**UPDATE** 10/09/2007 10:35 am – Blog Rush just disapproved one of my sites. Whats funny is they dissaproved my best blog (which isn’t this one!) and left the widget on all my junk sites. I really hope they get their act together because I was referred by Shoemoney and I have already referred other people as well. Hopefully those people dont get disapproved too.
John Reese has posted another update regarding the status of his Blog Rush widget. It is long and talks about all the great features and I’m pretty excited about the upgrades.
One thing that John wrote in this article that concerns me is this:
“THIS MEMBER WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE BLOGRUSH NETWORK.
We are working on something that might give members with poor widget performance a “warning” to let them know they are in danger of being removed from the network; which will give them a chance to give the widget better placement on their blog so they can, hopefully, rectify the situation and remain a member of the network.
We are not going to require our members to place the widget at the very top of their blogs or put it in any specific location. However, it’s common sense that if someone places the widget where normal visitors aren’t going to see it much, that they will achieve poor widget performance — and will most likely be removed from the network.
DO YOU HAVE THE WIDGET PLACED REALLY LOW ON YOUR BLOG?
If so, you need to move it higher on your blog to give it better placement.
Don’t want to do that? THEN PLEASE REMOVE IT COMPLETELY.
As I said, BlogRush was designed as a FAIR system. There’s a reason it was created as a COOPERATIVE network. It’s so its members can work together to generate more targeted readers for their blogs.
But this system doesn’t work if all members aren’t contributing at least somewhat equally. Why should any member give the widget high placement if other members are not going to? And yet those other members stand to receive the SAME REWARDS? It’s just not fair and, therefore, we have no choice but to make this change.
So any member that’s only willing to put the BlogRush widget at the very bottom of their blog isn’t a member we want in our network — and our network will deliver more traffic, per member, without them.”
That being said… I have the widget on about 5 of my sites and they are all distributed somewhere in on of my sidebars. However, this site has the widget at the bottom because when I put it in my sidebar it’s slightly too wide and forces my sidebar out of position. Am I really going to be banned for this? While it isn’t ideal placement, I think I have a valid reason for putting it at the bottom.
Please also note that I just recently made a post on that blog titled “Props To John Reese“! Someone has alrady commented on that post and I’m pretty confident that that person was sent to my site becuase of Blog Rush. That isn’t really a big deal but it is significant if you consider the fact that I am a noob blogger and this site is less than 60 days old.
Perhaps, when you send Blog Rush members this “warning”, you can include a link to a form or email address for people to provide these types of explanations?
Keep up the good work and please don’t ban me…