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You might have noticed that I’ve finally got around to adding the Blog Rush widget to The Make Money Online Dot Net. I wasn’t fussed at all by this idea, to be honest showing untargeted links on any page is never likely to get you any traffic. Google spent a lot of time getting their content targeting down to a fine art, if for one minute broad range categories provided the same sort of CTR do you really think they’d have bothered? Not only are you not very likely to get little or no traffic from other websites but there is also the chance that you’ll upset your own visitors by bombarding them with unrelated content.
But in the interests of jumping on board a band-wagon I thought I’d give it a go. I’ll keep it a little out of the way for now until I’m sure that the content it’s showing is relevant. If it starts to generate traffic I’ll keep it.
Cheating Blog Rush
Programs like this are really easy to cheat. Any system that relies on impressions for reward is easy to cheat. It looks like everybody is cheating Blog Rush because even keeping in mind what I said above the click through rates being seen are appalling. Out of the 400 impressions I’ve had not 1 click.
Cheat no1. – Install this Firefox plug-in for Firefox that allows you to refresh a page automatically. Open your blog, or a page with the widget on and let it refresh all day automatically building up credits.
Cheat no2. – Put your widget code in a hidden div or iFrame on every website you own. For people with popular websites it’s a very quick way of building up credits.
Cheat no3. – Refer yourself several accounts. You can even stick the widget from different accounts on the same blog.
I don’t know why anybody would want to cheat the system, lets face it if everybody does it then all of our credits are being used on some hidden iFrame or only being viewed by an auto reloading browser, hence no click through rate. If Blog Rush is to grow then they’ve got to stop these tactics (and the many other cheats) being effective.
4 Responses to “Cheating Blog Rush”
PreBlogging
September 21, 2007
I’ve stopped using blogrush for these reasons. Also you can not be insured that people will be as honest as yourself.
Blogrush is an interesting idea, but not knowing where on a page your RSS feed will appear, will lead to people abusing the system.
Becky
|Michelle
September 21, 2007
yeah – crikey. I do have the blogrush account – and tho I wasn’t too bothered about the credits that can be earned – I’m a little concerned at how easily the thing can be misled. This would mean that I’m getting less useful impressions as other people cheat blogrush and win!
Ta for the update, Paul. I’ll see how the thing goes on my own (noobie) site.
|Make Money Online Blogging
May 2, 2008
It isn’t made for helping people generate money. The idea behind it is to help broadcast your site to people that would have never seen it. It can get you some people, but majority will be just a fling. It is good for stats, but why fake stats. If you are trying to make money off your site, then more hits doesnt mean jack if they aren’t from targeted sources. It will do nothing but hurt your CTR.
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