Entrecard.com Review - 10 day update

Posted by Ryan

February 5, 2008

Ten days ago I wrote a review on entrecard.com and how I didn’t think the site was really worth it and in my tens days of using it my thoughts haven’t changed. As I mentioned earlier I didn’t think the way it was implemented would work and my assumptions have just grown in to facts the more i use the site. All of the traffic I’m getting from the site is garbage traffic, the visitors come, click the ‘drop card’ link and leave. This is useless and does nothing but inflate my stats with meaningless traffic. My goal was to get enough points to put my ad on a well known site for a day and see what kind of traffic I could pull in. Well, my ad ran the other day and it brought me in…wait for it, 54 new visitors! Now, the site I put the ad on pulls in some decent traffic(nearly 10,000 uniques a day) but they did put the entrecard box below the fold and kind off by itself which could be one of the reasons for the low return. Who can blame them though, the ad doesn’t really fit with it’s odd measurements and they are not actually get paid real money so there is not real incentive to put it somewhere meaningful on their site. So, it took me over a week to get enough points to put an ad up and it gave me pretty much nothing in return…see where I’m going with this?

Since entrecard is filled with spam and money making sites that’s where your ad will probably end up so if you run of these sites entrecard might be great for you. The ads I displayed on my site for my ten day trial were the best of the offers I got and those were not that great anyways. I’m not seeing the real benefit of entrecard and I’m sure it is destined to fail just like all the other traffic swapping sites that popped up in the nineties tech boom. I’m curious to hear how it’s working for others so post up some comments on what kind of traffic you’re receiving and if you’ve found the site useful or not.

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