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Friday, November 30, 2007
14 Reasons Why You Should Remove Your BlogRush Scam Widget ASAP
Here's my list of 14 crazy reasons why you should IMMEDIATELY REMOVE your stupid blogRush Widget. Some of them may shock you (number 7 is wonderful) -
1. The referral program is actually a bad thing. BlogRush is so hot right now because of their “10 tier referral program”, BUT what you may not realize is that the referral program could be your biggest downfall. On the BlogRush widget there’s a grand total of 5 spaces that display headlines are from all blogs in the same niche market.
If you refer people your headlines will be displayed more often. But what you are not considering is, who are you making money for? Whoever you signed up through is getting a piece of your referrals and your referrals-referrals.
So long term, you are actually setting yourself up for failure.
Let’s say that you signed up through my referral banner. You then bust your hump to get 50 referrals. Now, not only have you gotten 50 referrals, but you have also gotten me 51 referrals, and let’s not discount my personal 100 referrals I all ready have, which gives me a total of 151, and you a total of 50. If your blog is in the same niche as mine you will be competing with me for the five headline slots…and I will win, thanks to you. My content will appear more often than your because YOU ARE EARNING ME THE ADVERTISEMENT SPACE. This concept goes smoothly into #2…
2. Your headlines VS my headlines. There’s lots of work from home sites on the net. From what I have seen, the majority of them are total garbage. People tell you to buy things that they would never personally waste their money on. People tell you to sign up for affiliate programs that suck just so they can get the $1 referral credit and so on. These “scam sites” are very successful because there’s always going to be people desperate to make money online. These people don’t know where to begin so they take a leap of faith and follow the advice of a shady website author and buy the $35 e-book download that tells them nothing more than a bunch of links to websites that the author is an affiliate through. Anyways, point being, these authors write articles with headlines designed to get clicks. Of course, we all should write search-worthy headlines, but can you really, honestly label your article “Make $2,000 a Week with Data Entry!” – no. You would NOT do this because it is a lie. But, none-the-less, these are the headlines that get reads. Now for number 3…
3. What are you promoting? You have no control over the headlines that are displayed. Your visitors rely on your site to provide them with truthful, honest information and affiliates. If you are recommending they read articles that are blatant lies, you can lose your readership. Which leads to the next point…
4. Spam. People are complaining about loads of spam in the widgets. On to number 5…
5. Closing of Accounts Unjustly. BlogRush decided the right thing to do was to ban over 10,000 sites (including my site and numerous other wonderful, real legit sites). However, this totally didn’t solve the problem. They made a very half-ass apology for it and told people privately via email to just reopen accounts if they felt they were wrongly banned because BlogRush just decided to eliminate categories of blogs, like anything “Work from Home” related.
So all those people who had thier accounts closed lost their referral credits. But then to save face to the public, Blog Rush says that they (quote) “have done a huge “quality control audit” of our network and have reviewed all the blogs one-at-a-time.”
– Well, it can’t be both BlogRush, so which is it? Have you just eliminated entire categories or did you review each blog one at a time? But wait, there’s even more B.S. in number 7…
6. So BlogRush operator John Reese (the same guy that told the above lies) had the audacity to say the following in regards to a specific, good, quality blog being closed:
“I am not sure why your blog wasn’t approved by the reviewer that reviewed your blog. (We have a team of reviewers.) From what I can tell, your blog passes our guidelines. I’m not sure if the reviewer loaded your blog on a day where your primary post(s) were heavy on the promotional side or not — that’s just a guess of what might have influenced them….
… AND FOR THE RECORD…
No one is being BANNED from BlogRush. If any account doesn’t have any approved blogs, the account is moved to an “inactive” status until changes are made or until another blog that meets our guidelines gets approved. Nothing happens to referrals or an account’s referral network; they are left completely intact and as soon as the account is “active” again everything returns to the way it was.”
What a total liar! Is he serious when saying that nobodies account is being banned? Well, I bet the 10,000 bloggers that got the same letter I did would beg to differ!
ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW:
*****7. Hey, want your content stolen? Put a Blog Rush Widget on Your site! Did you ever READ the terms and conditions? Here’s a little snippet for ya-
“By submitting Content to Income.com for inclusion in our Service, you grant Income.com a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Income.com will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Service, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.”
9. It’s like the MOB, easy to get into but impossible to get out of. After hundreds of pro bloggers started calling Blog Rush a scam, many people decided it was time to cancel their accounts…but quickly found canceling to be an impossible task. Email after email has been sent to B.R from bloggers asking them to remove their blogs and close their accounts…but no response. But this is where it gets very interesting…
10. Ironically, even though these bloggers removed the widget from their websites, they are still earning impression credits. How can this be? Hmm…is it possible that THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS FRAUDULENT? DUH!
11. Inconsistency after inconsistency. Through BlogRush you are able to list multiple blogs. But why would you? Why not create a new account for each blog using your own affiliate link each time? According to their system, this would allow you to generate way more headlines.
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12. Traffic Exchange? With the exception of one person, every single blogger I have talked to or read their work had said that they receive virtually no traffic from Blog Rush. I suppose it would come down to what you consider to be “traffic” – 3 clicks out of 2,000 impressions IS BAD, and that is what most huge name blogs are showing. (Check it out here!) I can vouch for them because I don’t think I got a single click and my site gets lots of traffic. But here’s the kicker – would you rather get targeted traffic or non-targeted traffic.
Do you want people to come to your site through BlogRush (Meaning they had no intentions of visiting your site to begin with) or people who are seeking specific information? A visitor seeking specific info is going to stay on your site, providing you provide them with what they need. These visitors have potential to be return visitors. A BlogRush visitor is random. They will probably view your site for a matter of seconds and leave because they are not targeted.
13. You have limited advertising space. Your site is only so big. You only have so much room to advertise. So why are you taking up three inches of your sidebar to display a widget that your headlines will rarely appear on? Instead, place an ad that will earn you money or a PPC box. Hey, with three inches you can place the ad and the damn PPC box.
14. If you INSIST on using link exchange programs, instead of using a pyramid scheme Blog Rush widget, just ask sites they you like (which have traffic) to link to you or exchange links with you. This will give you more traffic than the stupid B.R widget ever will.
In closing, if this wasn't enough proof to get you to remove your widget, then I don't know what else to say. BlogRush is a total disaster. If you still don't believe me, do a Google or Yahoo search for "BlogRush Scam" and you can read literally hundreds and hundreds of articles and comments from bloggers all over the world.
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1. The referral program is actually a bad thing. BlogRush is so hot right now because of their “10 tier referral program”, BUT what you may not realize is that the referral program could be your biggest downfall. On the BlogRush widget there’s a grand total of 5 spaces that display headlines are from all blogs in the same niche market.
If you refer people your headlines will be displayed more often. But what you are not considering is, who are you making money for? Whoever you signed up through is getting a piece of your referrals and your referrals-referrals.
So long term, you are actually setting yourself up for failure.
Let’s say that you signed up through my referral banner. You then bust your hump to get 50 referrals. Now, not only have you gotten 50 referrals, but you have also gotten me 51 referrals, and let’s not discount my personal 100 referrals I all ready have, which gives me a total of 151, and you a total of 50. If your blog is in the same niche as mine you will be competing with me for the five headline slots…and I will win, thanks to you. My content will appear more often than your because YOU ARE EARNING ME THE ADVERTISEMENT SPACE. This concept goes smoothly into #2…
2. Your headlines VS my headlines. There’s lots of work from home sites on the net. From what I have seen, the majority of them are total garbage. People tell you to buy things that they would never personally waste their money on. People tell you to sign up for affiliate programs that suck just so they can get the $1 referral credit and so on. These “scam sites” are very successful because there’s always going to be people desperate to make money online. These people don’t know where to begin so they take a leap of faith and follow the advice of a shady website author and buy the $35 e-book download that tells them nothing more than a bunch of links to websites that the author is an affiliate through. Anyways, point being, these authors write articles with headlines designed to get clicks. Of course, we all should write search-worthy headlines, but can you really, honestly label your article “Make $2,000 a Week with Data Entry!” – no. You would NOT do this because it is a lie. But, none-the-less, these are the headlines that get reads. Now for number 3…
3. What are you promoting? You have no control over the headlines that are displayed. Your visitors rely on your site to provide them with truthful, honest information and affiliates. If you are recommending they read articles that are blatant lies, you can lose your readership. Which leads to the next point…
4. Spam. People are complaining about loads of spam in the widgets. On to number 5…
5. Closing of Accounts Unjustly. BlogRush decided the right thing to do was to ban over 10,000 sites (including my site and numerous other wonderful, real legit sites). However, this totally didn’t solve the problem. They made a very half-ass apology for it and told people privately via email to just reopen accounts if they felt they were wrongly banned because BlogRush just decided to eliminate categories of blogs, like anything “Work from Home” related.
