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The length of this post title is exactly 40 character wide, and it sure looks like those attention-seeking and clicks-pulling headlines isn't it? I'll explain ;)

Well, if you've landed on this post via a BlogRush widget click, then one of my BlogRush "tips and tricks" works. I've a full documentation on this blogrush tip in how to implement a dedicated Blogrush blog.

Advertising in blogrush (getting good click-thru rate) is pretty much the same as advertising in Pay Per Click search engines. Part of it is about setting an attention grabing headline, just ilke this blog post.

I'll leave this topic for now, if you've been a Blogrush user, check this blogrush squidoo lens too.

BlogRush - Automatically Promote Your Posts On Related Blogs

This blog gets a fair share of traffic from the MyBlogLog community. Just under 3 weeks and I've gotten over a thousand unique visitors (since August 25th). That's FREE community traffic.

Now, I must admit that was a bit of hard work; I got the exposures mainly from visiting other people's blogs and profile. Doing that attract some return traffic probably from the blog owners or their visitors, when my picture was displayed on their MyBlogLog widget. Someone joke that I should be using a pretty lady's picture so I'll get more traffic. Haha... I'm sure it will, but what kind of visitors I'll be getting is another question.

Here's a new kid on the block which I'm testing - BlogRush.

As you can see on the panel to the right, I've added a new "widget" that displays 5 random posts from other blogs belonging to the "Marketing" category or topic. I've classified this PPC Marketing blog under "Marketing" when I sign up for the free BlogRush membership - as such the BlogRush Syndication Network will display 5 random posts from other "Marketing" blogs here.

The idea is that since it's all marketing related, any referral traffic from these blogs should be more "targeted" readers who are interested in that subject matter. Now, how would I benefit from sharing my visitor traffic with other bloggers via this panel too?

I've detailed quite a lot of goodies in a BlogRush Squidoo Lens. That should give you some idea why it's a good/bad ideas to start adding BlogRush to your blog NOW even though it's on Beta...

If you are totally new to all these, check out the instructinoal videos which I've made on the Squidoo Lens too (Ya, you get to hear my voice); e.g. specific instructions on how to add this widget on various Blogging platforms like Blogger.com.

Basically, it's as simple as adding some javascript code (just like Google Adsense) anywhere on your blog's template where you want the panel to be shown. With Blogger, you simply add a new "HTML/Text" widget containing your own unique BlogRush code.



Right, I'm promoting it actively now as I'm really interested to see how it compares to MyBlogLog in generating more community traffic to this blog. You should too ;)

If you're wondering why a PPC guy is promoting this thing so actively, have a read on my objective of this blog just below my picture on the side.

Note: Links here contain my referral code.

Social Networking Business Model

Ok, a real quick comment on the workshop which ended yesterday.

I gain the most from learning from other internet marketer's experiences, and this is one of those occasions where I felt enlightened. There's a good mix of slides presentation and hands-on lesson where we get to install a propietory script that builds a community website.

Social networking was the main theme of the workshop, and while it did sound like "just one of those Web 2.0" lessons initially, I was amazed at the amount of practical ideas I can take away.

See, the problem with many of the other Web 2.0 pitches out there talks about the various social networking sites and how much traffic they get - I never could understand how someone can get "targetted" traffic from participating in these networks, not to mention the need to be a regular blogger and readers of other people's ramblings. (Thus I could not get myself to write often too ;)

At this workshop, however, it helped me to complete the puzzle; the connections from the big picture business model perspective (the how's and the why's) to the practical aspect of starting a community website (market research, SEO, etc.).

Nay, this is not to say I'll be stray away from my PPC business model and start to jump into social networking. I came out of this workshop having a much better appreciation of how all these can better fit together, so I know now when to leverage on them for my online businesses.