Traffic Jam (TrafficJam.com) Goes Live! What Is John Reese Thinking?
So John Reese’s Traffic Jam (TrafficJam.com) has finally launched. It’s the second part of the whole BlogRush.com launch that took place earlier this year. BlogRush.com was suppose to be a great service that would provide bloggers free traffic. It worked by installing a widget on your blog. The widget would display posts titles related to your blog topic. Other blogs in return would display your blog post titles on their blogs if it was related. This was all done automatically. So it was basically a glorified traffic exchange program which seem to have a lot of potential at first.
However BlogRush.com was a huge disappointment among many bloggers. Honestly, I won’t lie, I was hating on BlogRush on the inside as well. But because I have a lot of faith in John Reese and no, I’m not a groupie. I just stick by people that have proven to me that they’re real deal and more importantly have helped me make money. So with that said I continued to use BlogRush.com on my blogs but wasn’t getting a lot of the free traffic that was initially pumped as the main reason for joining the network!
But I stayed on my grind and continued to bang out content. Once in a while I would check my blogrush.com stats and it wasn’t very promising. My blog posts were getting a lot of visibility (impressions) but not many of the visitors were clicking. This is made very apparent with the heat meter that they use to display interest in your blog posts. If you wrote great headlines then your heat meter would be on fire which indicated a lot of interest. The flip side is when the heat meter would turn blue and show icicles. It basically meant your headline sucked and thus the heat meter was colder than your wife after calling her fat. See the image below to see what I mean.
With visuals like this, it was a great a motivator to write better headlines to get that elusive on fire heat meter. Eventually one of my headlines caught fire. Coincidentally I also saw more comments to that particular post not to mention some free traffic from the BlogRush network. So I thought to myself, this is a great way to help me come up with more compelling content. So I did what any good marketer would do. I rinse and repeated similar headlines. And wouldn’t you know it, the heat meter was on fire again. So I started to finally get some of this free traffic that was promised by BlogRush.com. But I always wondered to myself what headlines my counterparts were using that were on fire. Because if I knew that then I can rinse and repeat again. Enter TrafficJam.com!
So What is TrafficJam.com & How Does It Help Me?
I think John said it best in his email so I’ll just post it here because I think the description is totally accurate.
"For marketers, this (TrafficJam.com) is the ultimate research tool. You can monitor blogs by niche and keep up with what type of posts are getting the most interest across the Web. This will make it incredibly easy for you to know what type of blog posts you should be making to get more traffic, interest, and popularity for your own blog.
Now you’ll never run out of ideas for new blog posts!
This research data can help you identify untapped keywords and other opportunities.
This site is essentially a LIVE HEADLINE TESTING MACHINE!!! (by topic)"
- John Reese
Now I think he’s pretty much summed it up. I know just by using BlogRush.com it has helped me write better headlines but with TrafficJam.com I can tap into other people’s headlines and steal.. I mean mimic what’s working for them. This basically means more traffic for my blog because it’s already proven that it works otherwise their blog posts won’t make the top rankings on TrafficJam.com.
So if you’re looking for free traffic, more comments and even more readers to your blog, then join BlogRush.com and start visiting TrafficJam.com to learn what’s hot in your niche or others. Then just lather, rinse and repeat for your own blog.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Great info!
I don’t know much about John Reese - so this is helpful.
I will check out his new program! Incremental increases in traffic may not seem like they are worth the effort - but they do add up! Thanks Eddy!
Kelly Land
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