Do You Make These Blog Rush Mistakes?
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There’s no question in my mind that Blog Rush is a great service - which is going to succeed in a big way.
Having said that, those who use Blog Rush will not necessarily gain much value from it - because they don’t understand how Blog Rush fits into their Business Blogging Strategy.
So let me break down what Blog Rush does, and then, how to gain maximum benefit from it.
First of all, Blog Rush is clearly a part of a traffic generation strategy. Not to be confused with lead generation. Lead generation is what you do once you get the traffic - but you have to gain people’s attention FIRST.
To get someone’s attention with Blog Rush, the primary thing you need to do is write COMPELLING 7 WORD HEADLINES (or approximately no more than 40 characters including spaces). This guarantee’s your whole headline will be syndicated in Blog Rush’s widget without getting cutoff.
Several common mistakes I’ve seen already is people who are:
- Writing LONG headlines which get cutoff before you can understand the topic of the post.
- Crafting headlines which only make sense if you’ve read the post before you’ve read the headline.
- Not taking the time to create interesting headlines that people care about.
To write a good “I’VE GOTTA READ THAT” Blog Rush headline, you must follow these simple rules:
- Keep it simple. Don’t use “slash” multi word variations of the same thing like “authority/expert”. This is not only confusing to read, but it also takes up valuable character space.
- Appeal to everyone’s ADD. People are clicking on Blog Rush story links because they are goofing off and want to be distracted. So play to that and write things that sound juicy and entertaining.
- Never forget that everyone cares about themselves. Try and make all your headlines relevant to the readers self interest. People who want to be distracted can then rationalize that they are REALLY learning something if they click on a link which is supposedly work related *wink* *wink*
- Don’t lie in your Blog Rush headline. People will not only hit the “back” button faster then greased lightning if your story doesn’t deliver on what the headline promised, but they will be FAR LESS LIKELY to click on your future headlines.
Ok, so once you’ve gotten some traffic from Blog Rush, you want to turn that traffic into leads. That is, people who keep reading your blog and eventually buy something from you.
Sadly this is much harder than it sounds. As most people who are successful with social “stimulus” media will attest, many people who read your story are Social Media Stimulation Sluts who will be off to get their next hit before you can get the words “RSS Button” out of your mouth.
So, we must play to the readers stimulus seeking nature to keep them on our own blogs.
To do this, we need two things:
- The “Related Posts” Plugin, and
- Other Post “Crack” (like the drug “Crack”) stories.
If you follow the same formula I just gave you on how to write Blog Rush headlines, to write your Blog Headlines, you’ll be going in the write (hehe cheesy I know) direction. Some more places to get good headline idea’s is This Gary Halbert Newsletter.
Then, just keep going at it until you get traction.
Also, in closing here are some other mistake’s to avoid:
- Don’t make your blog’s advertising look like The Strip on Vegas. It pisses people off and keeps them from liking you as they feel you are putting your revenue ahead of your usefulness.
- Don’t offer paid blog reviews. Seriously I can’t understand why people do this. It makes you look like a prostituting beggar who is unable to monetize with something legitimate.
- Don’t put the Blog Rush widget above your own site’s navigation. If you can’t understand why, you’re beyond my help.
- Get rid of those RIDICULOUS social media links at the bottom of every post. The only people who have the power to get any of your posts ranking well in Social Media Networks don’t need the little buttons to do it. If they think you’re worthy, they’ll submit regardless. And those 2 Diggs you got could have been other actions which resulted in a MUCH BIGGER payoff. It’s a waste of blog real estate to have those buttons.
Hope you found that helpful 
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September 18th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Very helpful information for all bloggers to take to heart. Thanks a bunch!
September 18th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
I’m wondering about the content areas/topics that BlogRush is using. I’d love to see some stats on the clickthrough rates in different topic areas. I’d guess that “Entertainment” will have a very different rate than “Financing and Investing” will.
