Quality Control Or Crap?
Maybe because of the strong following of Entrecard, other social carders sprout with their own version of free advertising, one of which is Spottt. Since social carders and 125×125 banners are popular these days, I thought there’s no harm in trying.
After my account was approved, my Spottt gets the 2nd most popular link giving more traffic to other sites than the traffic I received. Well, not tons of visitors but 150% more than I receive. After about a week or two, my spottt was rejected because the code is not above the fold. I sent an email to their support group and explained that I have not touched nor moved the widget since it was approved. To their credit, they’re courteuos and would reply back. We have several exchanges but they would not listen. They would like the spottt widget to be placed where there is no need to scroll down, maybe like a plasma tv mount placed near the ceiling. So I decided to just remove the spottt widget, at least for the time being, until I rearrange my sidebar or when someone can attest that s/he receives more traffic from Spottt than Entrecard.
Is this a piece of crap or a quality control campaign? Only time will tell. What about you, do you share the same Spottt experience?
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We have exactly the same experience. Like BlogRush, Spott is an epic failure in so far as generating traffic. I tested their services in two of my well traffic blogs for 4 weeks and abandoned EC for awhile but they never generated anything I could consider as traffic. EC still delivers more than what StumbleUpon and Digg deliver combine, except on a few occasions.
ronnie’s last blog post..Why ?Networking Doesn’t Work?
I tried Spottt for a little while and it generated nearly zero traffic. Spottt blows.
I tried blogrush, same story. Blogrush sucks.
The moral of the sotry is: spottt blows, blogrush sucks, entrecard rocks.
warkitty’s last blog post..Cat VS Crawfish
@ Warkitty and Ronnie, looks like Spottt is serious on violators. Have seen sites whose attention has been called also
I have not heard good things about Spottt. EntreCard generates a good amount of traffic, but it’s not quality traffic at all–people come by to card drop, not to read. While BlogRush and Spottt might generate incredibly small amounts of traffic, at least it’s from people actually interested in reading something on your blog.
David Lamb’s last blog post..Weekly Poll Report (Week of 8/17)
Hi David,
You are correct, though, a drop and run visit may also be of value to some who are running after # of views/hits and after alexa rank too.