Joe on the July 15th, 2008 Here’s why the partnership between Entrecard and SezWho is important for bloggers everywhere, and something all bloggers should be taken advantage of.
1.) Your blog will get more comments. Under the partnership, when bloggers leave you a comment, they will receive Entrecard Credits, the micro-payment currency that allows you to advertise on 14,000 high quality blogs. If there’s one thing bloggers thrive on, its comments. Comments are the blood of a blog if the posts are the organs. So it’s no wonder that any system that is going to get your blog more comments just rocks.
2.) The comments will be high quality comments. Since low quality comments don’t get rewarded with any credits, people won’t waste their time and energy leaving poor quality comments. People who take it upon themselves to comment will make sure to leave good, relevant and valuable comments.
3.) It will get you to leave more comments. Let’s face it. We’ve all been in the following situation: We’re reading a blog post, we have a slight desire to chime in and comment, but laziness takes over and we click away or x out. With credits on the line though, we’re all the more likely to actually leave our comments. Not to mention it might put you on a mission every day to go out and comment. Commenting is one of the tried and true powerhouse methods to drive traffic to your blog and develop a reputation. Any system that is going to effectively get me to comment more often rocks.
4.) Credits!! It’s no secret why we want credits. We want them so we can advertise on the 14,000+ blogs in Entrecard. So you can either go dropping cards until your fingers hurt, or you can start commenting on some blogs!
5.) Check me out. One of the coolest features of SezWho is that you can “check me out”. Just by clicking a link, you can see all the comments someone has left from all over the blogosphere. How cool is that. Ok, so it doesn’t really have anything to do with the Entrecard partnership, but I wouldn’t have installed SezWho if it wasn’t for the Entrecard partnership, so it gets on the list. I love seeing what other comments people have left on other blogs. You might not understand how cool it is until you try it.
6.) Reduced bounce rate. Entrecard traffic used to mean someone dropping their card and leaving your site. Every now and then someone would subscribe, or comment, or click an ad. But now, now at least 50% of the traffic is commenting. THATS HUGE! My bounce rate has dropped like a rock. Awesome. Nobody likes a high bounce rate.
7.) BACKLINKS. Every comment you leave is a backlink to your blog. So by leaving a few comments every day, your slowly and steadily building backlinks to your blogs. And you’re earning credits while you do it. Nice.
8.) It’s Viral. When a lot of people start commenting your blog now, and other people “check them out” from comments they’ve left on other blogs to see where they’re commenting now, a huge mass of viral traffic will follow them… directly to your blog. That may not make much sense at first, but you’ll see what we’re talking about.
9.) School of blogging. More than anything, what this motivates us to do, is to learn how to write posts that are more inviting of comments. It also motivates us to learn how to leave the best comments we can -and how to be valuable contributors. For only if bloggers find our comments useful, do we get credits. And only if we write our posts well, will bloggers comment. The whole system really is quite genius in how it works like that.
10.) And the final reason why the Entrecard SezWho partnership is important for bloggers is… drumroll please… it’s gonna keep us blogging. Let’s face it, if we pour our hearts out into post after post, only to receive zero comments, its a blow to our motivation and our drive. Without the support of commentators sharing their feelings, thoughts and opinions on our blog, well, why blog at all, right? Why build a baseball field if no one is going to play ball on it? There are 100 million more blogs now than there were five years ago. That’s 100 million more blogs competing for comments. That’s pretty intense. But with Entrecard and SezWho, you don’t have to worry about finding people to come comment on your blog. All you have to do is focus on writing quality content, and let the Entrecard community take care of the rest.
So there you have it. The top 10 reasons why the Entrecard - SezWho partnership is important for bloggers, and why if you’re serious about blogging, you should be using Entrecard and SezWho to catapult your community to new heights.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Dugg Joe! Thanks for summing up why this rocks!
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on July 15th, 2008 at 11:50 am
I just downloaded and installed this today. Looks like it will be a very valuable tool. I don’t always comment on every blog I visit, but I do try to do my part.
