This is dedicated to my friend Amy. She made me realize something very important. She said “I love the top 10 drop list…I find that it’s important within the EC community to acknowledge one another whenever we can…people are working hard at all this blogging business and recognition goes a long way!!”
Since Graham Langdon have introduced the statistic and RSS2.0 for Top Droppers long time ago which you can find in your Entrecard/Statistic page. Try to utilize this function to honor your top droppers and give a DoFollow (NoFollow Free) link to them. I got several reason why we should give DoFollow link to our top droppers.
1. They are the most frequent visitor to your blog and this is the least you can do for them
2. Increase your drops. Most of entrecarders and bloggers are looking for one way link with dofollow tag that will give significant value toward their page rank weight. This will encourage them to bookmark and drop on your blog on first priority.
3. Increase Alexa ranking. By now, most of us already aware that any traffic referred by Entrecard widget or Inbox, it won’t be calculated in Alexa ranking. Check my previous post New Alexa Don’t Recognize Entrecard Traffic about it. If your site need to drop on daily basis, most probably we need to bookmark or blogroll which the traffic will be counted in Alexa ranking. This is one strong point why we all need to give credit to our top droppers.
Now is the easiest part. Installation. You don’t have to download, copy and paste any codes.
All you need to do is get the RSS2.0 link of your Entrecard account. Log in to your Entrecard. Go to Statistic. Scroll down to Top Card Droppers. As you can see a small icon on left (orange icon) Click it. You then will be referred to reader with the link like http://entrecard.com/feeds/top_droppers/PNNFY6FNNF/rss2.0 Copy this link.
1. Blogspot
Go to Add Page Element – Select Feed – Paste the link – Name it. By default it is DoFollow and 5 links.
2. WordPress
Go to Widget – Add RSS – Paste the link – Name it. By default it is DoFollow link.
It is easy right?
For those who still prefer to go with NoFollow, you can always change it but I’m not sure how to make it NoFollow. If you know, please share it here.
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Jacqueline,
You are already in my daily drop list. Hope I can get a piece of your Top Droppers.
Yes..I also agree with you and Amy. It takes a commitment to make the drops, and we must REMEMBER these are PEOPLE and not robots, so honor them in some way.
Great. I have bookmark your site. Will try to catch your top droppers train this month.
thanks atniz! i have it in my site now
Deb,
Thanks for sharing the links to change default nofollow tags from blogger (blogspot). As far as I know, blogger and wordpress by default is in nofollow tag. This is to follow the giant google’s advice towards nofollow tags.
All my blogs have the rel=nofollow tags removed and I have been a member of Andy Beard’s Bumpzee NoFollow community for a long time. If you dont understand how blogger works I suggest you check these articles:
http://webstractions.blogspot.com/2007/05/removing-nofollow-from-blogger-styled.html
http://andybeard.eu/2007/02/ultimate-list-of-dofollow-plugins-banish-nofollow-from-comments-and-trackbacks.html
Amy,
I’m using RSS too. It is up to date, simple, and dofollow. I don’t see any reason to use avatar yet. As long as they get backlinks from the main page, it is surely high credit.
I don’t agree with you. So many blogger have joined and left this family. They have gained what they want, RSS, Backlinks, etc in very shortime. I earned a lot from EC, even money. Plus, as a new blogger like me, Entrecard blog is very helpful and useful. You won’t be amazed if you can see some Entrecarders are making 4 figures or 5 figures soon.
Entrecard is overrated unfortunately.
Thank you Reena for taking note..I first saw the list on Robin’s Woods (got to love Miss Jennie)…and I knew that I had to have it in the same spirit of recognition…so, she got me to the right place and I am THRILLED to have that RSS feed giving props 24/7 to everyone who is in the top 10. I see now, that people are posting the avatars of their top 10 droppers for the month…but, I like the list better…either way, it’s important, like saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’!!!
All the best to you Reena and continued success w/ your blog!!!
Amy