Why Are You Still Dropping?
Casey | May 27, 2008 How many times have you come across a blog that has not updated in a week? How about in over a month? Do you own one of those blogs?
Hopefully, you know what I’m talking about. If you’ve come across a blog that is dead through Entrecard, then the owner of that blog is probably experiencing an Entrecard addiction. In fact, I bet 99.9% of those blog owners are suffering from an extreme Entrecard addiction.
How do I know?
It’s easy to figure out. Mostly because we’ve all been there. The blogger is spending all this time dropping, commenting, and posting in the forums in order to drive traffic to their blog. It is hard to write without an audience, unless of course it’s just a personal diary. But, if you’re with Entrecard, it’s because you want your blog to be seen! So, you stumble across this awesome thing called Entrecard, and immediately you are attached. You want to drop 300 a day and build up a ton of credits so you can use them to get your blog known. Hey, Entrecard can be pretty addicting.
Why are you still dropping?
The more you drop, the more credits you earn, the more your blog gets known! This should be the reason you drop. But, if you are are spending too much time dropping and not enough time maintaining your blog, your drops will go up and you’re blog will go down. Eventually (hopefully), you will realize this when you’re wondering why your traffic isn’t steadily increasing. If you post new content as well as drop regularly, you’ll traffic will rise! This is because you will have people (the Entrecarders you’ve been dropping on) returning to read new content, whether they drop on your card or not. They will remember your blog as opposed to just spending 3 seconds finding your Entrecard and dropping. Isn’t that what you really want?
So here’s a little tip to those who haven’t written a new post in 27 years: Stop focusing on traffic and start worrying about content. This is more a lesson on blogging than it is on Entrecard(ing). Work on writing new posts regularly and readers will start to come to you. Then go to Entrecard to get a boost.
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You definitely hit the nail on the head. However, because U Drop I Follow, I still return those droppers. But I don’t stay much and don’t return for a leisurely reading since I don’t have any fresh content to read.
I still return drops on them too, which is what led me to write this rant. Every day they drop on me, I return it to see no new content and go huh? It’s like working really hard to plan a huge party, everyone shows up, but you don’t!
My Entrecard strategy right now is to go through all unreciprocated drops in my inbox and collect the titles of articles I found interesting to read. On the average I get around 20, which would take me say 1 hour to process after my Entrecard dropping. Those stale blogs, if activated, could add perhaps 10-12 articles, so it’s a good respite they’re not writing fresh content.
I recently learnt from an expensive 8 week webinar that you should post to your blog at least once a day to get the maximum free SEO traffic
Ya sure, dropping takes time.
But there are faster ways to do it so that bloggers can find some time to post. You can find some tips on my blog that help me earn more than 350 ECs in a matter of minutes daily.
There’s another thought on writing content. You don’t need to write as often as those who already have large audience, like let’s say thousands of them and you can use more time to entrecarding