So all those people who had thier accounts closed lost their referral credits. But then to save face to the public, Blog Rush says that they (quote) “have done a huge “quality control audit” of our network and have reviewed all the blogs one-at-a-time.”
– Well, it can’t be both BlogRush, so which is it? Have you just eliminated entire categories or did you review each blog one at a time? But wait, there’s even more B.S. in number 7…
6. So BlogRush operator John Reese (the same guy that told the above lies) had the audacity to say the following in regards to a specific, good, quality blog being closed:
“I am not sure why your blog wasn’t approved by the reviewer that reviewed your blog. (We have a team of reviewers.) From what I can tell, your blog passes our guidelines. I’m not sure if the reviewer loaded your blog on a day where your primary post(s) were heavy on the promotional side or not — that’s just a guess of what might have influenced them….
… AND FOR THE RECORD…
No one is being BANNED from BlogRush. If any account doesn’t have any approved blogs, the account is moved to an “inactive” status until changes are made or until another blog that meets our guidelines gets approved. Nothing happens to referrals or an account’s referral network; they are left completely intact and as soon as the account is “active” again everything returns to the way it was.”
What a total liar! Is he serious when saying that nobodies account is being banned? Well, I bet the 10,000 bloggers that got the same letter I did would beg to differ!
ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW:
*****7. Hey, want your content stolen? Put a Blog Rush Widget on Your site! Did you ever READ the terms and conditions? Here’s a little snippet for ya-
“By submitting Content to Income.com for inclusion in our Service, you grant Income.com a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Income.com will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Service, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.”
I dont know about you, but I am not "giving" anyone the right to "have" my content that I have worked so hard to produce.
8. BlogRush advertising (Part two to the pyramid scheme). Ok, remember how there’s only 5 spaces available for headlines? And, as mentioned, you are all ready competing with whoever referred you? Well, to top it off, BlogRush also uses space to advertise. BlogRush uses 10% of headline spots to advertise their service. They have no intentions of ever changing this policy.9. It’s like the MOB, easy to get into but impossible to get out of. After hundreds of pro bloggers started calling Blog Rush a scam, many people decided it was time to cancel their accounts…but quickly found canceling to be an impossible task. Email after email has been sent to B.R from bloggers asking them to remove their blogs and close their accounts…but no response. But this is where it gets very interesting…
10. Ironically, even though these bloggers removed the widget from their websites, they are still earning impression credits. How can this be? Hmm…is it possible that THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS FRAUDULENT? DUH!
11. Inconsistency after inconsistency. Through BlogRush you are able to list multiple blogs. But why would you? Why not create a new account for each blog using your own affiliate link each time? According to their system, this would allow you to generate way more headlines.
as
12. Traffic Exchange? With the exception of one person, every single blogger I have talked to or read their work had said that they receive virtually no traffic from Blog Rush. I suppose it would come down to what you consider to be “traffic” – 3 clicks out of 2,000 impressions IS BAD, and that is what most huge name blogs are showing. (Check it out here!) I can vouch for them because I don’t think I got a single click and my site gets lots of traffic. But here’s the kicker – would you rather get targeted traffic or non-targeted traffic.
Do you want people to come to your site through BlogRush (Meaning they had no intentions of visiting your site to begin with) or people who are seeking specific information? A visitor seeking specific info is going to stay on your site, providing you provide them with what they need. These visitors have potential to be return visitors. A BlogRush visitor is random. They will probably view your site for a matter of seconds and leave because they are not targeted.
