Entrecard is a blog ad sharing network. Basically you show banners for other sites and earn credits that let you "buy’ banners on other sites. It’s pretty popular in the SEO and making money blogger realm. Last week Entrecard founder Graham Langdon posted a lengthy entry about selling the site and provided a link to an auction on Sitepoint. Two days later Langdon noted that the service was no longer for sale. Langdon apparently spoke with numerous potential buyers and decided that keeping it himself and fixing it would be a better move. TheNextWeb blog has a good overview of the entire sell/no sell transaction.

This is different than JustHackIt which went from Techcrunch to sold for pence on Sitepoint less than 24 hours later.

Today Entrecard has announced a partnership with OIOpublisher which will allow Entrecard users to pay for any type of ads through OIOpublisher. Basically this means that credits you earn on Entrecard can now be used to purchase ads on the OIOpublisher network in other sizes besides the standard blog size of 125×125 pixels. The interesting part of this new arrangement is that it requires Entrecard publishers to purchase the OIOpublisher software which is $30. So far Entrecard users aren’t thrilled with having to purchase this software to use their credits on the system.

I wonder what happened to Entrecard competitor and Techcrunch40 finalist Spottt. They publicly launched back in February but we haven’t heard anything from them since and their blog is down.

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Entrecard is a blog ad sharing network. Basically you show banners for other sites and earn credits that let you "buy’ banners on other sites. It’s pretty popular in the SEO and making money blogger realm. John Cow has an indepth review of the service from earlier this year.

Yesterday Entrecard announced that they are deleting the accounts effective July 1st for those users who are running "quick drop pages." Entrecard explains, "Quick drop pages are single pages with your Entrecard widget, made to load quickly and display your widget and not much else. Many quick drop pages have just a widget, and maybe an ad or some other type of widget." Here’s an example of a quick drop page.

Quick drop pages devalue our network as a whole, by motivating members to drop on the same, quick loading pages, en masse to gain credits quickly and efficiently. The company says they have a way to detect all Quick Drop pages and will purge all from the system.

The other company offering a similar service is Spottt. We reviewed Spottt on their launch and noted that they have a cute doggg for their mascot.  Whenever I see Spottt banners, the first load seems to have a Crunchgear ad every time. Subsequent loads offer other banners before returning to the Crunchgear ad. This was one of the concerns I raised on my initial review — the ability for one (or a small set) publisher to control the initial ad on the majority of sites in the Spottt network. It looks like Entrecard deals with this by allowing publishers to control which ad slots they "buy".

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