Comments on: No More Paid Ads

By: Entrecard Sponsor Ads Program to Launch Oct. 5

Entrecard Sponsor Ads Program to Launch Oct. 5 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:07:00 +0000

[...] not optional to members. Hey, I told you they were going to have to do something to make money when Entrecard removed the paid ads program originally. Instead, members can opt out of the sponsor ad program with a yearly fee of [...]

By: TH

TH — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:48:23 +0000

I like to know how to get back PR for my blog that lost PR for months. Not sure if entrecard drop ec can help.

By: Revelations Zero

Revelations Zero — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:49:53 +0000

I do wonder how Entrecard plan on making money now. I was kind of torn over the Paid Ads. On the one hand, I figured if people pay for other forms of advertising, why not on an EC widget. Plus, EC did need to make money. On the other, I like the fair system of Entrecard, it’s what attracted me in the first place.

Well, with it gone now, I suppose we’ll see what happens with EC. The loss of cashout for EC points is probably attributable to losing paid ads.

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:50:35 +0000

I forgot about the affiliate offers, I wonder how that is doing. I remember Graham had the sidebar ad prices pretty cheap for the size of the site, but I’m sure all of it isn’t enough to maintain/improve Entrecard.

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:45:30 +0000

Well they’re gone now!

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:43:49 +0000

I feel most people didn’t like it. I saw a ton of “Say No to Paid Ads” buttons. And everyone else just didn’t care about it.

By: joy

joy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:29:06 +0000

I wonder how much they are making off the ads they display on the Entrecard website. Entrecard is a big, high-PR site, so they should get a good amount of money that way. Plus if EC is still doing the affiliate offers for points program, they are pulling in some money that way. But I get the feeling EC was making next to nothing from paid EC ads since Graham restricted it to EC blogs only. I saw a few paid ads every once in a while, but not many after he did that. I’m glad they’re totally done, any thing else would just be confusing and overly complicated.

By: cornyman

cornyman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:34:12 +0000

Now the time will come where we will the big wipe out!

The Wipe out of the blogs who just dropped the 300 cards for reaching a high amount to cashout.

Don’t buy too much advertisement in the next three days… as you might buy it for a too high price at the moment… look out for the popularity and check then back on Saturday/Sunday… the price of many blogs with Popularity points between 500 and 1.300 will drop (and that’s bad because of less visitors)

By: TH

TH — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:22:55 +0000

I have not try the paid ads before.

By: Sheila Sultani

Sheila Sultani — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:41:57 +0000

There seems to be a very small very vocal group of members who didn’t like the paid ad system. I loved it, it was a cheap way to get a lot visitors to your site. It was also a great way for EC to make money. Now I wonder what they will do to make money. I bet no matter what it is the same exact people who complained about the paid ads will complain about whatever it is.