09:45 by FoxTwo
Blogrush and TrafficJam Need To Be Renamed
After seeing just 1 day of statistics, I have come to a conclusion.
Blogrush should have been named "TrafficJam", and TrafficJam should be renamed as "Blogrush". Honestly, the results these sites deliver are in total opposite of what their names imply. When I first joined Blogrush, I was expecting a flood of incoming traffic. That never happened. In fact, a couple of blogger friends of mine even thought about removing the Blogrush widget.
Then, seeing the statistics from just yesterday alone, Traffic Jam sent close to 400 hits to my LOWEST-TRAFFIC blog (I'm Such A Loser - my fitness blog). Normally that blog gets between 10 to 20 hits a day at most.
The only other service that even comes close to sending this much traffic is Entrecard, but unfortunately that blog isn't on Entrecard because I haven't figured out if I can add additional blogs to Entrecard.
The only downside I can see to the TrafficJam service is this - your blog entries must get listed in their "top 10". If it's not visible, you won't get any traffic. My fitness blog had an entry listed at number 5 across the whole network, and all hits to my fitness blog was headed for that #5 ranked entry.
I am forseeing that what happened on the old ping.sg will happen on Traffic Jam, ie a lot of people will be trying to come up with catchy, racy, raunchy etc titles to get people to click on it. Blogrush works like how the old ping.sg worked - as soon as someone clicked on your link, it's counted. Get enough clicks, your entry shows up in the top 10 list of Traffic Jam. When it shows up in the top 10 list, you get even more clicks.
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Haley @ Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:10:00 AM I hadn't noticed BlogRush before. Just joined today. I hope you got credit for the referral.
As for your EntreCard issue. I would think that if you have two email addresses, you could use the second email address to create an EntreCard for the second website. Choose one to stay logged in with and use to drop your card, and trade credits between accounts as needed. I haven't tried it, but it seems workable to me. -
FoxTwo @ Saturday, February 23, 2008 12:53:00 PM haley - thanks, I hope you don't have a high expectation of Blogrush, cuz in another post, I said Entrecard should have been named Blogrush, since it truly did send traffic my way.
The thing is, with TrafficJam now, that changes the whole Blogrush thing. Friends who thought about removing the Blogrush widget are now sticking around to see "what happens next".
As for Entrecard.. sigh. I don't really want to have multiple accounts, but I guess if I really wanted my other blogs on Entrecard I will need to do that... -
Haney @ Monday, February 25, 2008 9:59:00 AM
Hmmm...perhaps I should sign up trafficjam.
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FoxTwo @ Monday, February 25, 2008 10:25:00 AM
Haney - you can't "sign up" for TrafficJam. You only sign up for Blogrush, and if your post gets enough clicks, it'll show up on TrafficJam. It's like ping.sg... TrafficJam is the top10 box, and Blogrush is ping.sg... see how it works?
