Free Entrecard & Marketing

Five Tips on How To Increase Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:12:00 +0000

1.Don’t refer to this as “Increasing Your FeedBurner RSS Subscription numbers. These are real people, with real feeling, thoughts and emotions. They are not to be associated with numbers. If I want to be associated with a number, I’ll go sit in the waiting room of a doctor’s office.

2.Consider the fact that many of the people visiting your site for the first time are not really bloggers. They are people who landed on a post page within your blog who are simply searching for information. The information they seek happens to be written on your blog. Invite these people to visit often and explain to them how the best way to do that is. Provide a written paragraph at the bottom of your pages briefly explaining about your RSS feed and how it can benefit the users who stumbled on one of your posts from a search engine.

3.Stay on topic. People typically read your blog because they are interested in your expertise in the topic you blog about. They too share a common interest and will tend to link to you numerous times from their own blog. For the people that link to you on many occasions, you should contact them and thank them and also ask if they wouldn’t mind mentioning about your RSS feed next time they plan on writing about you.

4.Word of Mouth Marketing: Very important! I am sure that most of us have a decent sized email address list. However, within that list, there may only be a handful of people that we’re really close to. That is absolutely perfect for tip #4, which again is, Word of Mouth Marketing is Powerful. Take 10 people, your most closest email buddies and send them an individual email and ask them if they wouldn’t mind taking a moment to send an email to a few of their closets friends explaining about your blog. For example, If I received an email from David Cooley, Mark Sierra, Christine Senter or Joel Comm telling me about a personal favorite blog that they like to read, I would definitely check it out and I am very sure that I would subscribe to it. Why? Because a close friend sent me an email with a recommendation. I truth my friend’s judgment. Word of mouth marketing is very powerful. Send an email to ten trusted and well known friends and ask them to help spread the word about you.

5.How has monetizing been working for you? Not too good… that’s ok! Ask yourself if you would be more successful winning clicks into your RSS subscription form or more clicks into Google Adsense. If you think that you would get more clicks into your RSS subscription form compared to monetizing campaign clicks, then lose the monetization and self promote your RSS feed instead.

After reading this post, what else can you think of? What I have written is a great start, but I am sure there are tons of more tips. What can you think of? It doesn’t matter how big or small or even how stupid it might seem. A tip is a tip and I would love for you to share yours. Drop me a comment and help me expand on this topic. How else can a blogger increase their Feedburner Subscribers?

Source: garryconn

Optimize Adsense With 5 Not So Common Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:13:00 +0000

If you’re using Google Adsense for your site, you may have already read many different optimization articles in regards to placement, colors, and removing borders in order to blend your ads into your site. These are common tips, but what else can you do to take your Adsense revenue to the next level?

Here are some effective tips that have eluded many a webmaster.

1. Control the Adsense Bots

By telling the Adsense Bots that crawl your site where to look, and which parts to ignore, you can help it decide what type of ads should be displayed. Make your ads more relevant, and it will make sense for your readers.

Get these bits of code in your site template…

<– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –>

CONTENT

and Google Adsense bots will ignore the content in between the two section-targeting statements.

You can also use…

CONTENT

and Google Adsense bots will pay extra close attention to the content in between.

How I implement it is to edit the template and tell it to

◦Emphasize my post content
◦Ignore everything else (Header/Sidebar/Footer)
UPDATE: In order to get it to work, you have to add one extra ‘ - ‘ symbol to the code above. See Adsense help for more details.

This is by far the most effective method out there for ensuring relevant ads are displayed for your site. My site was initially showing ads about ‘Chicken Noodles’ (must have something to do with my domain name), but shortly after implementing this, was showing relevant tech ads.

2. Rotate Ads

Having the same ads in the same place may cause Ad-Blindness, where your readers subconsciously ignore certain areas of your site. Changing up the ads from time to time helps alleviate this issue. If you are using Wordpress widgets, you can try using the Ad-Rotator Plugin, which will help rotate your Google Ads randomly.

3. Inline Google Searching

This is a relatively new development by Google, where your readers can now do a Adsense sitesearch with Google, where the results are displayed inline within your site, making your website more ’sticky’.

