Blogrush Is Filtering Posts
Posted on November 8, 2007
Filed Under Advertising, BlogRush
Now that BlogRush 2.0 has been released and their quality audit has been completed I decided to add the BlogRush widget back to the blog - even though I had removed it a few weeks ago. So far traffic has been modest, but far better than it had been in the weeks up to before I removed it.
While I was checking through my Blogrush stats the other evening I noticed that my post titled “Do Penis Enlargers Work?” was not listed in my BlogRush dashboard in the last 12 posts section. At first I thought this was because the post was too new, but I intentionally left the post up for several days, and still it was never listed.
Could BlogRush be filtering certain words or phrases?
I started to wonder if the word “penis enlarger” might have tripped a filter BlogRush data-center, so I fired-off a support-ticket asking if there was a problem with my feed, or if it was possible that this particular post had been filtered. I waited a few days and never got a response - which means that they aren’t answering support questions or they decided to ignore that particular sensitive question.
Today I made a new post about the my new blogger-award, and within minutes it was showing up in my BlogRush dashboard - proving that BlogRush IS filtering words.
It’s okay, censorship is a good thing!
I’m not trying to make some kind of bash-BlogRush, linkbait post here because I actually think that filtering this type of words is a good thing (unless you’re selling penis enlargers that is). By filtering out potential spam or adult content, BlogRush is making the program better for everyone - everyone except spammers and adult content peddlers. But overall I think this is a good thing. Just keep this in mind when writing your attention grabbing headlines - don’t write something so outrageous that BlogRush blocks it.
UPDATE:
It appears that Blogrush is also filtering the word “blogrush” in post titles because this post is not showing up in my dashboard either. Perhaps more experimentation is in order.
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