I'm becoming more and more disillusioned with Blog Rush. The main problem is just not enough clicks. I think I've gotten one click so far and that was after I had my largest day of traffic (basically more traffic in that one day than the rest of the time the site has been up). And I'm not sure I should spend so much effort getting one click when I could easily get much more in so many others ways.
This is part of an email from the CEO:
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ARE YOU READY? Because *everything* is about to change. Forget
everything else up until now...
PREPARE FOR *BIG* CHANGES! (TWO MAJOR CHANGES ARE NOW LIVE.)
BlogRush CAN'T EXIST if we're not sending you a lot of ongoing,
targeted traffic. We fully recognize this and that's why this is our
ONLY FOCUS.
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He sure can hype his widget up. Every single time they take a breath, they act like they've revolutionized the blogosphere.
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We also realize that we completely underestimated the number of
unethical people that would sign up and proceed to CHEAT and try to
'game' the BlogRush system. These cheaters ruined the click-rates of
many of our members (and burned through a lot of their credits using
automated 'exploit' methods) and hurt BlogRush's ability to send
maximum traffic to our honest members' blogs.
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You didn't expect so many unethical people to use your system. Are you kidding??? This is the internet!
My biggest complaint other than the click through rate is that the dashboard has been down fairly often (it's down right now). Also, I know their tracking must be a little bit confused. If I had a certain amount of traffic one day, the next day it will be split between that day and the previous day confusingly.
And one last thing is that I forsee them having problems delivering on all the credits. My credits started stacking up and what I realized is that they can only make good on the impressions if
their traffic stays the same or grows. At least this is how I understand it. With the backlash against the widget, I bet as soon as people start dumping the widget, they will have a very hard time delivering.
They could made improvements, so I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt for now. I'm going to wait it out for a while, but something dramatic would have to happen for me to keep it in the long run.