I recently read about an interesting new blogging tool from Barney Davey over at Art Print Issues. . It is called BlogRush – you may have noticed the new widget on my sidebar. This tool creates a network of posts similar to your own blog, and places them in this widget area. In addition, it helps your own blog with traffic because your posts are included in this network in a referral-type pyramid. . It is quite an interesting concept, so I thought I would give it a try for awhile as long as it loads quickly.
Because I post about various topics here from creativity and composition, to more technical like software and eh-hem — changing my world to Mac 😉 , I thought picking just one of their categories for your blog to fall under was difficult. . From time to time, I may change my category just to see what other topics come up,. and perhaps stumble upon something interesting.
Click the BLOGOSPHERE graphic below to learn more about this if you are interested – they have a video that demonstrates how all of this works.. it looks pretty cool – and it’s FREE!
Actually, in the short time I have been using it, it hasn’t generated hardly any traffic. So this widget thing is going to be history I think.
Hey Mark,
Interesting. Do you worry about it showing up sites, or on sites, that you might not want to be associated with? I see even with Google ads, etc, NSN often still gets some kind of porn sites advertised on the bottom of their forums. One of the big problems with this whole automated thing is it’s too easy to spam.
I’ll be interested to see how it works for you.
Cheers
Carl
If you Google “blog directory,” you’ll get all kinds of free sites to add your blog to. I’ve recently joined a few, myself. Yesterday my blog was #1 in the art section of “Top of Blogs” (today it’s #3.) Stop by my blog at some point & scroll down toward the bottom–you’ll see a few of my directory buttons (w/links to the sites.) I prefer that style, as they’re less obtrusive.
I will have to check this out…seems interesting.