BlogRush death too shows that even the content syndication network have some stiff competitions nowadays.

In terms of support, low-profile bloggers were getting help from high profile bloggers. Those public blog posts about BR yielded several clues and tactics which the original BR team did not disseminate to BR widget users. Perhaps this was the case because the tactics were the complete opposite of the content found in the BR help files.

For example, in the BR help files you were supposed to indicate your blog's RSS feed. So if your WordPress blog's RSS feed was set-up to show the latest 10 posts, any one of those 10 posts was going to get rotated in the different BR widgets. That lack of focus pretty much guaranteed little or no BR traffic at all.

In the high profile blogger's post, he wrote about manually creating an RSS feed customized just for the BlogRush system. In that RSS feed, there was only one item. That type of focus resulted in high traffic from BR.

Also, the BR widget was not displayed in all blog posts. It was displayed only on the blog post that was going to receive BR traffic. It's only fair, right? You're promoting only one post of yours, so display the BR widget only on that same post's webpage.

Lesson learned from BR: Focus, focus, focus.

I also tried Entrecard, but my sked was quite full so I wasn't able to participate that well in the whole business of dropping cards.

Anyway, I see that you have been monitoring the site very well through your older posts. Actually, my analysis is that BR has put more focus on top blogs instead of the low-profile ones. Furthermore, I think they lack support to newbies like me.

On the other hand, Entrecard was born to save their day. Unfortunately, it is now being abused by some users which is I think also the main factor why BR was buried.

Hopefully, another promotional technique site will be born to replaced BR. But I hope they will learn the lessons from BlogRush.

Thanks!