4. Use Channel Monitoring

Google Adsense allows you to define and track multiple channels of Google Ads so you know where your revenue is coming from. What you can try is to allocate each Google Adblock type (eg. Square, skyscraper etc.) to a certain channel so you know which types of Adsense formats work best for your site, so you can focus on them.

5. Use Images

This is a controversial topic, where there is a fine line between what Google considers to be acceptable, and what it does not.

“Publishers are still welcome to place images above the ads. The only exception is if it’s in such a way that it looks like the images are part of the ads.

When something like that comes to our attention, we’ll ask that the publisher place a visible border between the ads and the images, to make it clear that the images are not being served by Google on behalf of the advertisers. We generally do not ask publishers to remove the images completely, we just ask that they add borders to avoid confusion.” - Google via Jensense
While the use of images had previously been highly effective in increasing clickthrough rate for me, use this tip with caution. You should know when to draw the line between harmless images, and what goes against Adsense TOS. If you’re on Wordpress, you can try the Adsense-Beautifier Plug-in, which adds images to your Adsense blocks.

Which of these tips do you already use, and what other optimization tips work for you?

Source: friedbeef

Adsense not Showing Relevant Ads

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:01:00 +0000

In the past, I had talked about google adsnse is showing unrelated adsense ads on this blog. So after weeks, I can see the ads are still not very targeted. This is certainly has to do with the main niche of the site and this blog being a part of it, google adsense is getting confused.

Anyway to make google adsense show relevant ads, I am looking to use adsense section targeting.

In case you have not heard of or never used it, adsense section targeting allows you to show google ads on the basis of a particular section of the content. So if you have a blog with menu, sidebar and footer, you can use this code in your html code with the main content in it and adsense will not consider the other non related element of the site.

..
Only this content will be considered by google adsense
..
if you want to avoid a particular section of the page (say menu or footer), you can use this code

..
this content will NOT be considered by google adsense
..
I am looking to insert the first code in the wordpress theme of the blog with something like this -

This will only target blog post content for adsense, I hope this will make the ads more targeted. I will keep this updated if I see some improvement.

Source: mwolk

Use the Competitive Ad Filter to Gain Advantage Over Others

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:54:00 +0000

You can use the Competitive AD Filter to block your competitors ads, or any other specific ads from appearing on your pages. You can block up to 200 URLs using this filter.

Most of the publishers using AdSense don't make a use of this filter simply because they are not AdWords advertisers and hence they feel that blocking the ads would reduce the revenue generated by their website.

However, not making use of Competitive AD Filter you are losing money unknowingly to Made For AdSense Sites and Arbitragers.

Arbitrage and MFA (Made For AdSense) sites

There are many sites that I can put into the category of Made For AdSense sites. How do you find out whether a site is MFA or not? Well MFA sites have crappy content or in some cases no content at all. Any content if present would be describing an affiliate program or product with lots of excerpts of interviews and recommendations from their so called users who have benefited after using their products. Or in some cases you would only see a search box , 3 blocks of Google ads, 3 text link ads with welcome to my site logo in the middle.

The only purpose they are designed and hosted to make money from Google AdSense program. How does a MFA site affect your AdSense revenue and reputation? These sites advertise using Google and other PPC programs by bidding a very low CPC to get the cheapest traffic to their site.
If you have checked your AdSense account and you notice you are getting only 1 to 2 cents per click chances are very high that readers might have clicked on the Ad of MFA site. Here is how these sites operate.

MFA sites bid lowest possible CPC amount for a keyword on your site. The ad from MFA site is displayed on your site.

Readers click on the ad and visit MFA site fetching you 1 to 2 cents for the click.
MFA displays nothing but ads. So readers are tempted (or forced as there is pretty much nothing else that they can do on MFA sites) to click on the ads displayed on the MFA site, thereby fetching them $1 per click.

Remember not everyone will click on the ads displayed on these MFA sites though but enough number of readers will to make the MFA site to get from 50% to up to 1000% in return.

