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Blogrush managed to make some waves in the blogosphere lately with their traffic widget. A lot of people are reporting success with it, but most of them have a few thousand readers a day and the possibility to get more out of the widget from their refferal network. Others report downright deceptive reports. So how did it work out for me? Well, it didn’t really. I had the widget on the sidebar for 9 days, and Blogrush detected 800 impressions during that time. For those 800 impressions i received a total of 6 visitors from the blogrush network, which amounts to 0,0075 visits per impression. You might think that 6 visits is better than nothing, but considering the screen space the widget occupies, it doesn’t seem that good of a deal.

I replaced Blogrush with MyBlogLog for now, but i have not given up on it yet. Blogrush emailed bloggers that they will be fixing some of the more glaring problems of the service soon, like improved categories and a manual reviewing process for new blogs, but we’ll have to wait and see for that.

MyBlogLog was aquired by yahoo lately and has the possibility for some huge growth. It is not made for generating traffic, instead it focuses on the community aspect of blogs.