I was in the middle of writing a new post for Blogging For Novice, but I suddenly saved and hold that post as I think there’s a breaking news with higher priority. As the post title suggested, yes, BlogRush is shutting down. (Thanks Lax for the information)
I’m a BlogRush user. I joined BlogRush as early as November 2007 when it just started launching. Few months ago, I removed BlogRush widget in my personal blog, as I think it’s not performing well for a mixed content blog. I kept the BlogRush widget here in this blog as I thought it could attract readers with more similar topics or bloggers from similar niche.
Sad to see that BlogRush failed its objective. Here is a quote from BlogRush.
BlogRush didn’t grow without its fair share of problems — from security issues to abusive users trying to ‘game’ the system to much lower click-rates than expected. We also had some problems with trying to fairly control the quality of the network, and in the process made many mistakes in deciding what blogs should stay or go. All of these issues, ultimately, limited the service’s full potential.
Our team worked very hard to try and build a service that would truly help bloggers of all sizes get free traffic to their blogs. This was our primary focus. Not once did we ever try to monetize the service with ads or anything else. BlogRush never made a single penny in revenue. We wanted to be able to help our users FIRST and then worry about monetizing the service later. Unfortunately, the service didn’t work out like we had hoped. (It happens.)
Another sister project known as TrafficJam dies together with BlogRush. It’s sad that BlogRush is never out of BETA and has to be shut down now.
Are you a BlogRush user? If you have the widget code on your blog you will need to remove it. It’s no longer working now. It will show an empty space at the location which you have placed the widget code. I’m going to remove mine once I finish this post.
Wish John Reese all the best in his future projects.
By TechZoomIn on Oct 31, 2008
Thanks for the link.
I never used blogrush because i feel its killing my blog load time
By Doris on Oct 22, 2011
That’s a shocking news for me, this very early morning. I didn’t know about this. I’m so busy at work and don’t really have much time to maintain my blogs lately. Thanks for the information. I’m a BlogRush user, I will read more details from BlogRush itself.
