BlogRush Begins Phase 2

     You may remember that my last post about BlogRush gave insite on what would be available when phase 2 begins. Well phase 2 has begun! Since earlier this week BlogRush has initiated phase 2 and for one day gave a 40% boost in site traffic to all users. I checked my stats and definetly noticed the increase.

     They made a whole video about the update, but I can also sum it up for you right here. You now have a dashboard that comes complete with stats and graphs for your website. You can earn credits by how many people you refer to blogrush, how much traffic you send, and how much traffic you receive. They show information on your credits by creating graphs that show where your credits come from and how many you earned from traffic.  For each blog you connect to your account they keep track off which articles are most popular, how many times it was advertised, how many people looked at it, etc. They also have a meter for each blog article that shows how hot, cold, or mild it is.

      You can also use filters to decide what kind of articles show in your blogrush widget that you place on your page. Besides just articles, you can filter whole blogs from appearing in your widget. You can also prevent certain blog posts of yours from being shown in other people’s widget.

      The next thing is that you can generate reports for each blog to show all the stats, which includes traffic, credits earned, referrals, etc.

     You can now also choose different “flavors” or colors of widgets to place on each individual blog of yours. You can also choose the size of the widget. Right now there are 13 different flavors available and also two sizes (175px && 120px).

      Besides that, they went through (by hand!) thousands of blogs to pick and choose which ones were allowed to stay and which ones had to go! I think all this effort shows that BlogRush is definetly a quality network that is here to stay.

     With all these features there is no reason not to check out BlogRush!

BlogRush Unveils Phase 2

BlogRush, a fast growing blog network, has now unleashed phase 2 of its overall website. BlogRush has only been available for a month and has seen enormous growth in the number of users on its network. When BlogRush first started off, it barely had any features besides placing a widget in your blog and hoping for traffic. Many users however were receiving little or no traffic. These latest improvements are meant to help you gain more traffic and help you better analyze your traffic statistics.

The whole dashboard (which is where you get to keep track of your stats from your blogs) has been completely remade to show a lot more detailed information. Now you can see how many times your blog is shown across the network and how many times people click on a link to your blog. All your blog posts will now have a “temperature” i.e. hot, cold, warm, to show how much activity your post is receiving.

You can also customize reports to be able to view data within certain date ranges. Low traffic members will receive a bost in traffic as well, besides the boost that they are already offering.

Members who signed up earlier might have noticed the lack of categories available to place your blog in. Now they offer lots more categories. They have also been working hard to get rid of the cheaters on their network who try to receive traffic without giving any in return. With their now enhanced widget performance monitoring, if you do not drive enough traffic, you lose your BlogRush privileges. They will warn you if you are at risk of losing your BlogRush privileges.

Besides this whole major Phase 2 update, they plan on adding more features and widget customization. They also have an upcoming release called TrafficJam.com, which will instantly benifit all BlogRush members, but they have yet to release more information about that.