Make a Clean Break From Blog Networks

My gosh ever since starting to blog I have visiting a large number of blogs on a daily basis.  A couple of years after starting to blog I joined a blog network called Entrecard.  My experience was negative so I will leave it at that other than to say I dropped their widget from all of my blogs at that time.  This post is not an Entrecard slam although I could certainly turn it into one quite easily.  What I have noticed is some bloggers still using Entrecard are posting graphics such as "no paid ads" and "I'm sorry entrecard uses this widget for advertisments I don't agree with".  Hello!  Anytime you have a widget on your blog it is assumed you agree with the content being displayed.  You can't have it both ways.  Therein lies the problem of displaying widgets on your blog that you can't control content on.  If you don't agree with the widget content, remove the widget and move on otherwise remove the disclaimer!  No one wants to read the underlying message that says I don't agree with this BUT I'm letting it through because I'm shallow enough to believe that is the only source of available traffic.  This sends a negative message to your readers and other bloggers.  Essentially if it is on your blog you approve of it otherwise get it off!

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