Did you come to see whether I am talking about your brokerage?
Or a multi-level marketing system you are involved in?
I am of course talking about BlogRush.com Lots of people are saying BlogRush is a pyramid scheme.
I blogged about BlogRush on ActiveRain and my real blog ColumbusBestBlog.com. I have a nice little pyramid base of my own to balance my ancient Egyptian burial structure on.
Pyramid Scheme according to Wikipedia: "A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, usually without any product or service being delivered."
There is no money involved on BlogRush.com so the claim it is a pyramid scheme misses on that front. The without any product or service being delivered remains to be seen. Jeff Reese who is BlogRush has has admitted there are problems.
BlogRush is not going to work for most of us in real estate as developed. Real Estate is local... I am not going to get traffic from buyers who want to buy in Kansas, New Mexico, Florida, California etc. We all knew that before we started the test of BlogRush didn't we?
Todd Carpenter warns that people could click off your blog before they decide you are the one to buy or sell real estate with. Of course they can. Are they going to click off my wonderful content for a blog about Luxury homes in Florida or FSBO's in Canada? They could.
I have to kind of laugh at Teri L's entry about getting traffic the old fashioned way. "What's the Rush? Or, why I'll get my hits the old-fashioned way- I'll earn them. (Members Only) Yeah, I'm just one of those crappy bloggers hoping for BlogRush to get me lots of traffic on my blog since there's no content there.
I think the one click Teri sees in her MyBlogLog.com is me coming over to see if she was one of the bloggers who put the widget on and then removed it. To check if she is one of the bloggers where the feed is showing up without having the widget on her blog. I took the opportunity while I was there to look to see if there was any new content to read... no not really. Oh well Teri is on my blogroll I'll just keep checking back for updated content. Or I won't.
There is potential in the idea behind the BlogRush widget. I want a widget with Columbus content only, Columbus sports blogger, Columbus food bloggers, Columbus political bloggers (while I won't put them on my blogroll, I would put them on a widget but that is a whole 'nother discussion.) Not other local real estate content and not non local real estate content. Yes I have the food, sports etc. bloggers on my blogroll, yes I read the Columbus bloggers on my blog reader but it would help my readers find their great content (or not) if there was an RSS feed when their blogs are updated. That's what I want in a syndication widget.
A widget like BlogRush with current feeds from local bloggers would take up a lot less space in a sidebar than my current blogroll does. Readers looking for local content would only have to click on headlines that interest them. The reader does not actually click away from the blog. Can they leave my blog? Of course they can.
The good news from BlogRush... They'll soon have different flavors of the widget (colors)
The bad news from BlogRush These are my stats:
Activity By Generation
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This part... is sad. Over the weekend Jay Thompson wrote he'd had two clicks and that is twice my clicks
Syndication Activity
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So no, there is not any rush of traffic coming from BlogRush. If you have not put it on you are not missing out on anything other than an opportunity to learn about widgets, RSS, syndication, networking and people like Jeff Reese. Can you keep your blog pretty, pristine and widgetless and learn as much? We'll see.
Darren Rowse of Problogger.com has blogged about BlogRush three times. Rowse does not have the widget on ProBlogger but he does have it on other blogs and he is disappointed...with the traffic. I think he said he'd had 35 clicks.
Find New Readers for Your Blog BlogRush First Impression Review
Tips For Using Blogrush to Generate Traffic For Your Blog
What Are Your BlogRush Statistics Like?
Rowse wrote: "On the negative side - while my headlines have been shown around 70,000 times I've only had 35 clicks on them. That is an extremely low Click Through Rate of 0.05%! I didn't expect it to be high but thought it might have got somewhere in the 1% range (which would have brought in 700 clicks from the 70,000 - but this is pretty disappointing."
He's disappointed, one click... darn.. I am going to have to earning my traffic the "old-fashioned way...." writing good content... oh noooooooooooo...
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