I just started BZ today. It looks warm and friendly there, and what I like about it, it’s mainly for bloggers.

The thing is that BlogRush only works for big blogs. It doesn’t bring traffic to the small and mid-sized ones very well. You’ll get better traffic from niche social bookmarking sites, like Blogging Zoom, as well as StumbleUpon.

Like you, I was hoping I could drive more traffic to my site by writing a review about BlogRush. Based on my experience, a post about BLOGGING seems to attract more readers. But to my surprise, no new readers from BlogRush widgets ever saw my review. And that’s what I am going to blog about after my experiment.

I’ll keep you updated, and hopefully you’ll be able to consider it in your next BR Roundup.

Like many others, I’m debating about removing the widget in the next few days.

-Saedel

PS. Btw, nice blog, lots of interesting topics.

He obviously didn’t plan things well and has been playing “fix it as you go” since the launch. Unfortunately, he’s made several bad decisions and compounded them with a bad attitude. If they go ahead with the purge of more blogs this will be yet another mistake.

His arrogant bull-headedness, egoistic rants, high-handed brush-offs, empty threats and even blatant lies, in trying to cover up his and BlogRush’s shortcomings, have been painful to watch.

Mistakes will be made. But getting all defensive and rude about it is the worst way to go about rectifying one’s mistakes.

BTW, take a good look at one of the blogs you listed: Kyle Eggleston’s BlogRush Sucks. One of the commenters seems to be Matt Cutts.

Love all your posts in this BlogRush category.

Your email and URL are still marked by Akismet as spam. You may want to contact them and see what the problem is.

Where did you find the information about them selling headline spots? If it is true, that would be big news.

Lots of angry bloggers out there… this won’t help…

… I understand BlogRush is going to sell up to 4 out of every 5 headline spots to the highest bidder — and guess who keeps the cash? Hint: It’s not the bloggers.

Their ‘quality review’ process was a joke. I love the irony of sites that still think the emperor has clothes. They post that only spam and non-English sites were removed while their widget shows 2 or 3 “Made for Affiliate Offers” blogs.

It’s too bad they’ve gone this direction because it could have been a really good way to promote blogs.

I have high hopes for Blogging Zoom and ScratchBack. I think they’re both taking a better approach.