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Entrecard.com was launched in the end of 2007 and got more and more members and visitors. If you just look at the graph from Compete you'll see that they've increased the number of visitors every month since the start.

Entrecard has been ever since the start about visiting pages and "dropping" your on the sites you visit, but now it looks like Entrecard will start punishing members for dropping. We know since before that if you drop to quickly you will get punished by removal of credits from your account, but now you may also get punished by dropping on certain pages. This is from the email sent to all Entrecard members:

Additionally, members dropping on "quick drop pages" may start receiving stiff credit penalties for every drop they do on quick drop pages, as it is not a visit to a blog and thus an illegal drop.

How do you as a dropper know if the site you drop your card on is not accepted within the Entrecard community? You can't really for sure do that. Of course you can avoid dropping at the pages with just the Entrecard widget, but how do you know that the page you drop at got enough content to be accepted within the community? You can't! Because of this I will for sure stop dropping at all sites to ensure that I don¨'t get punished.

Entrecard earlier this month announced that they wont accept religious organizations any more. All these changes to the TOS is fine with me, but they won't give the users any chance to adapt to the changes i.e. they announce the changes just a few days before they are valid which means that members will get banned because they didn't have time to adapt to the changes. This way Entrecard is instable like a dictatorship, the laws can change over night and what's legal one day may be illegal the next without any chance of appeal. This will of course make the members tired and soon people will leave the sinking ship……

Another of Grahams projects is the MillionDollarWiki.com. If you don't remember it I'm not exactly surprised since I can hardly remember it any more….. It's anyway  a wiki where you pay $100 for a page you can later resell (you can by the way get a free page at the much bigger wiki AboutUs.org if you just register your own domain name). As soon as MillionDollarWiki.com got enough sign ups the traffic dropped a lot making your invested $100 almost worthless. Just take a look at the Compete graph for MillionDollarWiki.com:

Dictatorships that change the rules over night and the history with Grahams earlier projects show us that Entrecard will hardly last. I'm really surprised that if they are still as popular as they where in May in the end of 2009. They may still exist like Blogrush, but at the declining part of the traffic graphs…..

About the author
Andreas co-founded Xavier Media® in 1996 and has since been involved in all kinds of development, marketing and making money online.