I’m leaving Entrecard
I’m leaving Entrecard for the very same reasons as JohnCow and Sir Jorge. The purpose of Entrecard has been lost and it has become a little community for EC elites. Many blogs that have only around 20 RSS subscribers and around 50 unique visitors a day (notice: stats from no one in particular) now has the price of 300-500 credits to advertise on them, which is insane. The owners of these blogs are Entrecard addicts that does nothing more than surfing around dropping cards everywhere.
A few days ago, I created another account for one of my other sites. Within two hours, I got over 45 advertising requests. Even from site that was in the very opposite niche from my own blog. Quite a bit overwhelming.
So, think twice before paying 400 credits to advertise on a non-popular blog in the real blogosphere, it’s only popular within the Entrecard community.
So, until Entrecard change their credit-system, I’m out.
YES YES YES YES!
Once again, I was first to report on how crappy entrecard was getting and stepped off to little fan fair. But Johncow,you, and so many more blogs are following suit.
Man, I love being a visionary, but wish I could get credit for realizing this before everyone else did.
Posted on January 13th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
sir jorge: Yes! I actually read your post about it, but I wasn’t so sure until I’ve seen it with my own eyes ;)
Posted on January 13th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I’ve just gone the same way. I know I won’t be “active” within the system (I don’t know how people have the time to do it), and so for now I have removed the widget.
If they can re-mould it more towards the original idea of free advertising (by introducing limitations etc), and stop the increasinly “groupie” trend that is developing there, I’ll re-consider. EC isn’t for everyone!
Posted on January 13th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I’ll be honest, I’m still finding a use for entrecard, I just ignore the overly groupie groups and stick to quality blogs :)
Posted on January 13th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I haven’t gotten squat traffic from entre card so I might leave as well. Plus it looks hidious on my new design. LOL
Posted on January 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
yay a link…you’re awesome
Posted on January 13th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I never even bothered to sign up for them or Blogrush. What a waste of time and space on your sidebar. In reality, you don’t really gain much from neither of them besides a few hits. Big whoop. You can achieve the same results by putting your site on plugboards too.
Posted on January 13th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I’ve been using entrecard for a while and I have never seen any ‘relevant’ traffic, it is all card droppers passing by. Buying ads on new blogs is a way to boost the cost of your own ads, so any new blog on entrecard gets slammed now.
I never understood why any big name blogs used entrecard anyway.
Posted on January 21st, 2008 at 9:35 pm
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am
do not look for the popular, download alexa toolbar then do check their rank, after that, mmm advertise with them hehehe
but my rank also not so good, need some help to improve it :)
Posted on February 1st, 2008 at 6:08 am
Woot! You read John Cow too? I love the little icon in their sidebar that says “Dropped It”. Hilarious. I think I’ll stick out for a bit longer, as my bookmark system works quite well, so I end up only visiting the 30-40 good blogs with interesting content.
Posted on March 16th, 2008 at 6:33 pm