The obligatory Entrecard post.

Posted on February 27, 2008
Filed Under Web 2.0 stuff, Website Tools |

It seems that everyone else is doing it (well not everyone, but quite a lot of people) so I thought I’d relate my experience with Entrecard. I don’t normally write about this kind of thing but I reckoned that this was worth a mention. Maybe I can convert you to using Entrecard on your own blog (if you don’t already).

entrecard-logo.pngEntrecard is a social link-swapping service where you earn credits for clicking on the widget on others sites and use those credits to get your125×125 ad shown for a day on other peoples. You’ll notice the widget at the top of my sidebar there. Over the past week or so I’ve been using it daily, and the results have been quite something.

Previous to the 9th of February, I was averaging between 15-30 hits daily. From the 9th, when I started using an Entrecard dropping technique suggested at powerdropping.com, my hit rate has pretty much doubled. I’ve been getting more visits just from dropping my card on other people’s sites. I’ve had real spikes from buying ads with my Entrecard credits with a peak of 102 hits on the 22nd. My Entrecard ad price, the number of credits I recieve when someone buys an ad on my widget, is 5 times higher than when I started. Which means that I don’t have to drop as much.

The only problem with this technique is that it is quite laborious. First of all you have to bookmark the 300 sites suggested by powerdropping and organise them into batches (opening them all at once would take your browser hours). I’m not sure how other browsers do it but in Firefox you can open all the BMs in a folder in tabs at once, I’ve got 10 folders of 30 BM’s each. I open on folders worth of pages at a time and work my way through, dropping as I go. I’d love to be able to automate the process. Maybe with a greasemonkey script which clicks drop buttons automatically, though I don’t even know if that’s possible (or ethical). I’d also like to be able to automatically return drops on people who drop on me. Not being a coder I don’t even know where to start developing something like this.

In conclusion, if you want to build traffic, and keep it, use Entrecard. I’m no longer dropping on the 300 daily (I still drop on them every couple of days when I’ve got a spare 20 mins though) and have discovered a few blogs which I’d never have come across other wise. I’ve built traffic and expanded my intake, wins all round I reckon.

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4 Responses to “The obligatory Entrecard post.”

  1. no imageDeimos Tel`Arin (Who am I?) on February 28th, 2008 2:21 am

    Aye, EntreCard is only a tool, when used differently, yield different results.

    Though when used correctly, the results is very desirous. :)

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  4. no imageFranca Richard (Who am I?) on April 12th, 2008 4:45 am

    yeah entrecard is great but just changed their pricing sys. no good.

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