Tech Ravings

It’s rare that a web service comes out that makes me go OOOOH!, but BlogRush has done just that. I mean from my point of view as someone who makes widgets and plugins for various platforms how many tracking services do we need? What’s the bottom line relavence of the information displayed? Does it work?

I subscribed to BlogRush around October of of 2007 to check them out and that was during version 1.x. Not really interested in the service but their pitch of delivering visitors to my site by placing their widget in my code was something I wanted to see if they delivered. Not having the time to check up with BlogRush I never really verified any information until today. I can say I’m impressed with the new version!

When I logged in I was greeted with a dashboard I don’t remember seeing, yet found that they have syndicating my feeds to other member sites. I got a display of how many readers clicked through the member sites to read my posts and with BlogRush’s algorythms a display of how important the post was to the reader. That’s powerful information to me. Based upon the BlogRush stats I can see that readers love my cakePHP posts!!

As to how BlogRush works is by a crediting system. OK I’ll admit that I’m a bit lost on this but on the top level I earn 1 credit for everytime the BlogRush widget is loaded on my page. After that I get confused. However these credits mean my posts are displayed on other BlogRush members sites and are providing click thru’s.

Check out BlogRush. It’s the only site I’ve found that not only provides me with visitors as advertised but also provides me with invaluable information on just what topics are important to my readers. Additionally they are still working on new features as well as creating a brand new site to help bring more visitors. Win and Awesome on the net!