Does entrecard really help?

[MynameisJJ]

• Is it possible to change the picture on the Entrecard widget? It looks too big on my blog. I did try changing the picture but it didn't work.
• Is it possible to delete my account in Entrecard?

Edited: I think I have found the solution.
Edited: Meh, solution does not work.

[EverythingEverywhere]

To get traffic, you must spend a lot of time dropping cards. In reward, you will get the same people over and over who visit your site, not to read your content, but just to drop cards. If you stop dropping cards, they will stop visiting. If Entrecard goes down, your traffic will disappear.

The problem with Entrecard is that it is an enormous time sink for the payoff. In the long run, you'd be better of trying to grow your traffic organically with people who actually care about what you have to say, than to go back day after day to get high bounce rate traffic that will disappear when you go on vacation.

[The1337]

Okay, so I made a big post about this from my blog. The Constant Cynic: How Much Does Entrecard Help? Please check it out.

This isn't really related to current events, but I wanted get this information*out there.

I'm sure that through your travels through the blogosphere, you've seen numeroues entrecards along with the "U Drop, I Follow," or "U Drop, I Link," or "U Drop, I Comment." Maybe you started thinking what is this entrecard? Well here's a quick explanation.

People can put a card on their site. If someone drops a card of them (1 per day), they each get 1 credit. The concept is that whoever drops the card with read some of your posts and hopefully comment. You can see who dropped on you, so you can drop back on them and hopefully you will read their posts as well.

The main purpose of credits is to "rent" out someone else's card with your advertisement.You can also use credits to buy many things including advertising space, guest blogs, comments, and graphics from other people. You can drop 300 per day, so it takes a while to do all them. This makes people not read posts and just find*the card to drop on. This makes time of*the page low and bounce rate high.

I asked the same question on the Bloggeries forum. Here was my first impressiion. I've been dropping a lot and getting some drops back along with 1 or 2 comments. The impressions have also gone up a lot. The problem is that my bounce rate is at least 80%. This still seems to be the same case. I guess as long as I use entrecard, this will last.

Here are some of my later observations. The average time before I used entrecard was 52 seconds. Since i started using entrecard, it is 1 minute. Today I didn't post at all because I was really busy and I only have 19 seconds. I think that means I am getting lots of return readers.

So here are my final observations from today. I didn't drop at all today. The number of visits to my blog was about 30% lower and*the bounce rate was 90%. The time on my site is 1 minute, but it was about 5 seconds *a few hours ago. That*means no one read my blog. The same thing happened yesterday when I did drop so I think it just*means that people read my blog in*a very narrow*timespan.

Here's a quote from[url=http://everything-everywhere.com/] EverythingEverywhere from the Bloggeries forum.

To get traffic, you must spend a lot of time dropping cards. In reward, you will get the same people over and over who visit your site, not to read your content, but just to drop cards. If you stop dropping cards, they will stop visiting. If Entrecard goes down, your traffic will disappear.

The problem with Entrecard is that it is an enormous time sink for the payoff. In the long run, you'd be better of trying to grow your traffic organically with people who actually care about what you have to say, than to go back day after day to get high bounce rate traffic that will disappear when you go on vacation.

Conclusion: Entrecard helps your traffic. You get return readers and more page visits. Your bounce rate will be higher, but the numbers are misleading because more people are going to your site. If you want to get the most benefits, you have to drop everyday to different sites. Entrecard is a decent way to promote traffic*though it is not the*best.

[Eva White]

Entrecard does make your blog get noticed. But I also agree with sukosaki, the visitors come just to drop the card and nothing more. I have heard bloggers who drop 300-400 card per day, so such visitors will not add any value to your blog.

[AussieJon]

On face value entrecard seems good to get traffic to your site, particularly when you have a new blog, like I do, BUT it takes a huge amount of time to drop your card around in order to get people to drop you, time I think might be better spent writing articles. I recently took a day off from dropping and my traffic plumited (then again maybe my blog just plain sucks lol) so its kind of artificial traffic... I guess I will keep it up to see if it can generate long term traffic, but seems alot of work for a few cents in ctr's.

[soswing]

I think entrecard works well and long as you use it as only part of your arsenal to get traffic to your site.

[Bloggeries]

I haven't used entrecard in months but if someone is new with lot's of time it's worth a peak for sure. Just after a while I found it was the law of diminishing returns with same people coming back to drop cards.

That being said your chance to seize the moment is the 1st time they see your site; make them stick; contact them through entrecard etc... After that it's just another site they've seen on their drop list. IMHO of course.

[WhoJayBe]

I think you should drop it, personally. Matter of fact, I've shared my opinions on how I feel about Entrecard, you should just read If You Didn’t have Entrecard, Your Blog Would Have No Visitors | Blogging Tips & Custom Banner Designs at DatMoney.com and that explains it all.

[bbrian017]

Entrecard is awesome and for people that are marketing to blooggers it's even better!

I would never give it up! Especially after buying my 60,000 credits on ebay LOL

[WhoJayBe]

Originally Posted by bbrian017

Entrecard is awesome and for people that are marketing to blooggers it's even better!

I would never give it up! Especially after buying my 60,000 credits on ebay LOL

How much did you pay? Also, Entrecard isn't really worth it like that... just my opinion.