BlogRush Is Out Of The Blog Marketing Business

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing Tips.

John Reese Just Announce That He Is Shutting Down BlogRush, Which Is Now Completely Out Of The Blog Marketing Business Market!

This type of news are the ones showing that even top Internet marketing experts and gurus can have a failure, this time John Reese the marketer that made over one million dollars in one day in from of a huge crowd in a one of his seminars just announce that he is shutting down his blog traffic exchange service called BlogRush, a viral blog marketing tool that he created back in 2007.

John develop a big launch campaign for this blog promotion tool, I even announce the launch and a test project of the viral marketing tool on this blog to see its traffic generation potential by myself. Many other bloggers had a lot of bad feedbacks about Blogrush, but most of those bloggers were geeks, and we all know that geeks don't like marketing or business related blogs or sites, that's why their feedback about a marketing tool or product has no value for me or many smart online entrepreneurs.

The Blogrush idea didn't appeal to a lot of bloggers that just blog for fun, but it actually created a huge buzz in the world of online entrepreneurs, where most bloggers are using online content management tools to make money online or to promote their businesses or to provide a better customer experience. But, the tool awake big concerns about the service longevity, usability, and performance. And there was a big confusion if the service was worth using or not, because at the beginning you only heard good feedbacks about it, but most of them were from affiliates trying to get you sign-up under them, for that reason I needed to try it and tested myself to see if it really work, but I knew it wouldn't have the power John said it had.



Fail The Test.

Like a said before I put the service to the test in two of my sites, and the results were very similar, I notice that the service had a lot of loop holes, and only high traffic blogs were able to really reap the traffic benefits from the tool. Leaving most new or low traffic blogs with no chance to use the service successfully, and actually it hurt their them because you were licking you hard work traffic to other blogs, gaining almost nothing in exchange. Other problem also were:

- Low click-thru rates, very low, which give you low chances to turn it into profit.

- The click-out to other blogs were higher that the actual click-thru, meaning you were giving a lot for nothing.

- The quality of most of the blog was low, which give your readers a bad taste of your personal recommendations that can turn into loosing visitors.

- The traffic wasn't instant like John said.

Those were the reasons I decide to take the Blogrush widget off my blogs, and the funny part was that after I took the widget off, I was getting one or two visitors per month from the service, that is just another loop hole on the service.


Recommended Blog Marketing Tools.

If you really want to bring steady quality traffic to your blog I recommend you to use service like:

- Zimbio Wikizines.
- Social Bookmarking sites.
- Squidoo Lenses.
- Google Knols.

I also recommend you to focus on article marketing and SEO for better results.


To get unlimited advice about blog marketing visit the IE Club.


Recommended Resources.

- Bookmarking Demon. Social bookmarking automation software.
- Atomic Blogging. Top blogging system.
- #1 Internet Marketing Training Course. Learn Web 2.0 and more.
- Search Marketing Lab. 24/7 SEO and PPC Up to date training.
- Web Traffic Machines. Complete traffic generation system.


In Conclusion: Well, I see you in the conference. Just remember to learn as much as you can about social media and web 2.0, the best way to do it is make a Internet marketing plan base on a social campaign and then list the services, tools, or technology like social bookmarking or new sites that you want to use in your promotions and then get some time to learn how to use each of those tools the right way.

To your success,

Luis Galarza, Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

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TrafficSwarm Review

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing And Make Money Online Tips.

It's TrafficSwarm The Best Free Manual Traffic Exchange or It's All B.S.? Here Is My Review!

Can Trafficswarm work for your web site or blog? Well, it depends... first you need to know that free traffic exchange services does work to bring or increase your web traffic, not all of them are good, but there a lot of manual or automatic marketing services that really send some good traffic your way. I can say this because I had try and test almost every single web site or blog traffic exchange available to find those that really can help an Internet marketing beginner generate a good amount of unique targeted visitors.


TIP: After testing many free and paid marketing exchange services I found out that there are three rules that can help you spot the good ones right away and there are:

First, make sure the service and the company it's a popular one and have a good amount of users, this amount need to be above 10,000 at least... because the success of this type of services depends on the exchange of users web site viewing, and if a company don't have enough users you are going to get the same people viewing you ad or site over and over again, making it almost useless. Now if the service have 100,000 users you have a better opportunity to generate leads and sales even if only 1 percent of those users sign up or buy your product, that's 1,000 new prospects or customers... not bad eh!

