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BlogRush is a new traffic referral widget which is similar looking to blog referral widgets (ie MyBlogLog), but links to posts rather than people. Its been done before, and its nothing really new. But it has had some attention from the likes of ShoeMoney, so I expect it will take off.

The site itself seems reasonably well implemented, the widget looks ok, and the javascript code is nice and simple (so hopefully we don’t see to many security issues of the likes of the BlogLog ones).

BlogRush basically works by giving you credits for page views and using credits when you get a listing on someone else’s blog. You can also get credits by signing up new users. The referral credit goes up to 10 levels deep in a pyramid type scheme, so some people could potentially get huge amounts of credits by being at the top of the tree.

They have a few nice features like spreading credits amongst multiple blogs. Nice help for people with successful blogs that want to start another.

I’ve added the widget, so I’ll see how it goes.

Mitch Harper at HarpzOn.com writes about getting more website traffic. I was reading his post today about commenting on blogs that don’t use the rel=”nofollow” anchor tags to get more traffic. It occurred to me that removing nofollow from your own blog might actually be a way to get more traffic also.

So I am going to try it as of today. As long as there is some method to stop spam it seems to make sense to give a little in return to your readers. I figure its another method of revenue sharing. And I think the whole blog community should start doing it.

Right now I get very little traffic. I comment on various blogs and get small amounts of traffic from all my comments, but I have yet to top 100 visitors in any day. And I have yet to receive a single comment. I haven’t really tried anything to help this (like all the methods Mitch is describing), mostly because I have no spare money to try the methods he has described.

Anyway, I might not have the exposure to really determine if this concept works, but hey what the heck its worth a try.

Free PageRank, come and get it! Hey, if you really want some pagerank, leave me a comment AND digg this article. That way your link will get more exposure when this story goes crazy.