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.
Most of my traffic comes from entrecard right now, I really need to get listed on Yahoo and MSN, but they’re taking their time again. I know the bots are on my site. I’m only getting about 15-20 visits/day from google. The rest is direct traffic/entrecard traffic.