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Is BlogRush Better Than StumbleUpon

Posted by OpenSourceMarketer On September - 18 - 2007

Click Here To Learn About BlogRushWhich is better, BlogRush visitor traffic or StumbleUpon? This is a good question and one that has several possible answers. Let’s look at the traffic types for both visitor sources and then compare them both to get a better understanding.

BlogRush was launched over the weekend and I signed up as soon as I heard it was open. Immediately I started seeing visitor traffic to my blog, OpenSourceMarketer.com. The result was a sharp increase in mailing list subscribers, RSS subscribers, and blog comments. In fact, I am continuing to get visitors from the BlogRush widget on the blogs, though it has slowed down just a bit. Some of the slow down might be due to the overwhelming response that BlogRush has received. I bet John Reese didn’t anticipate such a great response, even though he founded the project.

BlogRush has enjoyed great success so far because it is context sensitive so it display blog posts from other blogs that are relevant to the content on the page. That means if your blog is part of BlogRush then your blog posts will show up next to relevant keywords on another blog. Ultimately that means that if someone is looking for information on a specific topic and they are searching blogs for that information then a link to your blog posts are going to show up near those relevant keywords. This is how Google runs their entire Adsense program so you know this is a proven method of getting readers to click on links. Read the rest of this entry »

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How To Track Blog Reader Clicks

Posted by OpenSourceMarketer On September - 3 - 2007

CrazyEgg.com Reporting ViewsOur next article, “Using Del.icio.us To Build Website Traffic”, is almost finished. But, in the mean time I couldn’t help but write a short post about a great article I read over at ProBlogger. Darren Rowse wrote an excellent short piece on using CrazyEgg.com to track and analyze blog title click throughs for a group writing project. He posted the results along with screen shots from CrazEgg and he gave an interesting break down of what the number meant. Checkout the article if you are interested in the details.

What is CrazyEgg.com

CrazzyEgg.com is a simple to use click through measuring tool I recently read about in Yaro Starak’s Blog Master Mind Course. I have to tell you, the tool will change the way you look at creating posts for your blog. Read the rest of this entry »

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