Now if we can just get people to visit a google/yahoo ad or two when they visit (I always click ads on sites, cause I’m kind of addicted to them) all will be right with the blogworld…lol
;-)
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on July 15th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Great points. I love this move, and I hope it does bring about more bloggers, more comments, and more fun to the blogging sphere.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Joe,
Once again you boil things down to the essentials. I am always amazed at how fast you can write about a subject, even one that was announced so recently, comprehend it completely and let readers know exactly why it should be important to them. Incredible. I heard about the SezWho partnership about an hour ago and have been installing it on my blogs and exploring it. But I have not nearly taken into account everything that you have.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 11:54 am
That is a well thought out analysis on the new partnership. I really do have high hopes for the things that this can deliver. Comments and participation are the lifeblood of any blogger, it only grows from there.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Great post! I agree. There are many great reasons for the partnership and I’m betting this is only the beginning of yet more great things to coem from Entrecard.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
So it looks like you can still use commentluv with sezwho, sweet. Does the new comment widget also work?
I’ll have to spend some time looking into this. Can I import my old comments? What about comment spam. So many questions, new ideas….new to find more time…
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on July 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Great post and no-nonsense appraisal of the benefits of the partnership.
on July 15th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Great post! I had never heard about SezWho until now, but it’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen. I hope that with so many EntreCard blogs using this, that many other blogs across the internet start using it as well.
I can’t imagine what EntreCard has in store for us next!
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on July 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Dugg, Stumbled, and reddit’ed…
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on July 15th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
You said much better than I can. I am a picture girl. Since I joined EntreCard my hits have sky rocketed. Now with SezWho, it can only get better. Have a great day!
Christina
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on July 15th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I have this service and love it but you made a few great points I have never thought of. Thank you
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on July 15th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Although I think point number 7 (i.e. Backlinks) is misleading as all the links on this blog at least are nofollowed, this initiative by Entrecard is no less than great.
Usually I would never bother to comment unless I was REALLY REALLY interested in a post even if I had something constructive to add. Now, I definitly leave a comment if I have something to say as the benefits are visible and multiplied.
Way to Go Entrecard
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on July 15th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
It’s that last reason that’s the best one IMO. I really could care less about the credits. Those are just a side line to the traffic, commentators and not with spammy crap either.
I’m trying to build up a new blog and this comes a exactly the right time for that to take off.
Great points, Joe — as always, you’re right on the money.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Love it man! Definitely a digg! I am still in start up phase of my site and these tips are a great knowledge boost. Thank you so much!!!
on July 15th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Dugg this. Looking forward to the viral traffic building aspect of this partnership! Entrecard just keeps getting better all the time.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
2.) The comments will be high quality comments. Since low quality comments don’t get rewarded with any credits…
How you can be sure that everyone will leave high quality comments? Entrecard or sezwho will monitor each comment that in every minute that I can predicted will be hundreds to thousands of it.
on July 15th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I dugg it!..
Entrecard is really doing great.. now, lots of blogger will surely spend time commenting to different blogs…
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on July 15th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Thanks for all the comments and diggs, everyone. It’s really a bit overwhelming. In any case, keep them coming, and don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feed.
shearyadi: Great question. If I’m not mistaken, the comment rating system determines what’s a valuable comment based on how we (other commenters) value the comment. As a test, I tried to rate my own comment, and I think my rating actually went down a bit. =)
on July 15th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Great points! The one thing I didn’t like about using Entrecard is the huge bounce rate my blog now has. Hopefully this new partnership will decrease that quite a bit.
Plus I love comments, almost as much as chocolate! :P Seriously, it makes my day to see a new comment on one of my posts, and it would be great if more people would comment now, and what’s even better is that they’ll be quality comments and not spammy ones!
I also love the ability to find a commenter’s other comments and blog posts :)
One thing I’m not sure of though - are the credits we gain actually Entrecard credits? I thought they were just karma credits or something.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Great post Joe, I have just started, it is great fun! I kind of got a new spark. I am now trying to activate all my blogs. :)
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on July 15th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Backlinks only work if people remove the nofollow code from the comments section.
Too many bloggers, especially newer ones won’t ever remove that, but will sign up for this because they are promised more free traffic.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Hey Joe, good points there. The Entrecard + SezWho partnership is great. Being able to earn more credits just for leaving quality comments, is definitely icing on the cake. I’m sure I’m not the only one who is going to be addicted to the SezWho system, trying to push my ratings up, lol. Timing couldn’t have been better for me. I was looking for a way to
A) Have my articles rated
B) Have comments moderated with a reputation system
C) Encourage more comments, without risking spam from people who only wanted a link back to their site
D) Integrate a profile page to learn more about authors and commentators
How lucky am I that SezWho was the solution to it all? I’m loving the avatar support as well.
