Kaizeku Ban » blogosphere http://blog.kaizeku.com So many evil plans, so little time... Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:01:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 http://blog.kaizeku.com/ http://i.istalker.net/1.6.2/stamp.png Kaizeku Ban BlogRush : Traffic Sharing Services for Blogger http://blog.kaizeku.com/web_application/blogrush-targeted-traffic-for-blogger/ http://blog.kaizeku.com/web_application/blogrush-targeted-traffic-for-blogger/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:44:35 +0000 Avice http://blog.kaizeku.com/web_application/blogrush-targeted-traffic-for-blogger/ The BlogRush system is based on TWO things: QUALITY and FAIRNESS. ~ John Reese BlogRush Phase 2Blogrush is a traffic sharing services for bloggers, its fairly new and its making a lot of buzz in blogosphere network. There is few reason why you should consider Blogrush.
  • Its a Free Services. (but limited to blogs that meet their Quality Standards)
  • Feeds Syndication is 100% manually reviewed. Things like Non-English, Junk, Drugs, Enlargement stuff, XXX , and any low-quality blogs will be filtered out. Just to verify this, here is a screenshoot from my WordPress stats . blogrush review It might be BlogRush Auditor or their spider/indexer. I'm not sure of it. But they do their homework before approving any members feeds.
  • BlogRush Content will matches your headlines and your category listing so you will get targeted readers instead of passer by.
  • Per Post Statistics & Addition Of “Buzz Meter”
    [..] you’ll be able to see how many times each of your posts is syndicated across the network and how many people clicked to read that individual post.[..]
    "Buzz Meter”.This new meter will tell you if that post is HOT, COLD, or somewhere in between. The meter ‘temperature’ is calculated based on the average click-rates per headline for your blog’s category.[..]
  • Blog Post Controls. [..] you can control exactly which posts of yours will be syndicated. This can help you maximize your Click Rates and, ultimately, the traffic you receive from the BlogRush network. [..]
  • Blogrush Widget is not a link exchange, so they will not hurt your blog in Google PageRank.
  • Widget Keyword Filter you can block any post titles that match your filter criteria and they will not load in your widget.
  • For more features and announcements check out their official websites & blog.

Does BlogRush Violate The Google AdSense Terms Of Service?

Most of you are aware of Google Strict TOS so I think its important to highlight this issue, Excerpt from BlogRush FAQs.
[..] Google TOS is against traffic generation services that "artificially inflate page impressions" which BlogRush does not do. The only traffic BlogRush sends to your blog is natural, REAL traffic when an interested visitor clicks on one of your blog title links they noticed on another related blog. [..]

Referral and Syndication Credits

[..] Syndication credits are earned based on the following formula: You earn credits on your own traffic using a 1:1 ratio. (One credit for each time the widget is served.) You then earn credits based on your referrals traffic (and their referrals traffic) through 10 generations of referrals based on the following ratios: 1st and 2nd generation (i.e. your direct referrals and their direct referrals) 1:1, 3rd - 6th generation = 1:4 ratio, 7th - 10th generation = 1:8 ratio. After all the math is calculated, there is a surplus of 1 headline space (5 spaces in each widget load) for every 10 that are served. So 10% of all the headline space is reserved for BlogRush itself to sell or use. [..] If you are interested. You can sign up here with my refferal links. :p]]> The BlogRush system is based on TWO things: QUALITY and FAIRNESS. ~ John Reese

BlogRush Phase 2Blogrush is a traffic sharing services for bloggers, its fairly new and its making a lot of buzz in blogosphere network. There is few reason why you should consider Blogrush.

  • Its a Free Services. (but limited to blogs that meet their Quality Standards)
  • Feeds Syndication is 100% manually reviewed. Things like Non-English, Junk, Drugs, Enlargement stuff, XXX , and any low-quality blogs will be filtered out. Just to verify this, here is a screenshoot from my WordPress stats . blogrush review
    It might be BlogRush Auditor or their spider/indexer. I’m not sure of it. But they do their homework before approving any members feeds.
  • BlogRush Content will matches your headlines and your category listing so you will get targeted readers instead of passer by.
  • Per Post Statistics & Addition Of “Buzz Meter”
    [..] you’ll be able to see how many times each of your posts is syndicated across the network and how many people clicked to read that individual post.[..]
    “Buzz Meter”.This new meter will tell you if that post is HOT, COLD, or somewhere in between. The meter ‘temperature’ is calculated based on the average click-rates per headline for your blog’s category.[..]
  • Blog Post Controls.
    [..] you can control exactly which posts of yours will be syndicated. This can help you maximize your Click Rates and, ultimately, the traffic you receive from the BlogRush network. [..]
  • Blogrush Widget is not a link exchange, so they will not hurt your blog in Google PageRank.
  • Widget Keyword Filter
    you can block any post titles that match your filter criteria and they will not load in your widget.
  • For more features and announcements check out their official websites & blog.

Does BlogRush Violate The Google AdSense Terms Of Service?

Most of you are aware of Google Strict TOS so I think its important to highlight this issue, Excerpt from BlogRush FAQs.

[..] Google TOS is against traffic generation services that “artificially inflate page impressions” which BlogRush does not do. The only traffic BlogRush sends to your blog is natural, REAL traffic when an interested visitor clicks on one of your blog title links they noticed on another related blog. [..]

Referral and Syndication Credits

[..] Syndication credits are earned based on the following formula: You earn credits on your own traffic using a 1:1 ratio. (One credit for each time the widget is served.) You then earn credits based on your referrals traffic (and their referrals traffic) through 10 generations of referrals based on the following ratios: 1st and 2nd generation (i.e. your direct referrals and their direct referrals) 1:1, 3rd - 6th generation = 1:4 ratio, 7th - 10th generation = 1:8 ratio. After all the math is calculated, there is a surplus of 1 headline space (5 spaces in each widget load) for every 10 that are served. So 10% of all the headline space is reserved for BlogRush itself to sell or use. [..]

If you are interested. You can sign up here with my refferal links. :p

Extra load

You don’t need to be a math whiz to figure this out, adding BlogRush widget will increase the loads in your blog. If you have too many stuff in your frontpage its recommended to install BlogRush Widgets while on page view only. Here’s some snippet on how you can get your Widget on single view page in WordPress. I assume you already knew you way around Wordpress Dashboard and have some basic PHP knowledge.

  • is_single( postid = false )
    Wrap your BlogRush widget with the below php conditional statements
    To set it Viewable on all single page add.

    <?php if ( is_single() ): ?>
<div id="blog_rush_widgets">

BlogRush code here 

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

    Make it viewable on specific page (base on unique postid no ) .

    <?php if ( is_single(26) ) : ?>

<div id="blog_rush_widgets">

BlogRush code here 

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

Summary

BlogRush services is a great way to get your blog more exposure while building relevant contents for your PageRank. You can maximize your readers and network without having to do it manually . What I like most of their services is their content matching (my post filter) and keywords filter (widget filters). With good fine tune you can get 80% accuracy for related contents with the widgets.

The only downside that I can see, is their credits & referral systems. From my past experience this kind of programs will get abuse sooner or later. But IMHO Its better if they just hide the points and credits features it will give more weight to their content ratings systems.

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