I’ve found some more information and figured something out that makes Blogrush very interesting for people who just started a blog or any other kind of website.
Blogrush is a new service by John Reese (a big name in Internet marketing) to increase your traffic.
Blogrush places a little widget on your site with links to related sites. When someone clicks a link a new window is opened for that link.
Other sites get a widget with a link to your site. For every time you show the widget you get a credit and your link is shown ones.
It gets interesting when you refer people to Blogrush since you also get credits for the number of times they show the widget. And when those people refer people to Blogrush you get credits for the number of times they show the widget. This goes on for ten generations.
So basicly it’s a pyramid scheme.
When you join a pyramid scheme there are two questions you should ask.
- When did the service start?
- Does the six degrees of separation theory apply?
The service started on the 16e of September 2007.
With a piramid scheme that started only 5 days ago hardly anyone will know of it’s existence. That means that if you join now you’ll be able to find a lot of people to join your network.
The six degrees of separation is a theory that says that you know (1) someone who knows (2) someone who knows (3) someone who knows (4) someone who knows (5) someone who knows (6) someone of importance.
At first glance that may seem unlikely but think about it.
I’m a starting artist with autism who does unskilled labor at a sheltered work place. I know about 200 people and none of them know anyone of importance. Or do they?
The manager of my department knows a president of the company with 2000 employees. The company where I work.
This president has joined us about two years ago. We hired him because he is well connected within the business community. It’s quite possible that he knows the president of Sony or at least that he knows someone who knows the president of Sony. (The last few months we have been doing a lot of work on Sony mp3 players.)
Within three or four degrees of separation I “know” someone important.
The same holds true on the Internet. With most networking schemes it’s all about who you know to get something done. But because you can get traffic from ten generations of referrals the six degrees of separation applies.
With an ordinary networking scheme you would have to find people who’d bring in at least the same amount of traffic as you do. Which would be a lot of work.
But since the six degrees rule applies you could except anyone with a website.
Did you just start your own blog last week and do you have one or two friends who just started to blog last week?
Join up and get your friends to join your network!
At this point it really doesn’t matter if you have any web traffic to speak of because it will grow.
To grow your traffic you’ll go about your business in the usual way. You’ll write your articles. Maybe you’ll learn how to write great headlines and great articles and your traffic will increase.
In the mean time your Blogrush widget will be sitting on your website. Ones in a while you’ll write an article to get people to join up. Maybe an other friend will start blogging and join your network.
Slowly but surely your network will grow.
I can’t say how long it will take but at some point you will hit that pot of cold. At some point in the next few weeks you’ll find that you know someone who…. knows someone with a large amount of traffic who will give you a lot of credits.
Anyone who has a website with a few pageviews a day join Blogrush.
If you’ve been at it for months and you have hundreds of pageviews a day it probably would be a good idea to join but it might take a few weeks before you’ll see any results.
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