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I signed up for Entrecard.com yesterday. See the link on the right. I’ve been looking around the site including many blogs that are part of the network and I have some interesting observations. Most notably, I see a lot of blogs that are poorly written – mainly just filling words like they were after some kind of quota and not saying anything. The craziest thing is their feedburner stats, most of which are over 200. Now I know that there aren’t 200 people interested in reading these blogs since I could hardly get through a single post on them. Is this a more sophisticated version of the spam blog?
I think Entrecard has a neat thing going that has the potential to do very well for itself. It naturally makes advertising on poor quality sites cheaper. Of course at the moment since I’m new my site appears to be low quality. It works by sharing advertising with other bloggers. Unless you want to there is never any cash that changes hands. I have noticed that many of the people I make a connection to will drop by and reciprocate. I’m wondering if that is how they all got their RSS subscriptions as well.
I’m not really into the profit blogging thing, although I wouldn’t mind making some money to help make ends meet here. It just seems like I have a very fine line to balance between trying to gain readership and maintaining the professional image that I want to have. This blogging thing is more complicated the more interested you are in doing things the right way rather than just making a quick buck.
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Welcome to EC! There are quite a few spam blogs out there, but I find as long as you drop cards in the right categories you’ll find like minded bloggers who you can connect with. All the best!!
I too am amazed by some of the stats posted by poorly written, rarely updated sites. This seems to be more of an issue with mid-ranking sites. I find nearly al of the top performers are well done. I agree Entrecard can be a great tool and have been pleased with my results on the program. Welcome!
Yup, its all about how much effort you put in to it. Like anything in this world, there will always be people that try to exploit. You ought to do your drops with NoScript on some time. The amount of XSS attacks blocked really amazes me!
I am also really interested in how many sites are stuffing their affiliate data into your cookies.
I’ll probably post some stats in the next few days.
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@nukeit: The problem with noscript is that the entrecard “drop” link doesn’t show up unless you have allowed the hosting page to run Java. I have been doing that for each one and then reloading the page, but it gets annoying. I am thinking about running a linux VM just for running the drops. That way I could revert it if anything happened and I could leave scripting wide open. Being Linux I doubt I would have to revert it very often.
You are certainly right about the XSS attacks, and even after approving the host page Noscript will protect you. Thanks for sharing!
@everyone else – thanks for the welcome to Entrecard!
The only sites I have to allow are ones that have their js code saved on their host rather than the stock remote code method. This seems to be the case on most blogger.com accounts, but I’m not 100% sure. If it takes more than 5 seconds to find the drop box, I skip the site… No questions asked
In the NoScript > Options > General tab you can temporarily allow top-level sites by default, though I wouldn’t recommend using this except on trusted drop sites.
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