I'm going to have to change my EC dropping tactics. These days I combine it with adgitizing and go through my inbox for the day before. Recently I've been a bit more selective within my inbox. There are so many irritating or downright uninteresting blogs to drop on.I know people have different reasons for opening a blog and are free to post what they like provided it's not plagiarised, but I don't see why I should be forced to open ones that get me so aerated. Usually it's because they have clearly purchased and posted 1 dollar automated articles that hardly make sense and rarely follow the theme of the blog's title.
I have considered leaving EC altogether as quite a few have already. I believe I get lots of traffic from adgitize anyway. But there some EC friends I don't want to lose touch with, so I'll continue with it for now.
Perhaps it's time to update my favourites and do my dropping from there.
I think about leaving ec a couple times a month, but, I like the traffic it brings to my blogs. I start out dropping while I get my 50 adgitize clicks and then I go to CMF and do the spikes and click on those that have EC and THEN I drop on the using the toolbar until I get to 300. I don't even use my inbox anymore because it is so overrun with crap and nonsense.
ReplyDeleteRight Sheila. We are like minded then. I wonder if those ridiculous blogs will eventually give up on EC.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right, setting up our favorites may be a good way to avoid niche blogs that tend to be not too interesting. I get them in my Inbox a lot too. Unfortunately, they might also be the ones who make it to my Top Droppers at the end of this month :(
ReplyDeleteFor me, I start Adgitizing first, and drop on ECs while doing that. Then I head to my inbox when I still have time for it.
Recently I have noticed a huge increase in crap blogs that are dropping on me, at least 65% are a bad joke!
ReplyDeleteI wish there was a some way to ban those blogs from being allowed to drop on me!
I left EC over a year ago and just came back, but I know what you mean. I've run into several blogs not worth a second look and they have pop ups to boot. I found you via adgitize by the way. Greetings from Ancient Digger.
ReplyDeleteI left EC, Adgitize and everything else like that a while ago. It wasn't worth the time I was spending dropping and for the same reasons as you have stated. So, what I did, which took a little time, was to go through all the blogs that interested me on EC and Adgitize and follow the ones I liked. Now I don't need EC, Adgitize etc... and I just visit and follow my favorite blogs.
ReplyDeleteI just use the toolbar to drop on my favorites, and that works fine :)
ReplyDeleteI visit between 10 and 15 blogs through EC, just the ones I like. If they quit, then I'll quit!
ReplyDeleteI have also become very disillusioned with the Entrecard experience. You might find what I just posted about the service rather interesting.
ReplyDeleteVera - that's what I intend to do. But I am nervous about being able to capture every one that I want. In the past my inbox has been a way to make sure noone got missed.
ReplyDeleteWKW - that is the problem, indeed.
Hi Ancient Digger - I have visited you from adgitize too.
Jo - I'd say you could afford to do that, Jo, because you have such a faithful following.
Lidian - I've come back to Firefox from Chrome, so I can do that too.
Josep - please don't quit without warning me so I can make sure you're on some kind of list of mine.
Fishhawk - thanks. I've left you a comment.
I usually don't do much with EC. I usually go to the Adgitize blogs and if they happen to have an EC widget, then I will drop on it
ReplyDeleteI actually stopped using Entrecard for a while, but then I started again. I guess old habits die hard. But you are right about there being a lot of spam sites on EC. Hopefully someone will do something about them real soon.
ReplyDeleteI have never used adgitize, but going by your post and the comments it seems like an option worth exploring. :-)
dickster - That's a good idea. It's what I do if I am short of time.
ReplyDeleteNBP - I do recommend adgitize and know plenty of bloggers who agree with me.