John Reese has just officially launched BlogRush, a free blog widget that will promote your blog posts on related blogs across the internet.
This just launched today, September 15th 2007, and if you blog you'll want to sign up right away and add the code to your blog ASAP.
It is free to register your blog in the network and add the widget, and the key to getting loads of free traffic from this is to get in early...
BlogRush is a viral blog marketing tool that will display relevant blog posts in a small widget that you place in your sidebar. Its easy to set up, with a short piece of copy & paste code. You can see an example in the sidebar here at ClickNewz.
Each time the widget is viewed on your blog, you earn "points" towards getting your blog posts displayed on other relevant blogs in the blogosphere. You'll also earn views when new people sign up for BlogRush by clicking on the widget (ie your referrals).
When one of your visitors clicks on one of the links in the BlogRush widget, that blog post opens in a new window. So you arent losing any traffic, and you stand to gain a lot of new traffic.
You earn views up to 10 levels deep, so the key is to get in NOW 😉
To get a better idea of how BlogRush works, and why you will want to add this to your blog, see the video at the BlogRush site.
I'll be testing this widget here at ClickNewz, as well as on other blogs (in various niches) and will report back on the success of this tool as a means of successfully promoting blogs. With the name John Reese behind it, and the viral marketing potential during this launch phase, I have no doubt it will make 'blogosphere history'...
This is my personal referral link: http://www.blogrush.com/r20218464. If you havent already signed up for your account, sign up here and now. There is no money involved - just clicks, referrals and traffic for everyone!
Best,
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Hi
I tried to register, and stumble on the "feed" box. I tried with my url, but it didn't work. could you pls assist me?
thanks
Emrick
Hi Emrick,
Use your feedburner Feed URL:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BestYourLife
That should work 😉
Thanks for the heads up on this. I was looking for something to replace Real Traffic Exchange, the Jon Leger program. I like that this is a sidebar widget and the use of post title, very different.
Great! It's a really neat little social networking tool. I find myself checking it each time I'm viewing a page on my own blog - and have clicked through several times to interesting posts. Loving it so far!
Hey Lynn,
Glad to see you're joining the blog rush. 🙂 I was a little late to the ballgame, but actually ended up doing a couple WordPress video tutorials for anyone who's trying to add the widget to their blog.
Just curious, though, did you have any problems? When I clicked on the link stating that I'd added the code to my blog, I continued to receive an error saying, "please add the code to your blog". I chalked it up to growing pains, but now I'm beginning to wonder.
~ Teli
No, it actually worked without a hitch for me - no problems at all on this end!
Thanks Lynn,
useful info from you ..
tq 🙂 !!
- Shueqry -
Thanks Lynn for sharing this new tool. I had to signup and have added it to two of my blogs so far. Looks like its a good one!
You're welcome 🙂 I'm looking forward to following the stats when they update. Should be interesting!
Lynn...
Thank you for the heads up. I just finished adding the BlogRush to my blog without a hitch. If you visit my blog you may find the text of the new entry very familiar.
George
You're most welcome!
But that is copyright infringement, you know 😉
I'm surprised at how many blogs are already using this widget. I am curious to see how this works out. Hope it brings as much traffic as it says... we'll see!
Lynn,
I've been trying to register, but can't locate the place to do that.
Can you advise?
Thanks!
Lynn, howa ya?
Thanks for the info..looking forward to add on my blog soon.
I think it was cool, if john allow us to customized the color..what do u think?
Thanks, Lynn. It looks like a winner!
Hi Laurie,
The button to register is right below the video on this page: http://www.blogrush.com/r20218464
Yep - this one is a really good one from John - it's awesome that he's thought of this and actually done it...
Just as an aside - I registered without a problem except for when you do the last submission it goes to a page with a lot of code on it (teething problems I presume). In that case all you need to do is delete the URL up to its previous directory and refresh your screen - and you'll get back into your dashboard.
Hope that helps a little, although I'm sure these will be ironed out soon.
Lynn,
It looks like he has replaced the original page with another one. I don't see a video or a place to register.
How strange... I'm still seeing it on my end 😕
Funny that you came to my blog through the widget on your site...only to read my post about Blog Rush.
Last night, a new reader commented on my blog that they came over from here and are now my subscriber. Thanks!
Sweet 😀
Lynn,
I did get registered. I actually had to go to another page - settings - to add my blog.
One more question - does our referral link come automatically in the blog rush link at the bottom? Or do we have to change it somehow?
Thanks!
Nope, it will track referrals automatically! 😉
Great! Thank you.
That's a nice way to get some traffic. Thanks for the link!
I had problems loading it, too, Teli.
The instructions are easy to follow but the code just doesnt stick in there. Am waiting for a repsonse from BlogRush to see if they can help - no reply yet.
I see the value in blog traffic, obviously, but am not sure about linking to other blogs that could actually offer a competitive service to me - I wouldn't add their links to my site after all. What does everyone else think about this?
Hi Tash,
The links open in a new window. Also, check out my tips on social networking: http://www.clicknewz.com/social-networking/ 😉