Mar 24 2009
A sad farewell
I had a feeling this would happen. It is with great sadness that I am saying goodbye to Entrecard. Not because I want to mind you.
The new changes that EC announced last week violated Today.com’s terms of service, so all of the today.com blogs will have to be leaving EC as well. All week we waited to see whether an agreement could be reached between the two, that agreement apparently never came. If any of you today.com blogs hadn’t seen it yet, this was posted in the forums by the admins:
- Excerpt from today.com forum was requested to be taken down by today.com administrators -
I will let the ads I have set to run on my site still go, but I will not be accepting any new ones. I will also reach out to the blogs that I really loved looking at, hopefully we can stay in contact.
I wish I could grasp the full meaning of this change, but I am so stupid about this blog world I don’t totally get it but hopefully skwguitar we can still stay connected and eventually figure out how to leave today.com in the dust.
peace
Bobo, You are so right. These changes are not to optimize, they are to control. What’s the sense in using today.com ads when you write an article about something and post their ads, they still trump you by providing another ad with a better link. I ran an ad about Cirque du Soleil coming to Baltimore and linked it with their ad sponsor stubhub and then went back on my site to look, only to see that today.com allowed their advertisers to put a direct link to stub hub right over the top of mine- with an emblem to “click here” for tickets. Whats the point? The traffic driven to the site from Entrecard has been better than anything today.com has offered. I wish they would come up with another way for us to generate traffic. Since this crap with Entrecard started, my traffic is down to nothing. Any suggestions?
I don’t understand why they need to get rid of entrecard either, and can’t understand why they can’t figure something out - so many people have today.com blogs. Any more news on all of this, will you post it - you seem to know more about it. thanks.
Any suggestions on setting up anbother “paid blog”? that can be linked to entrecard. I am not ready to quit yet. I just got into it good with traffic appearing and all.
Hey thanks for turning me on to Entrecard. I was just starting to reap some benefits from it. Oh well, I’m going to put it on a non-today blog.
I’m also going to continue milking it for the two weeks!
I too am on the today.com platform and will have to bid farewell to EC. Linkshare - as soon as I get it figured out. Thus, I can keep up with the blogs I read on a regular basis. Thanks
The thing is that I was about to drop entrecard before the today announcement -basically entrecard a) takes time to drop the cards and b) destroys my google traffic.
That is the real reason that Today dropped it I think is - google searchers are the ones who click the ads which pays the bloggers on the network. The bounce rate on entrecard traffic is so high -that makes google discount the site - give it a week - I predict you will see your search traffic increase
Forgive me because I am an idiot as regards this issue. But since so many of us still have entrecard on our sites, is that civil disobedience? I just don’t feel the effect yet of this big change. Is it coming? Am I going to wake up one morning and entrecard will be off my site? Am I just in violation and waiting for the axe to fall?
I am quite new to blogging and had only recently started entrecard as a way to get traffic to my blog. I was quite upset when I read that we were not to have entrecard on our today.com sites. I guess we really don’t have much choice. We either comply or what? We stop blogging on today.com
www.wantingtowork.today.com
What date is it that we have to take it down? Anyone know?