Entrecard Experiment

7:03 AM by trafficpro

This is a continuation of yesterday's blog "Entrecard Roadtrips".


I signed on to Entrecard to find an ad for me to approve. Since my blog goes along with my business sites I have to check out the blogs to make sure they do not contain anything that is not family friendly. My advertisers would be none too happy about that. So while I was there I decided to start my first road trip from there. My next few road trips all started from ads I have waiting in the que. I figure if people want to put ads on my site I should always drop on them first.


Since starting I have made sure to always drop on people in my inbox. Kind of a "share the love" kind of thing. Yesterday I have to apologize for though. For the interest of keeping it a pure experiment I did not go there next. I had been only dropping in one or two categories so my inbox was going to be more likely to give me false dead ends since they would all have ads in the same categories.


So the next way I chose my starting point was by just doing a random search. I thought this would make my results more pure. After awhile it got very hard to go very far on my roadtrip that way. I then changed to an artificial random and went from topic to topic just picking one blog.



The Key

Stranded = No Entrecard box

Roadblock = Already been to the blog

U turn = Blog displaying own ad


The Results



Ads to approve



  • 10 blogs - stranded

  • 7 blogs - roadblock

  • 21 blogs - roadblock

  • 14 blogs - roadblock

  • 5 blogs - roadblock

  • 2 blogs - roadblock

  • 6 blogs - roadblock

Switched to Random



  • 2 blogs - roadblock

  • 7 blogs - U turn

  • 8 blogs - roadblock

  • 2 blogs - roadblock

  • 1 blog - U turn

  • 1 blog - roadblock

  • 1 blog - roadblock

Switched to Artificial Random



  • 5 blogs - roadblock

  • 1 blog - roadblock

  • 2 blogs - U turn

  • 2 blogs - roadblock

  • 6 blogs - roadblock

  • 8 blogs - roadblock

  • 1 blogs - roadblock

  • 2 blogs - roadblock

  • 7 blogs - roadblock

  • 1 blog - roadblock

  • 9 blogs - roadblock

  • 7 blogs - roadblock

  • 1 blog - roadblock

  • 2 blogs - roadblock

  • 1 blog - roadblock

  • 5 blogs - roadblock

  • 1 blog - roadblock

  • 1 blog - roadblock

  • 1 blog - roadblock

  • 3 blogs - roadblock

  • 4 blogs - roadblock

  • 1 blog - roadblock

  • 6 blogs - roadblock

  • 1 blog - roadblock

  • 1 blog - roadblock

  • 3 blogs - roadblock

  • 2 blogs - roadblock

  • 2 blogs - roadblock

  • 2 blogs - roadblock

  • 2 blogs - roadblock

I Give Up !!!


This is where I landed on a site that has 300 Entrecard sites all ready for you to just go through them all. I then realise why my roadtrip kept ending up on a select few sites. I now know the two kinds of Entrecard people. There is the casual one that finds it fun to check out other sites and there is the professional clicker that just rifles through 300 sites a day and puts out a lot of ads.


I do not think I could ever become a professional clicker. I just do not have the time. I would much rather take that time to create. I do not think I would have time to write good blogs, read other people's blogs, add to my websites, and still have a life if I clicked that much.


Entrecard is a great resource and it helps people that do not have the money to advertise be able to. It also helps sites get a higher traffic ranking. Now here comes the huge BUT... if you do not take the time to have good content then people are just dropping and bouncing. You also need to make sure you have something eye catching right at the top or people will just click right on by. If people are not staying to read your blog or clicking on ads it is not worth much.

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  1. Regina Says:
    May 31, 2008 at 12:49 PM

    great post! I find that I am a cross between your two factions. I do drop like a maniac! and try to hit 300 per day BUT I am also unemployed and my youngest child is 14 so I pretty much have TONS of time on my hands! LOL!! (I also don't sleep much at night!

    But on the other hand I always try to post something worth reading to keep people coming back. I also take a few minutes to browse the sites that I drop on and if something grabs my attention (Like this post!) I stop, read & comment!

    so we are not all hit & run drivers (that's what I call them!)!!
    so keep on with your road trip, you will likely find a nice little niche!

    Blessings!


  2. Melissa Says:
    June 2, 2008 at 8:50 PM

    Well, I have been trying to drop more but it does eat up a lot of time. I try to do everything blog related on my laptop so it stays a fun break from the rest of my sites. It takes awhile to go through a lot of sites on a laptop with wireless though. Even longer when the girls are on the other computers. LOL

    I do also love checking out all of the other blogs too. I am very guilty right now of putting things off so I can read more blogs.


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