Comments on: EntreCard vs Spottt - Find out why Spottt Lost

By: bambit

bambit — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:49:32 +0000

The Spott Team visted my blog and left a number of explanations as to why I wasn’t getting any clicks etc etc. Funny they should single me out instead of reading your in-depth analysis of their widget.

By: bambit

bambit — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:17:21 +0000

Hi Deimos, thanks very much for this post. I just removed the spott widget from 2 blogs that I registered on their site, after more than 1000 impressions and no clicks I thought who were they kidding …

By: Ty Hurd

Ty Hurd — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:23:10 +0000

Deimos, your blog is Great! I’ve seen you around on EC a bit (you really do stand out, I’m sure I don’t have to say why ), and I thought it must be a gimmick or something. But I just spent some time here, and man, you gotta great blog! Well put together, well written, well done! I’m glad I checked it out… Keep it up!

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:01:27 +0000

I decided not to even try Spott after reading Phirate’s chart on the Entrecard blog. Not surprised to learn that it didn’t work well, though amazingly I am starting to see lots of sites put the Spott widget above the EC widget. Then too, I still see lots of sites who have Blogrush above EC. I guess these crappy traffic exchanges flourish because so many people continue to use them, even after many in the communities have tried them and pointed out their flaws.

By: BlogMalaysia.com

BlogMalaysia.com — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:15:42 +0000

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By: pmonchet

pmonchet — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:09:16 +0000

Good day! tag you here:
http://www.fatherlyours.com/?p=191

By: C-Squared

C-Squared — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:50:47 +0000

You know, that little dog looks kind of evil..

By: blueyes

blueyes — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:11:43 +0000

That’s why people should always check things out before going gung ho on it all. You could tell from the get go it was a knock off and you knew it was not going to work just like Entrecard. I haven’t even bothered to look at their homepage but the puppy is cute.

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:46:51 +0000

The fact that Darren put an EntreCard widget on ProBlogger certainly helped draw quality blogs, too. Quality people got in to start with and it drew more quality. (John Chow, too, I suppose, though honestly I never read his site before EntreCard.)

By: lankapo

lankapo — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:16:06 +0000

cyberfizzle,
wah with 8 cr you can get that aa,

u got to tell me man

By: cyberfizzle

cyberfizzle — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:53 +0000

Thanks for the credits. I’m going to spend it on weed and hookers!

By: Deimos Tel`Arin

Deimos Tel`Arin — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:40:52 +0000

@Xacur:
Small blog? Your blog has very high Alexa Traffic Ranking w00t!

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@BaseGuardian:
Waste of space so I dropped it lor.

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@Judi:
Did not realize it causes page to stuck.

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@madWAHM:
You’re welcome.
Adflips basically works the same as Spottt.

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@soundtrackgeek:
They just can’t compete with EntreCard.

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@Entrepreneur:
True. Graham and Phirate are downright personal, friendly and helpful.

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@Stine:
EntreCard for the win!
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@Yoshi:
EntreCard for life!

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@Article Specialist:
They are being too rigid. Not flexible.

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@StanHayes:
Actually, I forgot to mention this post is dedicated to you.

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@Jennie:
Thanks yo! EntreCard totally owns yeah!

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@Ederic:
I think it tried to ride on the popularity of EntreCard but failed miserably.

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@Sanjo-chan:
It has to be EntreCard!

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@Nhuong Son:
Of course I am biased.
True, there is no way to prove those numbers.
By the way, how are you doing in China? All is good aye?

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@rizal:
Thanks for letting me advertise on your site too!

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@Maria:
Thanks for the feedback about my site’s performance yo!

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FatherlYours.com » Blog Archive » More Awards-Thanks Colin! — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:17:57 +0000

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By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:08:27 +0000

Yeah, Spottt seemed a little… disappointing to me and thus, I refused to try it. I’m glad you did though so now you have a comparison at least.
(By the way, I’m still getting a long load time: 62.720s)

By: rizal

rizal — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:36:32 +0000

well, thanks to you, now i dont think i wanna be spotted on spot. hehe.

p/s : thanks for advertising on my site. One thing for sure, your “grimacing purple face and red hair” does scream for attention. hehe

By: Nhuong Son

Nhuong Son — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:57:50 +0000

To be honest, you were a little bias but it was a good review. I love entrecard too so I’m also bias! But the only thing with Spott is that it saids that your card were shown that many time but can you really prove that it was shown that many times?

By: Sanjo-chan

Sanjo-chan — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:36:09 +0000

I dropped Spottt after a couple of days. The Spottt on my blog was clicked on a few times, but mine never showed up on other sites…Also, there were some ads I was uncomfortable with. I wish there was a way to control what ads are shown. Entrecard for the win.

By: Ederic

Ederic — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:29:15 +0000

While spottt.com appears to be registered as early as 2005, its blog said it launched only this year. I checked out archive.org and found out that spottt.com was already offering the same service then. It then became a different site in 2006 and 2007, and it looks like it’s now riding on the popularity of Entrecard.

It’s from Adbrite, a known brand in Web advertising, but I’m too addicted with Entrecard right now I don’t have the time yet to try Spottt.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:53:42 +0000

Hi Deimos! You rock and Entrecard does, too. Thanks for the entre credits.

I totally agree with you. What are impressions good for anyway when our site needs traffic. I hope spottt gets better though and get around to give us more than what they currently offer. Entrecards is the best, hands down.

By: StanHayes

StanHayes — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:08:54 +0000

It’s settled, I’m not even going to try Spottt.