The entrecard effect

I was wondering lately what the actual effect of using entrecard on my blog is, so I stopped dropping cards for a few days until the drops on my blog were almost none and then 5 days ago I started dropping again and guess what the traffic went straight up:

EntreCard Stats change

While this surely looks promising however the bounce rate went through the roof with an increase of a whopping 20%. Still not bad enough? After 3 days of dropping the time on site reached the all time low of just 23 seconds…

So EntreCard is nice if you want to jump start your blog, or pad in some additional users, but it’s not the way to look for quality traffic (as in dedicated readers that take the time to appreciate your effort in writing the posts). After all there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.I personally will continue using entrecard because some droppers are bound to stick around

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3 Responses to “The entrecard effect”

  1. Scott  on March 29th, 2008

    I guess you are spot on with this observation. I havent done any specific stats but from my own experience of dropping on other sites it is unusual that once I arrive on a site that I stick around for long. This article at the top of your site was what caught my eye here.

    I guess what you can aim for is the create something near to the Entrecard ad that does the same for other ad visitors….

    Cheers

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  2. durano lawayan  on April 1st, 2008

    Hi, I’ve experienced the same thing as you have, and now I am reverting to casual dropping. There were sites I saw that I really liked but since I had to do “my rounds”, I was unable to stop and read thoroughly.

    I’ve bookmarked some and I have become a regular at 23 new sites that I’ve added, because of entrecard. I thought about it from my own dropping experience, and I noted that if this is the orientation of entrecarders, it will taper off soon because it gets so boring and meaningless.

    Thanks for the post, you’ve stated what I feel and what a lot of other people may be feeling. See you! :-) –Durano, done!

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  3. anant shrivastava  on April 2nd, 2008

    hello buddy,

    well this is a straight fact not only applicable to entrecard,

    but also to the stumbleupon and digg style social networking sites,

    i have seen a surge of 400visitors per day on my blog which is having an average of 20-25 per day through stumbleupon, but the bounce rate says a different story all together.

    so now i am in for some quality link building.

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