Your last paragraph “If you found this page useful…” is that created by a plugin, or by you simply entering that text into each blog entry?
September 18th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Great tips - I linked to your post in my Top 10 Blog Traffic Tips post
Thanks.
Steve
September 18th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Okay - what if you want to use Blog Rush to get really targeted readers and you are not interested in the SMSS readers? Would you suggest a different strategy for the headlines? Like really descriptive of the content? I know you implied that also but I would rather have fewer clicks from truly interested readers.
September 18th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Great info,
Who are you again?
September 18th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Thanks for the tips. The sites in the network are from the cat/tag they chose? not our content, right? I chose technology, for obvious reasons and when i viewed the widget, the first link was the words “boob” repeating and the last link was in the chinese font or something? i added the word to the filters etc - but i’m hoping i won’t have too in the future? We’ll be testing this week to see if we keep this - but so far so good - the concept is great.
September 18th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Great post - Thanks for the tips. I Think i’ve got it right.
Oooop’s sorry, I ment to say excellent blog. subscribed to rss feed.
September 18th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
wow - you know your blog is going to be pretty popular soon? I got here from BR when my stats are finally up!
September 18th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
How are you guys doing with traffic flowing in from Blog Rush? Anyone seeing anything remotely phenomenal?
AskTheAdmin.Com
September 18th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Good tips, but I’m also seeing a lot of spam on there. Seems like 30-50% of posts that appear are SEO or Spam related.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Excellent tips - thanks a million! (I like the clean fresh look & feel of your blog, btw).
Yay, I think BlogRush is a genius win-win-win concept. I’ve got the widget far down on the right on my blog… why take the reader off the page when they only just got there.
BTW, I just posted a link to this post on my Facebook profile.
Interesting comment you made about all the social bookmarking gizmos… makes sense.
Cheers,
Mari
Mobile Lifestyle Blog: http://tyandmari.com
September 18th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Just starting out.Thanks for the timely info.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
I couldn’t agree more about the social media buttons. If Stumbleupon, Digg, Reddit etc users see your info, find it worthy, they know what to do.
To me super clean websites are key.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
i try to write headlines that are appealing, similar to what you have stated. thx for the info nonetheless.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Thanks for the tips. I am terrible at writing interesting post titles.
I definitely agree with keeping ads to a minimum. It’s what I’ve been trying to do and I think at least my site isn’t so cluttered.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Good tips, especially writing the post titles. My titles are often misleading or ambiguous. I try to imagine that the audience has no idea and sum up the main point in a few choice words.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Snowboardjohn
Thanks for the usfl tips about BlogRush, I startd using it but did not see the restriction on the headline text. I also think it is a great service and will be a hugh success
LG
September 18th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
The widget no longer works with WordPress….they only accept javascrpit from yahoo and google……help
September 18th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Wow, excellent post! I enjoy reading your blog and have subscribed to it. I’ll keep your tips in mind.
Keep up your great blogging!
September 18th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
A 5 stars tips.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Hi there my widget is not working and yes I have watched the video’s so many times they are imprinted in my brain…….done everything correctly and it is still not working…..I just get a white box with Invalid Url in the top left hand corner.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
I think this is gonna be huge.
I passed this on to a friend online and my hits went from 200 plus per day to over 900 today!
Three signups to my forum just from this!
Wow!
What a smokin product.
And to think its FREE ?
They Must Be Outta Thier Minds I tell You! OUTTA THIER MIIIINDS!
But I like it.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Great common sense tips that anyone running a blog should be using if they’ve put the BlogRush code on their blog.
I for one am looking forward to new twists that will help bring in more traffic.
Some monetization on a blog is ok but there are a lot of them that are just overboard with it. Keep it clean and relevant is the best….
Ed
September 18th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Excellent tips - especially about keeping the title to 7 words - 40 characters.
