Comments on: Entrecard – What you should know

By: zplits

zplits — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:27:30 +0000

thanks for this informative post. It helped me a lot.

By: s0uThp4rk

s0uThp4rk — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:21:34 +0000

Yea, traffic from sources other than entrecard is better anyway. I also had difficulties when trying to leave comments on certain blogs.

I might have to try out live pagerank, could be useful. Thanks for stopping by

By: Paul @ TechByPC

Paul @ TechByPC — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:28:35 +0000

I use linky also. I created a second Firefox profile for Entrecard use and just installed the few plugins (and fasterfox) that I needed. I am thinking about customizing it further, but this lets me also install the Entrecard toolbar without messing up my primary browser.

I manually dropped 300 for a while and you are right, it took up way too much time. Unfortunately there are too many Entrecard users that only drop from their inbox, so if you do not drop on them they will never visit your site. I did notice a dropoff in Entrecard traffic, but Entrecard isn’t the largest source of my traffic anymore, so it’s probably a good thing in the end.

The other plugin that I use in my lightweight Entrecard profile is Live PageRank. Taking a quick glance at it can give me extra incentive to make a comment on well ranked sites. I do take the time to make a comment on every recent post I see that evokes one from me. What I mean by that is that the post is interesting to me and either is opinionated enough, wrong enough, missing information, or is open ended enough to allow additional input. A few times recently I came across blogs that require me to sign in or own a blogger account to comment. Bad idea if you want comments. I got a bad taste in my mouth from one site recently that I typed up a comment for and then realized that I couldn’t submit it with just Name, Email, and Website.

By: s0uThp4rk

s0uThp4rk — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:32:20 +0000

I’m actually starting to wonder if it really matters if I drop 300 a day or not. Doesn’t seem like it really helps much. Only difference is I made it to the front page of the technology category, but I’m thinking commenting on blogs might be better than dropping fanatically. I do try to comment on blogs, but not as much as I used to before I started dropping 300. If I could somehow manage to comment a lot and drop 300 I think that would be the best combination.

By: s0uThp4rk

s0uThp4rk — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:01:52 +0000

I just started doing 300 a day a few days ago. It’s not really that hard with this method. I do manually click the drop box, but having tabs open makes it easier. You could probably automate the whole process with a little scripting knowledge, but I like actually visiting the blogs and leaving a comment if something is interesting on it.

By: StarMars

StarMars — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:49:44 +0000

I use the firefox extensions you mentioned cept Linky.

I’ve only reached 300 once, everything dropped manually.