I came across a post on Digital Point saying there’s a great new way to increase traffic to your blog. It’s called BlogRush, and it’s completely free. You may have seen it by now, as many other bloggers are testing it out. Look on my sidebar, and you will see a new widget that says “From the Blogosphere”. What BlogRush does is publish 5 new posts from other related blogs, hoping you will send traffic to them.

For more information on how it works, click here to watch the video. Below is an excerpt from the member dashboard on how you get traffic to your site:

In our video we mentioned that you earn a 1:1 ratio of syndication credits on your own traffic, and any direct referral’s traffic (such as “Bob” in the example video) and any direct referral’s referral traffic (yes, that sounds confusing!) such as “Jen” in our example. We also mentioned that you’d also earn credits based on activity through 10 generation levels. Here’s the breakdown of our formula:

Your Traffic = 1:1 1st Generation Of Referrals (Directly From You) = 1:1 2nd Generation Of Referrals (i.e. Jen in the video) = 1:1 3rd – 6th Generation Of Referrals = 1:4 7th – 10th Generation Of Referrals = 1:8

1:1 means you earn 1 syndication credit for every 1 impression of the widget by your own traffic or by any users located on the 1st (direct) or 2nd generations. 1:4 means you earn 1 syndication credit for every 4 impressions of the widget by any user located on the 3rd to 6th generations. 1:8 means you earn 1 syndication credit for every 8 impressions of the widget by any user located on the 7th to 10th generations.

When all of this math is added up, it leaves 1 headline space available out of every 10 that are served. This means that BlogRush uses 10% of the headline spots (5 headlines in each widget load) to monetize the service. We currently have plans to sell these extra credits to any user that would like to purchase additional credits — this is one of the ways we will pay for the service.

I’m not sure how well this will work on my blog, but at this point I’m down to try out anything new. If it does actually send me new traffic and new RSS readers, I will use BlogRush on all my blogs. With sport niche blogs, this program could work very well.