Review of BlogRush: A Terrible Company that Took Advantage of a Lot of People

When BlogRush first opened, they accepted many people's blogs and asked them to promote the BlogRush Service. I submitted my blog. They accepted my blog. I never cheated their system and I also promoted their service. And how does Blogrush repay a loyal member who promoted them? By asking them to remove their code and by making their blogs inactive.

Here is most of the e-mail they sent:

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 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. (They are listed below.)

If you feel you have made the necessary changes to your blog(s) to meet our guidelines, you can resubmit your blog(s) for review after this date:
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

When you login to your account after this date you will notice a similar "inactive" notification message but you will find a "RESUBMIT" button (on that page) that you can use to resubmit your blog for review.

*OR* you can submit a different blog (right now) by following the appropriate link on that same page. (That you will see when you login.)

Your account will not earn syndication credits while it is INACTIVE. However, our system will continue to track the growth of your referral network so you won't lose any referrals while your account is inactive. As soon as your account is ACTIVE again you will begin to earn credits on any activity from your own traffic AND from the activity of your referral network.

Below is a complete list of our quality guidelines...

BlogRush Quality Guidelines:

- 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.

Best Regards,

The BlogRush Team

BlogRush also admits to doing this to over 10,000 people just this past weekend (October 20th and 21rst):

http://www.income.com/blog/

Quoting from that page:

"By the end of this weekend, over 10,000 blogs will be removed from the BlogRush network for not meeting our quality guidelines and criteria. We've begun the removal process and it will take about 3 days to complete."

Why is this bad? BlogRush accepted all of these people's blogs. And then they encouraged people to promote BlogRush and get others to join. Instead of rejecting the blogs right from the start (which would be the honest thing to do), they used people.

I can see a site not accepting a submission. That's perfectly fine. But to accept a submission, encourage people to promote the site, and then turn around and reject the submission? That is just wrong.

I do not recommend using BlogRush. You may find they accept your blog and get you to promote. And then, they will turn around and drop your blog.

Use a legitimate blog submission service instead, or list your blog with search engines like Google, etc. It is a better way to go.