BlogRush has now launched phase 2 and it looks much better!
Like many bloggers I recently added the BlogRush widget to my site. The idea is simple:
- Register at BlogRush (it's free)
- Add the JavaScript widget code (Get Code)
This will then:
- Present visitors to your site with 5 links to other blogs per impression
- For every widget impression yours will be shown somewhere too
The problems started with the dashboard which was basic, then slowed to a crawl then finally gave minimal information and an assurance that a great replacement was on the way. That replacement was scheduled for 'this week' last Monday and not a word except:
This is a MAJOR update. The service is not even 30 days old, yet we’re about to release more changes than most Internet start-ups do in their first 6 months.
Or put more succinctly the service is almost 30 days old and you still can't see if we're doing what we promised.Google Analytics can track referrers and all go via widget.blogrush.com (you can't tell which Blog sent a browser your way) and I've had 2 referrals out of 3,50 in the last 30 days putting it 112th in my referrer league. Analytics also tells me my site has had 11,800 impressions in that time although curiously StatPress informs me it is about 3-5 times this.Either way it's rather disappointing on both fronts. It goes to prove that a great idea needs a great implementation which reminds me of Rojo's failed roll outs which led me to switch to the then-inferior Google Reader which is now much more successful.I wonder if many people are blocking analytics.google.com. Does anyone else have such a large disparity between log/hits and Analytics? I thought it might be feed readers or crawlers but StatPress lists those individually.[)amien
I tried to sign up from your blogrush, but after endless error messages figured out that the service is currently only available to native English speaking countries. Since my domain is co.il I couldn't add it.
Do you use Google analytics? Why not Feedburner?
Looked nice though.
I know I used to block all the google-analytics.com stuff (I dont anymore).
I have not checked my stats/logs in a long time (not since I got rid of my forum, used to get 7,000 hits a day on it), I dont run ads so I dont feel I need to check stats and so forth. Though I did used to get a kick out of how many people hit my site with WAP browsing.
I gather I should steer clear of blogrush for the time being?
I use Analytics over Feedburner because my blog has a portion of non-blog content that I want analysed and because I was under the impression Feedburner doesn't provide detailed browser statistics... but I could be wrong?
[)amien
I don't run ads either but I like to know what my readership is, the more I get the more incentive there is to produce better original content.
The risk BlogRush is taking in my opinion is coming up with an idea, getting momentum and then not being able to supply that newly created demand leaves a void somebody else might fill...
[)amien