After looking at the blogs I installed the BlogRush widget in (all WordPress blogs and all working fine with BlogRush) and seeing how most of the titles appear, I couldn’t agree more - it’s so obvious, yet it needed to be pointed out.
Another thing it made me realize is that I need to go back to the control panel and change the Blog Title so that it also creates “click appeal”.
Thanks for the great tips and keep snowboarding!
Martin
September 19th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Hey Snowboardjohn, thanks for the great post… I’ll link to you when I write about BlogRush - which is an amazing tool BTW. I’m having good success already and have had 3 referral signups today at my other blog! Can’t wait to add it to all my blogs!
Here’s a post I wrote that may add to what you’re trying to convey here: 3 Great Tips for Writing a Winning Blog Post.
Thanks again!
September 19th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Great post :D!
September 19th, 2007 at 12:30 am
There is no feature in the program for correcting or deleting any blogs that one may wish to change or delete.
Also how does one use this with Squidoo as they do not accept scripts.
September 19th, 2007 at 12:32 am
There *really* needs to be a way to delete or pause a blog!
As far as I can see, once you add a blog there is no way to remove it.
If anyone has found a way to do this please post the instructions.
Thanks!
September 19th, 2007 at 1:11 am
I agree. I personally have ahd good luck getting my keyword right up front in the headline and ending up on page one of Google for that keyword. Good artle!
September 19th, 2007 at 1:49 am
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September 19th, 2007 at 1:50 am
I published the BlogRush widget on my blog but a small part of it seems cut off from view. I have a Typepad blog with one of their 3 column templates which I really like. Do I have to change templates or can I somehow adjust the widget so that it doesn’t look cut off. Thanks for any advice.
September 19th, 2007 at 2:17 am
@ Michael Clark: I use the “Subscribe Remind” plugin - just google it to find it.
@ Steve Young: Thanks for the link
@ Karen Davis: I know what you’re saying, but, for something like Blog Rush, you need to understand the context the tool is operating in. The potential readers are unlikely to be attracted to something that isn’t “Bright & Shiny”. I think your question is a good one though, and I will write a post about this soon with more specific guidelines.
@ Debo: You can read more about me here: http://www.snowboardjohn.com/about/
@ Mari Smith: Thanks for the Facebook link
@ Sharon Whelan: I’m not sure why you would be having this problem - it works fine with my wordpress blog.
@ Karen: I’m not sure about Typepad - this sort of thing could be addressed by my bud Chris over at http://www.solotechnology.com/blog/
September 19th, 2007 at 2:28 am
DO you have a plugin for Blogger? Not all of us use WP as our blogging platform.
Thankx!
September 19th, 2007 at 2:39 am
@ RMStringer: Blogger doesn’t have plugins. Wordpress is the easiest to use blogging platform simply because of all the great plugins it has.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:01 am
Great post about blogging.
I will definitely subscribe to your RSS feeds and also link to your post when I write about BlogRush!
September 19th, 2007 at 3:31 am
WordPress.com will not let me use the javascript in my widget..
I’m bummed out
September 19th, 2007 at 3:32 am
Great tips. They prove their worth even if there was no such thing as BlogRush. Creating interesting titles, packed with keywords, is a sure fire way to get read; like you said, just make sure your article and title are about the same things.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:34 am
Great tips and will explore how Blog Rush works.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:45 am
SBJ, Thanks for the timely tips.
Greatly appreciated.
Keep em coming!
Thad
September 19th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Great information. This tool sounds super but as you say, it helps to know how to optimize its usefulness. Thanks!
September 19th, 2007 at 5:19 am
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September 19th, 2007 at 6:18 am
Great tips. Keep up the good work. Thanks.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:50 am
PLEASE HELP……..I blog with iblog.co.za and my widget is still not working……
http://www.inthebedroomwithsally.iblog.co.za/
September 19th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Like Sharon. I too have problem with the code. It showed up as “invalid link”. Where is Your widget? Couldn’t see it here. Does the problem lies with the choice of theme. Can you or anyone show how to make the widget work and how and where to place it.
