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Entrecard has certainly helped my blogs with a rush of visitors checking out my site and has brought some new people and expanded my reach.  But it is becoming too cumbersome to maintain, the traffic is artificial for the most part.  I have proven this by not dropping much on the weekend and will see the same results magnified when I am in Las Vegas because I won’t have time to drop like I do when I am at home.

I saw a 33% drop in Unique Visitor traffic for two days in a row when my I didn’t drop that much.  I am sure this will cut even more as some people drop to people who dropped in last few days instead of just same day.  This means about 50% of my dragonblogger.com traffic is artificial and only gained by reciprical dropping.

So I average about 150 unique visits per day if I stop using entrecard entirely or keep my 300 – 350 unique visits per day and continue my drops.  Which takes a lot of time for several blogs, I lose almost an hour and a half per day just dropping EC’s.  Now there are other reasons to continue these drops, the drops have no effect on Google Page Rank, but they do affect your Alexa Rank, and your RealRank (IZEARank).  So by keeping up Entrecard I can keep my blog under 500 RealRank, which has a significant ability to monetize my blog on PayPerPost and SocialSpark.

So because I do the drops and spend the time, I qualify for higher paying opps in the $8 – $10 dollar range instead of barely qualifying for the $5 opps.  Since my RealRank is very good I actually can do 1 – 2 paid posts on PayPerPost now that my RealRank is updated, whereas before my RealRank showed up I barely got 1 post in 30 days.

So if you are somebody who looks to monetize your blog and get opportunities from PayPerPost or SocialSpark, it is worth doing the full 300 drops and getting the better rank because it helps you qualify for more opps and make more money.  I think this is milking the system however and ultimately this is artificial and it is only a matter of time before SocialSpark and PayPerPost do not count visitors from Entrecard as Unique Visits and therefore won’t reflect in your RealRank.  Once they do this Entrecard will become all but useless.

So I still use Entrecard now primarily to visit and see other blogs, but I keep it up to maintain a good RealRank so I can eke out a few extra paid posts before the holiday season.  If you happen to see a few more paid posts than normal, bear with me.  I have Christmas Presents to buy this year, and I still will push out quality content as often as possible.

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