The above process is known as PPC Arbitrage and may dent your AdSense income very badly. It also gives your reader a very poor experience, since he clicks on the ads displayed on your website to find useful information not another site with even more ads and no information.
The most annoying part in this entire episode is that Google can easily ban these sites but they won't because they get a large amount out of their total revenue from these sites. Google cares less as to whether clicks come from your site or from MFA site as long as the clicks keep on coming, because Google benefits from this.

There is no incentive that Google will get by banning these sites. As long as Google doesn't take an appropriate step, you will have more and more Arbitragers creating MFA sites to take advantage of this loophole and hurt Legitimate and Genuine sites.

generate a blacklist for your website

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:43:00 +0000

Are your Google AdSense ads earning low revenue due to low cost-per-click (CPC)? Perhaps you''ve worked to set up a good ad placement strategy to raise your click-through-rate (CTR) but each click isn't paying you very much? There's a great website to help you remove the low-paying ads from your site, creating more room for the ads that will pay you more for each click (HCPC). I'll show you how to use the tools to generate a list of 200 blacklisted URLs automatically tailored to your specific website.

Check out AdsBlackList.com . It is currently a free service (in Beta) which allows you to create a list of 200 blacklisted advertisers who are flagged as Low Cost Per Click (LCPC) or Made For Ads (MFA).

The website allows you to generate an automated list of 200 blacklisted URLs tailored for your specific website, check any advertiser's URL against their blacklisted database, and submit additional URLs that you think should be blacklisted

The site's navigation is hard to figure out, so here are a few tutorials to give you an example of how to use their services.

How to generate a blacklist for your website
First you'll need to register at AdsBlackList.com. Then click My Account in the Site Navigation menu. Click Add a New Domain and enter your website URL, its title, and the keywords most often used on your website and click Submit.

Now click Generate Filter List from the Site Navigation menu. Drag and drop your website into the text box on the right. The check both the MFA and LCPC checkboxes and click Submit. The list will be generated and added to the text box at the bottom. Click anywhere in the bottom textbox to highlight the entire list and copy it.

Now log into your Google AdSense account and click the AdSense Setup tab. Then click Competitive Ad Filter in the submenu. Paste the list into the large textbox and click the Save changes button. You're done!

NOTE: Google AdSense allows a maximum of 200 URLs in the Competitive Ad Filter.

How to check if an Ad on your website is a Low Cost Per Click (LCPC) Ad
I'll be using Firefox for this tutorial. Right-click on the Google AdSense ad that you want to check and click Properties. The link goes to Google's advertising service so you'll have to look through the URL to find the advertiser's link by clicking the text and dragging to the right to scroll over. The advertiser's link should be near the end of the URL. Select just the base URL of the advertiser's link. Right-click and click Copy.

Now browse to AdsBlackList.com. Login and paste the copied URL into the Domain Checker on the left side uner the Site Navigation. Press enter. The advertiser's status will appear, telling you if it is blacklisted or not. If it is, you should add that link to the Competitive Ad Filter in your Google AdSense account.

NOTE: Be extremely careful when checking the URL of an advertiser on your website. Make sure you right-click to inspect each URL instead of clicking on an ad to see where it goes. Clicking ads on your own website will quickly get you banned from AdSense!

Source: joomladigger

Google ad Filter

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:33:00 +0000

In case you are not aware, google adsense offers Competitive Ad Filter using which you can remove ads from your competitor being shown on your site. So say, if you are selling books and you see ads of ebay or amazon on your site offering same product which certainly is not desierable as this will take away the potential client of yours to your competitor, so you can use Adsense Competitive Ad Filter and add all your competitor in the list and their ads will never shown onto your site.

You can find your adsense Competitive Ad Filter options from Adsense Setup -> Competitive Ad Filter

Anyway this is one part of the post, the second part deals with whether or not you should even use it ? the reason being, I have heard people saying it reduces revenue. Now since MWolk don’t make lot of money and I have no reason to add any site as its competitor, its hard to comment on this but it makes sense, if you think about it.

Adsense optimizes ads for your site and shows the most related high paying ads, now if you block few sites which are showing relevant ads, adsense may start showing less relevant ads resulting less clicks. Also people who are in competitive niches like ecommerce products which have real competitors, they don’t use adsense anyway on their site.

