Previously, I talked about how StumbleUpon can be a great way of driving traffic to your blog. However, it looks like there is an even bigger player in town. The BlogRush widget (check it out in the sidebar on the right) has set the blogosphere alight. In well under a week the widget is in more places than the common cold and is the most talked about thing on the internet since Miss Teen South Carolina. BlogRush is a widget that you stick on your website with the ultimate goal of increasing your website traffic. The widget offers readers links to blog posts that are relevant to your own blog and of interest to your readers. So far, it sounds like a dozen or so other widgets that do the same thing.

So what is so different about this widget?
What sets this widget apart are its innovative features. Blogrush lets you earn what are called "syndication credits" every time your blog is viewed. Thus, if your blog gets 100 visitors every day, your widget will be displayed on other blogs that get similar amounts of traffic. It gets even better. Everytime someone clicks on the “Add Your Blog Posts - FREE” at the foot of the widget (go on, I know you want to!), you get syndication credit as a referrer. This means that you also get additional traffic from your referrer. And It doesn't stop there. Every time readers of the other blog click on the widget footer on the that blog you also get traffic from that site. So the traffic builds exponentially. Furthermore, the sooner you get on board the sooner you get to take advantage of this widget. It is like a pyramid scheme without any of the pit falls! So what are you waiting for?

Link: BlogRush


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Up until recently I was getting a small trickle of traffic to my blog. Then something happened a few days ago and the number shot up dramatically. This is because one of my articles got rated by StumbleUpon users. In case you are not familiar with StumbleUpon it is a site that generates random sites that you might be interest in, based on your predefined interests. Furthermore, StumbleUpon users can give thumbs up or thumbs down for each site they visit. If the post gets a thumbs up it will be become available to other users; if the site get thumbs down it will disappear into the StumbleUpon abyss. On the 10th of this month I decided to post my 101 tips for better photos to StumbleUpon and the traffic started coming; at first as a dozen or so referrals and then an explosion of traffic.

One of the main shortcomings of StumbleUpon is that the bounce rate is very high as impatient surfers decide to move on elsewhere rather than waiting for the page to load. This has led me to eliminate a lot of the javascript that was slowing my page load time. Every fraction of a second counts. Another problem with StumbleUpon is that as fast as the traffic comes it falls off again. Thus, the trick is in giving people material that they will want to share with others and of course getting them to sign up to your RSS feed.

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