I used to be great fan and as well a sincere user of entrecard for couple of months now. I promoted it so much to fellow friends and the local blogoshpere. I brought it so much value to me personally. The ability to find great new blogs and to connect with each other was amazing. Often you used to get entrecard users dropping by and commenting and so on. And you would do the same.
However, things seem to be going down the drain lately, ever since the launch of the entrecard toolbar and certain commercial attractions. The firefox toolbar has caused a serious impact on how I now view entrecard and it has even been giving results of my expectations. It’s become traffic exchange!
No more sincere blog authors who are seeking for connection and to willingly post a comment or two on each other. How does the toolbar effect such? Well, all you have to do is to access a entrecard enabled site and hit drop on the toolbar. This increases users speed and saves so called “time”. At this point, people in fact, could drop a card before the site could have started loading. Well, although its a factual statement, as usual, it is being practiced by 90% of entrecard users today.
So, has entrecard served its purpose? For now, NOT AT ALL! We do not need traffic that are irrelevant to us. I would rather explore more ways to gain organic targeted traffic rather then, free inflows. This proves it all. Nothing comes free! You need content as content is KING! Off you go entrecard.
P/S: Im replacing the entrecard corner with a Friendfeed widget. More on that later. For a quickie, its basically a timeline of all my activities on the web.
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Tags: blog traffic, entrecard, sucks
