Putting An End to the Entrecard Drama
You can help me get rid of my credits!
Well, Entrecard users: it is time for me to put this card dropping system to rest. By the end of this month, if not much sooner, I plan on exiting Entrecard once and for all.
I don’t remember when I first started using EC, but I believe I am one of its earlier adopters. At one time I was dropping cards for four of my sites, but cut back to three, then two in recent months. Right now this blog and Word Journey (WJ) are in the system, but I stopped accepting ads for WJ two weeks ago and for this blog last week.
Exiting Entrecard
I plan on running an “Exiting Entrecard” contest effective immediately to help me give rid of my credits, but I will save those details for the end of this article. In the meantime, I thought I’d share my reasons for leaving as I have several, but not everyone is an indictment on the way that EC goes about its business:
- No more time. I used to drop as many as 300 cards per blog daily, but those days are long gone. These days I generally drop on whoever dropped on me earlier in the day which means I rarely hit 100 drops on any given day.
- Lots of people have moved on. We’ve all been seeing EC users come and go, but it seems the ‘go’ part has dominated of late. Some of the most avid users are no longer on the site, while a bunch of newbies have taken their place. Unfortunately, the commitment level and enthusiasm from new users are both sorely lacking.
- EC doesn’t seem to care. Perhaps the most telling reason for some users is that the Entrecard team just doesn’t seem to care about its own site all that much. Sure, if you buy credits and take “advantage” of their offers, then they care. But, when you kill off a forum and you don’t update your blog all that often, I think that these things send out a signal that you aren’t passionate about your business.
- Too much junk. The biggest problem with EC right now are all of the sites which look or act like crap. Certainly not all of them, maybe not anywhere near a majority, but enough of them to cause mischief. My anti-virus alerts goes nuts with some of these sites while other sites, though not sending out viruses, malware, or trojans, take forever to load. Way too many widgets and nearly impossible to find their EC drop cards. Ugh.
Contest Details
Now on to my Exiting Entrecard or EE contest: this is an easy one. Simply leave a thoughtful comment here and I will send you some credits. I haven’t determined an exact amount, but the “smarter” your comment, the more generous I will be. Feel free to link to your site (that way I can deposit credits accordingly) and, if you mention on your site this article and offer an active link to it, my generosity will suddenly increase.
Once my last ads have run and my credits have been exhausted, then I’ll cancel my account. Someone may win as many as 1000 EC credits so have at it.
Anyway, it has been an interesting experience using Entrecard. I hope to keep up with many of you elsewhere, but as far as EC goes the drama is about over!
Tags: Entrecard, malware, spyware, trojans, WordJourney
General | Matthew C. Keegan, 1 Mar 10
By Scott, March 1, 2010 @ 5:38 pm
I have several blogs at EC but have only been a member since late last summer. Definitely a lot of drama and a major shifting/exiting from EC the last few weeks. Everyone seems to have an opinion about the “right way” to use Entrecard and it sure varies a lot. As a semi-retired person I put a lot of time into EC and dropping. I usually focus my advertising efforts on 1 or 2 of my blogs at a time then switch after a few weeks to another blog. I’ll probably continue to use EV as long as pick up no viruses, or the site heads drastically down hill. Any way, best of luck to you and your blogging efforts.
Scott´s last blog ..Spring Flood
By Matthew C. Keegan, March 1, 2010 @ 5:50 pm
Thank you for your reply, Scott. I’m sure EC works fine for some people including yourself. Thank you for your kind wishes too. BTW, I want to award you some credits. Any idea how I can do that? Looks like EC changed their panel again. Yikes!
By brad, March 1, 2010 @ 7:37 pm
Matt I am going to especially miss your Word Journey blog. I have enjoyed stopping by daily via EC, but I have a RSS subscription in my feedly reader and will continue to enjoy your great posts.
BTW to give a user some EC just go to their profile page and click on “Give credits to this site” over in the right sidebar under the google ad.
Here is my profile page if you feel so inclined to give.
thanks!
brad´s last blog ..007 a | Painting God Mad
By mike, March 2, 2010 @ 2:24 am
I never heard about EC before..how many blog can included ?? thanks for your answer
Life is Real´s last blog ..Changing Every Visitor into Subscriber
By Matthew C. Keegan, March 2, 2010 @ 5:22 am
@Mike You can find out all you need to know about Entrecard by visiting their site. Their rules change frequently, so check out what they have to say directly.
@Brad Thank you for helping me out. You have been awarded accordingly for cluing me in. I’ve been following your site too and will continue to do so once I exit Entrecard. Blessings to you!
By Scott, March 2, 2010 @ 10:39 am
Don’t worry about sending me credits, I just wanted to wish you well in the future.
Scott´s last blog ..Spring Flood
By Scott, March 2, 2010 @ 10:42 am
As usual I’m late to realize that you already sent me credits. Thank you very much.
Scott´s last blog ..Spring Flood
By Eli @ Business Sphere, March 2, 2010 @ 8:05 pm
Hi Matt,
I agree with your reasons for leaving EC and I understand.
In fact I also published a blog post, citing my reasons for leaving EC. When I left on February 20, 2010 my blog was No. 2 of the most popular blog in all categories, and I was receiving 350-400 daily visitors (droppers) thru EC. But that did not dissuade me from leaving for the reasons cited on my blog post.
So, please don’t bother to send me credits. I also gave away about 5,000 of my remaining credits when I left.
There’s more to life than dropping cards, and there’s more to blogging than EC’s drop and run traffic.
As always, I wish you success in all you do, including your blogging.
Eli @ Business Sphere´s last blog ..Four Easy Ways To Build Links And Drive Traffic To Your Blog
By Matthew C. Keegan, March 3, 2010 @ 6:35 am
Eli, best wishes as you move forward without EC. I’ve been reading your blog, now I will make a point of leaving a message and stopping by regularly.
I got a kick out of your quote from Ecclesiastes! EC certainly has vanity to go along with its drama, making it a magnet for scammers, virus dispensers and other unsavory characters. I’ve decided to bookmark my favorite sites and leave the remaining ones to discover each other.
By Matthew C. Keegan, March 4, 2010 @ 5:02 am
Just to let everyone know I gave away my remaining Entrecard credits, closed down my account and have removed my drop cards from these two sites. Thank you for participating!
I have closed comments for this article as well.