Your perception of new visitors needing some repeat exposure to sites before becoming loyal readers seems right on. That is my experience with Entracard for my droppers and myself. Though sometimes a site can grab you instantly.

Then comments started coming in for me and I also found myself motivated to comment on posts that I felt I could contribute to the discussion. For example, this is around my third time visiting your site. So familiarity may be the keyword here and that takes time. BTW I came via Adgitize.

Since joining Entrecard several months ago, I have had the privilege of meeting and interacting with other bloggers, many of whom I now consider friends.

Great post and discussion. It motivated me to comment Have a great weekend!

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If your readers here decide to give it a try, note that is’s best if you post often. Your regular readers are more likely to stop if they see something new at the top, also click on other things on your page.

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@Ivs
Right, it is a tradeoff. You’ll get page hits and you’ll get readership, and they don’t equal eachother. The best kind of traffic is considered to be search engine traffic, yet how many times do you click through to a site from Google only to immediately click away when you realize that the site didn’t have exactly what you were looking for. Our only hope is to put our site in front of enough people that a small number of them will like what they see and return on their own. For other people it is more like the radio. I understand they play songs over and over on the radio because studies say that it takes a while for a tune to become catchy in people’s heads. So your site comes up day after day as someone is dropping on it, but eventually it becomes something the dropper is looking forward to as he/she gets to know you over time. In that sense, Entrecard is better than Google traffic for getting real and loyal readership.

I like your discussion: Is it ethical. Yes it is ethical.

But is it meaningful to a blogger. Probably not because for a blogger it is about getting meaningful readership.

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I too try to read Entrecard sites that have updated their content since I last read them. I don’t consistently drop 300 because of that.

Speaking of stumbleupon I’m surprised that Google’s Adsense allows it since they don’t allow traffic exchange, and stumbleupon is in some ways worse than a traffic exchange.

I use Entrecard a lot and try to read a few posts and maybe find some cool new regular reads, lately I try to leave a meaningful comment if I like the site.

I do get quite a lot of traffic via Entrecard and Stumble Upon! Most probably dropping and running.

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You are definitely right about those who “drop and run” and nothing can really be done about it. That is unless you want to call them out specifically (there’s a hint). I have come across a few blogs who express their concerns about dropping without commenting. I can’t say that I blame them for the way they feel because a lot of people are just out for the credits from dropping. I for one do take the time to read some of the things on blogs I’m visiting. If I find something interesting I will comment but most times I don’t and it’s only because I can’t find anything to contribute to the post. I prefer to visit and not comment than to visit and just leave a generic “hi” post that says nothing. Especially when I know that most sites I visit are looking for genuine comments.

Ah, unique is a good description. This is the second time I’ve seen a person come up with a different way to get Entrecard people to actually speak. So you’ve got this Entrecard person to step up to the “virtual mic” and I would say that is success.

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I think there are some people who visit who do not read, and it isn’t fair to judge an individual blog by its category. In general there are categories of blogs that are less likely to be interested in this content than others. The foofy ones that talk about their kids, for example. My wife writes one of those, although it’s much better than the ones who feel the need to blog about going grocery shopping without making a point. I can guarantee that the only reason my wife would drop on a technology blog other than mine is if that blog dropped on her first. There’s just no interest there, but it does not mean that she doesn’t understand or care about technology.

Yes, there is a reason I stuck Entrecard at the top of the list. I was hoping to get my Entrecard visitors to glance a little longer before dropping their card and moving on to the next site. “Unique” is one of the best compliments I’ve received yet here. Thanks!

My blog has nothing to do with technology but I do have an interest in it. I currently hold a college degree in Information Technology so you shouldn’t assume that people have no interest in something just because you don’t see it mentioned on their blog.

Then again this could be a unique ploy to get people to comment =)

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1. Free email. It’s everywhere, and it’s so good. Unless your product works with gMail, Yahoo Mail, etc. you’ll have a hard time with adoption. If it is just “like” those services then it isn’t going to be good enough. Your lite version seems to have this problem.
2. Privacy. If this works through a company email portal then your employees will be subject to having their personal email scrutinized and/or retained forever by their employer. If they are expected to write personal email with their work account then there are a whole host of other issues that will come up such as a SLA, people leaving the company who still want to get their email, or people confusing personal email as official company business.

Of course, for someone like me that’s a great point. I still send out my emails without any mention of my blog. I should probably add a tagline at least.

You have a website.
You send emails.

Why not multiply your sales-staff by “wrapping” the regular email in an interactive letterhead?

No other marketing or advertising medium is as targeted as an email between people that know each other (as opposed to mass emails). These emails are always read and typically kept.

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