While Entrecarding I saw mention how Entrecard was similar to blogrush. Since I had both, I decided to check my stats. In the 3 months of using blogrush I’ve attracted all of 6 readers. In the 2 weeks of using entrecard, I’ve attracted 425 unique visitors. 84 of them on January 2nd alone. Card drops have been increasing steadily and comments are way up. Blogrush just didn’t work for me. I tried varying my categories based upon post content, moving the widget higher, catchy linkbait titles, still nothing.
Basic points:
- Entrecard delivers the traffic. (I’ll post some graphs and numbers soon)
- Entrecard droppers read, comment, and post.
- Entrecard doesn’t limit your ad to one category. I love cross traffic.
- Blogrush Widget is big and ugly, while Entrecard’s is small and interesting.
- Entrecard has a nice active community at this point. This might even be the #1 reason.
- Entrecard doesn’t require linkbait articles to draw traffic.
If you disagree, feel free to comment. Maybe I just had bad luck with blogrush. I’ve seen several sites remove their entrecard widget as well, so perhaps they had a different experience. Then again, that is my feeling right now. Just like Digg got ruined by it’s own popularity, can the same happen to Entrecard? What if 50 spam sites all signed up with Ron Paul ads for their blog? For now I’m happy to ride the Entrecard wave and find ways not to get burnt out on it.
The blogrush widget is not working on my blog either. My stats are worse. I believe that I’ve received 3 readers in 2 months. I’ve been considering removing it and your article is the deciding factor. It’s gone.
On the other hand, Entrecard is working very well for me also. I’m receiving a ton of new traffic and some new readers. The networking part of Entrecard is incredible. I’ve met a lot of new bloggers and even struck up a few joint ventures.
blogrush doesn’t work… it’s ice cold.
I’ve always thought that Entrecard will attract newbies. Do you think it will turn off the pros?
Hell, I dont even care about how it could turn off people. My blog got from zero to a lot of traffic in a week of using Entrecard. That’s less the work I have to do to get things started.
Entrecard will turn off the real spammers. The community outs them quickly in the forums. The Pro bloggers aren’t going to click 300 cards, but they will probably put the widget up if they see it’s popular.
Hey turnipofpower, thanks for providing the tips on surfing on hyperspeed using entrecard…but my account was also kicked off of blogrush…I had so much going on at the time in a positive vein, that I didn’t even bother to investigate…oh well…
You are very welcome. I had a blog rejected once by blogrush, but none removed. My title of the article refers to me doing the “booting”, not them. My main reason for removing their widget was no return on the space it took up. I sent plenty of traffic to other sites, but got none in return. What good are credits if I can’t use them?
I removed Blogrush from all but one of my blogs last week. The only one left standing is a dead blog at blogspot.
In time, I plan to use the available space to sensibly monetize the blogs.
I also took off Blogrush due to lack of traffic. I also hated that everything you wrote had to be linkbait to drive any traffic to it.
Blogrush doesn’t work at all! No readers! Personally, Entrecard has its perks but to newbie bloggers such as myself, our blogs either get rejected when we want to advertise or we get one or two blogs who “loyally” advertises to our site. But Entrecard does bring lots of unique visitors.
I’ve been rejected about 100 times at entrecard, don’t take it personally. If you drop cards and participate in the forums, people will visit your site. Try to visit the same sites daily and comment there every so often.
Good write up, mate.
My BlogRush Widget did not even survive for a week on my site. I de-widgetized it after two (2) days.
Now, for Entrecard, I certainly hope it is here to say. It is totally a very innovative thingie that one else have ever thought of before.
I believe that, in the near future, almost every site would have an Entrecard.
Cheers!