Jude’s Eclectic Resources

UPDATE: This is an update to the below post. The problem I had has been rectified. In the Entrecard forum they said the seller # was the one associated with your ec account, so I used the one associated with my widget and it should have been the one that shows up in my toolbar, yes I can admit when I’m wrong. So now when you get your API from Entrecard they also have your seller # listed for you. Now I feel better that this has finally been sorted out.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

As everyone knows by now Entrecard has teamed up with OIOpublisher and I thought it was a good idea at the time so I purchased the plugin to be supportive of Entrecard and to also add a platform for advertising which would be easy to manage. I know that people have a hard time parting with money, but they are willing to part with ec credits that they work very hard for. So far I have lost 2 ec sales.

This plugin may work for some entrecard users, but it certainly hasn’t worked for me so far and if you read the forum at oiopublisher.com you will find it has many bugs that are keeping it from working properly for others also. For the time being I have removed the banner for OIOpublisher because I can’t recommend it at this time. I was told by Simon that he had hoped for a fix by Friday and today is Saturday and it still doesn’t work.

I hope this isn’t going to prove to be another bad Entrecard partnership for me. I’m sure you remember the SezWho and Digg experiments? I really like entrecard and recommend it for traffic especially if you are trying to lower your Alexa ranking for advertising, but actually how important is Alexa anymore? Most advertisers prefer page rank and if you don’t have that then they really hate parting with money.

I actually think because so many sites are covered with advertising that people get overwhelmed and simply click away. I certainly don’t click on anything when the first thing I see is a huge Google ad spot before I even see content and I really get ticked off when someone tricks me into clicking something I didn’t want to by making it look like something else. I have recently started seeing the banner that looks like an ec card again.

I will wait a couple more days to see if OIOpublisher gets a fix for my current problem and if I see no fix in sight then it will be removed from this blog unless someone is willing to part with money instead of ec credits which I doubt. The only thing you can use credits for now is advertising since no one is allowed to sell them anymore which I would never consider doing unless Entrecard wanted to buy them from me.

With the limit of transfers to 1,000 a week and the tax put on them they aren’t even worth using as an incentive to give away, now that’s a pity.