Today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire covers a new 24 inch widescreen LCD monitor with a built-in Webcam, software that enables you to create virtual desktops, and an online multilevel marketing service that promises to drive desirable traffic to your blawg (see article below). Don't miss the next issue.
Boost Your Blog
By Neil J. Squillante
Congratulations! You launched your blog. Now, please fork over $50,000 to a public relations firm to get it from 0 to 50,000 readers in one month. What's that? You didn't realize marketing was the biggest expense? Well, if you don't want to pay, you'll have to build your audience slowly.
Then again, you could try BlogRush, a new service that promises to "drive a flood of targeted readers to your blog." You simply add a bit of code to your blog template, which places a widget to your blog.
The widget lists five blog posts from other blogs that publish material similar to yours. When a reader clicks on a link that blog opens in a new browser window. For each page view on your blog, your blog will show up that many times in a BlogRush widget on other related blogs in the BlogRush network.
At the bottom of your widget lies a small BlogRush logo. Those who click the logo and sign up for BlogRush become your referrals. You then begin receiving credit for their page views as well. For example, if your blog has 100 pages views and your referral blogs 1,000 page views, BlogRush will list your posts in BlogRush widgets 1,100 times that day. It's like that old Faberge Organics TV commercial ("And I told two friends ...").
This referral system works for 10 generations, which means you'll receive exposure credits for page views on blogs that don't even know you exist. The BlogRush dashboard shows you exactly how much exposure you're receiving.
If you have multiple blogs, you can add them to one account and set up rules for the distribution of your exposure credits. If you're concerned about posts by competitors showing up in your widget, you can try to block them by prohibiting certain keywords that you designate. BlogRush is free. Learn more about BlogRush.
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