8 Responses to “A Week with Entrecard”

1. Matt Packer Posted: Feb 5th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

   1 I’ve been with EntreCard since about the time it went live and while in the beginning it brought in some traffic the average time from those referrals was around 30 seconds.. Basically the problem is that a lot of people are just gaming the system and artificially inflating the value of their advertising by dropping 300ec’s a day. Do it for a few days and you build up uber ec’s and you can afford to advertise on a blog that has 20 visits a day..doesn’t make sense to me. Of course you do also have the legit sites like Problogger where his advertising price is where you would expect it to be for such a high profile blog however I think EntreCard will go the way of BlogRush and other similar widgets that aimed to bring in traffic. Reply to this comment.

2. Mirjam Posted: Feb 7th, 2008 at 10:46 am

   2 I am using entrecard aswell, but maybe I can´t really evaluate about the quality of traffic, since my blog is only a few weeks old. The time visitors spent on my site when coming from entrecards ranges from only a second it takes to drop and leave, to actually staying on my site well over 10 minutes. I have noticed a rise in comments aswell. The best thing though and the main reason for using entrecard is the sitehopping, since using their system I have come across some very interesting blogs! Reply to this comment.

3. Missy Posted: Feb 7th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

   3 Entrecard has been very good to me (and my blogs). It ranks as a top referrer, right next to Blog Catalog and Stumble Upon. I highly recommend it, also as Miriam said its great for discovering new blogs and mayne new partners. Keep it on atleast a few months, before you evaluate it. Sure you will get the card droppers, but you will also get those who will check out your blog, leave a comment, and maybe even click an ad. You never know where (or when) a good reader will come upon you. Missy. Reply to this comment.

4. bud Posted: Feb 8th, 2008 at 8:31 am

   4 Author Comment @ Matt I agree with you I see another blogrush product in the works. I hope they can make it better but I don’t see that happening since it is more of an honor system and people inflating their numbers by dropping cards. Thanks for the comment too. @ Mirjam I am glad you are getting some comments and some benefits from it. I think in a perfect world it is a good idea but you always have the people spamming who take away from a good product like this. Thanks for the comments and I hope you like the site. @ Missy Thanks for the comment. Yeah I am going to keep using it and giving updates on traffic quality. I hope I start to see more benefits as time goes on and maybe they will fix what I don’t like about it. Reply to this comment.

5. Mirjam Posted: Feb 8th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

   5 Hi again Bud, I know what you mean by the spamming bit, but… running a contest for the top commentator kind of has the same danger to it, don´t you agree? I do like your site, I have been looking around for a while (did I already tell you I came across it because of entrecard??) I guess in the end, we all need to find for ourselves what works out best, and that depends a lot of the goals we have with our own blogs. I have just blogged about something that I am getting out of blogging right now that I had not expected at all when first starting out and you might be surprised to see it has nothing to do with stats keep up the good work and have a nice weekend! Reply to this comment.

6. bud Posted: Feb 8th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

   6 Author Comment @ Mirjam In some ways running a top commenter contest is semi spamming. With proper promoting though I have had better luck with it. I have double my comments and picked up a few rss subscribers. You are completely right about finding out what works for you and your blog. Finding your grove is a hard process and I still am trying to get in the the “blogger mindset”. Also congratulations on your blog I hope it keeps growing. Thanks for the comments and the positive statements. Have a good weekend too. Reply to this comment.

7. Hafiz Dhanani Posted: Feb 13th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

   7 It all depends on what your expectations of Entrecard are. The quality of traffic is low, but it’s good for a new blogger looking to boost their traffic levels and alexa rank. Once a blog becomes more popular, it’s likely that the referred traffic are already readers of the blog! Reply to this comment.

8. Hafiz Dhanani Posted: Feb 18th, 2008 at 11:22 pm

   8 I just wanted to let you know about a site called powerdropping.com . It’s got a list of 300 blogs to drop your entrecard at, that have a fast loading time and the entrecard widget above the fold. He claims he gets 10 000 vistors a day and an extra 9000 credits a month from doing this! Reply to this comment.