My Comments and Observations About BlogRush
A new service that promises increased traffic to your blog, BlogRush, is gaining an incredible amount of buzz. In theory this little widget is a great idea, but as others are noting there are a lot of questions and a lot that could be fixed. We decided to try it out on here, and we’ll see how it goes. My top 3 observations and first impressions are:
1. It will benefit the larger blogs that already have tons of traffic and leave the smaller blogs behind. The system is designed to help blogs that have more traffic by giving them more impressions. I think this is a huge flaw that will deter many small blog owners from signing up.
2. Being able to customize the widget to our site design would be a great addition. It wouldn’t surprise me if this is a change that will come in a future version. Even just changing the colors, like Adsense lets you, would be an improvement.
3. I can definitely see this benefiting smaller niche markets that don’t have blogging “powerhouses.” When everyone is on a more level playing field, more bloggers will see the benefit.
More updates on BlogRush to come after we start to see if this service actually works for us or not.