Still its your choice, if you want to give it a shot to Adsense Competitive Ad Filter, you can do it though its unlikely you will see any results if you don’t get lot of traffic.

Increase AdSense Earnings with Competitive Ad Filter

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:50:00 +0000

Luke Meshios from Webmaster SEO wrote the following reader ‘quick tip’:

Do you ever wonder why it is you get low clicks sometimes? 1 cents - 10 cents?

This is because the Adsense Publishers are offering low amounts. Some times they offer a low amount because they have Adsense on their website too. And they might get 10 cents a click for every 1 cent they pay. These sites are known as “Made For Adsense” Yep, it does suck!. But there is a way around this to increase your earnings.

Go to Adsblacklist, Sign Up, put in your URL and keyword, click generate. You will then get an extensive list of 200 sites to block in your AdSense competitive ad filter.

Now go to your Adsense account, Click on Adsense Setup, Then click on competitive ad filter, copy and paste the websites you were giving from Adsblacklist . Now wait till Adsense blocks those sites.

Sit back and let the earnings roll in.

Source: problogger

Entrecard

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:47:00 +0000

1. You need to be a member of Entrecard in order to advertise on more than 15,000+ blogs.

2. Each ad will run for 24 hours.

3. The EC value/days in queue to wait appear on the site widget.

4. You will earn 25% credits from the price paid to advertise on your site. The balance 75% will be trashed to prevent inflation. Example, if your site been paid 1000EC to advertise, you will only receive 256 credits on the day the ad show up on your site.

5. If you don’t have enough credit to purchase a slot, then “Too Expensive” will appear and there is no option for you to purchase that particular ads. For example, if you have a balance of 200EC, and interested in purchasing 256EC ad spot, it will show “Too Expensive” and there won’t be any buying options available for you until you reach qualified account balance.

6. By clicking approved, you accept to show their ads on your site.

7. Ads will auto–approved if you don’t approve after 10 days.

8. Try to avoid advertise on the sites that recently rejected your ads by looking at the color codes on the widget (black). Here are the color codes: Gold = Featured, Rose = Favorite, Blue = Ad purchased, Green = Dropped, Dark = Recently rejected

9. Click on the profile to see your previous ads purchase history record (Value of ads purchased and clicks received from this ads display).

10. Try to spend the credits that you earn wisely. Don’t overspend or else you might need to buy it from other sellers, ebay.com or from entrecard.com itself.

Source: atniz

Tips and Tricks of Smart Advertising on Entrecard

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:44:00 +0000

Here are the tips to get more inbox drops count without spending too much EC credits on advertising.

1. First of all, the basic rule to get more visits from Entrecard is to return drops on all your Inbox cards. This is the most basic way. Try to drop at least 300 drops a day. Give highest priority on returning inbox drops followed by high popularity blogs, most advertised blogs, and etc.

2. Take part in Entrecard Forum and write recommendations on other blogs that will increase organic clicks from Entrecard to you.

3. Concentrate on “Most Advertised” blogs and “Most Popular” blogs to buy your ads. Remember, if a site have high popularity ranking, doesn’t mean that it will refer good number of clicks to us. Only most advertised sites with good popularity ranking can deliver good return on our advertisements.

4. Have “Top Droppers” dofollow widget visible above or below Entrecard widget on your blog. Page rank concern droppers are dying to get a spot in this widget. This encourages others to drop more to get top ranking. Rewarding those in your top droppers each month by giving a permalink, EC Credits, etc will bring more returning droppers.

5. Make sure you get at least 300+ drops without any advertising running for you. If you have reach this level, buy one advertising slot with popularity ranking above 2500 (grab if the value is 1024EC). Just one advert per day will do. Continue to do this for every single day. You will see huge difference from 10th day onwards.

Top 10 Entrecarders are getting more than 500 drops each day. If you want to be in this list, try to get at least 500 drops a day for 5 days consequently, as the popularity ranking figure is the total number of drops a blog gets for 5 days.

