Money, Love, and Change

I am not sure what to think of the new Entrecard changes.  I really like being able to see how many times a blog has dropped on you in the past 30 days – I am using this information to comprise a drop list for myself.  I used to be a member of the Recipro-drops list, but was surprised to see that some members were hardly dropping any cards at all.  I think that doing a little extra work and getting a consistent list of droppers for my blog will be worth the effort.

I am not sure what to think of the new pricing system.  It does not make a lot of sense to me.  I understand that it will take some time for the numbers to adjust, but using a “power of 2″ system doesn’t seem to leave a lot of room for the the most popular blogs to separate themselves.   Asking someone to pay roughly 8000 credits vs. 16000 credits vs. 32000 credits is a big difference – to me, it will come down to luck.  If you are lucky enough to catch a spot on a popular blog when an advert has just finished up, you will pay a reasonable price.

Personally, I think that dropping cards is a more likely way to gain an audience, as opposed to advertising on a popular site.  This is because most Entrecard traffic comes from other Entrecard members.

I don’t want to beat this to death, but what do you think?  Am I missing something here?

As a blogger who is just starting out, I know that I need to increase my content and my traffic.  To date, I have not really been focusing on increasing traffic because I would rather spend my time generating quality content.  However, a recent post by Lazy Man influenced me to check out Entrecard, which is a blog networking site.  There is a great interview with Entrecard’s Graham Langdon on ProBlogger, which talks about how Entrecard was created as well as how it works. 

Since placing the widget on my page a couple of days ago, I’ve gotten 11 cards dropped on me, and 8 ads bought.  I would have to say that I am pretty impressed with how easy it is to start making others aware that I exist, and plan on spending some time over the next couple of weeks really trying to develop some traffic to the site using Entrecard.  There don’t seem to be any negatives to Entrecard yet (other than that it is addicting!), and at this point would highly recommend it to anyone just starting out.