If you aren’t sick of hearing about Blogrush yet, you probably don’t read that many blogs.  The promise of increased traffic has people going crazy all over the blogosphere, trying to get credits, referrals, or whatever it takes to improve their daily traffic intake.  

If the Blogrush team is able to deliver on what they’ve promised, this service definitely has a chance.   The major flaw is that it only displays your most recent post in their widget.   Fortunately John Chow has shown us an easy way to create a feed so you can manually choose what posts to feature. 

All you need to do is simply open Notepad or some similar program and save the file as blogrush.rss.  Once that is done, copy the following code and paste it into your new rss file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel>
<title>Your Blog Title</title>
<link>http://www.yoururl.com</link>
<description>Your Blog Description</description>
<language>en-us</language><item>
<category>BlogRush</category>
<title>Your Post Title</title> <link>http://www.yourposturl.com/</link>
<description>
Don't worry about this part, this description is not used by BlogRush.
</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

Now that you’ve made your feed, make sure to fill in your personal information (blog name, blog url, blog description, post name, and post url).  Once this is done and you’ve saved your file, just upload it to your public_html folder and it should now show up as http:/ /www.yoururl.com/blogrush.rss. 

Now go to your Blogrush account and request to Add New Blog.  You will want to input your normal information, but use your new feed address instead of the old one.  Once you’ve added this feed as a new blog, the widget should now start showing the post that you’ve choosen to highlight. 

Whenever you decide you are ready to start showing off a different post in the widget, just adjust your feed file and upload it to the same spot, which will override the old file and cause the widget to show your new post. 

Note:  The BlogRush widget divides your time between the two feeds, so this will actually only work half the time, but it still gives you considerable control over what post is displayed in the widget.Â