everyone is 'tanking' on alexa not sure what is happening but even teh big guys have dropped tremendously - entrecard - will definitely increase your alexa but the bounce rate and avg time of actual user on the blog, I do not know the stats will change for that - I still think entrecard is not good healthy traffic
I just requested an advertisement here also - looking forward to seeing that run! Good luck on your experiment, but I agree with your initial analysis and am guessing you won't see much of a difference in Alexa or RSS subscribers. How about IZEA Rank? Do you track that?
I have read it was pointless also. Keep working your blog cow.
Anthony at Work-at-home-Wealth
· 1 year ago
Oh Man! Your post is only a few hours (or should I say minutes?) old and your Ad queue is already full :sad: I should it know before :twisted:
I don't know if getting back Entrecard will be of real value to you, but it sure will be of value to those lucky ones who arrived on time to get their sites advertised on yours for next to nothing.
Anyhow, regardless of how much can this benefit you, I think it is a good way to give something back to the community. good luck with it!
Anthony
Mike Huang
· 1 year ago
I have basically DROPPED Entrecard after realizing the horrible things it causes. I still have the widget on my blog, but I don't drop much cards anymore. I range from only 10-30cards a day rather than those crazy 300 drops a day. I have realized that because of Entrecard, Alexa is not going to be worth as much anymore since it's just HYPE that makes a site rank high.
I have found some interesting sites through EC of which I have dropped there rss feed onto my netvibes page. As the days go on I am discovering more and more sites that are just as usefull as a chocolate fire guard. Not sure how much longer I'll keep it :???:
Gary Arndt
· 1 year ago
1) I think you might get a slight bump in Alexa, but given you are high already, I don't know how high it will be. Assuming your card price gets to where John Chow is, that will be about 100 Entrecard users a day dropping on your site. My guess is that some percentage of those are already visiting your site. That would mean maybe 50-80 unique visitors per day. I don't know what that would work out to as a percentage, but it at least provides a context for how much traffic you are talking about.
2) I'd do a contest at the end of the month to give away the credits. At least do a summary post and give the credits to someone who comments. Might as well get some value from them.
3) I have no idea why Entrecard would increase your RSS subscribers. The whole point of the system would make subscribing to RSS redundant to visiting.
I would be surprised if it moved your Alexa much but only because you already have the traffic. For small sites the Entrecard effect is real. Still, it can't be a bad thing to bring new readers like myself to your blog. Good luck with the experiment.
-Paul
· 1 year ago
weak!weak! who cares if your alexa TANKED...... dude, they wont click your ads, just hit and run.. but your alexa will look great ... weak!...weak!...
I don;t know why but I would really rather blog rush for myself. I think it is much easier and better looking for my blog. It depends on the type of person who uses the particular program.
Sounds like an interesting proposition. I didn't consider the implications on an Alexa rank and things of that nature. I will definitely be waiting to see how this revival turns out ;)
Should be interesting. I dropped out of Entrecard because you really don't get anywhere unless you are a serial dropper. If that is how you are thinking you will bank a bunch of credits...from others serial dropping on you, good luck, they will stop coming once they realize you're not dropping back. It took a lot of time away from my business and wasn't worth the bounce rate. Entrecard is basically a "back scratching" community.
evilwoobie
· 1 year ago
nice news on my mail delivery today. free advertising here again. hope you stay for good.
Experiment, sounds cool, Mooo :mrgreen: However I look forward to advertise on your entrecard (or exit card?) :mrgreen: Cheers...
Mark
· 1 year ago
:cool: Don't know what all the fuss is about here , it,s your blog and you make the decisions regarding what you do with it. Nice blog though and obviously hugely popular so credit to you!
Hey John Mooo. Just dropped a card on your EC Widget, and count one more RSS subscriber (duh.. what's one RSS subscription anyway with already 1526 subscribers - not making any dent at all). But glad the prodigal son came back. A newbie blogger like me is hoping to learn from a problogger like you. Good luck on your stats dude.
I look forward to seeing the results of your trials with this. I think Entrecard traffic is garbage for the most part, but I hadn't considered that the junk traffic may enhance your Alexa rank. It still boils down to making money and you ain't gonna make a dime off Ecard users.
There is no doubt that you should have an entrecard. Don't base anything on Alexa though, Alexa is way of in many cases.
Entrepreneur
· 1 year ago
The best thing about Entrecard is when you're really darn lonely and you want some comments to come your way, posting anything EC related (especially bashing it) will create a huge bump in your comments section :)
It's a tight community with ardent supporters, that's the phenomenon more than the alexa ranking bump.
Cow EC is great. You are the top COW on the block.
Simon
· 1 year ago
To be honest, the site that really benefits from the "alexa bump" is EntreCard.com itself. With all those iframes to the site loading whenever a widget loads, their alexa jumps through the roof.
I've always wondered what kind of difference it would make if the widgets were taken off high traffic sites like ProBlogger and Chow (plus any other < 10k sites using it).
I'm willing to bet that you'll see a sizable increase between now and April 22. EC could very well ask it's people or supporters to frequent your site to give it an "inflated" traffic response that appears to be coming as a result of you having the EC Widget. I'm not saying they will or would, I am saying it is a possibility. As an Investigator I always look at what ways things can be done and how things can be manipulated into appearing that they were natural. Let's see if the results are long lasting.
EC always sounds to me like yet another piece of internet noise. If I actually had an account I'd probably be plugging away... Or not. Good question. I think I'll stick with StumbleUpon and suchlike for now.
I like the experiment but like someone mentioned above, it really depends on how many cards you drop as well to be successful. One example I used with my readers is the fact that if you develop a "dropping" relationship with someone and they frequent your blog daily, chances are they will eventually look at your content. If it is good and useful stuff, then you just got yourself another reader.
Hmm, Doing Experiment is always good. I can see the average alexa rank/traffic dropping down there in stats. EC may prove you to be the energy drink. :)
Felex Tan
· 1 year ago
Entrecard increases bounce rate to most of the Entrecard users ,but why it this happen,it is because most of us just drop and bounce.On the other hand,i suggest that try to interact with the most frequent droppers to your site such as thank you message to them and build up some rapport or invite them to your blog to join some campaign or subscribed as reader or so on.Ultimately,you are not only will receive credits but a constant traffics and reduce bounce rate
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2) I'd do a contest at the end of the month to give away the credits. At least do a summary post and give the credits to someone who comments. Might as well get some value from them.
3) I have no idea why Entrecard would increase your RSS subscribers. The whole point of the system would make subscribing to RSS redundant to visiting.
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Entrecard is like a lot of things, you get out what you put in.
As it seems this experiment involves visiting 0 Entrecard blogs and dropping 0 cards, I would not be surprised at all if it doesn't work out for you.
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It still boils down to making money and you ain't gonna make a dime off Ecard users.
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