Enough is enough! Get OVER it! The hype-train for BlogRush has hit a frenzied pace as well-known bloggers post about the new traffic driving "service." Derek Semmler’s post summarizes.
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make it stopppppppppppppppppppp
Aaaaarrghhhhhhhh! This is the already the 29th topic about blogrush posted to sphinn in only the last 6 days (and 28th in the last 4 days; the first post was 2 days ahead of the pack). This is only the fifth of those to Go Hot: two of those were Pro and two were Anti. This is my only post on the topic, and quite frankly I am fed up with hearing about it. This has to be the most hyped non-event of the year. It is interesting to see the hype, quickly followed by the disappointment: http://sphinn.com/search.php?search=blogrush . If this were a forum, the 29 topics would have been merged and combined down into several long threads. It is a shame that feature isn’t available here.
Didn’t you just add to the noise with this post?
I think BlogRush just had the MOST meteoric rise in web history AND THEN the MOST meteoric crash in web history. (I’m completely guessing.) In the meantime, though, for a service/site that just launched 6 days ago they got just about everyone in the blogosphere to talk about them and, more importantly, to link to them!
Damn, and here was me just about to post about how the credit allocation really works, proof of the traffic that smaller blogs receive, and even my complete referrer stats which are all quite interesting... None of the posts with constructive information about Blogrush from the positive side have reached the front page. There was one neutral, and one direct link. The funny thing is I have built up 2000 subscribers from those little trickles of traffic mainly from MBL, Blogcatalog and Bumpzee Sure I gain some small surges of traffic from Stumbleupon (thanks guys) and Sphinn, but a great deal of the people casting the votes I had already encountered from the smaller networks. I wouldn’t call this the most meteoric rise, the same people have done it before promoting Stompernet and a number of other packages. From what I have seen, the mass emails haven’t yet gone out about DealDotCom, expect that to spike when they do. Blogrush helps small bloggers more than the big bloggers.
I don’t think BlogRush was designed to go further then the initial buzz. Any decent developer would have done it differently + different visual themes and so on. If it’s not commercial it’s cr4p and it’s proven once more. And maybe, as I mentioned in my post on BlogRush (every1 did one), there might have been more to it then meets the eye. Like building some link juice on a domain or rerouting some traffic. Trust not the free tools from the marketing gurus! ;)
Andy, It is the DEBATE which is the waste. We should all be doing keyword research for our clients or something. :)