Comments on: The Quality of Entrecard traffic

By: Nicola

Nicola — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:20:46 +0000

I dropped Entrecard quite early on - it skews your traffic figures too much so you don’t if it’s droppers bouncing from your site quickly or possible readers that you just haven’t managed to keep.

By: JustChris

JustChris — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:57:34 +0000

It’s nice to see another opinion on Entrecard traffic, from a site that gets more traffic than mine. Looks like most people agree across the board, that Entrecard is just “hit and run” traffic.

Additionally, don’t use Entrecard if your blog is about

Music
Video games
Movies
Pretty much any entertainment niche actually

The “medium boys” (as I call them) in these niches don’t even know what Entrecard is. They follow different trends in link sharing and networking, especially the gamer crowd which is more picky and have shorter attention spans with ads.

By: Diana L Guerrero

Diana L Guerrero — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:03:45 +0000

I took a look at the card and decided not to use it.

It is good to try things and assess whether or not you want to use valuable “real estate” in community efforts. However I am finding that many of the popular blogging tools are not something that is of interest or that works for me and my audience.

I have a different niche but usually wait about 30 days to make an assessment. In fact, I just moved quite a bit off my sidebar this week. Including a scratchback widget. My advertising rates are a better deal for me but it was worth a try.

Have you tried Crazy Egg? It is useful. Tells you a bunch of stuff and you can move things around and run another test to determine if it is placement tweaking your returns.

Also pinpoints what and where particular visitors or links are clicking.

There will always be pro and con. I had another similar service I used that gave points for surfing other blogs. Although I found some interesting ones–I stopped after failing to find ones that would keep my interest and perhaps do cross support.

Anyway, test away and once you make a decision–move on. There will always be those with differing opinions–ain’t it grand?

By: Sarah :: Copywriting, Grammar and Spelling tips

Sarah :: Copywriting, Grammar and Spelling tips — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:33:21 +0000

I have to disagree with you I’m afraid. A lot of the people that comment on my site, subscribe and regularly visit are visitors from Entrecard.

Of course, my bounce rate went up, but this was to be expected for the amount of drops per day.

You have to put work into Entrecard and I believe that the hard work I have put into Entrecard has paid off!

My blog ranking is going up by the day, the amount of subscriptions is also climbing steadily and my blog is also getting more organic Google clicks than ever before.

I can live with a high bounce rate from Entrecard if it improves other aspects of my site… Which it has done!

Oh I nearly forgot, I have also found some amazing blogs and people through Entrecard!

By: Chip

Chip — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:12:46 +0000

I like what you wrote. I intended to quit EntreCard these days, and your article is just another black tick for Entrecard on my list.

As Monday being the official Blog Clean Up Day, I intend to quit EntreCard and remove the widget from my blog.

By: HoundsGood

HoundsGood — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:10:33 +0000

Well…here is the thing also. There are so many blogs out there about…well, blogging or SEO, that you must differentiate yourself.

I am a regularly reader of many blogs I have dropped entrecards on. I have discovered many of my favorite blogs that way. Do I read EVERY blog I drop on? NO.

It is the same principle as surfing the web in general regardless of entrecard. You have 3-5 seconds to catch someone’s attention. Well, maybe 5-10 if someone is on dial up. If you grab them, they will read more. If you don’t, they will surf on. This is the first time I have ever read your blog, because you caught my attention this time. If you did not have an entrecard and I didn’t find you that way, I would have never made a return visit if you didn’t grab me the first time. With entrecard, you got additional chances to “grab” me as a reader.

Other blog writers know what the game is about. Other bloggers like to have comments so they know people are reading what they have to say. So other bloggers try to make it a point to do that when the article has made them think or feel a certain way, where folks just surfing by may or may not.

Anyway, good luck with whatever decision you choose!

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:17:02 +0000

I agree. I was a fan of Entrecard too. Nowadays I only use the credits to buy the services advertised in the shop. Buying widgets is pretty pointless nowadays.

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By: monawea

monawea — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:21:01 +0000

I have seen so many people excited about Entrecard but I could never get past the ugly widget . After reading your post I realize that I probably wasn’t missing anything anyway.
My goal with my blogs is to offer information to people who are looking for information not people who only want to promote themselves. You always hope that people with stumble upon something they like but that doesn’t always happen. I would much rather put my energy and money into target advertising or niche social networking then using something like Entrecard.
Great post. I think you have made the right decision.

By: Raymondm

Raymondm — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:25:14 +0000

i will admit that after the first week or being on EC i wanted to get rid of it, but i decided to stick it out, not the majority of my visits and comments are from EC users. I’d say give it a go.