Two days ago, Martin, a fellow Entrecarder made a startling revelation. He posted in his blog, Cornyman's Money-Blog, that there are some sites who are using a system that fakes drops in our inbox. This means that they are not physically visiting our sites, but instead used a ghost dropper program that makes drops on the yellow Entrecard box.
Using one of his blogs as a test case, Martin, deleted the Entrecard widget last 8-9 February. Despite having no widget, his blog still received more than 65 drops. On the first day, he warned the droppers that they will be reported to the management if they continue to use an automatic program, but he was surprised that many of the sites still appear on his drop list the next day.
What rocked the Entrecard world further is that many of the sites identified by Martin were included in the Top Blogs of Entrecard. Some of them were even regular droppers of this site.
Entrecard is the number one provider of traffic for my blogs and these allegations should be taken seriously. At the same time, we will not be any making judgment for now nor are we gonna post the list here since the matter has yet to be decided by Entrecard. However, for those who want to see the detailed allegations of Martin, here is the link: Cornyman's Allegations.
This site will also continue to drop on these blogs identified by Martin as long as they reciprocate our efforts until such time that Entrecard has decided on their fate. If Entrecard finds out later that there was a bug in their system, then they should correct it and everything should be back to the way it was before. However, if they found out later that a violation was made and removed the sites from their list, then it is moot and academic that our drops will automatically stop.
Meanwhile, Eli of Business Sphere, has also reported these findings of Martin to Cindy of Entrecard. She replied that the issue has been discussed by management over the last few days. They have already posted their response on these serious allegations on the Entrecard blog and assured the users that they will further tighten their security measures in order to make the service more reliable for the entire community.
For now, we will continue to get updates on this controversy and support any effort by Entrecard to resolve this issue.
Using one of his blogs as a test case, Martin, deleted the Entrecard widget last 8-9 February. Despite having no widget, his blog still received more than 65 drops. On the first day, he warned the droppers that they will be reported to the management if they continue to use an automatic program, but he was surprised that many of the sites still appear on his drop list the next day.
What rocked the Entrecard world further is that many of the sites identified by Martin were included in the Top Blogs of Entrecard. Some of them were even regular droppers of this site.
Entrecard is the number one provider of traffic for my blogs and these allegations should be taken seriously. At the same time, we will not be any making judgment for now nor are we gonna post the list here since the matter has yet to be decided by Entrecard. However, for those who want to see the detailed allegations of Martin, here is the link: Cornyman's Allegations.
This site will also continue to drop on these blogs identified by Martin as long as they reciprocate our efforts until such time that Entrecard has decided on their fate. If Entrecard finds out later that there was a bug in their system, then they should correct it and everything should be back to the way it was before. However, if they found out later that a violation was made and removed the sites from their list, then it is moot and academic that our drops will automatically stop.
Meanwhile, Eli of Business Sphere, has also reported these findings of Martin to Cindy of Entrecard. She replied that the issue has been discussed by management over the last few days. They have already posted their response on these serious allegations on the Entrecard blog and assured the users that they will further tighten their security measures in order to make the service more reliable for the entire community.
For now, we will continue to get updates on this controversy and support any effort by Entrecard to resolve this issue.
First of all, I appreciate that you will continue to drop on me, since here I am visiting your site, dropping on your blog. As I understand it, Entrecard has fixed it so that no one can ghost drop on your site anymore, so you should be able to tell who was ghost dropping, because you won't see them dropping you any more. I appreciate your holding of further judgment on Corny's dubious list as it is not accurate.
ReplyDeleteMaybe some used a form of automatic dropping.
ReplyDeleteI can tell that we're a team of autism advocates and caretakers and we used all cache dropping, as entrecard calls it.
It was adviced to us as a means to prevent crashing of our computers, which is a regular problem of entrecard users.
I'm amazed some blogs of us are removed.
Just because I didn't comment on his site my blog is still on?
Maybe he needs comments more than justice to the system?
The way he deals with people is sick. You can tell him that when you visit him. I don't want to help him to more comments. But I sure feel offended by his conclusions.
Huh?
ReplyDeleteI posted a comment but when I logged in it was gone.
Hmm, it workes now.
ReplyDeleteI said that we're a team of autism advocates and caretakers and we used all the same system that is called by entrecard: cache-dropping. So not cleaning your temporal files.
I just heard about the accusations during a meeting this evening.
It's strange that he has removed a few of oursites by now, but the tips for your home one is still on.
As I don't want to add to his growing list of comments, I won't go there anymore.
I think he should have reported directly to entrecard instead of dragging blogs through the mud and setting people up against each other.
I feel offended by it, because we didn't intend any so such thing as he says.
Scammers? Paahleez!! I have addressed this issue at my site http://securityforidiots.blogspot.com I am familiar with this issue because I was one of those that Mr. Corny named a Scammer.
ReplyDeleteI am one of those blogger who built such a tool. Entrecard, like all traffic exchanges do, suffers from a high bounce rate. What that means is the majority of traffic any of us receives thru Entrecard is little more than a pageview. A lot of pageviews equals a high bounce rate. High amount of pageviews, bad. High amount of unique visitors, good.
ReplyDeleteThe point here is that the "ghost droppers" were actually doing people a favor by not contributing to a entrecard member's already high bounce rate. In fact, its being in a bucket or using a bucket system (where 10 tabs at time are opened) is how people are getting "cheated" because these systems encourage "dropping and running", the leading cause of Entrecard's high bounce rate. Not only that, these bucket systems are notorious for having blogs that have no Entrecard widget.
In short, Cornyman (and Eli, for that matter) has managed to do more damage than good with this little stunt of his. I've gotten numerous comments from bloggers who are leaving Entrecard due to this incident.