No More BlogRush
After closely watching my stats for weeks to see how much traffic BlogRush has been bringing in, I finally decided that it was not worth the space it was consuming and dropped the widget.
When I first started using BlogRush I received a huge amount of traffic - thousands of hits over just a few days. But slowly traffic dwindled, then after moving the blog here to the new domain last month, traffic from BlogRush has dropped to only 2 or 3 hits per week.
I still have a tremendous amount of respect for John Reese and I am more than willing to give BlogRush a second chance when 2.0 comes out - but in the meantime, I’m keeping with the theme of “less is more” on my blog.
How is BlogRush working for you on your blog? Please post a comment and let us know if it has brought you the amount of traffic that you expected.
How Many Blogs Do You Subscribe To ?
As I was sitting and doing some “reading” this morning I got to thinking about how many blogs there are out here in the blogosphere. This led me to start thinking about how many different people on the internet read these blogs - which got me to thinking about how some of the really big blogs have tens of thousands if not more RSS subscribers. My thoughts then quickly changed to how ridiculously small the squares of toilet-paper are in the restrooms where I work.. I’ll save that subject for another post.
After doing a little math in my head, I figured that there must be many people out there on the internetz that subscribe to dozens of RSS feeds or more, which got me to wondering if someone with that many subscriptions actually reads them all or if they’re just trying to prove something - or maybe don’t have anything better to do.
I have exactly seven RSS subscriptions in my iGoogle homepage:
- JohnCow.com
- MubinAhmed.com
- Darin.CC
- John Reese
- Problogger.net
- ShoeMoney
- GrownUpGeek’s Blog (i like the way it looks on iGoogle)
Even with this small, hand-picked list of blogs in my iGoogle RSS reader, I still read 5 to 10 more blogs every day, usually finding them by BlogRush surfing. If I come across a particularly good blog I might subscribe to the feed but usually only after removing someone else off my list.
So now I’m curious: How many blogs are in your RSS subscription list, and which are your favorites? Please post a link to your top 2 or 3 ..
AuctionAds Should Hire John Reese
I just finished reading John Reese’s “Shocking Changes At BlogRush” post and I am completely amazed at how he so totally gets it.
Let’s compare another new startup company AuctionAds, to BlogRush, and how they’ve handled a few situations:
Both ventures are very young, both experienced explosive, unexpected growth almost immediately, and both have experienced growing pains due to their success. For both, this has resulted in system wide problems like incorrect stats, downtime, etc - very similar in many respects.
Now lets look at how the two companies have dealt with these issues:
- AuctionAds: Ignore the problem(s); Make no announcements in the blog or give any other information to customers for weeks (if at all), claim to have fixed the problem(s) when they are not fixed, ignore user/support requests; blame publishers for the problems
- BlogRush: Post updates that members cannot miss each time they log in for even the smallest of problems; DO/accomplish what they say they are going to do; listen to user feedback and actually give (some of) what is asked for; Post a two-page letter that members cannot miss explaining how they’ve made mistakes, how they plan to fix them, publicly identify other problems with the system and how they plan to fix them, explain other issues and why they are important to the company, and remind all BlogRush users that THEY are what is important to the company
Now; I know these differences are subtle - but if you look very closely you may see Read more
