Dear John Reese,
I enrolled “The Knitting Fiend” in the “hobby” category of Blogrush after reading your twin promises to:
- to drive tons of targetted traffic to my knitting blog and
- help me introduce my readers to quality blogs in my niche.
Now, I’m a bit surprised by what Blogrush considers a “hobby”. Take a look what that widget that displayed today! Does Free Playtex Gentle Glide mean what I think it means? !
Why yes, it does!
John, tampons are not a hobby. Neither are “Free COTTONELLE FRESH® Flushable Moist Wipes Walmart Sample”; that was the topic of the most recent blog post.
But, I bet that’s just a fluke, right? So, I clicked Jergen’s Product Samples.
If I scroll down, I find links to obtain free samples of various hand lotions. Yes, this is a “blog” that is nothing but affiliate links to get free samples.
Other Entries
The other three listed blogs were about a) scrapbooking, b) magic tricks c) some sort of creative writing. These are hobbies and probably interest someone, but probably not knitters.
Frankly John, the “Tampon Blog” and the “HandLotion” blog are businesses that should be paying for advertising through some program like PPP, ReviewMe, PayU2Blog, TLA or what not. They are not “interesting” content any blogger hopes to find through Blogrush.
I know you plan to improve things. In the meanwhile, my answer to Josh, who asks How is BlogRush Going For You? is, “not so great!”
The Blogrush widget has been removed from my knitting blog. I don’t even want that in my footer; not even if I can use Steve’s plugin to handle slow loading widgets. I may, however, test out BlogRush Click Maximizer here at Big Bucks Blogger. ( Hat tip to RT Cunningham for finding this. )
As for my knitting blog: I’m perfectly willing to give Blogrush another chance after your programmers actually add the new, more relevant categories and remove the splogs and remove “The Tampon Blog” from the Blogrush hobbies category.
Let me know when you’ve got this working.
Haha… I know. I didn’t get any traffic for 1, and I got sick and tired of all the stupid splog spam stinking up my site myself.
Sure tampons are a hobby. You can build little castles with them.
I just sent you a little traffic to make up for it
The Click Maximizer seems similar to something Mark knocked up at SmoMashup
i noticed a lot of non English sites popping up the first few days after i put the widget on my site, i still see some non relevant sites but most of the headlines now are pretty good.
I agree this is really confusing. I recommended BlogRush to a friend and I’ve seen her post at least 3 times in the widget but have never seen one of mine or do I show that anyone came from Blogrush from my StatCounter statistics. When I click through a url on the widget about half the time, it doesn’t have the widget on it’s site so why not? I’m just very confused about these instances. If anyone has any answers, please post them. Thanks, ns
My prediction is that we’ll see more and more bloggers pull this useless splog engine from their sites. It’s a non-income producing waste of space plus they’re insisting that you put it above the fold else you’ll be kicked out of the program. No thanks, I don’t want it.
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