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Blogrush is a traffic generation widget that is getting publicity on blogs right now. After you install the widget on your blog, the blogrush service tracks your posts and displays them on blogs that also have the widget installed, while posts from relevant blogs appear on your site. The widget displays post titles with a larger font than the site name, if you’re expecting to drive traffic with this tool it’s even more important to optimize your titles for this. Right now, one of the links on it is “Fast updates #02″, which tells me nothing about the actual post.

Getting the widget to run was easy enough, after i signed up i got a piece of javascript code that i pasted on my wordpress template, and the blogrush service handles displaying the widget.

Blogrush will display a link to a post on your blog every time your own site displays the widget, so the more traffic you have the more use you’ll be getting from it. I hope they change the widget to something more adword-like soon, the design is bound to clash with many blog color schemes.