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A few months ago there was a great deal of buzz about a service called BlogRush.  What today’s post is about is whether all that hype was warranted.  In spite of all the noise about it the concept behind BlogRush is quite simple. The basic thought is to bring more readers to your blog or site. What bloggers do through this service is essentially to promote each other’s blogs in a symbiotic relationship.

What you do is install the widget on your blog and then it displays headlines from all the other people who have installed the widget. So you in turn will also have your blog displayed on other blogs. So basically the more credits you generate, the more readers you will have for your blog. In order to increase your credit you need to have more page views. So as your blog becomes popular with other readers your credit increases. This can also be done by referring another person.

In practical use however it isn’t all that simple. Simply having a widget and having your headlines flash on a widget on another person’s blog isn’t that useful either. This is because even though your headlines may be displayed more than a thousand times the traffic to your site increasing only after someone has clicked on it.  For this you will have to make your blog headlines more attractive so that your BlogRush increases.

So what you should do is to make your headlines more attractive and continue to refer people so that your credit increases.  What BlogRush lacks in my opinion is that it doesn’t allow you to display links to other sites which is huge favorite among bloggers.  On the whole though it isn’t the greatest service released.