People have been bashing BlogRush for the past couple of days, because they haven’t yet delivered their promised “rush of traffic.”
After releasing statistics to their users, everyone started blogging about how they had x impressions of their headlines, but only a few clicks. Darren Rowse even. He’s had over 70,000 impresions, but only 35 clicks or so.
Well, BlogRush has just sent out an email to all of their users. If you’re not in the program, here are some excerpts.
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Technorati recently introduced a new feature known as Topics. In a Digg Spy-like manner, it shows recent postings from the blogosphere. Today, Technorati redesigned their homepage. The old page content is gone, swapped for the topics feature. See it here. To the right of…
This is either a useful tool or a fun toy. Websites as Graphs is a Java applet that renders your website’s (X)HTML structure as a graph of colored dots. You enter a sites’ URL into the form, and the applet puts a black dot…
You’ve seen them on the web. You may even use them on your blog. Snap.com’s Snap Shots system quickly spread across the web, infiltrating many popular and semi-popular blogs. Some people like them, others loathe them. The question is: Should you use them or…
Do you run a blog or website with interesting content? Would you like to gain a little more exposure, and help others do so as well? You could join the NTugo Network. How does it work? To join, you must link to the Network…
So, you’ve got your blog up and running. Are you tracking your blog’s usage statistics? No? Then stop right there! It’s important to know how many visitors/pageviews you get in a month. Why? Well, it’s a good gauge of how well you’re blog is…
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RSS is one of the greatest web technologies invented in the last ten years. It enables us to keep up with our favorite sites, listen to podcasts, and get niche news easily. Forget annoying old newsletters! Who needs them when you can just open…
Here’s an important question: Should you use Google Custom Search (GCS) on your site? Or would it be better to directly search your database. It depends on your point of view. Some bloggers use GCS, while others use their blog software’s built-in search tool…
Attention AJAX programmers! Do you need a good “loading image” (or “throbber”)? Take a look at AjaxLoad.info, the only throbber-image generator I know of (as of this writing). You pick an image style, then enter some hex odes for the foreground and background colors.…
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