I tried the sidebar.php of my blog and also post the code as a posting. Both showed invalid url or link.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:22 am
I use Blogger and had no problem installing Blogrush, and I’m severly technically challenged! Go to Layout and then Add Page Element. Choose HTML/Java box and drop the code in! So easy even a caveman could do it! LOL
Great tips and thanks for sharing! Will definitely remember them from now on when creating headlines for my posts.
Honey
September 19th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Great tips… makes me wonder if I should have those social linking buttons on my posts. They never worked so far.
I hope BR can allow us to customize the widget though…
September 19th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Thanks for this. I’ll give it a shot. I’ve only had 3 click-throughs so far and I had over 600 in credit.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:51 am
saw my stats for the first time today since inserting the code on Monday. Havent had much success so far but then i didn’t expect much to happen so soon. I have read the reviews and this post so i’m determind to follow the advice in this post and see if i notice any change in the weeks to come.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:52 am
I tried posting but it won’t work.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:56 am
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September 19th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Good article. Nothing like common sense
Interesting take on the social bookmarking links. I am pretty new to this and was thinking of adding those or not. lol
September 19th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
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September 19th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Your code:
Do You Make These Blog Rush Mistakes?
at teh bottom of your post, in the box is shooting out of the main column. Need to adjust the width a bit. Is that a plugin? If so, which one? And the subscribe to comments plugin would be very nice for you now, as you have been bombed with comments. Cheers!
September 19th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Great informative article! Will definitely remember them from now on when creating headlines for my posts.
Also, you made me wonder if I should include those social boomarking links. Can’t figure out if it working for me.
Thanks, again!
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September 19th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
I installed Blogrush yesterday and signed up for “news” category, which really isn’t an accurate description of Right Truth. Neither is “politics”. I write on Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and there’s no category for that. So far the articles I’ve seen highlighted in the Blogrush widget have nothing whatsoever to do with my site and what I write. What can I do?
September 19th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
BlogRush stats now live…
The BlogRush system is now working so members can see their stats and try to make some sense of what’s going on. Here’s what my dashboard looks like: This shows how many credits I’ve earned from impressions of the widget…
September 19th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
I am trying to put my widget into type pad - having been watching the videos and all I can find is the affiliate link but no widget to copy and best and NO HELP LINE - can anyone help?
September 19th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I installed the BlogRush widget and will see what happens. Anyway after reading your tips it is clear that I have some work to be done. Thanks for the great tips!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
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September 19th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Thanks for the tips. I installed last night and I’ve seen a couple hits come my way so far. We’ll see how it goes, but I’ll probably keep it up.
September 19th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Thanks for the tips. I have been meaning to clean up my site and now I know the best way to do it.
September 19th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Signing up for Blogrush in General is a mistake.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
I am not sure i agree with the comment about social media buttons.
Many people, including myself, use them as a way to manage interesting content i want to refer back to. I also use them because people who visit my social media space may also like them. Thats the point.
Keep them there people. You wont loose any adsense clicks or affiliate sales. In fact, you will get more.
Content is king. Focus on the content and let your users decide whats good or bad about the other things / widgets / stuff you have on site.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Just one more thing, what this Snowboard guy says that i totally AGREE with is the ‘related posts link’ plugin. That is an absolute must for every blog. It works, its a bit clunky, in that you have to save your post first, then go back to editing it to see the ‘related links’ menu, but it is manageable. It really gives a site a nice, user friendly feel.
Snowboards comments about good headlines are also to be considered when using the related posts plugin.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
i m having this error:
“Invalid URL”
September 19th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
It’s true… you have to write really compelling headlines to catch attention and earn that click. It’s pretty much like pay per click advertising, where your ad copy sucks when you no one clicks your ad… despite the fact that your ads are getting a lot of impressions.
