Entrecard Launched Official eBook
Its been a while since I made my last post regarding Entrecard. Entrecard came out with new awesome features. The linked blog feature allows entrecard users to add multiple blogs to their account. This is good news to bloggers who have multiple blogs, no need to sign out and sign in back again to another account just to drop cards. I’ve already linked my personal blog, its so easy to use now. The switch link can be found at the upper right side, beside the email address. No need to clear cookies now and sending credits to my other blog is just a click.
Anyway, entrecard will be giving away a total of 75,000 credits to people who add new blogs to their accounts, 15,000 for every bracket below. Since I already added my personal blog, I qualify for 2-5 blogs.
- 2-5 blogs in account
- 5-10 blogs in account
- 10-15 blogs in account
- 15-20 blogs in account
- 20-25 blogs in account
Another good news is Entrecard launched their official ebook. Should you be a beginner or you may want to know other information about entrecard, you may find it interesting. Click here to download the pdf format ebook. I also converted the file to repligo format so that I can read it on my mobile during my free time and share it here. And here is the repligo format.
Entrecard Says My Blog Is Cheap!
The best time for me to drop my card is at night. It just so happen that I have spare time this morning and login to my entrecard account to see my inbox. What’s this? Another new feature?
I really don’t like it. To place an advert on my site last night costs 400+ something ec/day. I work hard for it daily to be on the top of my category. I was surprised to see my advert value. 4 ec/day! It was way too low! I did wait for entrecard site to be available again and check on their blog.
To calculate your price at any given moment, just start at 2 credits, and double it for everyone waiting for an ad on your site. For example, if you have 5 people approved and stacked in the “On your widget” column of the dashboard, and 5 people waiting for approval, you would calculate 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2, or 2 to the power of 10, which eqauls 1024 credits. And then in 24 hours, when an ad has completed running, their price would go down to 512. If no one bought an ad that day, tomorrow it would go down to 256. And then if someone bought an ad for 256, the price would go back up to 512.
So the price will actually fluctuate with each ad that has been bought and each ad that completes. If no one has bought an ad on you in a while, your price will get very cheap very quick. And if you want to buy an ad on a high-profile blog, you’ll be able to whenever you want, as long as you have enough credits.
This wasn’t their smoothest implementation, they received many negative feedbacks. Entrecard is my favorite social network, I’ve mentioned that many times. Let’s wait and see, for now I don’t think they will still be my favorite.
Entrecard, Getting Better?
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?
Wanted: Entrecard Widget
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.
The Entrecard Chain Drops Stopped
Entrecard is the popular social network nowadays to most bloggers, there are many reasons why and I don’t think its appropriate to this article. Anyway, I do practice chain dropping to sites I reciprocate. And just like others, I have to stop to a certain point.
When do the entrecard chain dropping stops?
- When the blog displayed its own image – This is when I clicked the widget and sent me to the same site. To newbies, the advantage of having two sites is to advertise on the one who doesn’t feature any site on his widget and vise versa.
- When the site loads slowly – Time is gold, right? I can drop a few more to other sites than wait to site to load. I don’t want others to think just like me, I make it sure that my site loads in enough time.
- When I already dropped on the featured blog – This is different to the first one. Some blogs are “blessed” with many entrecard credits and afford to buy ads to many other sites. Sometimes, I do click it and see the word “thanks” or “1 per day”to the widget.
- When the site is unavailable – Its self explanatory, how can you drop to site that have been removed, under maintenance or whatever. They’ve placed their ad when their site was still running.
- When there’s no entrecard widget on the site – I hate it when I found some site that bother to place ads on other sites when they didn’t place one on their site. You know what? I did bother to report them to entrecard admin. I found it unfair to those who religiously drop their cards on regular basis. I hope you agree with me on this.
- When the widget is hard to find – Call me impatient if you want but if you encountered a site full of images and widgets on the left and right sidebar, you can never tell. Ok, I do wait for a while if I find the site is loading slow especially if the site is the direct dropper to my site. But it is really irritating (forgive me for the word I used) searching for entecard buried in other images.
- When you reach the 300 drop limit – LOL!
Did I forget anything? Any violent reactions? Let me know…