Source: atniz

New way to earn Entrecard points

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:42:00 +0000

Entrecard has just sent out an e-mail to all the ECers about new ways to earn Entrecard credits! Let’s take a look a what’s new:

Buy Entrecard Credits
Now, you can buy ECs directly from Entrecard! This long awaited feature is finally here, as users have been waiting months for this to come back! This will make it a lot easier to buy ECs than having to search for a user. Another plus is you know it’s a trustworthy source. So many users have been ripped off money from scammers, and now you can get it directly from Entrecard itself! The down side? It costs more than the typical selling prices of users. 1000 ECs is $9.50.

There is a maximum limit to the total amount of ECs sold more day as well, so for the first few days they’ll definitely sell out quick. Who knows, they could be sold out every day for weeks! The new feature hasn’t even been on for an hour and already it is selling out. I guess trustworthiness is more valuable than price for the ECers!

Update: Less than one hour of releasing the buy credits option, and they have already sold out for today!
Update #2: It looks like they’ve decided to put more credits up for sale because of the quick sell out!
Update #3: In less than 10 minutes of update 2, they have sold another 20,000 ECs. Crazy!
Update #4: Looks like they are stopping the madness and not adding more ECs, check back tomorrow!
Update #5: 40K ECs are available for purchase, 10 minutes later.

Earn ECs for Posting on Your Blog
This is a really interesting new feature, and I did not see it coming. Entrecard wants to encourage users to blog frequently by giving you ECs for posting! Earn 25 ECs for a new post, and you can earn this once every three days. This is a nice EC boost and you can earn it by doing what you should be doing regularly anyways- updating your blog! Hey, maybe their will be less blogs that don’t offer new content but continue dropping anyways. The flaw in this is that the new post is automatically fetched via the blog’s RSS feed, meaning the new post isn’t monitored. Spam blogs can just post gibberish/more spam and receive 25 ECs.

Earn ECs for Posting on Entrecard’s Blog
Do you read Entrecard’s Blog? It has slowed down lately, but it seems Graham is making an effort to start updating it a lot more frequently. He’s encouraging users to guest blog on the Entrecard Blog, and receive ECs in return! The more helpful and better quality your post is, the more ECs you’ll receive as compensation. You could get up to 2,000 ECs!

Source: entreblast

Entrecard Partnership with SezWho is a bonus for bloggers

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:33:00 +0000

We don’t have to mention about Entrecard and it’s role to the bloggers. It is simply incredible. We are talking a bout a system that can drive 300 - 500 daily visits to our blog here, that is Entrecard. They, just add another gem in their wings that the partnership with SezWho.

SezWho is the rating system that visitors can rate on blog posts and comments on any blog that have their plugin installed. It is a very useful plugin to know what is your visitors think about your post and we can always learn to improve it. Thanks to SezWho plugin.

The partnership with Entrecard and Sezwho brings the blogging to whole new level. Now, visitors can rate any comments and rate it for Entrecard credits which is used to advertise on other blogs or simply to sell for cash. Now, you can earn Entrecard credits from commenting as well. Another great way to earn more credits and credibility to our blog.

Source: atniz

Entrecard Toolbar gives me more time to spend with my family

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:30:00 +0000

I still don’t prefer to use the toolbar as there is no option for Inbox drops ordered in date. At least we can open 10 sites at once (or 50 sites at once by clicking 5 times, make sure the red button disappear before clicking again, if not it will open the same pages again). With toolbar, we able to do 300 drops limit a day faster than before. This is like hardcore entrecarders dream come true.

Surely, there will be another huge bump in traffic online after introducing Entrebar. I still prefer to use Quantcast than Alexa to check my traffic status. Maybe, I will remove the Alexa widget if it still ignoring Entre traffic.

However, there are a few upgrades that needed to be added in this new time saving toolbar:

- Sorting date option for Inbox drops.
- Don’t open dropped page again
- Showing Popularity ranking for each page

What is your recommendation? Share it here.

Source: atniz

Getting Traffic from Entrecard

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:22:00 +0000

Okay so Entrecard just made a huge move that is sure to start bringing them a boat load of money. They just launched a self-service ad network for the blogosphere, using their existing base of tens of thousands of blog publishers as participants. I gotta say, it’s pretty bad ass.

