Comments on: My thoughts on…the Entrecard and SezWho partnership

By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:23:38 +0000

Anurag, We will investigate and fix the ID issue. Thanks, Jitendra

By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:19:51 +0000

Hey,

Jitendra from SezWho here…Thanks for the mention and the thoughtful post.

Our relationship with IZEA is a partnership for distribution…essentially Izea believes that we can enrich the conversation by providing context around users and enable interesting content discovery. And we tend to agree. The relationship has nothing to do with link backs etc. (actually SezWho had nothing to do with PR as out links are only shown dynamically on demand and are invisible to the crawlers).

Our goal is really to enrich the conversations and to increase community engagement…That is what the EC relationship is about and that is how the incentives are setup.

Thanks, Jitendra

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By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:07:47 +0000

The robot sounding guy isn’t so bad Jamaipanese. As long as it’s understandable. As for a podcast made by me personally, who knows? It may happen.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:39:34 +0000

Well it looks like the fine people at Entrecard have addressed your concerns. That’s good service!

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By: Jamaipanese

Jamaipanese — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:37:47 +0000

I serious thought you had started a podcast hosted by you, i didn’t think it was a robot sounding guy that just reads your posts -_-

This partnership doesn’t affect me really i’ve been participating less and less with entrecard

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By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:22:30 +0000

Oh in fact, I loved your blog theme.
Congratulation for that.

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By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:21:20 +0000

Very valid point Graham. In fact I like the strategy behind writing quality content and then getting comment.
Sezwho just gives visitor an opportunity to gain popularity himself by leaving a quality comment.
Otherwise they didn’t happen to have any benefit of leaving a comment, even if they agree or disagree with the article.
But sezwho at least increases their self centered tendency because in fact they are helping themselves only.
Before sezwho, lots of my beautifully written articles (IMO) went without comments.

I am happy to be a part of Entrecard and sezwho community. But somehow sezwho is not working on my blog with IE. It just aborts opening the page. Trying to figure out issue.

Thanks
Anurag Bansal
http://www.knowliz.com

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By: jdid

jdid — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:10:24 +0000

whchu talkin bout willis?

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:01:27 +0000

Thanks for commenting on my blog Graham. I’m surprised that this post caught your eye. As for Afroditee, don’t worry. If you’re not part of the Entrecard network, it won’t matter.

By: Graham Langdon

Graham Langdon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:24:43 +0000

Hey Leon,

First off, I’d like to say that I really appreciate your feedback on Entrecard. The service has become what it is today because Phirate and Myself listen religiously to anyone and everyone who has something to say about it.

That being said, I’d like to address the bounce rate. If you were to use the SezWho system, in theory, mant of the Entrecarders who drop would also comment, which would drop your bounce rate significantly.

As for getting quality comments by writing quality posts, I couldn’t agree more. In fact, if you follow the Entrecard blog, I state this on numerous occasions, and advise all our members that unless they are writing quality content, they should not expect to receive any good comments.

So the name of the game is still to write quality content, and receive genuine comments. We’re just trying to grease the gears a little bit, and do what we can to make sure it happens a little more often.

Undeniably, some of this will be empty and not genuine. But undeniably, much of it will be as genuine as it gets. Keep in mind, everyone on Entrecard is a blogger, and bloggers generally enjoy reading other blogs that interest them as much as they do writing them. Our mission is to do everything in our power moving forward to direct you towards the blogs that will interest you, increasing the value of the traffic and the comments.

Cheers

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