AhTim.com

One of the famous blog syndication network – BlogRush is shutting down. If you still remember, my blog has been banned from BlogRush on last year October.

I’m still new blogger (1 month old) at that time. They decline my account due to too much promotion and not enough quality content. Since then, I never reapply my BlogRush account.

I’m glad AhTim.com is still alive while BlogRush is shutting down. Last year same month, I said “My BlogRush is Dead”. Now, we can say “BlogRush is Dead”!

Why BlogRush Dead ?

During the first year, BlogRush successfully served 3.4 Billion blog post headlines all over the world. Then why end up with closed down the service? According to John Reese:

• Made many mistakes in deciding what blogs should stay or go (Maybe one of the mistake is decline AhTim.com?)
• Never made a single penny in revenue (No revenue, how to survive?)
• Service didn’t meet the expectation (Major factor to close it down)

No wonder the word “Beta” was there for pass 1 year. I doubt the reason behind this project. Do the founder build it for fun? What they want to do with all these blog’s information? Nobody know.

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Few days back, when I retrieve email, noticed that there is an email from BlogRush. The email said that:

We regret to inform you that your BlogRush Account Is Currently INACTIVE.

It’s a message that stimulate my mind when I read the email. Lots of questions come into my mind. I keep asking myself, why my blogRush account has been inactive? According to the email, the main reason of my account inactive was due to:

The primary reason(s) your blog(s) did not meet our guidelines:
Too Much Promotion And Not Enough Quality Content

Based on the reason above, do you think AhTim.com has too much promotion? For number of quality content post, is it too new for a 6 weeks blog to reach the expected amount? I know it might take longer time for me to build enough quality content, but never thought my BlogRush died so soon! By the way, according to BlogRush, (more…)