Was Your Blog Banned from Blogrush?
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Did you wake up this morning with an email in your inbox entitled “Your BlogRush Account Is Now INACTIVE”? According to BlogRush about 10,000 + blogs have been eliminated from their “quality control” sweep. I’m not sure who is on the quality inspection team at BlogRush but it seems that a lot of blog owners are getting the axe when they may not deserve to.
“We regret to inform you that your BlogRush Account has been made INACTIVE because your blog did not pass our Quality Review criteria. You will find instructions below for making your account active again.”
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for quality control in a widget thats “supposed” to bring you a rush of traffic (i have yet to see that affect), but in order to get traffic you need to have traffic viewing the widget. I understand that there were certainly blogs that were offending the system, but I’ve repeatedly heard from other blog owners they got the boot, and they’ve got decent blogs.
One of the things that drives me nutts about BlogRush’s “Quality Control” team is the email they put out to inform you that you’ve been delisted from the BlogRush database. Coming from a quality control team this isn’t the best way to word things:
“The blog’s primary contain must be in English. BlogRush is currently not available for non-English blogs.”
Spellcheck much?
Anyway, I’m giving BlogRush two weeks or so more and then I’m giving them the axe. I’ve had it up for about a month or so now and have seen little in the way of click throughs, not to mention slow loading times. Oh and least I forget, their reports STILL don’t work. There is a lot to be said for stress testing, and fully developing a product before releasing it to the public.
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Marko Novak said:
I removed BlogRush widget long time ago. Well, not so long but still.
I think they’re one of the most unprofessional teams on the web. Promises, promises and only promises. When they deliver,…if they deliver, I’ll think about it but for now, no way!
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:42 pm -
Edward Khoo said:
BlogRush doesn’t give much traffic, even big players such as Darren also mentioned that they get a few clicks from BlogRush
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:53 am
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