BlogRush is gone from my sidebar. Despite their tracking showing that I had virtually HUNDREDS coming to the website, I had MAYBE 10 clickthroughs from BlogRush listed in MY referral sources since I activated it several weeks ago. I will say that I installed the widget on my art blog and I HAVE had noticable visitor traffic over there – but only because the site is only visited a dozen or so times a day by unique visitors.
It was an interesting widget with a good premise, but I just didn’t see the functionality working here at Cootiehog, so I removed it.
I’ve been thinking about doing the same as well. I’m holding out for their “big redesign” though to see what comes of it.
Amy – I will say that I saw your blog appear twice in my widget on my site, which encouraged me to stay a few days longer. However, I just got sick of seeing the same 10-12 blogs over and over with very little new ones showing up.
Just a quick point. They are not showing any stats reporting clickthroughs yet. They are showing credits which are different. That’s based more on how many times the widget is shown on your blog. I’m not claiming that should make you want to keep it around. I am keeping it because I like to see what shows up and click on interesting. Once the real reporting shows up like they keep promising, then I’ll make a more permanent decision.
Mike – regardless of their stats, I still haven’t seen any actual clickthroughs on this site on a regular basis. Only one or two, max. I put the widget back, and will wait and see about the next release, but I still think it’s futile. *lol*