Entrecard, for those who don’t know, is a widget network for bloggers. These widgets display 125×125 display ads of other member blogs. Bloggers use Entrecard because it’s one of the best ways for a small to medium size blogger to build their blog. Basically you earn virtual money and then spend it to

•advertise on any blog in the network,
•buy blogging related products and services in the Entrecard Market ,
•hold contests and giveaways, etc.
In addition, just by being a member, you get traffic from their highly trafficked blog directory and thousands of members using their firefox toolbar ( kind of like the stumble toolbar, but only for blogs, and it lets you advertise on any blog with just a click). It’s basically everything you need to grow a blog from the ground up and its completely free. That’s why their growth over the last year is so huge.

Entrecard Ad Network open for business
So I just got pinged by Graham Langdon, the CEO of Entrecard, about their latest move. They have taken 50% of their 125×125 ad inventory inventory across the network, ( that’s a lot of impressions), and opened up a self service ad network.

Just to give you an idea of the inventory we’re talking here, here is the Entrecard blog network, measured against a monster blog like TechCrunch:

Traditionally, the Entrecard network has only been open to bloggers, but now with their ad network, they’re opening it up to third parties who adhere to these terms. This is good news to everyone who just wants to blast an ad across all of their tens of thousands of blogs. The rates are pretty good too: 60 cents CPM across the whole network or target a specific category for $1.20 CPM. That’s a pretty sweet deal, and any blogging related product/tools/services are sure to do really well because its such a highly targeted niche.

You can sign up as an advertiser here and login here .

A new way for bloggers to make easy money
The coolest thing about their new ad network is what they’re doing with the money. They’re passing 75% (yes, thats seventy five percent) of the revenue from their ad network back to the members by cashing out their credits so Entrecard members can make some serious money. Right now, they’re cashing out credits for $1.00 per thousand, but Graham says that within a few weeks they’re going to move it up into the $3 range.

The cool thing about this is that there are so many ways to earn credits. You can earn credits by

•“dropping” on other blogs (basically visiting them and tagging their widget)
•publishing on your blog
•having other members “drop” on you (visit your blog and tagging your widget)
•selling products and services in their market (people sell web hosting, graphic design, wordpress plugins and all sorts of things)
•selling advertising on your blog
•winning contests / giveaway
So aside from launching a kick-ass self service ad network for the blogosphere, they’ve also launched a new and unique way for bloggers to make money -participating in a real virtual economy. Rock and roll.

Top 10 Tips to Increase Entrecard Traffic to Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:19:00 +0000

Here is a unique way to increase traffic to your blog. It is called Entrecard. It is defined as an advertising platform for blog owners that are offered for free.

Bloggers and Entrecard users place advertisement of the Entrecard ad on any blog within the Entrecard network that is good for a certain number of days. The Entrecard ad placements on any blog as paid through Entrecard credits of the blogger or website owners who make the ad placement. We can treat this Entrecard credits as some form of a currency used for ad placement within the Entrecard network.

Bloggers place their ads by dropping off their cards at their selected blogs through the Entrecard widget. This Entrecard widget appears on every Entrecard member blog in the network.

Does this new craze deserve the attention that it is getting from a lot of people? Probably, the answer is yes. Entrecard is considered as an effective tool especially for the new and beginning bloggers in generating more traffic to their blogs.

In an apparent sales pitch for Entrecard, the following are declared benefits for those who join the Entrecard network:

