Last night I was doing a little power dropping of Entrecards and I realized something. Power dropping is not going to have anything to do with making money online or helping others to do the same. I’m not going to lie, I felt a little defeated when this thought came to me because Entrecard is pretty much the main source of traffic for me right now and when I power drop I get many visitors in return.
I realized that there are other forces at work in making a successful blog, and Entrecard has little or nothing to do with it. I mean seriously, how many Entrecards do you think Darren Rowse or Jeremy Schoemaker drop per day for the sole purpose of dropping cards?
Basically the only thing Entrecard does is maybe let you find a few decent blog posts along the way that you write a half hearted comment because you want more backlinks are really interested in the subject, and make you think that you are accomplishing something by dropping cards and buying ads with their credits.
If I don’t drop cards my traffic goes to hell but all of a sudden I get flooded when I drop a couple of cards. This either tells me that Entrecard is crap or that I am crap, and as much as I would like to think that I am the problem (I know it’s my problem that I don’t get traffic overall BTW) I would have to say that Entrecard is basically a useless service. Entrecard has generated nothing but traffic that is here for the sole purpose of dropping a card.
Some say that any traffic is good traffic but I would say that there is a limit to that. If I look at the traffic that comes from Entrecard, There is a bounce rate of almost 100% and roughly 0.00 seconds spent on my site.
Entrecard is both a waste of time and brain power, I wish I could get back the time I have spent on it because it has served me basically no good and my time would have been much better spent doing anything else.
PS. I would imagine that this goes for other Entrecardish sites like Spottt but I haven’t tried any others so I can’t say for sure.
Mark, I totally agree with you. Utilizing entrecard for only gaining credits it pretty mucha waste of time. I have gained a few readers to my blog. Some of them Entrecard members and some from the advertising I’ve done on other blogs in the system. Of course with spending your credits on advertising is luck of the draw sometimes you will get decent traffic that are from non-entrecarders and other times you get very little.
I don’t spend a lot of time dropping anymore, I used to drop 300 every day. My time is much better spent creating new content for my money blogs than it is to spend an hour or more a day dropping a few cards so someone will drop one back on my site and then run away to drop on another site.
Bruce
April 19th, 2008