Last week, nobody heard of this thing called Blogrush. One week later, the name is sprouting up all over the net. Yeah, everyone knows the name, but how many know how it works? Honestly, I don’t… well not until I read from here. At least one guy can explain to me in plain English. Wait, I assume he’s a guy….

The big guys are saying it’s harmless to try it out. There’s no money involved. What’s the worst thing that could happen? Come to think of it, not much. Just don’t get your hopes too high though.

To my understanding, unless people put the widget on a good spot, nobody’s going to see your headlines. Let alone click. Wait, do people actually bother looking at your sidebar? Money making blogs have better chances grabbing attention. The ‘money‘ word never fails. Honestly, people who do extreme blog hopping searching for the elusive money making tip WILL notice the ‘money’ related headlines. For the rest of us with personal blogs, I doubt people would care enough to click to hear our rants and babies.

Geez, that’s plenty of pessimism…

I know, I know. There are sane good folks out there who do read personal blogs. I mean blog readers not from those niche personal blog network who comes to your blog because you always politely leaves a comment at theirs. They do exist, but fast facing extinction.

So, is Blogrush going to benefit personal blogs? Damn, do I look like Lilian Too? I could guess….. only if you resort to sleazy tabloid-like headlines to lure unsuspecting folks to your blog. Scheming is not worthy of the death penalty in the blogosphere but unless your content matches your headline ’steam factor’, people won’t be back.

Anyone signed up? I’m not signing up though. I’m not saying it won’t work for everyone with personal blogs , I’m only saying I doubt it’ll bring much benefit to me. Who knows? It might work for you.

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