Posted on Friday, 14th March 2008 by Bcarter
I haven’t done a top 10 post in a while, but I didn’t want my blog to turn into a link farm. It seemed that the only posts I was writing during February were “Top 10 Droppers” posts. I know, I should get off my butt and write more; give me credit here, I’m improving at that. Top 10 posts will be random from now on and some observations about my traffic and Entrecard follow the list.
First things first, here’s the list:
| joanjoyce |
| CK Marketing |
| Rambling On |
| Photography by KML |
| WildClips Comedy |
| worth the popcorn |
| ahkong.net – Deimos Tel`Arin’s domain – Gamer, Blogger, Philosopher |
| EZ Money Online |
| Juliana’s Lair |
| My World |
I have been pretty active dropping at Entrecard over the last month and a half; my traffic is pretty bouncy, but sometimes bouncy traffic is better than none. In a previous post I had mentioned this concern, but I have also figured out that the key to being successful is to start out dropping heavy to get onto lists and into “Inboxes”, make sure you at least reciprocate on your inbox every day to keep them coming back. Then make sure you update your content. After seeing your blog so often the droppers that show up in your inbox will start to stick around a little and leave comments. The key to getting these bloggers to stick is to make sure you have fresh content for them to poke around on. I know when I visit a blog that I see in my Inbox every day I can tell when they have updated their content almost right away; if I see a new post I’ll at least take a scan over it to see what it is. If it intrigues me, I’ll keep reading and possibly comment. Other Entrecarders do the same thing, my bounce rate goes down by almost 2-3 percentage points when I have a new post here and at One Million Pet Pics.
My point here is, don’t complain about how bouncy the Entrecard traffic is, write something or change something on your blog to make droppers take notice and stick around.
Feel free to let others know what you think.
Posted in Entrecard | Comments (5)
March 14th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I’ve just started with Entrecard and it’s all still so new to me. Though it IS how I found you!
March 14th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Woo Hoo! Made it again. And your so right. Since I joined Entrecard and started reading your blog, I have come to look forward to new posts from you. (espcially the top 10 hehehe)
March 14th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Many thanks for the link! I to have been enjoying the traffic and the many new blogs discovered on Entrecard!
March 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am
I see I am going to have to work a bit harder to make it on the list!
March 17th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I agree with your points about Entrecard. I try to update daily and reciprocate as much as possible. I really love the pet pics site!