If you have been following my never-ending quest on getting those 1 million readers you already know I have been relying on Entrecard to get some traffic towards that number. Besides raising all my stats, Entrecard and this newly formed community have definitely helped me to win my first important online contest. I have also gave you my insight on Entrecard and I explained how it works and most importantly how it could work best for you.
I am writing again about Entrecard and one important issue reciprocating drops. Apparently more and more people in the community are encouraging reciprocating drops and starting reciprocating quilds and groups. I do think that dropping your card back to all those who dropped theirs in your inbox is appropriate and it’s a respectful practice, I do not think that starting up any kind of guilds. I have been invited more than one time to be included but I haven’t joined and here’s why…
1) It’s restrictive. Entrecard’s whole purpose is getting traffic to blogs. How would you be taking part in that whole process if all you did was on the same 300 cards every day. Imagine there were more quilds, how would others discover you if their 300 drops a day are booked?
2) It’s impolite. How would you feel not being in any guilds out there? If this starts out and more and more people will get themselves guilded in just for those credits.
3) It’s destructive. If you are already in a droppers guild and all your 300 spots are booked for the day, whose to say others will still drop on you? I mean if they don’t get dropped back they won’t return to drop on you again will they?
4) It’s difficult. Sure so many bloggers have devised ways to improve the whole process of dropping cards faster. But what happens if you can’t drop every day? Although Entrecard is useful, life daily life doesn’t start and end with Entrecard. What if you can’t drop for 3 days in a row. Would you be outed from the guild? So now you’ll have to join another one? But you will have a bad reputation of being a not dropping guild member in the past? And since no one else is dropping on you as they know you are in a guild, will you get into a situation in which no one will be dropping on you?
5) It’s unrealistic. Imagine you are into all that reciprocating stuff and you are receiving 400 drops. How will you return them all? It’s not possible. What if you get to more than 300 drops regularly? That would implicitly mean your price rank will get over 600. So more people will indirectly want to drop on the most dropped blogger. You will get more people waiting for your drop back. As we speak the highest ranked blog is anywhere from 500-550. That means his/her average day dropped cars is anywhere from 200 to 250.
So am I dropping back? Well I haven’t dropped that many cards for the past following days. I am not a regular dropper, yet I do get anywhere from 100-150 drops a day. When I can, I try to reciprocate but I don’t always do that. It would be ideal but if you did only that, you would miss much of Entrecard and what it has to offer.
