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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

-Paul — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:19:10 -0000

So, it's well past the 22nd April... whats the verdict?

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Felex Tan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:35:14 -0000

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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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Wayne Liew — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:03:07 -0000

I am testing out EC in building traffic for my blog as well. However, it is more of a widget that I use to encourage participation from my readers.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Young Online Millionaire — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:47:54 -0000

Hey Moo,

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.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Luke — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:15:43 -0000

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.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Schubsta — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:15:16 -0000

Thanks giving me some new ideas to mess around with. :grin:
Keep going.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

PublicRecordsGuy — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:29:49 -0000

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.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Homebizseo.com — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:12:11 -0000

Cow EC is great. You are the top COW on the block.

Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Entrepreneur — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:58:56 -0000

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.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Expert Earning — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:45:11 -0000

There is no doubt that you should have an entrecard. Don't base anything on Alexa though, Alexa is way of in many cases.

Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Chicago — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:55:50 -0000

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.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

bloggista — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:10:29 -0000

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.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Mark — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:19:44 -0000

: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!

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Tj @ BareFly.com — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:54:23 -0000

Experiment, sounds cool, Mooo :mrgreen:
However I look forward to advertise on your entrecard (or exit card?) :mrgreen:
Cheers...

Re: The Entrecard Experiment

evilwoobie — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:01:47 -0000

nice news on my mail delivery today. free advertising here again. hope you stay for good.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Jilly — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:10:57 -0000

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.

Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Jim — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:44:40 -0000

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 ;)

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Tam — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:16:21 -0000

This experiment is like this...

We'll buy a brand new vacuum cleaner
We'll leave it in the box for a month.
We'll see what the carpet looks like in the end.

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.

The vaccuum cleaner is not necessary useless, it just only works if you take it out of the box.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

eBay Business — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:42:09 -0000

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.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

-Paul — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:32:48 -0000

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!...

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Peter Answers — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:06:27 -0000

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.

Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Gary Arndt — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:13:13 -0000

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.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Si Philp — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:27:00 -0000

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 :???:

Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Rhys Wynne — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:12:30 -0000

I'll be honest, I may drop mine soon. Had enough of it tbh.

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Re: The Entrecard Experiment

Melo — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:47:15 -0000

Oh, an experiment... this could be interesting...

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