John Reese, the owner and creator of BogRush – the traffic exchange and builder widget – has decided to shut down the system permanently. BlogRush has been launched in 2007, and it became very popular in a very short period of time to the point that I used to see the BlogRush widget in all the blogs that I read, and I used it on ZakShow too, but it didn’t performed well for me and it seems that it didn’t performed good in general, let’s see what they say:
After careful consideration, we have decided to shutdown the BlogRush service. If you have the widget code on your blog you will need to remove it.
BlogRush didn’t grow without its fair share of problems — from security issues to abusive users trying to ‘game’ the system to much lower click-rates than expected. We also had some problems with trying to fairly control the quality of the network, and in the process made many mistakes in deciding what blogs should stay or go. All of these issues, ultimately, limited the service’s full potential.
Our team worked very hard to try and build a service that would truly help bloggers of all sizes get free traffic to their blogs. This was our primary focus. Not once did we ever try to monetize the service with ads or anything else. BlogRush never made a single penny in revenue. We wanted to be able to help our users FIRST and then worry about monetizing the service later. Unfortunately, the service didn’t work out like we had hoped. (It happens.)
So, it’s time to remove the widget from your blog if you still using it. I feel sad to see that service closing, I was looking and waiting for them to improve the system, but unfortunatly it didn’t worked as expected, as they said: It happens!
November 2nd, 2008 at 4:35 am
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