BlogRush
September 20, 2007
I’m experimenting with a few different things on my blog and one of them is BlogRush. You can go here and watch a screencast of how it works, but basically it adds a widget to your blog (which you can see on the right hand side - anyone using Internet Explorer 6.0? Is it messing the sidebars up?), with links to various blogs that are supposedly in the same category as your blog. It’s basically a pretty sweet set-up for link sharing that may potentially give your blog a ton of exposure. I haven’t used BlogRush enough to fully understand the statistics it’s showing me, but I think that my blog is doing pretty well with it. I normally get around 600-800 unique hits a day, with around 1000 total hits. After installing BlogRush, I’ve seen those stats rise. My first day after signing up with BlogRush, I had 927 unique hits and 1303 total hits.
Anyway - it’s free and it’s a good way to possibly build some new traffic to your site. Give it a shot and let me know what you think.
Problogger has a few good posts about BlogRush and how you can best utilize its power to help your blog succeed. Check them out below:
- BlogRush First Impression Review
- Tips for Using BlogRush most effectively
- A Look at BlogRush Statistics
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: I am a 28 yr old 
September 20th, 2007 at 11:07 am
adam, i’m signing up, and i came back here to link (if I can find it) so you could get a referral credit!
September 20th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Im at work and we use windows 6.0 here. Your entire side bar is flipped and located on the bottom… and it extended the page. :-(
September 20th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Adam,
I had been invited to do this myself and did it. The one thing that proved difficult was finding the feed url that’s asked for. I finally found it, but it was difficult to figure out. Since you know this stuff better than many of us — how best do we do this?
September 20th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Looks okay in IE 7.0
September 21st, 2007 at 12:24 am
I found this link in your sidebar:
http://www.faithprogression.com
Looks like he’s a postmodern, long-blogging, friend of emergent, computer geek, environmentalist and peace advocate…if that’s not targeted marketing, I don’t know what is!
September 21st, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Thanks for linking over to my site at faithprogression.com. I hope the Blogrush traffic will create some new connections. I’ve noticed that that content is not always well “targeted”, but hopefully it will get better.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Attempted to add it to my WordPress blog, with no success. Followed the screencast walk-through, down to the letter. The code I paste into the sidebar widget seems to disappear after I close the widget box.
Are you familiar with the WordPress setup? Or, can you recommend any BlogRush-ers that made it work in WordPress?
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Signed up. Thanks so much, Adam. Haven’t been visiting as much as I should like, hope to do better. Take care, and have a good semester.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:57 am
I have the same problem as Russell Duren. It seems like a cool thing to add but I’m not able to do it with Wordpress. ?