An Entrecard Dropper’s Code of Ethics

Posted on May 20, 2008
Filed Under Blog Resources, InfoBlog, entrecard

I have long given up dropping 300 entrecards in a day. In fact, I dropped 300 entrecards only thrice since I joined Entrecard last January. On the average, I can only drop 50 entrecards, and for the last 8 weeks, I only managed dropping10 - 20 entrecards per day. Of course I am dropping entrecards to those who dropped on me, then explore a few new Entrecard sites each day.

On the average, I receive 40-70 drops a day. Admittedly, I cannot reciprocate all of those who dropped on me. But how do I return back the favor? Somehow, my Entrecard dropping habit probably contribute to the fact that I am only able to drop so much in a day. Got to admit, I’m a very busy person and blogging is not a priority, and that includes dropping Entrecards.

I follow certain rules for myself, that I think should just be fair and square for everyone. I am sharing this so that you may give me some of your thoughts about them. These are my rules to dropping, my Code of Ethics for Entrecard:

I reciprocate. So the first thing I do is to check my Drop Inbox and start dropping those who dropped on me. I open 15 blogs at once in tabs. But then, as I have said, I may not be able to reciprocate all.
I am making my visit a valid one. After dropping my Entrecard, I click on another internal link of that blog. I don’t know if it helps reducing the site’s bounce rates but it should be. Then I may proceed to another blog after closing the previous blog after it loads the internal link that I clicked. This process takes longer I know, that’s why I can only manage to drop a few entrecards.
I visit new sites. Once I’m done with the 15 blogs, depending on my time, I may open another 15 batch of blogs and do the same process, or, I may go to the Campaigns section, and query for New Sites. I usually select 5 to 10 new sites to check, drop card and at times, buy a slot.
I compensate. On weekends, I check on those sites who dropped on me and for those sites I haven’t reciprocated regularly, I make sure to visit the site, and compensate by leaving comments on interesting posts. Or, if I find a very interesting ad, I click on it too. I am sure you have seen those very inviting ads on your site, but because it is against advertisers’ Terms of Use to click on your own ad, seeing them on another blogger’s blog is a blessing. I have purchased some nice products and e-books, and discovered interesting sites with these ads.

From time to time, I also visit the Entrecard Blogs Directory I created and find blogs to drop my Entercard from there. It has grown into quite a number of blogs with Entrecard already, so it has become a good site to drop entrecards based on your preferred Blog Category.

Although nobody is compelling me to do this, I just find it right to follow these rules. Hopefully, we can dwell on a community that threads on respect and fairness. It’s a very idealistic view on things, others may find it stupid, but what the heck, its my personal view and I’m not going to ask anyone to do the same.

But if you join me and the others who have followed the same principles, then welcome my friend.

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10 Responses to “An Entrecard Dropper’s Code of Ethics”

Deimos Tel`Arin on May 21st, 2008 11:04 am

I have stopped actively dropping EntreCards and much to my surprise, I still get more than a hundred dropped on me daily. -_-

I try to reciprocate them all, if I got the time.

However, I suspect that many are splogs and not real blogs, so I try to avoid reciprocating those.

Blogs are worth visiting, splogs are not. -_-

Bloody waste of time, them splogs.

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archondigital on May 21st, 2008 7:34 pm

I hate splogs.

I also mainly drop on who dropped on me but also maintain a short list of people I actively drop on. Did try to actively participate on sites that interest me but to be honest only a few seem worthy of participation.

And I rinse and repeat on the same list for my other Entrecard accounts.

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joshuaun on May 22nd, 2008 12:20 pm

thx for the translation………..actually some time I lazy about manage the entrecard………

but it seems I have to do manage them=)

thx!!!!

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bloggista on May 22nd, 2008 2:11 pm

@ Deimos, it sucks really them splogs. Take so much time away from them thoughts.

@Archon, you’re back. Hope you’re Ubuntu is doing fine. I’m going to try that one too. I still find a number of good blogs through entrecard that’s worth emulating. Hopefully, I too can raise my blog’s worthiness to such level - I think everyone’s striving for that except those splogs.

@Josh, you’re welcome, that one was a nice song. So you must have discovered that Filipino site thru Entrecard eh?
ceblogger on May 22nd, 2008 3:03 pm

i bookmarked the sites i regular visit and drop. i included yours.

i’ll blog about my strategy soon.

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bloggista on May 23rd, 2008 7:15 pm

Hey Ceblogger, thanks for that!
Make Money w/ Gusher on May 27th, 2008 5:38 pm

nice list of entrecard ethics pal, i’ll always bear that on my mind.
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dr801 on June 17th, 2008 12:29 pm

check this site out, i get a lot of entrecard drop from there :

http://hyperdrop.co.cc

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John Doro on August 5th, 2008 3:08 pm

I support your Code of Ethics. Let’s spread it…

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