When I installed the BlogRush widget, Tom Royce teased me that it’s exactly the kind of thing I don’t do. That’s true, and that was why I did it, because, as much as I might trust my instincts about goofy net stunts, it’s always possible that I’m wrong.
Not this time. BlogRush just plain sucks. I’m sure the developers are working gamely to produce the product they should have built before they launched it, but I don’t care. From my end, I rack up thousands of exposures they can never possibly deliver back to me — not that any of those turn into hard clicks anyway. As I might have foreseen, the BlogRush widget is like a commercial on television, instant eye repellant.
It’s off the sidebar. I have a downline of folks who followed me into this maze of twisty, turning passages, all alike, and I leave them to keep their own counsel. BlogRush may be doing something for somebody. It ain’t doing anything for me. And now it’s gone.
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Lani Anglin says:
Dude- I got scooped by one day on the “blog ruck sucks” story 😉 I emailed Blog Rush to give them one last chance to respond but nothing yet….
So far, Blog Rush SUCKS and I want to break up with them.
October 10, 2007 — 10:27 am
Benn says:
I never bothered to pick it up- it’s intrusive, imposing- in the words of Peter Griffin “it simply insists upon itself” and did I mention it’s ugly?
October 10, 2007 — 10:44 am
Moneymonk says:
Blog rush sucks indeed, I gave it a week and it seem like another advertising plug
October 10, 2007 — 10:48 am
Tom says:
I had blogrush on my site but the feed broke and after a couple of unanswered emails I took it off. Oh, well…
October 10, 2007 — 12:53 pm
Doug Quance says:
You see… there IS some benefits to not being an early adopter…
😆
October 10, 2007 — 1:16 pm
Jay Thompson says:
I would tell you what my BlogRush click-through rates are, but, well, that feature is still broken…
I read yesterday that they are going to be monitoring “widget performance” and will be booting members that have low performance. In other words, they are practically dictating WHERE on your blog you place their widget.
No one, I mean no one tells me where to put something on my blog.
I meant to remove it last night after I read this news.
Thanks for the reminder.
October 10, 2007 — 2:37 pm
Stacey says:
I tried Blogrush for one hour before I took it off. I’m new to the blogging world and thought it would be useful but it just wasted my time.
April 4, 2008 — 7:07 pm
Heather Rankin says:
Ok – Lesson learned today. Before installing ANYTHING else on my blog I am going to search here first. ( See Trulia Widget now in trash)
Blog Rush sounded kinda cool but I don’t see the benefit other than to click away from my site – loosing my stickiness. There is more, but I’ll stop here….
May 14, 2008 — 7:53 pm