Rejected by BlogRush
So, I got my email this morning. This site is a BlogRush member no more. I’m not all that broken up about it. It was nice to get a little traffic that way, but I am getting more eight times as much traffic from wordpress.org than from BlogRush, so I’ll certainly live.
Here are their cited criteria for membership:
– The blog contains unique, quality content that provides opinions, insights, and/or recommended resources that provide value to readers of the blog. Articles, videos, public domain works, press releases, and content written by others are okay to be used on the blog, but the ratio of unique content should far outweigh content from other sources.
- The blog should be updated on a regular basis (at least several times a month) and should not just go a few months between posts.
- The blog should already contain at least 10-12 quality posts. New blogs with very little content will not be accepted.
- The blog’s primary contain must be in English. BlogRush is currently not available for non-English blogs.
- The blog should not contain an excessive amount of advertising and links and very little actual content. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
- The primary content of the blog should not be “scraped” content from other sources and/or script-generated pages for the sole purpose of search engine rank manipulation. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
- The blog’s content (or advertising) should not contain any of the following types of content: hate, anti-racial, terrorism, drug-related, hacking, phishing, fraud, pornographic, nudity, warez, gambling, copyright infringement, obscene or disgusting material of any kind, or anything considered illegal.
So, any guesses as to which one bagged me?
Yep, not enough posts. Maybe I will reapply when I get up to the 10-12 range. In the meantime, I’m going to get back to hacking up some WordPress plugins, reviewing web hosts, and looking for work.
Like I said, I’m not all that broken up about it.
Blogrush’s crap anyway. I removed it on my blog http://www.techzilo.com coz it slows down the site, and CTR is extremely low. I may test it now tha splogs are being thrown out (i didnt mean you, but the real evils).
Don’t sweat it. I have it on one of my for profit blogs, and it has done nothing for me. Literally, nothing. There are other ways of generating traffic that are much more reliable, like contributing to WP plugins (which is how I found you BTW).
love your expiry date plugin. blogrush sucks. never see any traffic from those guys so you didnt really lose anything