December 27th, 2008
Entrecard is not for “PWNED video”. Entrecard is a widget that bloggers have been putting on their blogs. It made a little splash when it first came up. It was a traffic sharing utopia for bloggers. It is not what it used to be. Everyone that has a ball with it right now, was a first mover. First movers always move in and own a service, unless the service evolves. Entrecard has not evolved.
Entrecard is not even close to as useful as Twitter, and Twitter is only useful to people that spend way too much time doing it, and the first movers. Darren Rowse of Problogger.net is still trying to tell us how great Twitter is, but he gets traffic from Twitter because he is already popular. He has countless followers no matter what he does.
I am not the biggest blogging nerd out there, but I know John Chow even dropped his Entrecard widget some time ago. That was free traffic for him, and he did not even deem the widget blog worthy. The reason I dropped it is because it is hollow traffic. I have only met one friend on Entrecard. Sandee from Comedy Plus is very nice. Everyone else seems like running droppers. That is the definition of hollow traffic.
The only people that I saw doing well were the people that blogged about Entrecard. This is the first and last blog entry I will ever devote to that failed “social media” company. Is it really “social media” if it is only used by bloggers? Is it really worth your blogs time if you are basically trading blog visits for a 5-10 for 1 clip. That is not good.
My tip for anyone that is struggling on Entrecard is to not waste your time, and do more blog posts. Your readers will appreciate that you are blogging about what they like, instead of blogging about Entrecard . If you are one of the bloggers that have success with it, please tell anyone that wishes to follow your foot steps, that it is a lot of work. Then explain that if they actually put a lot of work into their blog, they will not be getting hollow traffic.
I have nothing against any of the people that work there. This is not a vendetta. I just simply need to find out the services that are worth my time. My goal is to get meaningful traffic to my blog. I am going to put more effort into using the social aspect of Youtube. My blog is about PWNED Videos. Youtube is the biggest place for people that like videos.
You need to find “social media” outlets that have to do with your blog. Entrecard is a place for bloggers to get cheap blog visits. That will not help your blog grow. Subscribers, Commenters, Google Traffic, and being a big name on “your niches main social media outlet” will bring you traffic over time.
If you like to “Youtube”, subscribe to this blog and subscribe to PWNED Video on Youtube. Comment on my videos and rate them all, even if you do not like them. Thanks! I hope I saved someone some time and effort. Entrecard is not even worth having on your blog. Entrecard has been PWNED!
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