Looking to your left you’ll see the top of a little applet called “From the Blogsphere”. It shows five links to other blogs with related subjects. When you click a link a new window is opened for that blog.
And off course for every time you show this applet your ad gets shown at an other blog.
Here’s were it gets interesting.
At the bottom of the applet you’ll find a link to the Blogrush site were can you get your own applet. If you do, your ad gets posted on members sites every time you show an ad.
The interesting bit is that my ad also gets shown for every time your site shows the applet. Then someone uses your link as a referral to get his own applet. For every time he shows the applet your ad is shown and my ad is shown.
That will go on for ten generations.
I’ve been doing a little math. Let’s say that the first ten people who use my link as a referal to take their own applet, are bloggers who have been at it for a few month and have one hundred pageviews a day. (Which is my average at the moment). Say that their first ten referrals are also have one hundred pageviews a day. That would mean that my ad is shown a 1000,000 times a day.
But there are no rules as to how big the first generation could grow. So if I keep this applet on my site for a few years I could get as much as a thousand referrals and so could they. In a few years my ad could be shown at millions upon millions of pages a day. Even if only a tiny fraction of visitors clicks on my link I will get a large amount of traffic.
I came across this applet late last night. Placed it in an invisible corner of my site and forgot about it. Today looking at my stats I got reminded because Blogrush send me my first visitor. This visitor was targeted at a specific article.
Looking at my Blogrush stats I found that my ad was shown to 50 people.
I have no idea if this is an average but they still have to show my ad 65 time today, so it will be interesting to see if I get some more visitors. But even at an one in fifty ratio it’s free traffic. You don’t have to do anything to get it.
By the time your referral networks kicks in you could be looking at a minimum of one in fifty click through rate of a million ad views a day.
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