The major objective of most bloggers is to attract and retain readers. For most of the year, I have used Entrecard as a mean to increase my traffic.

Traffic statistics show that Entrecard works. It yields 300 to 500 visitors daily to my blog, which is great. Even if most of these visitors spend only seconds on the site, a fraction of them would link back to their own blog and comment, which is good.

That said, and like most systems, benefiting from Entrecard requires to spend a fair amount of time promoting Entrecard (“dropping”). A “fair amount of time” means between one and two hours a day, seven days a week, which is a lot.

All things considered, I have decided to leave the Entrecard community early next week. It will enable me to post more often and focus more on the content.

I want to thank the bloggers I have met through Entrecard and also the company’s founders for making sure the vast majority of their members would provide with real content, something I found really unique for a Blog directory.

Farewell to my fellow Entrecarders!

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I spend a fair amount of time on line, browsing the news, and reading various blogs. Also, being an Entrecarder, I come across a lot of great blogs every day, which I would love to read and digg.

That said, I just cannot dedicate enough quality time during the day to read these articles. I usually send them to my Google Reader, to further consideration at a quieter time.

Problem is I do not have much free time indeed, and when I finally manage to access my Greader, I am frustrated to find a whole lot of posts there, way too many for me to catch up.

I just found an interesting post called “10 scripts to muscle up your Google Reader”, which provides great tips on how to optimize the use of Google Reader. My favorite is the “Greader to Twitter”, a feature that sends a reader post to twitter.

A must read for those of us who spend a lot of time reading on the Internet, a population that includes the Entrecarders.

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