Comments on: TrafficJam finally launches, but will you use it?

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:15:47 +0000

@ Andy – I don’t think it has anything to do with certain sectors judging too quickly on this occasion (although I agree it is sometimes a factor).

When a service hypes itself up so much (as BR undoubtedly did), then it’s setting itself up for a fall if it doesn’t deliver what it promises. Quite frankly, Reese got what he deserved after the way BR conducted affairs early on.

As I just commented on Andy Beard’s blog, I’ll reiterate here my thoughts on the new addition. TrafficJam is a nice idea, but I don’t think basing it off a system like BlogRush is that desirable.

Only my opinion of course…

By: Angela Booth

Angela Booth — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:44:40 +0000

I stuck BlogRush onto one of my sites last year and let it run for around a month.

From what I recall, it provided a lot of horribly inappropriate links, so since it added nothing to the user experience, I took it off.

And no, I won’t be adding it again. :-)

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:49:56 +0000

Too many widgets, indeed.

By: Colleen M. Johnson, CMJ Office

Colleen M. Johnson, CMJ Office — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:19:26 +0000

I never knew about the drama with BlogRush either. I have it. I have not checked TrafficJam out. It is a bit crazy with all these companies. I agree with Kemi. Everyone’s trying to pull rank.

By: Kemi

Kemi — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:48:26 +0000

Oy, these widgets and buttons and code snippets and websites playing the “rank my blog” game. It’s a bit much, no?

By: Gobala @ WordPress Tutorials

Gobala @ WordPress Tutorials — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:06:34 +0000

Personally, I think they are trying to make a point when there is no pint to be made. I got 2.7 million BlogRush credits, I wish I could sell it off..

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:34:27 +0000

Hi Mark,

I’m not sure how widespread the BlogRush backlash was. I think it stayed largely in the tech / web marketing niches. Without wanting to offend or condescend anyone, stereotypically at least it seems that techies and those doing web marketing are much quicker to judge, and really looking for sites and services that perform straight away, whereas perhaps other niches (autos, for example) aren’t so bothered.

Could be wrong on that, just my feeling.

Search blogs for BlogRush and (while you’ll get a lot about TrafficJam now) you’ll see titles like “Time to Stop the BlogRush!”, “Blogrush gets the boot”, and “BlogRush Sucks!”

It will be interesting to see if perception changes with TrafficJam.

By: Mark from QuoteMyAuto

Mark from QuoteMyAuto — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:13:57 +0000

I had no idea about all of the drama with Blogrush – I just recently added it to Bloglyne.com and have not had any issues with it, but perhaps they ironed them out since last year.

I took a look at TrafficJam last night, not sure if or how it adds value – seems like just a list of random blogs… when I have time (after dealing with the thousands of other things I have to do on the other sites, I guess I will take a closer look)