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.