When John Reese announced BlogRush, bloggers all over the Internet hopped on board to participate. It’s still early, and there are still a bazillion blogs not registered, but there’s an awful lot that are already part of the revolution.
I’m sure John knew when he conceived of this idea that it would take off like a rocket. But did he, does he, know that he could transform the Internet?
I predict that this will, in small steps and large, revolutionize blogging as we currently know it.
What I’m seeing from a small sampling of my members at Earn1KaDay.com is that all of a sudden some are getting excited about blogging again.
Some people create blogs as a personal diary, not caring if anyone reads them, sometimes secretly not wanting anyone to read them. Others want to connect with the vast cyberspace universe.
The latter type of blogger has largely been frustrated. Yes, there are those that get thousands of reads a day, and make a lot of money at it, but those are few and far between. The other bloggers, those that labor in obscurity, have largely been frustrated by the inability to get meaningful amounts of traffic to what they write.
And really, how many entrepreneurial bloggers just want to talk to themselves? When it becomes apparent that’s the case, many give it up, or slowly reduce the frequency of postings.
I sometimes feel that frustration myself.
Today I was chatting online with a member who got excited again about his blogs. He hadn’t posted in months. Now that he’s put BlogRush on his sidebars, he plans on posting daily. He sees a real chance to get more traffic.
Am I seeing any additional traffic because of BlogRush? Yes. Is it a lot? No, not yet, but it’s more than nothing, and that’s the key.
The more people that visit someone’s blog, if it’s a good one, the more people are going to bookmark it or add it to their readers. The more readers, the more BlogRush credits to advertise it somewhere else, which in turn will bring still more readers.
And the key thing is, in my mind, if not in John’s, is that people like myself, and like the person I was chatting with today, will be encouraged to blog more often, blog more enthusiastically, and blog with more quality.
All good things, don’t you think?
Splogs (spam blogs) that register for BlogRush won’t benefit, because anyone who visits them won’t come back anyway, so their impressions will stay low. Quality blogs, that grow their readers, and grow their BR credits, which will grow their readers, which will continue to grow more credits, and so on, and so on, will flourish.
If you’re a blogger that has quality information to share, and have been discouraged in the past, I encourage you to do two things:
1. Sign up for BlogRush now and paste the widget into your sidebar.
2. Give your blog a shot again, give it a good two months, and see where you end up. I suspect you might be surprised.
Tags: blogging, blogrush, Internet Marketing ideas, john reese
