Bloggers Rush To BlogRush

If your computer has been plugged into the 'Net over the last 3 days, this shouldn't be news to you anymore. John Reese's new creation became an instant hit with Internet marketers big and small.

It is called BlogRush and is a tool that offers an easy and free way to drive more traffic (and more targeted traffic) to your blog.

Obviously, John knows a thing or two about generating traffic. After all, he is Mr. Traffic Secrets. But I believe the popularity of the tool has little to do with his fame and a lot with how brilliantly simple and effective this little tool is.

It takes only a minute to create an account and add the BlogRush widget to your blog (you can see one on the right side of this one). Now what happens is that every time someone opens your blog, you earn a "syndication credit" that makes one of your recent posts to appear in the similar BlogRush widget on some other blog in the network.

Simple enough. But BlogRush doesn't stop there and that's what makes it unique and different from of syndication scenarios. You also earn credits off the blogs that you have referred to BlogRush. And also from the blogs that those bloggers have referred... and so on, 10 levels down!

They say all brilliant ideas are simple. I'm not sure if that's always true but it certainly works in this case. The stampede of bloggers putting these little widgets on their blogs and the barrage of emails sent out to large lists, suggest that this tool is here to stay.

If you have a blog of any kind and on any platform (Blogger, WordPress, M-Type, TypePad or whatever you may have) adding BlogRush will provide some very important long-term benefits to your online projects.