Turnip of Power's Thoughts on Improving Entrecard

Recently, "Turnip of Power" shared his thoughts on how to improve the Entrecard system, citing that Entrecard needs to switch to a monthly/yearly subscription service, like many other services.

I disagree with some of the points that have been addressed, but I, too, do not have a clear solution to improving Entrecard.

1. If Entrecard switches to a "pay for subscription" model, I likely won't pay, unless a set of powerful new tools to add value to my blog and build a further community around my blog are released.
2. The whole point of Entrecard is to help your blog grow, first through more traffic, then through building a community/readership base on your blog.  Decreasing the amount of drops, say below 100 per day, would decrease the amount of traffic you could potentially receive by dropping on other  sites and other members "dropping" on your site.
3. More high-trafficked sites, or blogs that are a part of networks need to join.  Entrecard would be able to increase their traffic to some degree, but the main benefit would be fore sites with less traffic - the return rates would be higher than many sites that don't receive as much traffic.  However, I don't see this as a viable solution either, as long-term results wouldn't be as great.

Share your thoughts on what Entrecard can do to get the "quick drop" mindset out of the people who use the system.

Miscelleanous Entrecard News

The two contests that were recently on Entrecard have concluded and the winners have been announced on this post.

You should check out the entries about others' opinions on the "traffic quality" debate.

In addition, a reiteration of the Entrecard Blog Quality Standards were posted here , which makes it harder for "spam" blogs to be kept in the system and approved.

New Entrecard Contest - Giveaway Bash

There is a new contest available on the Entrecard blog, with a total of more than 100,000 credits being given away.

Simply write a review of your favorite Entrecard blogger, publish it on your blog, link back to the post on the Entrecard blog, and the entries will receive, as follows:

• 1st Prize - 30,000 credits
• 2nd Prize - 20,000 credits
• 3 Runner-up Prizes - 10,000 credits

Entries will be judged on creativity, quality of the review, quality of constructive criticism/feedback, and quality of the blog you are writing on.  

The winner will be announced Tuesday.

Entrecard U Drop, I Follow Plugin Released

A plugin for WordPress, which adds a link to your blog to support the movement created by Lee Doyle is now available.

Today Stuart and I have released the U Drop I Follow plugin. This plugin will display your Entrecard widget along with one of the U Drop I Follow badges.

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I also hope to soon have a system in place in which the U Drop I Follow system really does give real droppers a reward fr dropping back. With Entrecards new API I will soon have a system where the top droppers get added to the top of the drop list and the lesser droppers get put further down.

This system is still new and may be awhile away from being used… But I do hope to have a new sign up form that will help build this.

You can also find it on the WordPress.org Plugins repository or on the author's blog.

View and Purchase Ads Directly from OIO Publisher

A great new feature was added to the OIO Publisher Marketplace - the ability to browse and search for blogs that have the OIO Plugin installed on their blog.

It is rather basic at this point, but you can sort blogs by Name, Alexa, PageRank, and User Rating, making it easier to spend your Entrecard credits on blogs that accept them.

Link to Marketplace .