The concept behind BlogRush seems sound. It seems like it should work - but is it? I’ve had BlogRush installed on this blog for about 2 weeks now. In that time I’ve earned about 17k in credits. My blog posts have been served up on other BlogRush widgets about 15k times. That’s a lot of times they’ve been on other widgets. My total clickthroughs for my blog posts equals zero.

Yes, zero. Of 15,000 times my blogposts have been served up, I’ve had nobody click through. Is that because the titles aren’t provocative enough? Perhaps. But really, even if they were more interesting would I get a click through rate that would make it worth having the widget on this blog? I doubt it.

And I was trying BlogRush on this blog as well as one of my other blogs that is a lot more popular. I had 1 click through on that blog. Hardly worth it I think.

I’m a little disappointed because it seems like this should work better - but it hasn’t. I’ve noticed on a lot of blogs that sport the widget that it’s generally placed way down at the bottom of the sidebar - like mine, so it’s unlikely many people even make it to the widget which could be a factor in the low click through rate. But still - I don’t really see much benefit to the service as it is right now.

I’ll probably leave the widget on there for another week or so, but it’s most likely going to be removed unless there is some drastic turn around. Oh well. On to the next great blog traffic generator…

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