Will The Entrecard System Survive Without Blogger?
I can’t believe how many Google free blogs are in the Entrecard system and I never really paid much attention until Google went down right after Entrecard started working again after the fire. I think well over half of the blogs that were in my inbox were free blogs. So I had to search for blogs to drop on that weren’t connected with Google and that was a pain.
I can understand why certain bloggers don’t see the need to pay for their own domain, but people that are trying to convince other bloggers that they know how to make money online should certainly know better. Now who is going to listen to any marketer that can’t even afford to pay for hosting? Certainly not me, I can be naive at times, but I’m certainly not stupid.
What would happen if blogger blogs went away? Would Entrecard have to start all over again or would they have enough blogs in the system to carry on? I’m not an expert about EC so I have no idea. I have 2 free blogger blogs, but I don’t use them they were simply to practise on when I first started out and they only have articles on them that I bought a long time ago.
I can’t say I’m any where close to being a good blogger, but at least I do try to keep my blog updated unlike many blogs I drop on that always have the same post showing and I can see that they have dropped on me almost everyday or quite frequently so they certainly had time to throw up a simple post of some sort.
I know people go on vacation and bad things might keep them off line for awhile, but why in the world would they take the time to drop on blogs if they are not even going to update their blog? If I’m away for an indefinite period of time I surely wouldn’t make time to drop EC’s. I feel bad when I don’t update at least every other day.
I know on weekends I usually let it slide because I’m busy and I know others have a life outside of the Internet also. I am seriously thinking about not dropping on any blog that doesn’t update at least once a week. Sure you might get my visit, but you wont get the EC credit and stay popular. I usually drop from 3 blogs so that usually means 3 votes for you. Well, I have to run so have a good evening and happy dropping.
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June 10th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Blogger has many slogs but there is no need to get rid of them just because of them. Blogger has a few gems
Also not all blogs are about money.
I agree that to show your a real blogger getting your own hosting is a must… I could never use blogger
but many people cant use wp so its good for them.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:00 am
I’m working on getting my own domain. I only started blogging for the heck of it in October and have kind of “self taught” along the way.
Interesting what you say about the blogger connection though. I hadn’t realized how many were blogger.
June 11th, 2008 at 5:24 am
I agree with most of what you say .
In particular, it is a bit frustrating when some blogs appear to be updated very infrequently, yet their owners are still dropping entrecards all over the place . That in turn encourages you to go there, but there’s no new content . And yet Entrecard encourages visitors to read blogs !
Maybe some mechanism could be arrived at where you can only drop cards if you’ve updated your blog .
June 11th, 2008 at 5:48 am
…Sometimes ya just gotta get it out…
June 11th, 2008 at 6:50 am
I agree with Lee, Good original blogs far outnumber the splogs. Mostly chain droppers maintain splogs so you tend to notice them more often.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I have my own domain and pay for hosting. I have a few sites actually. I choose blogger for my blog not because it is free or because I do not know what I am doing. I choose blogger because Google tends to give Blogger blogs higher page rank. Everytime I make a blog post it is on the first page of results for it’s topic for a few days. Usually my posts show up at around the 5th listing. Even though I have only had the blog for a little over a month it does better in page rank than my other sites.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I agree, some bloggers obviously aren’t really into blogging at blogspot. I have my own domain name also, 2 of them, and I pay for hosting. However, I have lost 5 blogs due to hosting providers (I’ve used several) upgrading without my knowledge and once due to server failure. One of them provided an automated daily backup, but they backed up an empty blog the day after they lost everything. So, instead of logging in myself and backing up and downloading every single day, I decided to save myself the time and go with Blogger. I have never lost a single post with them.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:32 am
I would like to thank everyone for their response to this post.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I get highly amused when people look down upon others who use a free blogging platform. As a previous comment was made “that a real blogger doesn’t use blogger”… please…. what a bunch of BS. I’ve been blogging for over 6 years between countless blogs, all with blogger. Paying for a domain doesn’t make you a “real” blogger. I currently have 5 blogs with blogger and I’d put my content, quality wise, up against anyone.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:26 am
I am wondering when the day will come when someone will clean up all the digital filth lying around. There’s far too much crap- not just on blogger, but on all the sites, including the original homesteading geocity sites if anyone remembers that far back
June 12th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I’ve known people who have been using blogger for years and have some of the best blogs on the net. They simply never transitioned because they don’t have to. They have readers and if they are trying to make money, they make enough to satisfy them. Paying for a domain name and hosting only adds to the costs of the blogger.
Technically the way Entrecard is supposed to work is that you drop your card on a blog you like. Blogs that don’t update shouldn’t be on your list. There are plenty of people who update their blog daily who use Entrecard, you just have to spend some time looking for those great blogs, just like everything else!
June 12th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Hi Monkey,
I love reading your blog and I don’t look down on free blogs unless your trying to teach me how to make money and you can’t even afford hosting.
@ Little Entreprenuer… I remember the geocity sites although I never had one. There seems to be an audience for digital filth as you call it so the best anyone can do is to filter what is shown on our own computers.