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September 19th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Great stuff and really useful hints though somewhat contentious in parts (that’s their real value). I think some of the principles you have here also apply to people creating and marketing Squidoo lenses. I agree BlogRush has huge potential but we all have to chip in and work out how to make the best use of it. Its viral capacity is incredible - thanks for the heads up on this.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
I have -2 credits left, I don’t quite understand how that works? But the dashboard is showing that it finally gave me traffic - skyrocked from nothing to 36 then from 36 to 72
September 20th, 2007 at 12:23 am
hi i am having my video blog at http://ufoblogger.blogspot.com can you review it and tell me what i need to change to get more traffic
Skywatcher
September 20th, 2007 at 12:37 am
I picked up on TWO things here yesterday AFTER I had left my silly note.
One was like you are all saying HEADLINES are the key.
So I decided to go one step further.
I edited my title to something completely abstract:
You may have seen it>>> “GET IN BED WITH ME
SERIOUSLY!”
Not only did I do that but I noticed snowboarddude hyperlinked ALL his words BLOG and RUSH.
So I rewrote my introduction on my blog hyperlinking the words with certain urls that I want others to visit.
I also highlighted them.
Today both my forum got three signups and one of my affiliate programs got two signups and they have been dead for over a week!
Plus my credits have been going up and down for the last 12 hours between 250-380 average.
Something is working and its NOT my referals because THIER credits are only less then a quarter of my total.
Must be on to something!
September 20th, 2007 at 1:50 am
I have a tutorials site http://www.miraztutorials.com can you suggest how i should word my tutorial titles and maybe what category i should put my site under as i am currently under computers and internet but maybe it should be Art. thanks for any help in advance
September 20th, 2007 at 2:07 am
Do you know if Blogrush always take your most recent post?
If so, that is probably why I have no click throughs since I posted about BlogRush. Yikes, I had better go change that!
September 20th, 2007 at 2:07 am
I have not been able to get the widget to work on my 360 blog. I tried all of the examples, and none worked. Please help. Karen
September 20th, 2007 at 2:22 am
I got to your blog from BR! I have been reading through it off and on all day, you have some great stuff here.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Very good Information, I will refer back to this time and time again. Now I’m off to explore more of the Site.
September 20th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Meh! Why are these people asking for reviews? LOL
September 20th, 2007 at 4:03 am
Well done! Excellent information here. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
September 20th, 2007 at 4:05 am
Blogrush will never succeed, most of the people place it where their vistors see the least, you just get syndication credits but no visitors
September 20th, 2007 at 5:07 am
Thanks for your info. I’m relatively new to blogging and brand new to BlogRush, so I’m going to take all of your suggestions straight to my blog.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:01 am
Blogrush is a great idea, and your emphasis on the headline is ‘critical’.
When I’ve got time spare I do like to Blog-Surf, and there’s nothing more frustrating than going for a headline that’s irrelevent to the blog. (It’s like receiving SPAM headlines).
I only installed Blogrush yesterday on one of my blogs and thoroughly enjoyed refreshing the page to get more and more good blogs up. Just off to put it on my other blogs now.
Pete.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:14 am
Great tips! I just joined BlogRush tonight.
But… can I just keep my Digg button? Just one… please?
September 20th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Thanks for the information. This is really a good tips.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:10 am
I have still not been able to get my widget to work on my iblog.co.za blog…..
September 20th, 2007 at 9:18 am
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September 20th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Wow, that is a lot of syndication credits earned. I have it on my website and the results are positive. http://www.blogrash.com/
I don’t know if it’s just me though, but this is the first time that I’ve heard about this blog rush thing. I’ve checked the blog rush site out and it looks very interesting and it also looks like it will go somewhere.
September 20th, 2007 at 11:44 am
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September 20th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Remember a couple things.
