If you use Entrecard, you no doubt have noticed the changes implemented in the past few days. Entrecard has started using a paid ad system, where 50% of the advertising on your widget is an EC ad, and 50% is a paid ad for which we receive no compensation.
I have decided that, for the time being, I will not be accepting paid ads on my Entrecard widget. If I want to sell ad space on my blog, or indeed buy ad space, I will use my preferred advertising program, Project Wonderful. I know that these first few days of the new EC advertising program have been rocky, but I will not be participating in the system until they get it ironed out. They say they are "paying" us by putting in a new credit cashout feature, but nearly all of my credits go towards placing EC ads, so I do not really have credits to cash out. I will not let EC sell advertising space on my blog without compensating me for it.
If they make some changes to the paid ad system, great, I may accept paid ads in the future. But right now, with the system being the way it is (ie, a clusterfuck), I am letting the ads paid for with EC credits get 100% of their advertising time on my blog.
~Joy
Edited to add: It has come to my attention that some paid ads are still running on my widget. I had cancelled all my previously approved paid ads that were on my dashboard. I have made this known to Entrecard, and hope to get this fixed ASAP. I apologize to my advertisers.
Entrecard's new policies...
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I am interested to hear about this. I was not sure what the "paid ads" column meant - but have been Google searching trying to figure it out for the past couple of days. Now that I know, I will just go in and cancel all the ones I have already approved.
ReplyDeleteNicely stated.
ReplyDeleteI've decided to do away with the EC widget. I found some great sites through using EC, but also lost the PR that the blog had... due to the bounce rates - darn those drop and run sorts.
Thank you for clearing that up! I'm being ripped off! Back to the drawing board....
ReplyDeleteI agree! It annoys me that we see no compensation whatsoever for allowing these paid ads to run. I'm right there with ya and am totally boycotting them. I won't be dropping entrecard simply because i do enjoy finding new blogs and am certainly seeing an increase in traffic to my blog...even if they are just dropping and running...some of those have to stick, right? lol
ReplyDeleteI agree we are getting ripped off. I am however going to stick around for awhile and see what happens.
ReplyDeleteI would never have found you without Entrecard but I'm finding the paid ad thing to be a headache. I thought we'd at least be compensated with EC for paid adds but we aren't. I'm thinking of giving up on entrecard all together. It was fun while it lasted.
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