BlogRush has been removed, Here is the Story

Posted on October 24, 2007
Filed Under Starting your Online Business

I received an email form BlogRush the other day and debated whether or not I would comment or post on the situation. Here is what the email stated
BlogRush Quality Guidelines:

- The blog contains unique, quality content that provides opinions, insights, and/or recommended resources that provide value to readers of the blog. Articles, videos, public domain works, press releases, and content written by others are okay to be used on the blog, but the ratio of unique content should far outweigh content from other sources.

- The blog should be updated on a regular basis (at least several times a month) and should not just go a few months between posts.

- The blog should already contain at least 10-12 quality posts. New blogs with very little content will not be accepted.

- The blog’s primary contain must be in English. BlogRush is currently not available for non-English blogs.

- The blog should not contain an excessive amount of advertising and links and very little actual content. The focus of the blog should be quality content.

- The primary content of the blog should not be “scraped” content from other sources and/or script-generated pages for the sole purpose of search engine rank manipulation. The focus of the blog should be quality content.

- The blog’s content (or advertising) should not contain any of the following types of content: hate, anti-racial, terrorism, drug-related, hacking, phishing, fraud, pornographic, nudity, warez, gambling, copyright infringement, obscene or disgusting material of any kind, or anything considered illegal.

Best Regards,

The BlogRush Team

Well now that was a surprise to me. I have searched the pages of my site thoroughly and objectively. I have compared it to other blogs and concluded I will never satisfy their criteria. Making Sales Making Money will remain intact just as it is for better or worse. I will not re-submit my site for further review. I just read a post on one of my favorite blogs Interesting Observations, fresh-perspectives.net and apparently Pearl suffered the same judgment from BlogRush. Actually another quality site, filled with quality content, but falling short of the criteria to continue with BlogRush. I have added Interesting Observations fresh-perspectives.net to my Featured List. If you are interested in the being listed , just link to this post and I will return the effort. Others are sure to follow

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2 Responses to “BlogRush has been removed, Here is the Story”

pearl on October 25th, 2007 2:26 pm

Hi Don.. thank you so much for featuring my blog and your kind comments! I really appreciate it although I don’t have a clue what I did to deserve that

When I wrote the post, I had no idea there were others or so many that were dropped! but its all good I guess… I hadn’t signed up for shopping ads so now I did and added some colorful ads - much better looking than their sorry widget
Frank C on October 27th, 2007 1:02 pm

The more I examine what they did I think they rejected a lot of sites by ‘bot if their URL or meta tags contained what they considered ‘bad’ keywords. Some of these I’ve identified are ‘girl’, ‘free’, ‘money’, and ’sales’. I’m sure there are several others they used though.