How To Add Your Entrecard Top Droppers Link Automatically
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I like to give back to my Entrecard top droppers on one of my blogs. Entrecard makes it easy to do this through their “Top Droppers” RSS feed. To get the URL of your feed login to your Entrecard account and click on Dashboard. Next click on “More Stats” in the bottom right of the “Quick Stats” box. Scroll down to the Top Card Droppers. There is a RSS icon next to the text. Right click on that link and select “Copy Link Location”. Use Entrecard Top Droppers Code and paste your URL in the appropriate place. You can edit the num_items variable to display any number of top droppers. I chose 5 for my blog.
This code will need to go in your themes sidebar.php file. In your Wordpress admin area click on Editor under appearance. Next find the file sidebar.php in the list on the right side. Click that and the file will be loaded into the theme editor. Before adding your code in scroll down. If there is an error message you may need to change your file permissions. If there is a submit button you are set to add the new code. Figure out where you want the Entrecard Top Droppers to show up and paste your code in. After the sidebar is saved go back to your blog and your top droppers will be displayed. I’m not sure how often the feed is updated. It’s a great way to give your top droppers some link love and encourage daily visits.
I should mention that this is only for wordpress.org self hosted blogs. Wordpress.com, blogger, and the other free blogging platforms do not give you access to the code. For wordpress.com or blogger you can try going to Feedburner and burning your RSS and then getting an image code and inserting it. It won’t help your top droppers in the same manner as the code above.
If you have a wordpress.org self hosted blog and need help with this feel free to contact me. I’m not free, but my rates are reasonable.
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Do you feel that Entrecard visitors actually add value to your blog? I am not sure they do. Do the visits drop and run or do they stay and read? Have you looked at your analytic logs to see what they do? I am curious as I have been contemplating dropping them since most of my traffic comes from Google and MSN searches.
Have you given any thought on how to quantify their value?
Comment by Michael Cruse — August 20, 2009 @ 12:01 am
@Michael:
It’s true that most of the traffic generated from EntreCard are non-targeted, mostly people visit for a quick drop and hardly tends to read. I have been trying the service for some time now and I feel that it’s only good for start-up bloggers and blogs as it just gives a boost to the stats. Also, when others visit to drop, you get points in the form of ‘ec’s which you can use to display your blog at other targeted blogs. So as far as I understand, it’s not really about the short visits, as surely they don’t add value, but in a roundabout way they help in targeted promotion.
Comment by Ranadeep — October 6, 2009 @ 2:17 pm