1. You will NOT be earning any PR backlinks from this. it is javascript and Google does not see any links in javascript. Your’e MUCH better off generating real links.
2. Keep track of your own referrers. Don’t blindly trust the things you see. The first thing you’ll notice is your impressions are likely nowhere near your page views. This is typical of any offsite tracking. So that part is normal. but if you want to know how successful something is, track it. I did some looking and in 1 day got 1400 *credits* and 0 incoming hits.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Honestly, this is THE best blog I ever read. I feel like a new blogger.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
ha ha I have a whole lot of work to do !
Thanks for the straight forward advice. You are right about the ugly buttons wedged down there at the bottom - shameful - consider them gone!
September 20th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
I agree with most of what you said.
I am wondering, is there any ‘related Posts’ add-on for blogger? I have not found one. Could you guide me?
September 20th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
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September 20th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
great post with many Blog Rush with hyperlink. I’ve signed up with Blog Rush. What to do after that ? I saw SuccessfulMindset says that we need to install the widget - but where is the widget and how do we get traffic from Blog Rush ? Really confused. Snowboardjohn, pls help.
September 20th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Good stuff. Thanks. Your other post about Tom Cruise and business sanity looks interesting. Go BLOGRUSH!
September 20th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I found your article about Blogrush very interesting,
my only problem now is :
how do I change my ad for Blogrush ?
I do not find anything after login to my account to see and to edit the ad I already submitted.
Thanks for your help, SBJ
September 20th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
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September 20th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Can someone explain how to find the Feed URL so I can submit my blog?
I think I get the other components…
Sorry for the trouble - newbie.
John Barry
September 20th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Thanks for the useful tips. I am sure many bloggers will benefit from your post. By the way I have put a link for you in my blog and a trackback too.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Thanks for the useful guide to getting traffic from BlogRush. Most blog headlines that I come across are excrutiatingly dull. Adding humor into your posts is also a good idea.
I wish everybody great Success with BlogRush
September 20th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Sorry - I am just dumb! Where can I find my wordpress FEED?
September 20th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
I am dumb too. How do I find my feed?
September 20th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Is there a way to see CTR from blog rush or anything… I don’t even know if my headlines are showing or what…
September 20th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Hi Ginene
http://example.com/?feed=rss
http://example.com/?feed=rss2
http://example.com/?feed=rdf
http://example.com/?feed=atom
where “example.com” is your blog URL in WordPress.
For more information, see this page
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds
Hope that helps.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Your letter was very informative but I don’t have a clue as to how to SET UP a BLOG! Any suggestions on how to get started would be appreciated. My husband and I work in the foreclosure market in the Phoenix area and I wondered if blogging would generate any interest, Thank you!
September 20th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
If you want to display spam and irrelevant links on your blog, then BlogRush is the answer!
Haha… unless they implement some sort of Quality Score (a la Google AdWords), this thing will be full of crap. BlogRush shows links from shitty blogs from people who can’t even use a spell checker.
The only winner in this is John Reese.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Has anyone seen an address where one can write to anyone at BlogRush? So far I haven’t.
It appears that THIS blog is someone who has written an article about BlogRush but not BlogRush itself… (good article though, thank you)
I have been enjoying using it, and yes, we’re now seeing it everywhere. My concerns are that the categories need to be adjusted. I have a Personal Development type of blog and there is no clearly defined place to put it and have viable content links come up in BlogRush.
I do appreciate the fact that they’ve sent out some emails.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Don’t know if I’ll get blacklisted by some robot for doing two posts in a row or not…but I think I can answer how to find one’s feed that several people had..
In my service all I had to do was go to the little icon for the RSS feed and right-click on it and then take the properties selection and it showed my feed. It is in a format like: domainname[dot]com/blog/feed Your mileage may vary.
Smiles,
Holly
The Abundance Place
September 20th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
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September 20th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
When the first time i see other blog use blog rush widget.. em it’s look like. So, I put this widget at my weblog diary. It’s cool and funny.
