Blogrush widget gone
One less item to clutter up my sidebar. As I said in this post I wanted to give Blogrush a chance, before I condemn it as useless clutter.
Now I have had it for about 2 weeks and not only have I seen zero effect on my traffic. I also noticed more or less every time I visited my own site, that the widget was showing links to sites that have absolutely nothing to do with my own topics, and even some to sites I expressly blocked (making money blogs and such stuff). That’s more than just useless, that’s totally annoying. Especially since finding interesting new links for myself was one of the main reasons I installed it in the first place.
According to their blog Blogrush will be launching some major changes to their service within next week. Well, it would be a nice start, if I was able to use my dashboard and access my stats. So maybe I should give them some more time to get their shit together before I toss it.
But, to be honest, I just don’t care anymore. Maybe I’ll try it again some time, but right now I don’t have much time for blogging and monitoring this thing to see if it behaves as it is supposed to is just not on.
Besides, I have found another way to showcase some interesting links to other people’s posts in my sidebar. I’ll give that a try on the weekend and write more about it once I get it to work.
I have blogrush too and haven’t seen jack. Although I did see an increase in spam.
I’ve gotten FIVE hits so far, but a few have come back a few times. I’m going to see what the changes are before I chuck it.
In the meantime, I’ll wait and see what goodies you’re coming up with, S. I’m restless and on the prowl for something different.
Yeah, the spammers have caught up with me again as well. I am not sure if it is related to Blogrush on my site, though.
I thank god for Akismet every day, it rarely lets any spam through and even more rarely tags a wrong comment as spam. So, for all I care, the spammers can rot in hell.
I’ve never heard of blogrush… some sort of networking tool, you say? I like networking but, yeah, spamming sucks.
Thanks for stopping at my blog, Romance with Morgan. I try to get to new TTs every week. And yeah, the chat challenge is an insider thing…how rude, eh??? :eyeroll: A bunch of writers meet in a chatroom and race…how many words we can write in 20 min? My average is 250 but if my stories aren’t going anywhere, I’ve also done as little as 36. :wince:
I know, you probably don’t care that much. LOL
Have a great weekend.
Morgan