GarageSpin

Hey!

We picked up your BRush - we figured what the hey, give it a try.

It's way down the bottom of our main page, but the links do seem to be reasonably related..

Speaking of which, we are working on a few of our own widgets for music blogs like this... check this one out:

http://gruvr.com/locations/

Okay, here's my stats so far.. I put up the Brush widget after midnight I think so it's like 13 hours of data??

Looks like we must be giving garagespin some good luv!

Amazingly, 2 other blogs seem to have adopted it from mine as well.
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Credits Earned Today: 5,098
From Your Traffic: 4,410
From Your Referral Network: 688
Credits Earned Last 7 Days: 5,098
From Your Traffic: 4,410
From Your Referral Network: 688
Credits Earned Last 30 Days: 5,098
From Your Traffic: 4,410
From Your Referral Network: 688
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However... there's also this data and notice:

clickthroughs:
TODAY 1,102 1

that's what - a 0.01% CTR?

And many people are using the widget to simply send out adsense-like links - BRush posted this:

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: Click- through rates are very low right now due to problems with some users cheating the system. We are a few days away from removing all abuse from the system and you will see your click-rates increase. We are also moving to a Manual Review Process for all member blogs which will also increase the traffic you receive. Thank you for your patience -- we're working hard to improve this beta version of our service.

SO, with one click per thousand impressions - gee, if I had run adsense instead and got a 1% that could be around $3 - that's the opportunity cost of running BRush for half a day.

Okay, after another 24 hours here's my stats snapshot:

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Credits Earned Today: 22,436
From Your Traffic: 21,148
From Your Referral Network: 1,288
Credits Earned Last 7 Days: 29,771
From Your Traffic: 27,730
From Your Referral Network: 2,041
Credits Earned Last 30 Days: 29,771
From Your Traffic: 27,730
From Your Referral Network: 2,041
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IMPRESSIONS CLICKS
TODAY 2,804 4

So in other words, I gave these guys like 23K page views, and they gave me - 2.8K?? Roughly 10% of what I sent out!? And I got only 4 clicks back for all that? Something seems fishy.

Hey Mark,

Thanks for sharing your stats! I just realized, I never added the widget to my post templates...oops! I'll do that now. But so far, here are my stats:

- 4 referrals
- 30,651 impressions generated (most of which from referrals)
- 10,787 syndicated impressions
- 8 syndicated clicks

Not a very high clickthrough rate, ay? It's free traffic, but is the site real estate worth it? We'll see, I guess...

Anyone else have stats to share?

For some reason, in some browsers, the BlogRush module was making my entire sidebar disappear and reappear below all blog posts. Until I figure out why, I decided to remove it for the time being... I'll continue to share my stats, though.