September 20th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
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September 20th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Now I am beginning to learn new things. This is good and great tips and I am going to test them out.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:18 am
Why you keep your BlogRush widget only on main page?
September 21st, 2007 at 2:34 am
Having to keep your headlines within 7 words seems very restrictive.
An A-list blogger like John Chow gets a 0.3% click through rate, what do you think results are like for regular joe bloggers - even if they take your “tips” as gospel?
September 21st, 2007 at 6:45 am
Sweet! Nice post on blog rush
I can see why its included inside the blogrush members area.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Hi thanks for the help…after 5 days of blogrush I have got only 5 clicks! Anyway i hope that with your advices it will get better…
http://www.lucianobove.blogspot.com
September 21st, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Hi, thanks for your advice to create clickable headlines……I will surely test it out on my blog…
September 21st, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Hi,
I install the blogrush in my site http://freebooksstore.com/ and use your tips it had wonderful results.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:46 pm
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September 21st, 2007 at 1:49 pm
I get a white box with “INVALID URL” I took it off my blog for now…
Can someone please HELP????
Email me
davelucas.notes at gmail.com
September 21st, 2007 at 2:31 pm
hey - thanks for that info, very helpful! I love my blogrush! Cant wait to change the color…
September 21st, 2007 at 2:37 pm
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September 21st, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Will try your headline tips. Thanks for the info.
September 21st, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Thanks for the info. I just with Blog Rush so I’ll have to see what happens.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:11 pm
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September 21st, 2007 at 4:22 pm
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September 21st, 2007 at 7:41 pm
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September 22nd, 2007 at 12:48 am
While most of your post here makes sense, I do not know why you cry about people doing paid posts for others. Maybe I didn’t understand correctly and you meant “don’t promote on your blog that you do paid posts”, like placing big fat ads in a sidebar that tells your readers. That I could agree on, however, nothing wrong with writing some tasteful fun review of a company site or CREATIVE way to do sponsored posts, if they blend in nicely with what your blog is all about. I do sponsored posts on my catblog for example and do not feel bad or slutty about it. Some people would call affiliate marketers already “information whores” as they promote products and services that they found fit a niche, and promote those and “recommend it” to the right crowd with money, no matter if you actually use products yourself etc. - but lets not get there, it is as ridiculous as the claim that sponsored posts are actually “slutty”.
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:23 am
Thanks for the nice tips.
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:18 am
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September 22nd, 2007 at 3:35 am
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September 22nd, 2007 at 9:49 am
What am I missing here? I can’t get the FIRST blog registered here, and keep getting an error message, and can’t figure out how to actually contact a live person. I need remedial blog rush training, clearly!
Help! Please!
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:27 pm
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September 22nd, 2007 at 2:28 pm
You forgot to talk about the place placement of the blog rush widget.
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Is there a bug/problem today? I am trying to add a Google blog and I kept getting the error:
Feed has invalid format. (Parse Error: No posts in feed)
I know my feed URL was correct.
So I used feedburner and redirected my blog feed to there, and I still get the same error?
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:28 pm
I love how a blogrush endorsed blog doesn’t even use blogrush! Also what does it mean if your credits are in the negative? I’m at negative 360 credits - I’d say they think I cheated but that make no sense since I obeyed all of their stupid rules - also why would be banned result in negative 360 - wouldn’t they just put it to 0?
Or do they expect me to earn 360 credits before I can start earning credits, all the while not receiving any traffic for the traffic I send them? Yea they wish, if they think I’m going to give them 360 views on my blog for free -without anything in return then they belong in a nut house. I understand some people are trying to game the system but this is so hilariously bad that I’m tempted to cheat the system or even tell others how to - I see some glaring vulnerabilities that would be near impossible to detect, I’m not capitalizing on this because personally I don’t need traffic this badly.
Oh well, good luck Reese you’ll need it in this pyramid scheme.
