Hi John Reese,
I read your you plan to kick out bloggers who place widgets in the footer because you think we are cheaters.
John, your reaction shows you aren’t reading the blogs I read. “Cheating” is not the main reason why Blogrush widgets are often found in the footer. If you understand the main reason, you’ll be able to help bloggers, and improve Blogrush.
Do you want to know why the Blogrush Widget is in my footer?
I moved the widget to the footer because it often loads s__l__o__w__l__y and causes my sidebars to hang. ( I complained about this here. You’ll find Steve Cronin also moved the widget to the footer because it often loads s__l__o__w__l__y . I’m sure if you search a bit more, you’ll find other bloggers who have done the same. )
John, if you aren’t noticing the issue, it’s because you have a consistent, high speed connection. My service from Comcast is finicky.
I’m planning to fix my sidebars to deal with slow loading widgets.
Unfornately, fixing the sidebars will involve CSS; which I’m terrible at. Also, revamping my theme to compensate for slow loading widgets is not a high priority, particularly since the Widget seems to send 0.22% of my total traffic.
I prefer to spend time writing my own pillar content which I think will attract much, much more traffic than Blogrush.
Here’s what you, John Reese, could do to help me, other bloggers, and Blogrush.
It appears you think you can best fix this by threatening us, and kicking us out for placing the code in the footer. Of course, you can do that. But that would reduce the reach of Blogrush.
So, in the spirit of cooperation, might I suggest a fair solution that would help us all?
Could you, or your company post a tutorial on how to correct our themes to prevent Blogrush from interfering with our page loads? This would help you; it would help me. It would help Blogrush.
After you post this tutorial, could you send us a nice email us so we can read that post?
Sincerely,
The reason my BlogRush widget is at the bottom of my sidebar is because it send me a whopping 14 clicks out of over 5000 impressions. Even with the widgets low down it should be delivering more clicks than that. If thats all the traffic I’m going to get from it, it’s not getting a prime spot in my screen real estate.
I’ve seen quite a lot do this already, either move it into the footer or place it at the bottom of their sidebar. It makes me wonder whether those guys behind blogrush actually read what people say about their product on the net, with so much things going wrong you’d expect them to at least get a hunch of it… right?
Personally I have my doubts on the survival of blogrush at all, but even if it does with the current state of things it probably wouldn’t really be worth to start with before the year change; there’s just so much they still have to work on before it’s truly ready.
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