BlogRush moving quick to dump the junk blogs

When BlogRush went live a few days ago, many people saw the potential to get new visitors. People with affiliate pages and "junky" blogs also saw the potential and signed up, too. BlogRush has acknowledged the problem and they're moving quick to correct it by moving to a manual review process and increasing security to detect cheaters. Here's an excerpt from John Reese's blog:

1. We’re moving to a MANUAL REVIEW process. No more automation. We will be reviewing ALL blogs submitted to BlogRush. If the quality of the blog is poor, they will not be allowed to participate. We’re going to start reviewing ALL the blogs that are currently in our network and will be disabling the accounts for poor quality blogs.

2. We’re continuing to add security measures to our system and we will be mass-removing any and all cheaters that we discover. We will not rest until the cheaters are WIPED OUT and kept from abusing our network. The manual review process will help eliminate most of them as legitimate bloggers that have put in the time to create a decent blog aren’t the types that are going to be abusing the system.

And from the BlogRush dashboard area:

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.

I think there's still a lot of potential in BlogRush so I plan on sticking with it for a while despite its rough start. Every big project goes through growing pains so I can't hold it against them.

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