*Note: Unless something controversial happens, this will be my final post about BlogRush.*
Based on my experience, it looks like BlogRush (I’ll call it BR from time-to-time here onwards) is trying to unexpose honest reviews that don’t favor them.
In my opinion, I think I wrote a fair analysis when I posted “BlogRush, Have You Forsaken Me?” last week (if you want to object, be my guest 
). Did BlogRush intentionally block that post? I don’t have a clue.
Normally, BR would pick up the latest post a few hours after it was posted. However, after 2 days of observing, I noticed that BR was still using an old topic as a “flag-carrier” of my blog when it’s not supposed to.
Why did that happened? Was it a BR glitch?
Despite the curiosity itch, I exercised patience. I wanted to experiment a bit so I waited couple more days before I published another post (“You Love Writing, Does Someone Understand?”). As expected, few hours later, it was sent across sites that run BR widget. It has been syndicated a good 134 times in less than a day.
How come my BlogRush review never made the widget?
To get the clear picture of what I’m talking about, look at the two photos below:
Above is a snapshot of my archives. I published my BlogRush Review On 11th of November 2007
It never happened before. So last Friday, first thing in the morning, I wrote a short email to BR Customer Support asking for an explanation as to why. Even though I expressed my disappointment, I did my best to be polite and professional. When I didn’t get any response after a day, I followed it up. I am still waiting for their reply.
Is BlogRush really that busy to ignore my email? I believe they have people who filtered and purged 10,000 “low-quality” blogs, how come nobody from Customer Support even bothered to answer a simple query?
Personally, I think BlogRush is a good idea that will benefit both Mr. Reese and bloggers, and I really hope that the censorship is just a glitch. But if Mr. Reese and his team don’t even bother clearing up this situation, then it is like saying they really monitor and auto-block honest reviews against them. If that’s the case, then we don’t know what kind of posts they will block in the future. Next thing we know, they’ll control political issues (I know it’s a stretch, but a possibility).
For BlogRush members who are reading this, kindly check your BR dashboard and see if some of your articles got blocked - particularly the ones that have honest reviews about them. Make sure you are not filtering your own post, otherwise, it will not really appear in the report. Let us know if you had been censored without your knowledge.
My hope is BlogRush widget somehow picks up this post and sends this article across the blogosphere (I will know in the next few hours upon publishing). However, if BR censors this, I won’t mind. This post will still find its way out.
Mr. Reese is probably laughing his butt out, thinking how a small site like mine could hurt his project. All I can say is everything becomes bigger by the power of the internet. And with your help, we can send this message to the intended parties so they can avoid this kind of mistake again — whether it was accidental or intentional.
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Just thought I’d let you know that your BlogRush widget has a ‘blog’ listed on it right now that is really an affiliate site selling replica watches. Yes, they got rid of all the spammers in their great purge.
I checked my BR Dashboard and not all recent articles (the titles) are shown. I don’t know if they are blocked or not. But those articles got nothing to do with BR.
Hi Markk, I have never experienced “skipped” articles unless it is BlogRush Reviews. Like this post, would you believe that this entry is not getting broadcasted yet? BlogRush still syndicates the previous post. It’s weird, really. I hope it’s a glitch, but I seriously doubt it.
Thanks for letting us know that other articles (besides honest blogrush reviews) are blocked. I’ll also ask some of my online friends if they had the same experience.
@Frank, before I forget, thanks for linking me up in your BlogRush update.
I’m giving the widget until the end of the month for more “experimentation.”
Markk
I visited your site to check your posting frequency and I noticed that sometimes you post multiple entries per day. BlogRush syndicates ONLY the latest post eventhough you have 2 entries in one day. BR does not pick up the rest. Just my theory.
I checked back through my post record. I tend to post only once per day or less. I realized the only articles it didn’t syndicate were the posts where I mentioned BlogRush. One was a general review when I first signed up and another not quite as flattering. So, maybe it’s just a general filter on BlogRush.
yeah, sometimes i think blogrush is full of sh_t and i really don’t care if they refuse to show my blogs because for that comment.
their stats are whack!
but i will admit that I HAVE gotten into a few good blogspots because of blogrush, so i am sure it serves some purpose. grrrrr!
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It really wouldn’t surprise me to find out that Blog Rush was doing some censoring. From what I’ve heard so far it wouldn’t seem out of character.
Hi Saedel,
This is in response to your comment for my post Does BlogRush bring any traffic?.
You are dead right. So far, I have written 3 posts on BlogRush. And all the three posts were not syndicated. I did not write anything against BlogRush in a way. I have written some other posts on BlogRush without the word BlogRush in the title. They were syndicated across the net.
So, I believe that BR has a filter to remove posts with the title “BlogRush” in it. You may write a complete review on BR without including BR in the title. Then it may be syndicated.
I do not want to conclude against BR. Maybe, BR do not want any publicity from the bloggers. They have had enough of it. Maybe this is a glitch as you have pointed out. Only John Reese can explain the rationale behind this.