Will smaller sites like mine really benefit from BlogRush?

I wanted to wind up my day with a posting on my Statcounter nightmare last Saturday but I will save that for tomorrow. Why have I made such a decision? BlogRush is the cause!

BlogRush is a new service that has been launched to help bloggers increase traffic to their blogs and web sites exponentially. These guys have created a huge buzz in the blogosphere such that almost every active blogger is rushing to their site to sign up in order to increase traffic to their sites exponentially as explained by the BlogRush founder, John Reese. As a tech enthusiast and an active blogger, I did not want to be overtaken by the events. I have since signed up for BlogRush.I also referred a few of my blog friends to this service. When you sign up with them, you will install a BlogRush widget on your blog.Each time the widget displays you earn a ‘credit’ which means that a recent headline from your own blog will be displayed on someone else’s blog. If your blog gets 1000 page views a day your headline will be displayed 1000 times on other people’s blogs.That sounds great!

They also implement a referral system so that if another blogger signs up to BlogRush after clicking through to it from your widget you get credits each time that referral blog shows the widget. This system goes 10 tiers deep. Although I like the BlogRush idea, I am of the view that, just like the Agloco referral system, only high profile bloggers and the first sign-ups will benefit from the BlogRush referral system. The top bloggers are naturally expected to have more referrals because the number of visitors to their blogs are already very high.The probability of these visitors to sign up at BlogRush through their widgets is therefore very high. This will lead to more exposure for the high profile blogs on the BlogRush widget while on the other hand, smaller sites will have less exposure.Even the little traffic that they will receive will be rerouted to the big boys. Therefore, it doesn't surprise me when I see almost all high profile bloggers blogging positively about BlogRush.These are just my preliminary views.What do you think? As of now, I have given BlogRush three weeks to prove me wrong.

Note:All links in this post are referral links

Agloco Viewbar

I have finally downloaded my Agloco viewbar right from the Agloco website. I have since installed it on my PC. It is accruing my online hours right now. If you have not yet joined Agloco, you can sign up here. As pointed out in one of my postings, it is a completely free service.

Why it is wise to sign up for AGLOCO

AGLOCO , which is a short form for "A GLObal COmmunity, is an Internet based economic network, which enables members to Get their share of the Internet. AGLOCO reveals that advertisers, search companies, online merchants and other businesses currently pay lots of companies to deliver people like you and me to them for attention and commerce. With this revelation, we can conclude that these companies are enriching themselves behind our backs (akutidyera masuku pamutu, in my vernacular Chichewa language, contact me if you want to learnt it!).In light of this, AGLOCO promises to be a global community of Internet users whose active members can be paid for all their online activity. You do not have to do anything extraordinary to be part of this revolution. You just have to sign up. It's fast and you pay absolutely nothing for it.There are no hidden costs. After that, you are supposed to install the Viewbar™, which will be available shortly. Once you install the Viewbar™ software it will automatically record the time you're actively online, and you will be paid for it. If you refer your friends and family, AGLOCO will pay you even more cash and shares. With these developments, AGLOCO has already created a worldwide online shockwave. Thousands and thousands of people are signing up every day. Some analysts are saying that after Google and Youtube, AGLOCO is the next big thing.

While many members are joining AGLOCO, I have found several anti-AGLOCO comments on the Internet which are discouraging some people from joining AGLOCO. A few days ago, I made a few comments against these anti-AGLOCO campaigners on aglomerate.com Now I would like to express myself even more clearly here on my own blog. I think it is very wise sign up up for AGLOCO because of the following reasons:

1. You pay absolutely nothing for it. Therefore, by joining AGLOCO, you lose nothing. In the event that it fails, as the skeptics suggest, you will lose nothing. You have the liberty to quit without any problems. If it proves to be the next big thing, as several analysts have pointed out, you are bound to be part and parcel of that revolution. At that time it might be difficult for the current doubting Thomases to join AGLOCO. Who knows, you might even be required to pay a lot of $$$ to join AGLOCO at that time. Therefore, it is wise to join AGLOCO right now.
2. Some people have been saying that AGLOCO will fail because it is a reincarnation of AllAdvantage which was launched on March 31, 1999. Records show that Alladvantage managed to raise nearly $200 Million in venture capital and grew to more than 10 million members in its first 18 months of operation. AllAdvantage paid out $100 million to its members; a few members were earning $10,000 to $15,000 a month.It however had to wind up in 2001 because Web advertising had dried up. Based on this, some people argue that AGLOCO will fail because it uses similar principles to the ones which used in AllAdvantage and that some of its co-founders (eg. Jim Jorgensen) were also involved in AllAdvantage. My view is different. If something is reincarnated, it appears in a different form, especially after it has disappeared for a period of time (Cambridge Online dictionary). The major reason for reincarnating is to ensure that it should be able to survive in an environment where its predecessor failed to survive. With this understanding, I would like to point out that AGLOCO will embrace all the positive attributes of AllAdvantage (unfortunately, these skeptics NEVER talk about these attributes). AGLOCO will also put in place mechanisms that will help to address the problems encountered in the AllAdvantage scheme. After all, most things in life do not succeed at the first attempt. That's why students sometimes pass with flying colours after repeating a certain course.Therefore, it wise to join AGLOCO.
3. One thing that I have observed is that most of the people that are bashing AGLOCO are those whose online business interests are threatened. They see that AGLOCO will take away their members. As a result, they have no choice but to demonize AGLOCO as much as possible in order to damage it in its infancy before they, themselves, are sent packing due to lack of patronage. Do not follow their advice because they want to continue making $$$ behind your backs. It wise to join AGLOCO because you will paid for your usual online activities.
4. When a good thing is coming up, there will always be negative sentiments. Even Lotfi Zadeh , the father of fuzzy logic, encountered criticism in connection to the fuzzy logic theory which he proposed some decades ago. Some sections of the society still regard fuzzy logic as controversial maybe because the principles outlined in it are a threat to their own career orientations. Despite all this, nowadays, there is a wide acceptance and a broad track record of successful applications of fuzzy logic. I hope that with this observation, you can now agree with me that it is really wise to sign up for AGLOCO.