Banned From Blog Rush?

About a month ago I recommended a new, free traffic generating tool called Blog Rush. Designed and promoted by Internet Marketing guru John Reese, it looked like a great idea. Then, people started using it to do their spamming and things got ugly. Reese put out a stern warning message for everyone to stop, saying that all blogs registered to use it would be individually judged for content and eliminated if found to be non-conforming to their requirements. Problem is, these requirements were never totally defined from the beginning, and now they've apparently become more than just anti-spam requirements.

This very blog of mine, for example, was inactivated by Blug Rush. Does this look like a spamming blog to you? I don't think so. In fact, it's probably one of the most honest blogs you're likely to find on the internet about making money with internet marketing.

Needless to say, I believe they have gone way too far in their discrimination efforts to avoid spam. True, my post only gets updated a few times per month so far, which may also be true of many of the spam-type websites they're trying to weed out. And true, I also have some Google AdSense ads included, like almost every site you ever bring up these days. So why should this barr me from participating in their little traffic circulating program?

I guess what I made the mistake of doing was also adding the Blog Rush tool to my admittedly very small http://www.ps3-now.blogspot.com/ blog. It was mainly created to help people looking to buy a PlayStation 3 video game system, and to get a few AdSense clicks here and there in the process. So I'm not entirely in disagreement with them for banning THAT blog. But because ONE of my blogs wasn't up to par for them, that also means ALL of my blogs get banned?

My advice is to just save your time and effort and pass on Blog Rush...at least until they get their act more together. (They are still very new.) If it improves and catches on in a big way, it will be easy to find and maybe worth trying again later. Until then, there are plenty of better ways to bring traffic to your blog without having to meet someone else's ever-changing requirements.

Bottom line is that for the month or so I was using it, Blog Rush brought me a whopping 7 (seven) visitors to this blog. I think I can function without it.