In search to make my blog more popular via link exchange services, I’ve found BlogRush and registered for the service.

BlogRush states itself as a “Cooperative Syndication Network” — a network of blogs that run a small “widget” on their pages. Each time this widget is loaded it will contain 5 clickable headlines which are the blog post titles to other users’ posts. Clicking on any of these links will open a new browser window and load the blog and full post.

BlogRush is completely free but requires each blog to meet certain quality guidelines. Every new blog is manually reviewed by a content specialist; this helps BlogRush maintain a high level of quality and stops spammers and others from trying to abuse the network.

Like Spottt, users earn “credits” based on each time their blog loads the widget and each time any of their referrals (users that signup after clicking the “add your blog posts” link on the widget) loads the widget. More intelligently, they also earn additional credit based on all the activity through 10 generations of referrals.

BlogRush Widget

You are required to add title, feed URL of your blog and select a category in which BlogRush will syndicate headlines among blogs. (I choose “Internet Startups & Web 2.0 Companies” category - not exactly the main focus of my blog but I find many interesting news in this channel.) Then, the service generates a script to display BlogRush’s widget and asks you to integrate it into your blog for verification. FYI, you may have to press verification button a few times until it verifies that the script has been added. Now, just wait for approval in about 12 to 48 hours and if your blog is approved you’ll see headlines appear on the widget.

Of course, you can login to management panel to view credits earned, traffic to your blog or change widget settings (get insight of BlogRush’s system from this video clip).

BlogRush Dashboard

On the other hand, you may want to check out TrafficJam.com, a nice idea by John Reese, which shows the most visited posts on the Blog Rush network so it gives you a running count of what content, across a wide variety of topics, is popular. I like its objective:

TrafficJam.com was designed to give exposure to great blog posts regardless of the size (or current traffic level) of the blog. Some of the best blogs in the world are currently undiscovered and don’t have large advertising budgets to drive traffic — so many of them will never be found.

TrafficJam Home

Please note that number 1 is the most popular headline and there is no voting system like Digg. Watch this video to learn more about TrafficJam.


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