Blogrush Experiment: Initial Update
I have told everyone that I’m conducting a blogrush experiment for my personal skill development, so here’s a brief update on what happened and what’s going on.
As of today, the experiment has gone in a long path of nowhere. Out of an almost 3,000 page impressions (aggregate), I got an enormous Click Through Rate (CTR) of 0.067% or two massive clicks. Is this time to conclude that the Blogrush widget is 99% near to being useless in bringing some traffic? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not yet concluding this experiment, as I have said, this is just an update. The technique that I used in my previous blog post titles is in between being cautious and aggressive, although much nearer to being cautious. I tried making strong titles such as “Gaming StumbleUpon: Exploiting the Traffic” which gave me 152 unfiltered views, excluding my own page views, and two clicks from the blogrush widget, which represents 100% of my blogrush clicks. The results are not enough to conclude anything, so I’ll still continue conducting these experiment.
There are few constraints that may lead to unsuccessful results of this experiment. The most limiting factor is my blogrush credits. Due to the very little traffic that I’m getting from this blog, I was unable to gain sufficient credits to syndicate all of my posts. An average of 600 page impressions is very small. My target is to give my posts 2,000-3,000 page impressions each, which is still far out of my league. Anyways, I’m trying to work on that.
On the other hand, there are few things that keeps me from using the blogrush widget. Although blogrush failed in bringing a considerable amount of traffic, it is somehow successful in introducing to me quality posts. There are few articles here in Pinoy Biz Blogger which are inspired from articles syndicated through the blogrush widget. For that particular reason, even though my experiments goes out to nowhere, I’ll still be using blogrush for discovery purposes.
I’m not done yet with this “Title Making” experiment on blogrush, so expect a few updates regarding this one.
2 Responses to “Blogrush Experiment: Initial Update”
By Aahz on Apr 20, 2008 | Reply
Sorry it’s not working out for you, though I can’t say I’m surprised. I wrote a whole series of articles on BlogRush failures (I linked to ‘em with my name above).
Aahz’s last blog post..BlogRush - The Widget That Wouldn’t Die
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nick reply on April 20, 2008:
I’m not totally disappointed though. Although it’s proving worthless in bringing some traffic, but the quality articles it syndicates gives me a good reason to keep it..