This is a huge step in the right direction for blogging. Spam replaced by quality discussions! Props to Entrecard and SezWho.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
A very well written post because it explains the raionale between the teamp up of Entrecard and SezWho. I hope all bloggers would take advantage of this opportunity.
Cheers and happy blogging!
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on July 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I have been an Entrecard member for a while and was excited about this new addition. I put it on my site as instructed and since I am fairly new blogger I hope I did it right because points and traffic would be awesome.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
One thing that I just noticed:
SezWho picked up some previous comments that I’ve made on your (and others’) site. So, as more entrecard members join, if you are a commenter, your rating will go up.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
“It will get you to leave more comments.”
And look at that, so many comments in a short time. This partnership really works. Look out! There’s going to be a BIG change in the blogosphere. ;)
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on July 15th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I just signed up for this service too. EC is always coming up with something new to help its members and this idea looks like a great one. Not sure how it all fits together, but I will poke around more with it. Sounds like a win-win for all!
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on July 15th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Great summary! I can definitely see myself commenting more now.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Dugg as nobledirectory :)
Btw you enlightened some great points and good answers to people who don’t like SezWho and especially when it gets added to entrecard. Now the blogosphere will see more comments all over :)
Thanks!
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on July 15th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Cool! I’m going to try this out.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Joe,
I just have to ask in all honesty you claim above your bounce rate has dropped all of a sudden since SezWho partnered with EntreCard but how can you notice such a large drop in bounce rate as you assert above without giving it even a small period of time?
I mean the partnership just became official today so are you saying you can honestly notice such a difference in less than 24 hours ?
What analytical and statistics software is giving you such a picture in change of bounce rate?
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on July 15th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
STUMBLED!
This sounds fantastic. DUGG!
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on July 15th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
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on July 15th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I just learnt about the Entrecard and Sezwho partnership and looks like I’ll have to give it a try :)
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on July 15th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Love the great collaboration so much.
on July 15th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
This post is a big relief for a people like me who have no time to sit in front of the computer for a long time. Late last night I hurriedly install SezWho on my blog and just made a glimpsed about its advantages. A big help for me, Thanks a lot.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
This is indeed a great news and revolution!! never seen commenting blog as motivated as before!
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on July 15th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
nicely explained, thanks! this partnership will surely work wonders, i’m sure.. gonna join it soon:)
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on July 15th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Great post man! thanks for explaining :) dugg!
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on July 15th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
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on July 15th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Oh okay, so now I get it. At first I cannot understand what the whole point is, but thanks to your post, I now fully understand it. Thanks for a very great explanation.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
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on July 15th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Thanks for explaining all of this. I probably wouldn’t have signed up if I hadn’t read your explanation. Great post! I dugg it too!
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on July 15th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
The idea is not bad. Worth trying out. I only hope the result will be quality comments, not spam comments. With Entrecard we also get lots of droppers and only few readers …
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on July 15th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I’ve been using SezWho on one of my blogs for several months now and I find the plugin slows down the page load. Of course I am using a slightly older plugin so maybe the updated version might load faster. I hope it does as this does sound like it could help us all get more comments and hopefully return visitors.
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on July 15th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I am just hearing about this partnership now from YOUR BLOG POST. Thank you SO much for educating me on this! I also had heard of SezWho but never took the time to find out more about it or get the plugin. Once again, THANK YOU very much! With this new found knowledge, I’m off to help others as well as myself get more Entrecard credits! =)
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on July 16th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Dugg, a great write up to two brilliant blogging tools.
on July 16th, 2008 at 4:11 am
There couldn’t have been a better explaination of what is the benefit of commenting on any blog. At the same time you highlighted the benefit of installing sezwho pretty well.
Cool dude…
Keep it up.
Thanks
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on July 16th, 2008 at 4:12 am
I know a lot of people talk about the high bounce rate with EC, but honestly, I didnt mind it. Traffic is traffic and if you dont have article headlines that appeal to the person as they do the website equivalent of channel surfing, then there is not much you can do except learn how to catch their attention. Write better content. Write better headlines. Stop the person dead in their tracks with good quality writing. The person who flys by your site today may stop back tomorrow because he really liked your last article. It forces you to become a better writer. To me, that is an invaluable resource.
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