Comments on: Marketing on the Cheap

By: MattK

MattK — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:45:51 +0000

Vlad, at a minimum Entrecard brings spurts of traffic to your site. If you’re lucky, some of your visitor will actually stop by long enough, read what you had to write and leave a comment.

Entrecard does inflate traffic numbers though most will agree with me that the quality of that traffic is quite low. However, I’ve picked up a handful of followers which seems to help my cause out and I’ve connected with some like minded bloggers, people I probably wouldn’t have discovered in any other way.

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:10:13 +0000

Matt,

I just recently joined Entrecard and am trying to understand (so far without success) the benefits. Your approach is indeed worth considering, however after few days in the system I find very few relevant blogs to mine… Probably I should give it more time.

Would love to hear if you have any new advise to those who just starting using Entrecard.

By: Matthew C. Keegan

Matthew C. Keegan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:39:09 +0000

Hi Current — You should be able to measure the number of Entrecard visitors with Google Analytics. By clicking on the Traffic Sources Overview pie chart, you’ll get a better break down of visitors to your site.

My returns show entrecard.com and entrecard.s3.amazonaws.com as senders of traffic to my sites.

By: current account

current account — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:33:33 +0000

Great for highlighting those key issues. I’ve been using entrecard now, with a reasonable amount of traffic to my site. I still wonder why I can’t measure my visits with free analytic tools.I have a certain content I enjoy and have met some very good folks through EC.

By: Matthew C. Keegan

Matthew C. Keegan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:09:21 +0000

Thanks for stopping by, Jane. Enjoy dropping and I hope you make some good contacts with other ECers. I dropped in on your site as well.

By: Jane Doe

Jane Doe — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:40:33 +0000

Thanks for the Entrecard info! I joined recently and I'm enjoying dropping and finding new sites to read. All the Best, Jane Jane Does last blog post..Rant, Rant, Rant

By: Vlad

Vlad — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:08:31 +0000

Thanks for the review Matt. I was debating whether I should try Entrecard in the first place. Probably will give it a try after the Holidays. Marry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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By: Matthew C. Keegan

Matthew C. Keegan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:59:51 +0000

Thanks for stopping by Margaret and for sharing your comments.

Once in awhile I hit 300 ECs, but it isn’t a priority for me. I understand that EC artificially raises the level of visits to a site, but the bounce rate is huge. Therefore, I weigh my dropping against other methods of attracting traffic including StumbleUpon, Digg, Yahoo Buzz! and others.

Though clicking on an ad can seem to be the neighborly thing, it is also against Google’s Terms of Use to do so for any reason other than to visit an advertiser’s site. My clients would be mad if I encouraged this practice too as they put their hard-earned money on the land when they choose AdWords.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:36:38 +0000

Hi Matt — thanks for “dropping by” my blog. I hope you read my most recent post on bounce rate and Entrecard — it’s titled “Like a Rubber Ball” where I address the Entrecard phenomenon that creates this high bounce rate.

I once did the 300 per day per blog thing, but let’s face it, you are not getting your “money’s worth” when you do that. It’s truly only by sticking on those blogs long enough to not BE a bounce that you’re doing the blogger any good. Those folks are going to be the ones to reciprocate in kind on your blog and that’s what’s going to ultimately help your SEO.

If you don’t want to take the time to comment on a post, you should stumble or digg one, or perhaps even click an ad. I understand that you don’t want to do that for a blog where making $$ is the primary focus. Clicking ads on blogs that have good content and just have ads to help offset the cost of domain names an hosting is just a neighborly thing to do.

Margarets last blog post..Merry Christmas — Bah Humbug