush worked hard to implement many changes after the initial launch. The second release came with attractive reports and much more options for customization.
The Failure of BlogRush
But, it remained a fact that BlogRush could not attract very high click rates, in spite of its many efforts. John Reese, himself, admits that “the click-rates across the network are dreadfully low”.In fact, I wrote about this in one of my posts titled "Does BlogRush bring any traffic?". I also noticed that BlogRush filters some posts being syndicated. It is not yet clear why BlogRush did this, and we may never know. It may be due to glitches in the system.
Bye Bye BlogRush
Whatever said and done, I should agree that BlogRush looked attractive at the beginning. It might end as an unsuccessful idea, but the effort has been made. My wholehearted thanks to John Reese and his team for doing their best to make BlogRush a success.
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18 comments:
Just shared this news on my shared items.
Hi Kriz,
Thanks for sharing this on your shared items. Appreciate that.
Heard about this yesterday and it's a shame. I tried to get BlogRush on my blog, but I was too new and didn't have enough posts. Wish them well.
Hi CJ,
Yes, it was a good advertising system to start with. But, it did not deliver as expected. I tried BlogRush at the early stages, without much success.
Thanks.
Yes, the letter is around the blogosphere. I think this is being expected for some time ago.
Many have removed their widget which includes me because of low traffic.
Hi Angel Cuala,
Thanks for your comments.
My pleasue ! Friend.
I liked one or two more posts of you i will link back to that also in future.
Can we make statistics widget like in the picture its showing by giving it any style. If yes it will be used more by our readers. I suggest.
One more thing yar your comment box is pop up why dont you embed it in Blogger. Any specific reasons to it.
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Hi Anshul,
Thanks for your comments and constructive feedback.
The idea of keeping the widget simple is to ensure that the widget fits into the style of the blog. Currently, the widget will synchronize with the theme of the blog. Most of us prefer that, rather than a stand-out design.
Regarding the comment box, I am just a bit lazy to incorporate the embedded box. As I have customized my layout, I need a bit of work to make this work. Thanks anyway for reminding. I will try to implement it soon.
I thought I should make a comment with my new blog.
-John Smith
Hi John Smith,
Thanks for your comments. I just visited your blog.
BlogRush was a good concept, but it simply didn't work well at the end.
Hi Blogging for Novice,
Yes, you are right. The concept is good. But, unfortunately, the clicks were not coming through. It failed somewhere.
"All good things..." as they say...
Yes Dwacon, you are right. Thanks for your comments.
I knew BlogRush wouldn't last long. It just delivered too little traffic.
Hi Leon,
Yes, BlogRush did not deliver what it promised. Too little traffic led to its downfall.
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