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Damn, Sloopie you are an angry man aren’t you. Your native american name would be man-that-is-angry-for-no-reason, lol.
Relax.
September 23rd, 2007 at 1:31 am
I do not see anything in “Get Code” Tab of Blog Rush when I click it expcept for “http://www.blogrush.com/r15389010 “.
I also do not see anything where I can contact blogrush to ask them questions concerning this.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:22 am
I just placed this on my site and some of the blogs on blogrush are stupid and not at all appropriate for the kind of traffic I get. It’s an entertainment blog but it’s tasteful. A lot of people blog about a bunch of crap. I’ll try it for a few more days but its bringing down the tactfulness of my blog. If I don’t see some better blogs I’m going to stop using the service.
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:32 am
Don’t get me wrong, I think this is a wonderful concept and I made a few major changes based solely on this post (thanks). I have a blog about America’s Next Top Model and I saw a blog on blogrush for gossip girls…makes sense!
But that was only ONE! I wish more were related (at least to movies and tv) and didn’t have topics about “hookers” and “Sweet And Hot Kirat Bhattal In “geleya” whatever the heck that means.
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:45 am
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Signup with our link and we’ll craft one super-effective headline for you!
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September 23rd, 2007 at 3:57 am
lol funny! and ok
I just tried to join, for some reason the widget is NOT showing up on my blog. being a new blogger and techie challenged its tickin me off as to why the Blogrush widget is not workin I have a few skills but no can do. so any help would be appreciated
thanx
Harleyblues Christina
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:00 pm
harleyblues, if you have a widgetized theme, you can just paste your code into a text widget. Or use this free widget: http://mass-automation.com/2007/09/19/blogrush-widget-free-download/
Upload it to your plugins folder. Activate it then enter your blog rush id. That’s pretty much it.
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
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September 23rd, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Good tips indeed. Thanks for the information.
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:41 pm
thanks for that info.. i will keep that in mind.
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:09 pm
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September 24th, 2007 at 4:44 am
quote>>>Lazar Says:
September 21st, 2007 at 1:18 am
Why you keep your BlogRush widget only on main page?
September 24th, 2007 at 4:50 am
Guys the wordpress theme I use doesn’t have a sidebar - that’s why there is no widget on each page - nor is there any other information.
I’m a direct response marketer and so many of the blogging things I do reflect the linear way in which I encourage people to take actions on my blog.
September 24th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Very useful information here. I have installed it for a few days and I hope I can see better traffic in the near future. I update my blog regularly too but I have yet to see the title appear in the widget. I guessed it need time to go into it right?
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September 24th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
My code never stays in the text widget even when I save it. What can I do?
September 25th, 2007 at 4:20 am
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September 25th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Thanks for the info, I will definitely subscribe to the RSS feed
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October 6th, 2007 at 1:41 am
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October 15th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
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November 19th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Wow! This entire post plus the comments could be an ebook. Thanks so much glad you have this resource
November 25th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
very usefull information
i’ll try to change my blogs so
December 11th, 2007 at 2:55 am
Blog Rush is an excellent tool that helps many bloggers get that much needed traffic. You’ve offered some great tips here that will help people get the most of their use of BlogRush.
You hit it right on the money with “HEADLINES”. You need GOOD headlines to get people wanting to click on yours. Your HEADLINES needs to stand out against the rest.
Great tips and advice here. Good job. Your advice here will help many people get traffic rushing to their blog.
Thanks.
December 25th, 2007 at 6:14 am
Excellent article.
Just started blogging. This will help me get started on the right foot.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Great tips!
So, where is your BlogRush widget?
Personally, I’ve had BlogRush for months and it has given me a whole lot of nothing. I’ve had much more luck with entrecard, which I’ve only had for days. If BlogRush does not generate me a significant amount of traffic by the end of this week, I am removing it because it’s all hype and no action.