•Another way to Earn Money
Bloggers who come to drop off cards may click the ads on your blog, which translates to additional money earned. Besides monetizing from the traffic via Entrecard network, Entrecard recently announced a credit-buy-back program where you can sell your credits back to Entrecard.
•Build your followers
Entrecard is one great way of bringing more traffic to your blog. Once they visit your blog to drop off their cards, they might see something that might be of interest to them and become a regular follower of your blog.
•Maximize word-of-mouth Marketing
You gain warm body endorsers once you get positive feedback from Entrecard members who visit your blog to drop off their cards. It is essential that you keep your blog as interesting as possible to visitors.
•Improved Google, Alexa and search ranking
As more and more visit your blog to drop off their cards, this translates to more page views that can boost the ranking of your blog in search engines. This would in turn bring in more targeted traffic to your blog.
•Increased traffic to your blog will easily attract more direct advertising opportunities. As you experience increased traffic as a direct result of being a member of the Entrecard network, your blog will become more attractive for paying advertisers. This would mean extra dollars to fill your pockets.
With these benefits of Entrecard, it is essential that you are knowledgeable of the nooks and crannies of the network to derive maximum benefit from it. Here are some practical tips to set you off as a new Entrecard member:

TIP #1 – Start with the obvious. Be an active Entrecard Member

To be a successful member of the Entrecard network, you have to internalize the system. You have to do some serious job at dropping your cards on carefully targeted blogs. You can follow a logical strategy at “dropping” your cards. First, start with what you have in your inbox. These are the Entrecard members that are visiting your blog to “drop” their cards. If they are dropping cards on your blog, then surely, they are active members of the Entrecard network. Focus your efforts on the popular Entrecard users. You can find them in the Campaign. Drop cards on the top users of every category. That way, you are able to drop cards in blogs with high traffic. You should also find the other active users by checking the Most Popular tab. Don’t forget to include the Most Recent Users. This gives an impression to them that you are an active user as well. Finally, the forum is also good source of information of active users.

TIP #2 – Advertise, Advertise and advertise

To become a successful Entrecard member, you should advertise often. If you take seriously TIP #1, you will end up with a mountain of Entrecard credits, well, figuratively. Seriously, the essence of TIP #1 is for you to end up with lots of Entrecard credits so you can advertise. As a start, you can start with 5 blogs per day. Be sure to pick the most popular users you can find and advertise on this popular blogs. The reason for this is quite obvious. Popular blogs get a big share of drops and this means more people will get to see your ad. This will be translated to increased probability of increased click-throughs and of course, exposure.

TIP #3 – Advertise wisely 1

This is a follow-through of TIP #2. Much as we would like to maximize our exposure and click-throughs, we have to be a wise advertiser to be able to reap the full benefits of our ad. First of all, you should advertise on blogs that have higher ranking than your blog, and blogs with more readers and many RSS subscribers than you.

TIP #4 – Advertise wisely 2

Monitor your ads. Monitor the ads that work for you and buy it again even if it would mean paying more the next time.

TIP #5 – Be an Active Participant of Entrecard Forums

Don’t forget to check out the Daily stumbles and the Entrecard Updates. When you do this, you might discover some sites that you might have come across in the past. You will never know. You might hit the jackpot when you get to meet some of the interesting guys and girls in the mold of blogging4cash, ideasandmoney.info, razzball.com, YouShouldOwn.com, incomeforeveryone.info and much, much more.

TIP #6 – Keep an Eye for n00bs

Be always on the look out for n00bs or ‘newbies’ on the block and try to place your card on the sites before their rates hits the ceiling. Here are some good sites with but at the same time cheap: laughingsquid.com, idasia.org, tylercruz.com, and theprofithustler.com.

TIP #7 – Put your best foot forward in your ads

Make sure that your ad attracts your target audience. If you are not confident that you have the design experience, you can seek the help of other Entrecard users in the forum or through the Entrecard shop to help you out in designing a card that fits your image and brand.

TIP #8 – Position your Entrecard Widget Properly

Make sure that people can easily find your Entrecard widget. People will be able to advertise and drop cards in your blog only when they are able to find your widget. In short, place your widget in a strategic position.

TIP #9 – Utilize the Entrecard Mail System

Make a point to express your thanks and appreciation to those placing ads on your blog. On the same token, also thank those who let you advertise on their blogs. This is the best way to earn goodwill and extra points in terms of good image among other Entrecard users.

TIP #10 – Join in Entrecard Contests

One great way to earn extra Entrecard credits is by joining in Entrecard contests. You can do more, if you start your own contests. In order to find the available contests, you can check them out in the forums under Promotion and Events section or you can check out other blogs and check their posts for ongoing contests.

