It started out with a
big, big rush around September 15
th 2007, when legendary Internet marketer, guru, self-made multi-millionaire
John Reese, fired up his revolutionary
BlogRush network. Everybody and their mother was blogging, tweeting, and talking about it. The big run on BlogRush showed the size of John's tribe. His brand new site approached the 1,000 Alexa ranking mark within a couple of days.
Nothing to buy, nothing to sell. The service was free and should deliver a lot of highly targeted traffic to everybody's blog. All you needed to do was to install the widget.
The promise:
Lots of free traffic fast especially for smaller blogs
Some wrote this new blog syndication network were not as revolutionary as John tried to sell it to us. Others claimed to know that everything John touches will turn into pure gold.