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John Reese, who is famous in Internet Marketing circles for being the first marketer to have a “million-dollar” product launch day, has just released a new, powerful and free viral blogging tool. Adding this tool to your own blogs will help drive more targeted traffic to your blogs, because the software utilizes several powerful built-in traffic-driving principles.

Before we look at these principles and why the software is an example of excellent marketing, let’s take a look at some market statistics regarding blogging, bloggers and the blogosphere:

According to Technorati, there are 1.6 million blog postings per day and 175,000 new blogs created each day with over 50 million being tracked. This is quite simply a huge and massively growing market.

The new tool is called BlogRush. It is an attractive-looking blog sidebar widget that is easy to add to your blog - simply copy and paste a few lines of code. It then shows five other people’s blog post titles, with the name of the blog underneath and these change every time the page is refreshed. You can see it displayed at the bottom of this page’s sidebar.

What’s so cool about this application, is that every time a page is displayed on your site containing the widget, the title of your latest blog post is shown on the widget on another theme-related blog. This has the effect of not only promoting your blog around the Internet, but promoting it to a theme-relevant and targeted audience.

So, for example, if your blog is about parenting, the links shown in your widget will be parenting-related, and your blog posts will be shown in other blogs about parenting. When you first set up a blog in your control panel (just four lines of information are required: blog title, blog URL, blog feed URL and category), you choose the category of blogs you want to cross-promote your posts with.

If you are concerned that adding this tool to your blog will take people away from your blog to other blogs, you’ll be happy to know that whenever one of your blog visitors clicks on one of the post titles displayed in the widget that belong to someone else’s blog, a new window opens. This allows you to keep visitors in your own blog, while also providing them with more information related to your niche topic. Of course, this tool will also help other people find the information they are looking for by leaving other people’s blogs to come to yours.

Research shows that most people are are more likely to read the post they are on before going to related posts on other blogs afterwards, so you will probably find that you more likely to gain visitors to your blog instead of losing them to other blogs. You can test this using the reporting tools that are included for free in your BlogRush login section.

I was actually impressed with how relevant the posts were to my blog themes when I added the code to several of my blogs. As the tool builds more traction, it will have more posts to pool from and the algorithm will continue to be improved, therefore, bringing more and more relevant content to your blog.

Are there any downsides to using this tool?

At first glance, very little. You can’t change the look of the widget, so it might not blend in with all blog designs, color schemes, etc. Also, it can only currently be used for blogs written in English. Another thing, is that, like I have done, I can see most users positioning the widget well below the fold on their blogs, so that their pages (understandably) focus on promoting their own content before other people’s blog posts.

BlogRush is relatively new, however, so by the time you read this, many things could have changed.

So, will BlogRush really help drive an insane amount of targeted visitors to your blogs? Only time and testing will tell.

Earlier I mentioned that the software utilizes several powerful built-in traffic-driving principles. Let’s take a look at some these now.

First of all, you get your blog promoted on someone else’s blog whenever the widget is displayed on any page of your blog at the ration of 1:1. This means that one view on your blog gives your blog one view on someone else’s blog. This credit system also works for you whenever someone joins BlogRush from your site (to join, simply click on the tab at the bottom of the widget and you’ll be taken to the sign-up page). In fact, this credit system works all the way down to 10 levels of referrals, so the exponential traffic potential of adding this tool to your blog and promoting it to others is just mind-blowing.

If you are concerned about this being a “pyramid scheme” or something like that, don’t be. The tool is free and it’s nothing more than a sophisticated and well-thought out traffic exchange program that uses a multi-level viral affiliate tracking technology. Because you earn credits on your own page displays, it means that even if someone signs up a long time from now, they can still benefit from having their blog exposed on other sites, since they will be accumulating credits even if they do not promote the tool to anyone else.

Speaking of promotion, BlogRush is easy to promote, because:

1) It’s free to sign up.

2) The usefulness of the application is self-evident, especially since there is a video demo on the home page that explains the whole concept simply and powerfully.

3) After you register and before getting the code for your blog, you have the opportunity to refer people and start earning credits right away using a built-in tell-a-friend script.

4) People can sign up under you simply by clicking the “BlogRush” logo at the bottom of the widget in your blog, or using a specially coded affiliate link.

If you are ready to start driving a massive number of targeted visitors to your blog or blogs, don’t hesitate any further. Sign up now to BlogRush and start bringing new, quality visitors to your sites.

Here’s the sign up link:

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