Comments on: Ongoing Blogging Experiment: Operation Entrecard

By: Deimos Tel`Arin

Deimos Tel`Arin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:37:15 +0000

@Wayne:
If you have the extra time to invest on EntreCard, done correctly, the result is worth the time spent.

Anyway, just a simple but very useful tip:

If someone dropped their EntreCard into your EntreCard Inbox, take some to visit their site to drop your EntreCard into their EntreCard Inbox.

EntreCarders call this “Reciprocating” or “You Drop I Follow”.

The thing with EntreCard is that it has a special kind of a “You help me, I help you” system, or “You visit my site, I visit your site” thingie.

The ability to generate traffic is there, it is up to oneself to snare the visitors from reading one’s content by coming up with contents which would catches the visitors’ interest.

Oh by the way, the Cow is an idiot.

By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:55:46 +0000

Well, maybe Entrecard suits different bloggers. For me, surfing around and dropping cards is a side activity that I will only be doing if I have extra time to do so.

Anyway, I do admit the fact that I did not do much research on Entrecard might have caused the slack results I get from Entrecard.

By: Deimos Tel`Arin

Deimos Tel`Arin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:08:46 +0000

How much had it helped you to get traffic for your blog and is it a great tool in your opinion?
It helped tremendously and it is still helping now.
Personally, I feel that it is a great tool for those who know how to use it.

For those who haven’t get their hands on Entrecard, will you give it a try soon?
My point of view? It is their own loss should they choose not to use it.

@jayhan:
You are not using EntreCard correctly. -_-

@Wayne Liew:
The same goes for you as well. -_-

By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:17:10 +0000

You will need to write some EC optimizing blog posts which I find very irritating. Also, you will need to drop cards every time you come across a blog with a widget.

Anyway, I don’t find it very useful until now…

By: jayhan

jayhan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:54:28 +0000

i was experimenting with entrecard too, but i found it useless too imo, maybe because I am not putting enough effort to work with it. I know some find it very effective, but for me, it does not really works.

But i will it there in my blog for several more weeks.

By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:12:27 +0000

@ Tay
A week passed and I have yet to see any good of it…

@ David
That is a good point. However, after I moved my widgets on the sidebar around, I find myself a nice place for a widget like these so I guess it would be nice to have an ongoing experiment.

Let’s just see what Entrecard can do.

@ Neotrepreneur
I have seen many hard core EC users did that and the whole eventually became filled with such posts, which I don’t think is feasible as they are still a new service.

@ pablopabla
I am grateful to hear this. Anyway, results will be out soon but of course, it might differs from those hard core users.

@ Katy
You will have all kinds of marketing ways to heap the growth of your blog. If the results and all the tracking shows you that a method is working, eliminate other methods and focus on just that one working method.

@ Frank C
Bounce rate is something very common for referral traffic, unless it is from a blog within the same niche. Social medias and EC are already known with their high bounce rate.

@ Sean
Glad that your site is performing well with EC.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:30:33 +0000

Yay for us, and thanks, Frank C.

By: Frank C

Frank C — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:16:29 +0000

I’ve written a few analysis articles on it.

The main problem is the high bounce rate (avg 90% with about 45 seconds on site) caused by serial card droppers. This is a bad mix with Adsense and will tend to get your account Smart Priced (ie you make 1/10 of what you were earning).

The good part of it is that you’ll get a little extra exposure and, even if 90% bounce away quickly, you will get about a 10% boost in regular readers. If you’re depending on a lot of referral traffic rather than organic search engine traffic for your blog this helps.

By: Katy

Katy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:48:06 +0000

I have mixed emotions about Entrecard. The bounce rate is incredibly high and the visitors aren’t coming in the leaps and bounds that others have mentioned for their site. Actually, I receive about 10 unique visitors from Entrecard per day and because they’re dropping and running, it creates no value for me.

Slowly I’m starting to conclude that my time is better spent networking within other social media sites. Additionally, spending more time commenting is always good as well.

By: pablopabla

pablopabla — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:02:19 +0000

Nope, I have not installed it. I would only consider installing it if it works for you - since I trust you as my blogging friend more than what others might say about it.