Dropping Entrecards Last Night
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So I was dropping EC’s and actually reached over 600 EC’s last night and found out some common elements in blogs that I find most disturbing. The primary being that some blogs have a need to deceive the entrecard logo, and put a fake one at the top of the blog, or in a post and the real one hidden somewhere else. This can confuse you and is misleading the dropper to create false clicks, I don’t appreciate this kind of deception and try to flag blogs that do this so I will not visit them again. One went so far as to put a completely fake Entrecard with a link to another one of their blogs, while the real entrecard was hidden somewhere else.
I like performing EC dropping as when I see blogs that I like, and have similar content to what I publish on my blogs, I usually will purchase an Entrecard advertisement on those blogs. I also like to leave comments on posts that capture my interest, and I have been known to stumble or Digg or even tweet somebody else’s post if I felt like sharing it. I posted someone else’s blog post with a cat picture for example last night.
Word to Entrecard users, have some EC Etiquette and don’t deceive your droppers with false badges or multiple badges.
-Justin Germino
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I guess I don’t do that much bloghopping to run into this, but thanks for the warning. I like to actually sit and read the blogs, finding new favorites to vist on a regular basis. I get discouraged when there isn’t a fresh story or photo. When you visit so many blogs, do you even have time to read? Or comment?
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I have very good memory I drop generally the same 600 or so blogs per night with some new ones, but usually the same. I know when the post is the same from previous nights or days old. Also, I always glance a title and see a picture if in the first few posts that catches my eye. I tend to read posts regarding interesting stories, philosophical questions, freeware, technology, poetry…etc.
Not to knock anyone but I tend not to read posts about peoples pets, or what their kids did that day in school and personal stories unless I can tell there is more than just a one sided ramble, IE something that provides value to the reader. That being said, some of my own posts are just personal stories on my blog so I understand why people do that.
I don’t know whether I have ever come across these fake badges. Do they look like the original EC widget? I try to do 300 for each of my blogs on alternate days because I just can’t seem to find the time.
In regards to Lin’s comments, I do take time to skim through the first post of a blog and if it pulls me in, I would definitely take a while to comment, or if I don’t, I just bookmark it so I can come back later. Just like when I happened to chance through this particular blog of yours while dropping ECs. And like you said, if you are a regular EC user, you’ll recognize the blogs that you drop on. Especially when one has a unique layout.
Anyways, I was just starting to drop and hope that I don’t encounter any fake widgets!
Have a nice day!
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Oh I know what you meant, I just found one like that last night and was freaked out thought I got some virus or something. They put a fake card on top of the page while the real one was on the footer area surrounded with a bunch of adds. I don’t know how to flag a blog to avoid me from visiting it again (I use Chrome), but I do bookmark blogs I like to read and that one is definitely not on my list. Nice to see your blog btw
Thanks for the visit, glad to see I am not the only person encountering fake EC cards.
Thanks for the heads-up. I’m glad I found this post because I’ve only been doing Entrecard for about three days now so I’m learning as I go. I haven’t dropped many cards because I really do try to read the blogs first and comment when I can think of something worthwhile to say.
Luckily, I haven’t run into a fake card yet, but I have had the problem of trying to find the card. I just left one in fact where it was buried at the bottom. I’ve also had a recurring problem of people’s comment widgets not working. You come up with something nice to say, and then it just disappears.
I read on another blog last night that there are people who try to cheat the system with Twitter, too. They’ll follow you until you follow them as a courtesy. Then they’ll unfollow you the next day. As a result, they end up having this huge following count, while your count goes down one more.
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