The folks over at BlogRush have been working hard to improve the service. They’ve heard the many complaints and are acting on them.

One of the changes I noticed earlier today. You can now change the color of your BlogRush widget. It doesn’t have to be that dark grey that not everyone loved. And they did it smart. You change it on the BlogRush site. You don’t change the code on your site. Makes it very easy to test colors.

They’re also getting very strict about quality control. They’re booting the cheaters after giving them notice today that their behavior will not be tolerated. They’re talking legal action when necessary. They’re also manually reviewing all new submissions and checking current blogs for quality. They don’t want junk in the network.

All of this will hopefully greatly increase the clickthrough rates on users’ posts. After all, it’s kind of a drag to be taking up valuable blog space advertising other blogs if you aren’t getting something in return.

They’re also spreading out their excess syndication credits, favoring the little guys. Since I’m in that number, I certainly appreciate it.

They will soon be adding a lot more categories as well, so that you can really narrow down where your blog belongs.

Another great change is that they allow you to filter out posts of your own that you don’t want to appear in the network. Just go to BlogRush and filter them out. You can add and delete at any time, so no worries that a particular filter will block a later post that you want shown. So if you’re going off topic and don’t want that going across the network, no problem.

I am starting to see BlogRush appear in my stats as a referrer. That’s pretty encouraging to me. I’m having a lot of fun just being in on the beginning of this and seeing how it goes.

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