You know, I’ve had it completely with BlogRush. As far as I’m concerned John Reese can go get bent. Why? Well, this is a service that was so poorly rolled out that after I announced it right here on OMB I had to modify my post within 1 day. That is the ONLY time I’ve had to do that in over 850 posts.
Well, a few days ago John Reese sends this e-mail out to the world explaining that he knows there were some serious problems with the initial launch and that they are making a bunch of changes to clean up the site, and so on, and so forth.
So, like a sucker I thought I’d give them one more chance to redeem themselves and put the widget back in the sidebar. Within a very short period of time I was already noticing that there were porn links appearing in my sidebar, so I removed the widget.
Now, flash forward to today – when I don’t even have the widget on my site- and I get the following notice telling me that my content “did not pass our Quality Review criteria”. HA!
Here is a little excerpt from the e-mail they sent:
On 22 Oct 2007 05:01:15 -0000, BlogRush (system@blogrush.com) wrote:
We regret to inform you that your BlogRush Account has been made INACTIVE because your blog did not pass our Quality Review criteria. You will find instructions below for making your account active again.You will notice that the widget no longer loads on your pages — please remove the BlogRush code from your blog for now.
We recently reviewed your blog(s) located at:
http://onemansblog.com
We determined that your blog did not meet our strict quality guidelines. Please do not take this personally but realize that we must abide by a very strict set of quality guidelines. The primary reason(s) your blog(s) did not meet our guidelines:
Inappropriate Content Or Advertising: Gambling
So, I can only assume that some monkey banging on a typewriter came across my article Online Roulette Game and Basic Roulette Strategy and labeled my site as a Gambling site! Brilliant.
“Strict Quality Guidelines” my ass. Yet again BlogRush proves itself to be the most worthless, overhyped service ever launched on the Internet. So thanks, but no F’ing thanks!
I haven’t been kicked out (and seriously, there are SO many complete crap blogs out there and they took yours out? Sheesh!) but I haven’t been getting traffic either so I’m taking the widget away.
Sounds like a very dodgy site / project.
Good thing you didnt waste too much time / traffic on them. And thanks for the warning.
Kim:)
I thought about commenting, but I’m wordless…
Anyway, I just noticed I got this:
An Important BlogRush News Update…
- Congratulations!
- 10,000+ Blogs Removed From BlogRush
- Phase 2 Being Deployed
- Busy Week Ahead!
————————————————————-
Congratulations!
————————————————————-
You are receiving this update because your blog has passed our strict
Quality Guidelines and criteria — we believe you have a high-quality
blog and we are happy you’re a member of our network!
Well I guess their Quality Service department didn’t look too much at the context of your site (how it covers a broad range of topics, hopefully from a somewhat objective vantage point). Oh well, it’s probably best that you figured out that you don’t need them (while they don’t want you). I’m glad that I never did try it out, I had been waiting for results of the initial burst to come in. And it looks like it’s going to be a negative.
You’re not the first to bash BlogRush.. but this is sad. I’ve always viewed this blog as a more mature blog as well. You definitely shouldn’t be slighted for inappropriate content. All I can say to them is, “Sorry for your loss”.
That’s just crazy! And here I was trusting in their weeding out ‘bad blogs’! Ha!
I was all for BlogRush when it came out, I sent an email out to all our members suggestion they give it a try.
I just removed the widget last night from all my sites, I’ve seen Zero traffic from it, and the links on my site are to spammy trashy sites.
I’ll still follow them for a few more weeks to see if this “phase 2″ will make a difference, but for me, I’m with you John.. screw BR :p
Wow that’s really pathetic on their part. My blog was accepted, but I honestly couldn’t care less. I’ve had the blogrush widget on my site for atleast two weeks now and I have only got one single view from it. I’ll give it another two weeks, but I doubt it will do anything substantial in that time. More than likely, blogrush is coming off my site as well.
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Kim:)
There is nothing wrong with your blog.
The problem lies within BlogRushs sloppy business practices and complete disregard for how to treat people.