Reasons Why You Aren’t Receiving Drops
Not getting dropped on?
Are you receiving either 0 or just a few drops a day and wondering why? Or, recently have you noticed a decrease in the amount of drops you are receiving, even if you are continuing to drop regularly? Chances are, there is something wrong with your EC widget or website. Here are some explantions to your confusion. Check out these things and see if they solve your problems!
Reasons Why You Aren’t Receiving Drops
Your site takes way too long to load.
When it comes to dropping, Entrecarders can be very impatient. Well, when it comes to loading a site at all, I think everyone is impatient! If your site takes too long to load, people will just close it and move on. You can speed up site loading times by removing scripts and widgets that you don’t need, which is most of them.
Your site doesn’t load at all!
Great. I spent all this time trying to get this one site to load and then I get the message that says it can’t load the site! If that is happening, or your site is down, well, you can’t get drops! It’s important to keep track of your site’s bandwidth usage, since that is probably the problem if your site is down. If it’s not, it could be your host. A reliable host is important!
Your Entrecard widget is too hard to find.
A skilled Entrecard dropper can find a widget in a matter of seconds. The eyes draw to the sidebar, and look for a square with a little gold strip underneath. It’s usually easy to pick out. However, some people like to hide their widget. Either at the bottom of the site, stuck in a post, or hidden in a cluster of ads. If this is the case, you are going to frustrate some people, and they might think you don’t even have a widget! Make sure your widget is clearly visible.
Your Entrecard widget is impossible to find – it’s not there!
It’s really fun trying to reciprocate drops, searching the entire page for the widget, checking the places where users sometimes hide it, and then finally deciding that the widget isn’t even there. Fun fun! You could be a regular dropper and then one day you could find that your widget isn’t there. This happens sometimes if you accidentally remove the code from your sidebar or edit it. This could be from adding, removing, or editing, soemthing right next to the EC widget, and the code for the widget just gets stuck in the mess.
You are banned from Entrecard.
This is easy to figure out if you try to log in to Entrecard. No one will be able to drop on you if you’re banned! This could be due to a number of things. You can check out this list of ways your blog could have been banned from Entrecard for.
Additionally, you probably aren’t receiving a whole lot of drops because you aren’t dropping yourself! The reasons above are for those who continue to drop regularly. However, if you aren’t, you won’t be getting many drops back either. It’s important to regularly return drops and drop on new blogs. This will increase the amount of drops you receive.
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I love dropping cards on different sites.. and the one thing that I hate most is looking for the widget for entrecard.. and yes, sometimes its not there on the homepage..
How about “People are sick of stopping by your blog and seeing the same stinkin’ post at the top every day for the past eight months!”
So, I’ve only been on EC for 5 days. But I do notice the dates on the posts. And I have been thinking the same things you’ve mentioned here. And I have heard other folks mention these same things. Which makes it hard for me to figure out why people don’t take the hint. (?)
@ C – Yeah I agree. I ranted about the lack of updates with blogs in this post: http://www.entreblast.com/2008/05/27/why-are-you-still-dropping/
I agree with you Casey, it’s annoying when you try to look for the entrecard widget on someone else site not knowing that it doesn’t have the widget nor it’s somewhere on the page which is not visible to people. It suck but still I love dropping entrecard
btw I’m still thinking of purchasing an advertise here tho 
@ Nina – Yeah it’s just a timewaster for those who have to drop hundreds a day! And hey, if you want to purchase an ad spot, feel free to! Just let me know if you have any questions.
STUMBLED!
I love Card Hopping, but I hate visiting sites that I cant find the widget on.
Good list.
The non-existant cards drive me crazy… or you go to another page and there it is…. I don’t care if you dropped on me, if it is not on the first page… I am not dropping anymore!
Yes… Al of the list is the reason why we don’t receive drop. No argue with that
oh wow. i thought about it, and hey, yeah. your right about these. no wonder i haven’t been recieving much drops the first months. my sites been really unstable.