With the new features of Entrecard, we can already tell the number of drops we received from a blog. I am listed to reciprodroppers, religiously dropping to every members, the problem we had before was how can we tell accurately the number of drops we received from each member. Since its possible now, by clicking the entrecard icon of each widget, I did saw the their actual drops on my site for the past 30 days.
There were times that I didn’t pay visit to co-reciprodroppers, it was Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the times that entrecard site is under maintenance.The happy days of “other” reciprodroppers will eventually end, their actual drops is obvious.
Recent drops displayed before was a page only that consists of 84 98 sites. Chances are, if you have good adverts on other sites, most of the drops got buried and you can’t reciprocate because you didn’t know who they are. The tendency with the old system is to practice chain dropping to reach the maximum of 300 drops a day, that’s the best way I did. On the other hand, with chaindropping other sites don’t actually reciprocate. All is fair now, no more excessive chaindropping, not unless if you’re a regular dropper on my site. And no more “your drop might got buried” alibi of other bloggers.
I heard that maximum drops is 600 drops per ip. Other bloggers don’t find it convenient if they have more than 2 blogs. The good thing with this is “hotshot” bloggers who pay someone to drop for them will be obliged to drop for themselves if they didn’t find anybody to drop for them. Bad news for some bloggers who already earning from dropping for other accounts.
Thanks! Go! Go! Alright! Wicked! Yeehah! Awesome! hmmn… with the new system of entrecard, I’m satisfied for now. Although, I have one question in mind. Is buying advert that important with the new system?
I’ve posted a couple of entrecard articles on this blog. I guess, its not enough. Since entrecard is new in the blogosphere, many had stopped using it to avoid high bounce rate. What’s keeping entecard administration busy nowadays? I remember sending them a feedback about sites who doesn’t display entrecard widget and recieved no response.
Benefit of the doubt? Yup, we can place entrecard widget in seconds on our site. What took “these” sites too long to place their widget codes? And yet, they bought adverts on sites to advertise. hmmn… Entrecard admin is too busy developing the system, I’ve read from their blog that there are already 7,000 entrecard members. After reaching the 7,000… members will still continue to grow. I guess its about time that they devote time to weed out “abussive sites”.
Be vigilant on accepting adverts, make sure that the site also display their widget. Its really annoying finding these sites on my chain dropping. Don’t you find it unfair? Sometimes, some of them are my direct dropper. The images displayed will continue to gro as I find more sites like them.
I’ve been reporting sites who doesn’t display their entrecard widget, sadly there’s no action from the entrecard admin. As part of my campaign, I’ll be displaying images that should be avoided to accept adverts. I have their links but failed to recover some of the images. For starter, avoid adverts from these sites as they didn’t place entrecard widget. If they had their widget already, I will remove them from the list.
I like to take this opportunity to thank Chalk Is Cheap, my highest dropper for the month of March. Also, I received the highest drop to the advert I place at Karlonia, also for the month of March.
I guess, everybody’s busy updating their wordpress version. The version that took six months to develop, its worth it. It is highly recommended for security reasons and the added features. Here’s the observations I like at the moment.
Administration panel – I’ve mentioned from my previous post that I don’t like the admin color scheme, its the “fresh” color scheme which is the default after the upgrade. I’ve changed it to classic to make it easier on my eyes. You can change it on your profile. The admin panel is totally different from the previous versions as well as the wordpress.com blog. It will take a while before we can get used to the new dashboard. Go ahead, explore them.
Security – An added feature for changing of password. Many bloggers have different choices on password, a meter that indicates the strength of our chosen password. Its shows if our password is too short, bad, good and strong. A strong password is a combination of small and capital letters, numbers and special characters like !”?$%^&.
Plugin – plugin update is just a click away. No more login to your webhost and upload the necessary files. I’ve updated my All-In-One SEO Pack in an instant. Its a big relief for me as well with the other new bloggers.
Permalink – Permalink can be edited at your write post page, below the post title. Deimos informed me that its possible from the previous wordpress versions but I haven’t noticed it since I don’t used number post on permalink. My basic understanding of seo, permalink does matter.
WordPress error… Login error… Upload error… plugin doesn’t work… its frequent from the wordpress community now, some are looking for answers on their error problem. The best thing to do is to check if you followed the instruction right and seek help at the wordpress forum. I still saw some error report on my blog like my login-in page looks strange, the upload media displayed errors. I have to look closely to my uploaded files, I might bypassed some files. After I found the reason behind these errors, I’m sure, blogging gets better.
This is my first post after I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress version 2.5. Whew! Its not that easy compared to the last time I’ve update this blog. From version 2.2 to 2.3, its a minor update only. This time, I have to back up database, I even made back-up for my template since I recently have some modifications I don’t want to ruin. At first, I’m hesitant to upgrade my version. I neither have experience, but I did it without asking for any help from anybody. I’m afraid to commit mistakes, I might delete important files or worst than that.
I did it somehow, but I still saw some errors from my admin dashboard. As of the moment, the only thing I don’t like is the color of the admin panel. I’ve noticed also that we can edit the link before posting it. That’s cool! You can have a different title with a different link.
I’ll explore the new features of the new version first thing in the morning when I wake up. And share everything I learned from this experience. For now, my body and mind is telling me to sleep.
Sometimes, were not happy with our template. Should we change it or modified it instead? I haven’t tried changing my template just like anydone does if they’re not contented anymore with their template. Let’s face the fact the template we are using is a plus factor on blogging. I’m not a guru on html codes but I understand the basics for now. Here’s the screenshot of my default template, Freedom Green is a modified and widgetized version by Tina Silva on Frank Helmschrott’s ‘Freedom blue 2.0′. Also modified from the version by Eyoung.
Personally, I won’t used this wordpress template if its not modified by Courtney Tuttle to be search engine friendly.
Since its already search engine modified and I’m using All-In-One SEO Pack plugin, I’m working on the layout design and careful on my editing. The first thing I want to change was my header. I don’t know much on photoshop, it just so happen that I’ve found a template that’s almost similar with the black and green navigation header. Its longer and wider image, from that image, I started learning editing image using photoshop. This is the one I’m currently using, the orange and black combination.
Noticed my header? It was personally made by my friend Marikenya. I really love the abstract on the right side and the mobile ebook image on the left, it blends with my layout and my blog content. Nah, let me rephrase that, the banner gave life to my blog. LOL! I’ve changed other things from this template such as post title color, sidebar title color, sidebar title background color, image on the sidebar list and the dropdown blogroll. Images were always in gif format for speedy loading.
Basically, I don’t want to change my template but modified it that suits my taste. Yes, its time consuming but modifiying your own wordpress template made your blog unique. Its sort of achievement when you accomplished the look you want. I still have things in mind to do here and that cannot be done in one sitting.
Sometimes, were not happy with our template. Should we change it or modified it instead? I haven’t tried changing my template just like anydone does if they’re not contented anymore with their template. Let’s face the fact the template we are using is a plus factor on blogging. I’m not a guru on html codes but I understand the basics
