Did that headline get your attention? To be quite honest it’s not Entrecard that is killing my blog…it’s me that is killing my blog. When I put the Entrecard widget on my blog and starting seeing all of these people wanting to place their advertisement on my site I felt a rush of excitement. I thought “Wow! This is an amazing community of bloggers wanting to help out the new guy.” After three or four days of being on the service my stats showed that I was getting many visits and a good deal of unique visitors as well. I thought I was onto something big. If I kept dropping cards and commenting on certain posts that I had enjoyed reading, maybe I would start to see some good comments on my site. Dropping cards became an obsession the first few days. I was trying to build up some EC credits, so that I could eventually start advertising myself…this turned out to be the big mistake.

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