13. You have limited advertising space. Your site is only so big. You only have so much room to advertise. So why are you taking up three inches of your sidebar to display a widget that your headlines will rarely appear on? Instead, place an ad that will earn you money or a PPC box. Hey, with three inches you can place the ad and the damn PPC box.
14. If you INSIST on using link exchange programs, instead of using a pyramid scheme Blog Rush widget, just ask sites they you like (which have traffic) to link to you or exchange links with you. This will give you more traffic than the stupid B.R widget ever will.
In closing, if this wasn't enough proof to get you to remove your widget, then I don't know what else to say. BlogRush is a total disaster. If you still don't believe me, do a Google or Yahoo search for "BlogRush Scam" and you can read literally hundreds and hundreds of articles and comments from bloggers all over the world.
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what? I read the TOS after you posted this and then I am having a doubt at the 7th point. There you wrote the ending of what is give in the TOS. But they also mentioned another point above the sentense where this sentense is present. It was written as "the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;"
So, I would suggest you to read this again and reply this comment because they provided a confusing TOS. So, could you explain me the above sentense? Really I am thinking why people provide such confusing TOS? Any way blog rush does not worth giving equalant traffic when compared to the wastage for loading the widget in our site.
So, its good to remove the widget which can increase loading time and also saves the bandwidth for people who visit our site.
So, I would suggest you to read this again and reply this comment because they provided a confusing TOS. So, could you explain me the above sentense? Really I am thinking why people provide such confusing TOS? Any way blog rush does not worth giving equalant traffic when compared to the wastage for loading the widget in our site.
So, its good to remove the widget which can increase loading time and also saves the bandwidth for people who visit our site.
Hi Nithin -
What I gather from what you have posted is that they are saying ehe same thing as I have posted in #7. They are telling you that if they (and/or third parties) use/reuse your personal content this CAN NOT be held against them. They are saying that EVEN IF your content is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, they are not legal bound to comply. As long as you use their BlogRush widget they are able to use any and all of your content to their liking without any legal action being taken against them - which is F'ed up. Why on earth would anyone want to "give away" everything they have worked so hard for?!
Yes, it is incredibly confusing - almost disturbingly confusing. What really bothers me is that all this info is burried in an "agreement section" when it should be clearly stated. It is over-the-top shady.
Tori
What I gather from what you have posted is that they are saying ehe same thing as I have posted in #7. They are telling you that if they (and/or third parties) use/reuse your personal content this CAN NOT be held against them. They are saying that EVEN IF your content is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, they are not legal bound to comply. As long as you use their BlogRush widget they are able to use any and all of your content to their liking without any legal action being taken against them - which is F'ed up. Why on earth would anyone want to "give away" everything they have worked so hard for?!
Yes, it is incredibly confusing - almost disturbingly confusing. What really bothers me is that all this info is burried in an "agreement section" when it should be clearly stated. It is over-the-top shady.
Tori
I added your link to my post:
http://www.semmy.name/index.php/130/goodbye-blogrush/
http://www.semmy.name/index.php/130/goodbye-blogrush/
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: 10:34 AM
OMG! I can't agree with you more! Everything is going against their effectiveness!
The pyramid scheme, the spamming, the space they're taking, the lackluster traffic, the stupid TOC, the closing of accounts stupidity (I've actually applied to cancel my account before i put their widget, but still no feedback until now- where i've put them, wonder if they'll remove me any time now).
Even the bragging of "quality control" effort was overdone! I'm using Entrecard now and considering to remove BR permanently.
What an objective article you've written. Bravo! I've stumbled it, you ultimately deserved it!
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The pyramid scheme, the spamming, the space they're taking, the lackluster traffic, the stupid TOC, the closing of accounts stupidity (I've actually applied to cancel my account before i put their widget, but still no feedback until now- where i've put them, wonder if they'll remove me any time now).
Even the bragging of "quality control" effort was overdone! I'm using Entrecard now and considering to remove BR permanently.
What an objective article you've written. Bravo! I've stumbled it, you ultimately deserved it!
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