Second, for the service to become successful needs to have some kind of revenue sharing program or affiliate program build in, and more important has to have a viral marketing system that can help it's users to market the service successfully. Without this the service is simply not worth the try.

And third, the manual service better have a anti-cheat system to avoid members to use robot-softwares to do the clicks for them, you want real people behind each click not a computer software.


OK, back to the my Traffic Swarm review.

Let see if TrafficSwarm have what it takes to be a quality free and paid manual traffic exchange service provider that can really help you increase your visitor base and your overall marketing efforts. First, let see if they are approve by my three traffic exchange qualification rules:

1.- Size Of Actual Active Members:
This is important to make the service a successful Internet marketing tool.... and this company has done an excellent job promoting their service to a bass amount of online entrepreneurs, because they provide an inventory of more than 400,000 active members, which make it the largest manual traffic exchange service available on the web. So, we can put i check mark on this one.

2.- Income And Viral Marketing System:
Is not just about making money promoting this type of marketing service. But, having a good income program behind it can increase the amount of members they get everyday, which mean more different people viewing your marketing message that will increase your results, but don't forget to test and track your ads to know how and when to tun your campaign to increase your web conversions. And the viral marketing part of the system need to help you increase your site view credits. Well, Traffic Swarm does a very good job in this two areas... As a free member you are part of the site view referral program that goes five levels deep, that mean for every new member you refer you get 100 view credits for your sites, plus you get credit for every member refer by your referrals up to the fifth level. Also the more you use the program the more credit you get, and don't forget those surprise credit you get when you visit a selected site, I had bonuses of up to 1500 view credits. Now if you are a TS pro member (paid member) you can also get a monthly residual commission for every member you refer that upgrades to pro, which require a monthly payment.

Another thing you can do is put a little code to any of your sites promoting a text link version of their members to gain even more credits every time some visit or click on the links. I don't really recommend you using this feature, because you will be sending some traffic away from your site to gain a few extra credits, I don't think is a good idea.

3.- Good Anti-Cheat Technology:
This is a really important one, because like I said before you want to make sure that your ads are being watch by real people not automatic clicking robots or software. And this is another reason why TS has become the leader and it's market, TS have a top notch cheat-proof technology that makes it almost impossible to crack.


As you can see TrafficSwarm have good reliable marketing system that can be use to increase your daily visitors. But, there is more:

- You get Free lifetime membership that you can put to use right away. You get 10 ad spots to promote your site, and unlimited if you upgrade to pro.

- You get 100 free credits just for signing up. I don't know how long this offer will be up, but is available to all new sign-ups right now.

- Targeted traffic with about 10 categories to choose from, with real active members clicking on your ads.

- You get to decide which ads you want to view and click on, they don't use force page load technologies.


Other cool benefits you get by using TS service are:

- You get to test and track the quality of your ads before using any type of paid advertising service.

- TrafficSwarm help you increase your web site and blog exposure which help you improve your Alexa ranking.

- If used right, TS can help you generate leads for your business or products, build an opt-in email list, and increase sales.


Most free or paid traffic exchange services work better when you are promoting business or marketing related products, But TS can do a wonderful job on other niches because of the 400,000 members they support. Hope this review help you see if this service fits in your Internet marketing plan. Try it now the lifetime membership is free.


Recommended Resources.

- Search Marketing Lab.
- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online. 2008 Version!
- Web 2.0 Stampede.
- Michael Cheney's Traffic Videos.


In Conclusion: If you are planning to start an Internet business or already have one you will missing out on the quality of traffic you can get from TrafficSwarm free and paid service.

To learn how you can be part of a small business association full with Internet marketing experts visit the Internet Entrepreneurs Club.

To your success,

Luis Galarza, Internet Marketing Consultant Massachusetts.

About Author: Luis Galarza is a respectable Internet Marketing and Small Business Consultant in the area of Leominster and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Also, he had teach 100's of entrepreneurs how to make money online and offline without their own product.

A proud member of
- The International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs
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