Blogrush has made a lot of buzz in the industry lately and a lot of A bloggers have posted about it. By curiosity i have been trying it for a few days and raised about 44,000 credits from which i got 15,000 impressions, but just 8 clicks. That’s not useful at all and until now it seems to be using the space from my sidebar without me earning anything from it.
Today, on the Blogrush website appear an announcement that states the CTR is that low because of the users that cheat the system and will fix the issue shortly.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE: Click- through rates are very low right now due to problems with some users cheating the system. We are a few days away from removing all abuse from the system and you will see your click-rates increase. We are also moving to a Manual Review Process for all member blogs which will also increase the traffic you receive. Thank you for your patience — we’re working hard to improve this beta version of our service.
If you want to try it, feel free to sign up and please tell me your results in a comment. I’m curious if it’s just me or simply the system isn’t working. From as i’ve read, i’m not an isolated case and many bloggers have very low conversions.
I am waiting to see what are they going to do with the cheaters and if they will really improve the CTR. It would be great if they will make it to at least 1%.
You can see my stats, i have 17 referrals that brought me the most of my credits and with a decent CTR, that would be a nice amount of possibly targeted traffic.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:06 am
I’m keeping it for another 1 week, if don’t see any results soon I’ll prolly scrape it.
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:09 am
Been hearing a lot about Blogrush.
September 25th, 2007 at 2:48 am
blogrush has recieved massive hype but everyone is claiming about low ctr, they say ts due to bugs. i think they beter sort it out soon or people will abandon it altogether.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:10 am
I’m just added it for 3 days, then removed it. I got the same problem with you. No conversion to me, It’s just a free ads for blogrush.
September 27th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Meh… it may have a low conversion but then you have to assume that you’re not losing many readers to it either… i think they are working to make things better… I’m not too worried anyway… I think it’s cool
September 28th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
i have joint blog rush too. but till now i don`t see too much traffic comeing to my blog jet, but let`s see how they will to in the next few weeks.
October 14th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
It doesn’t seem to be getting out of beta and i haven’t noticed any improvements yet. I wouldn’t bet on it right now.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Oh it didnt worked for me.. it just wasted my precious space so I removed that in 24 hours……..
January 16th, 2008 at 8:23 am
The traffic from blogrush as you can see is highly inconsistent. Thats why i had to remove the widget from my site. Because it made checking my site performance statistics impossible and inaccurate while i had it. Anyway its good traffic, so well done, those stats look good, apart from the conversions.
Hope all goes well.
Regards Andrew