BlogRush - The Mighty “Phase 2″

BlogRush is about to implement a ton of changes and they're not even a month old. It's nice to see such quick action to make improvements, I know they really got slammed when they first came out since every other blogger posted an announcement with their referral links trying to get a leg up on the referrals (nothing wrong with that!). You can read about the improvements on John Reese's blog. A few of the big ones are copied below.

- Per Post Statistics & Addition Of “Buzz Meter”

Now you’ll be able to see how many times each of your posts is syndicated across the network and how many people clicked to read that individual post.

- Bonus Syndication For All Users, But Weighted Towards Low-Traffic Members

All members of our network will be receiving bonus syndication but we’ll be giving more bonus credits to our members that need it most — ones with low-traffic.

- Improved Security & Abuse Measures (We’ve already squashed 95% of the cheaters!)

We’ll be rolling out improved security measures, but we’re happy to report that we’ve eliminated about 95% of the cheaters in our network. We’re sure to continue to get a few new ones ‘trying’ from time to time, but we’ll work hard to zap them as quickly as possible.

- 100% Manual Review & New Quality Guidelines

We’ve already launched our Manual Review process… all new users as of today (and for good) will have their blogs manually reviewed BEFORE the widget will even load on their pages. Their posts will not be syndicated across the network until they are APPROVED and meet our Quality Guidelines. If they are not approved the widget will not load on their pages and none of their content will ever be syndicated on the network.

We’re almost finished with manually reviewing all the existing blogs in our network. We should be done with this massive ‘audit’ within about 7 days.

As soon as we complete this full audit there will be a MAJOR SWEEP of our entire network. All the blogs that don’t meet our quality criteria will be REMOVED from our network.

Say goodbye to all the non-English blogs, junk blogs, and any low-quality blogs you may have seen from time-to-time in the widget. (I love this one)