Please don’t think I’m slow or something, but it is only today that I joined Entrecard.
There were a few reasons I didn’t sign-up before, but the main one being that people were saying Entrecard traffic is a widget-searching, drop-and-run, don’t-care-about-who-you-are, wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, 10-second-visits, kind of traffic.
After a day of being a member I have no choice but confirm this statement.
I’m using Google Analytics for my site tracking, which is a great free toolbox of ….emmm…. tools (yea, I know, but it’s 1am already). So, I chose Jan 24th as the timeframe, and sorted the data by traffic sources => referring sites => entrecard.com
We are looking at two parameters:
Bounce Rate – Bounce Rate is the percentage of single-page visits (i.e. visits in which the person left your site from the entrance page) (Google).
My Bounce Rate for Entrecard.com visitors is 89.66%. This means that practically 90% of Entrecard visitors left my site without clicking on any article, category, static page – anything.
What makes this even more interesting is the next parameter:
Avg. Time on Site – Avg. Time on Site is the average duration of a visit to your site. (Google)
My Avg. Time on Site for entrecard.com visitors is 00:00:05.
Should I say more?
- Alex
Disclaimer: This article is based on 12 hours of being a member. I will track the statistics and make sure to update this article, if needed.
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It largely depends on what sort of blog you have. I use Entrecard, and although most card droppers hit-and-run, a few do read an article or even comment. Those are largely from people writing within my own niche. If you update frequently and have catchy titles or good pictures, your entrecard traffic will be more productive.
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My fears exactly - that’s why I haven’t joined yet. I still might but I already have a hard time keeping people on my site without yet another widget struggling to load on my page. I’ll have to watch your progress and see what happens.
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I agree that most of the entrecard users are hit-n-run cases, but it depends on your blog as well. I never drop my card on any site that I don’t find worthy of it. And the percentage of traffic that comes from entrecard to my blog, and participates is fairly good.
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Ferox: You are correct.
But I suspect that most do hit-and-run not because the content is not interesting, but because they never intended to stay, even if it was interesting. So, I’d have to have something extraordinary, that would catch the eye first, the mind later.
AngryJed: do come over, anytime
Abhinav Sood: You are the perfect Entrecard user with no ulterior motive. I believe that you are a member of a quality group of people.
Come again soon! It’d be my honor.
Thanks for the good words Alex, I am just around
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Hi again, Alex.
Will you please go through this post of mine?
How to Convert 100% of your Entrecard Visitors into Quality Traffic
I think it would be good to make you a bit positive about Entrecard… And help you do just as well with it.
Great day.
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