Well, I’ve only just started using Entrecard again, and guess what happened. My search engine traffic dropped over 50% almost immediately. Here, take a look.
This graph shows pure search engine traffic from Google, mostly. I did go and check my ranks on certain keywords and they seem to have DROPPED. So, when I quit using Entrecard my search engine traffic shot up, and when I started again the search engine traffic shot down. I’m not sure why this would be caused merely by using EC or not using EC. Regardless, I know I have a long way to go before I really start to rank in the search engines.
If this is the way it works, I might as well get free traffic from the search engines rather than dropping 300 all the time to get the exact same amount of traffic. Also, the search engine traffic is of a higher quality, showing a 60% bounce rate, where Entrecard has an over 90% bounce rate.
My intentions were to stack the Entrecard traffic ontop of the search engine traffic, not to kill my better source of traffic!
So, I think I’m dropping entrecard. Sorry guys.
This may not be true. I don’t see any relation to why your search engine traffic should move with respect to your Entrecard activity. Do some more testing and see whether any other factors are influencing. In my experience, I didn’t see any difference to my SE traffic. Thanks.
I’m fairly confident – I saw a spike in organic traffic as soon as less EC traffic showed up on my blog. Then, when I pushed EC again, it declined heavily. It’s enough proof for me, and there is another user who had the same issue. See this post: http://lissowerbutts.com/free-backlinks-but-dont-use-entrecard/
Let’s call this an experiment then, I will update this post with caps from Analytics in a few days to see if there is a change. There is no widget on my blog anymore, so entrecard traffic should disappear fairly quick.
Honestly, I wouldn’t put it past Google to do something like this.
I’m really thinking it’s Google using analytics data. I’ve removed analytics, I might put the EC widget back and see what happens.
Hmmm, this is interesting. I can’t think of a reason how EC is connected to google search. You should expand your experiment to maybe 1 month to have more concrete evidence.
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HOw google and EC impact each other? this is something banner exchanging so this is wont be true pls Borden your experiments and update with newest result anyway thanks
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I’ve just started EC myself on two of my blogs as a test. I’ve heard of this issues but only on a theoretical standing. The example at the link pointed out by SouthP4ark is pretty scary. I’ll be sure to see keep a close eye on the traffic marks. I hope it’s not true as it seems like EC could be a great thing.
Anyway, keep us informed on your findings! Thanks
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at this point, I have removed analytics and my ranks seem about the same as they were when I wasn’t dropping. I believe google uses analytics data to help calculate your rankings. Lower bounce rate on analytics = higher ranking it seems.