October 23rd 2007
Booted off the Blogrush Bandwagon
On 9/17, I signed up for the Blogrush syndication network. It was an effort to boost traffic and kick start my blog. Well, I earned thousands of syndication credits and put up with over a month of outages to earn maybe a couple of clicks to my blog.
Now Blogrush has seen fit to boot me from their network. Supposedly, I didn’t meet their “strict content guidelines”. Let’s take a look at their “Dear John” letter and see where my blog didn’t make it.
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.
You will notice that the widget no longer loads on your pages — please remove the BlogRush code from your blog for now.
We recently reviewed your blog(s) located at:
http://www.atradeaday.comWe determined that your blog did not meet our strict quality guidelines. Please do not take this personally but realize that we must abide by a very strict set of quality guidelines.
Oh geez, I’ve heard this before in highschool. “It’s not you…it’s me”.
If you feel you have made the necessary changes to your blog(s) to meet our guidelines, you can resubmit your blog(s) for review after this date:
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
No thanks…
Below is a complete list of our quality guidelines…
BlogRush Quality Guidelines:
- The blog contains unique, quality content that provides opinions, insights, and/or recommended resources that provide value to readers of the blog. Articles, videos, public domain works, press releases, and content written by others are okay to be used on the blog, but the ratio of unique content should far outweigh content from other sources.
All my content is unique. The only exceptions are the videos/pictures I post on Saturday.
- The blog should be updated on a regular basis (at least several times a month) and should not just go a few months between posts.
Um, I’ve been posting daily since September.
- The blog should already contain at least 10-12 quality posts. New blogs with very little content will not be accepted.
Yesterday was my 100th post, thank you.
- The blog’s primary contain must be in English. BlogRush is currently not available for non-English blogs.
Baise mon cul, I think this blog is in english.
- The blog should not contain an excessive amount of advertising and links and very little actual content. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
No advertising here…
- The primary content of the blog should not be “scraped” content from other sources and/or script-generated pages for the sole purpose of search engine rank manipulation. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
Original content daily…
- The blog’s content (or advertising) should not contain any of the following types of content: hate, anti-racial, terrorism, drug-related, hacking, phishing, fraud, pornographic, nudity, warez, gambling, copyright infringement, obscene or disgusting material of any kind, or anything considered illegal.
Did I post anything obscene?
Best Regards,
The BlogRush Team
Whatever…ah, that felt better.
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7 Comments »
Bubs on 23 Oct 2007 at 6:16 am #
Seems like a lot of bloggers are getting booted from this thing
Jonathan on 23 Oct 2007 at 8:00 am #
Too bad. It sounded like a cool concept. They’re going to alienate a lot of legitimate bloggers.
aiQUANT on 23 Oct 2007 at 12:12 pm #
I’ve hardly noticed any difference in my traffic ever since I signed up to this. Maybe its because I’ve only been blogging fora short while.
thewild1 on 23 Oct 2007 at 6:37 pm #
I haven’t not seen much change in traffic through blogrush.. but I am going to try it again and see if their new “guidelines” have done anything
stockhunter on 23 Oct 2007 at 9:26 pm #
I took blogrush off my blog a couple of weeks ago. IMO it is a waste of time for us “small” bloggers.
Funny, last night I received an email from them telling me that I qualify… You can have my qualification if you’d like
Suzanne of Pittsburgh Options Trader on 24 Oct 2007 at 12:47 am #
I tried blogrush on a different blog without much return for the effort. in my opinion, it’s not really worth persuing, if you have good original content, you’ll get organic search and word of mouth as it is.
Jonathan on 24 Oct 2007 at 4:53 am #
@aiQuant That’s my experience as well.
@thewild1 I just wonder what guideline I missed.
@stockhunter Thanks for the offer. I think I’m done with them.
@Suzanne Agreed. Most of my traffic is referral, but search engines are starting to contribute.