Comments on: Entrecard link love – week 7 http://www.moneyrelations.com/2008/01/27/entrecard-link-love-week-7/ Investing for beginners Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:51:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: moneyrelations http://www.moneyrelations.com/2008/01/27/entrecard-link-love-week-7/comment-page-1/#comment-1899 moneyrelations Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:04:04 +0000 http://www.moneyrelations.com/2008/01/27/entrecard-link-love-week-7/#comment-1899 <p>@ Traciatim</p> <p>Hey, thanks for the reality check. Hardware wise, if you're willing to drop that kind of cash on a that monitor, a new PC and card that would run optimally with it would not be an issue. But with the games... It's been so long since I actually played anything I don't know what ratio these new games play at or if they will adopt widescreen. But the post does say hardcore gamers so maybe they are the ones that would push the industry.</p> <p>@ Selene</p> <p>Entrecard is becoming a strange beast with the growth... I was one of the early adopters when there weren't many blogs or what you could do with the credits so we kept on advertising on each others sites... even if it was about a "<a href="http://hellomonsters.com/">monstruo monstruoso</a>" :) </p> <p>My personal experience with EC... yes, those popular blogs will generate a lot of traffic and I got a huge overinflated price of my widget recently when all my ad placements were going at the same time. Those popular blogs themselves advertise a lot so eventually chain droppers will funnel to your site and enhance the CTR for your own advertisers.</p> <p>But even the chain dropping model might change now with <a href="http://www.sitehoppin.com">Sitehoppin</a> which allows you to chain drop without going through the widget itself but randomizes a new EC blog for you. In other words, why pay so much for an ad spot since those clickers are EC members and not organic? Also, with Sitehoppin, you don't hit the same advertisers as much resulting in a "dead end". I can see hard core droppers doing it.</p> <p>In any case, I'm doing a little experiment where I'm not going to advertise anymore and just rely on daily card droppers and see how my traffic ends up. </p> <p>I apologize in advance to my own advertisers but I do try to link love every week :)</p> <p>@ Chris</p> <p>Welcome!</p> @ Traciatim

Hey, thanks for the reality check. Hardware wise, if you’re willing to drop that kind of cash on a that monitor, a new PC and card that would run optimally with it would not be an issue. But with the games… It’s been so long since I actually played anything I don’t know what ratio these new games play at or if they will adopt widescreen. But the post does say hardcore gamers so maybe they are the ones that would push the industry.

@ Selene

Entrecard is becoming a strange beast with the growth… I was one of the early adopters when there weren’t many blogs or what you could do with the credits so we kept on advertising on each others sites… even if it was about a “monstruo monstruoso” :)

My personal experience with EC… yes, those popular blogs will generate a lot of traffic and I got a huge overinflated price of my widget recently when all my ad placements were going at the same time. Those popular blogs themselves advertise a lot so eventually chain droppers will funnel to your site and enhance the CTR for your own advertisers.

But even the chain dropping model might change now with Sitehoppin which allows you to chain drop without going through the widget itself but randomizes a new EC blog for you. In other words, why pay so much for an ad spot since those clickers are EC members and not organic? Also, with Sitehoppin, you don’t hit the same advertisers as much resulting in a “dead end”. I can see hard core droppers doing it.

In any case, I’m doing a little experiment where I’m not going to advertise anymore and just rely on daily card droppers and see how my traffic ends up.

I apologize in advance to my own advertisers but I do try to link love every week :)

@ Chris

Welcome!

]]> By: Chris http://www.moneyrelations.com/2008/01/27/entrecard-link-love-week-7/comment-page-1/#comment-1898 Chris Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:51:01 +0000 http://www.moneyrelations.com/2008/01/27/entrecard-link-love-week-7/#comment-1898 Thank you, and thanks again for the link love :) Thank you, and thanks again for the link love :)

]]> By: Selene http://www.moneyrelations.com/2008/01/27/entrecard-link-love-week-7/comment-page-1/#comment-1897 Selene Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:00:24 +0000 http://www.moneyrelations.com/2008/01/27/entrecard-link-love-week-7/#comment-1897 After reading this article I clicked on the link "dropping 300 cards a day". It was intriguing to look at the stats and I am now considering trying to drop that many cards a day. I never would have found this if I hadn't read the article. So basically, thanks! After reading this article I clicked on the link “dropping 300 cards a day”. It was intriguing to look at the stats and I am now considering trying to drop that many cards a day. I never would have found this if I hadn’t read the article. So basically, thanks!

]]> By: Traciatim http://www.moneyrelations.com/2008/01/27/entrecard-link-love-week-7/comment-page-1/#comment-1893 Traciatim Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:29:44 +0000 http://www.moneyrelations.com/2008/01/27/entrecard-link-love-week-7/#comment-1893 See, the problem with a monitor like that though is that it's still stuck at it's native resolution or it looks like garbage. What happens when you play a 4:3 game that doesn't support widescreen resolutions? It either stretches it or you get big black bars. Also, I would call them out on a .02ms response time, maybe if they timed how long it takes the signal to get from the PC to the monitor traveling at the speed of like, and not anything useful. Also, you'll now need a video card and PC that can render (2880*900*60) 155,520,000 pixels a second reliably in order to have any fun playing games. Since according to Toms VGA charts a single video card setup at 1920x1080 playing dark messiah will top out at around 45FPS, and that screen is something like 20% smaller than a 2880x900 screen then you're in for a choppy ride. I think for productivity, performance, and price (I assume) sake I would much prefer a setup where you have a wide-screen main panel that runs at 1920x1080, and then 2 4:3 side panels in portrait mode (so 1200x1600) running on a cheap dual head video card. This way, instead of having 2592000 pixels you get 5913600 pixels instead, but your games and things will run better and still be pretty huge. See, the problem with a monitor like that though is that it’s still stuck at it’s native resolution or it looks like garbage. What happens when you play a 4:3 game that doesn’t support widescreen resolutions? It either stretches it or you get big black bars. Also, I would call them out on a .02ms response time, maybe if they timed how long it takes the signal to get from the PC to the monitor traveling at the speed of like, and not anything useful.

Also, you’ll now need a video card and PC that can render (2880*900*60) 155,520,000 pixels a second reliably in order to have any fun playing games. Since according to Toms VGA charts a single video card setup at 1920×1080 playing dark messiah will top out at around 45FPS, and that screen is something like 20% smaller than a 2880×900 screen then you’re in for a choppy ride.

I think for productivity, performance, and price (I assume) sake I would much prefer a setup where you have a wide-screen main panel that runs at 1920×1080, and then 2 4:3 side panels in portrait mode (so 1200×1600) running on a cheap dual head video card. This way, instead of having 2592000 pixels you get 5913600 pixels instead, but your games and things will run better and still be pretty huge.

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