Source: templatelite

Entrecard Drop Ranks

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:32:00 +0000

Drop Ranks

1. Deeply committed - Deadly serious. A drop master (Doing Highest drops)

2. Takes dropping Very Very Seriously (Doing High drops)

3. A dedicated dropper with a hint of addiction (Doing more than average drops)

4. Consistent, regular dropper (Doing average drops)

5. Casual and relaxed (Doing Zero / Low drops)

6. Just here for the view - (New to Entrecard)

Please take note that DROP RANKS is calculated on how many drops that particular site are dropping. If you are looking into advertising, please check their POPULARITY RANK. The higher POPULARITY RANK, the higher INBOX DROPS they received and higher chance to get click on your ads. Please don’t confuce yourself with Drop Rank and Popularity Rank. Both are different.

If you have dropped certain number, you will see the below message -
1-50: Thanks
51-100: Go! Go!
101-150: Alright!
151-200: Wicked!
201-250: Yeehah!
251-300: Awesome!
301: 300 per day (Entrecard drop limit)

Want to earn more then 300 Entrecard points a day?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:20:00 +0000

I’m going to unleash a secret of gathering 500 drops each day (except Saturday and Sunday) for free. We are not talking about dropping 300 cards per day in 5 minutes or 15 minutes. We are talking about getting 500 Inbox drops Inbox each day. It sounds impossible, but try asking the question to the top 10 bloggers in Entrecard family. Ok, now how to find TOP 10 members in Entrecard family? Go to Campaign + Most Popular + No Limit, and you can see a list of cards appear. From top to bottom are the top Entrecarders in the family. You can contact them personally and ask, how many Inbox drops they are getting each day.

At least one of my blog in TOP 10 list for a week now and I’m receiving an average of 300 - 450 drops each day. By utilizing Advertisements, Drops and Commenting you can go far with Entrecard. I haven’t utilize the commenting part yet (as I only comment on posts that I’m interested). Commenting is a powerful tool that can draw unlimited traffic from Entrecard or any other network because most of the bloggers are eager to check their post comments and this is the highest attraction point for visitors in any blogs. If you have the power to comment and get this privileges, why not grab it.

First of all, how much credits of EC you earn each day from Entrecard? You can earn credits from dropping, clicking advertisement on blogs widget, receiving inbox drops and advertisements. Not to mention about contest, subsribers bonus, etc. Personally, I’m earning about

512EC(Advertising) + 300(Drops) + 400(Inbox Drops) = 1212 EC per day on average basis.

You can easily sell 1000EC at $1.80 - $2.00 on ebay each day but I prefer to use that credits for my advertising purpose. Consider, I’m paying $1.80 - $2.00 each day to advertise my blog. I’ve stop selling EC on ebay but still selling it on my blog at $3.00/1000EC. I have an excess of 40k EC now and want to sell those credits. It is not wise to spend more than what we earn right? I’m earning 1200 EC per day, and I’m spending 1200 EC per day also.

Talk about advertising, please be wise to choose the blog that you want to advertise. Always, check their popularity ranking. The higher popularity ranking, the higher Inbox drops they are getting. So, the higher chance your blog get click. Make sure you promote on those blogs that are having higher Popularity. For example, one blog have Pupolarity ranking of 500 and need 256EC/day to advertise, and the other blog’s Popularity ranking is 1000 and need 256EC/day. Please choose popularity ranking with 1000 than 500 because the inbox drops of blog with 1000 popularity is double than the blog with popularity ranking 500.

Sources: atniz

What is Entrecard?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:31:00 +0000

Entrecard is a free advertising exchange network. Users can advertise their own Entrecard ad on any blog in the Entrecard network for free for a certain number of days.

Once your account is activated, you can "Get Code", simply paste that code into a widget on your blog and you're ready to go. Entrecard acts as a 125x125 business card. The current limit per drop is 300 drops per day to a total of 300 points.

What is Free Entrecard?

Free Entrecard, is design to help active droppers earn extra EC points. We run contest and such to promote Entrecard community.

About Donation Button

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:44:00 +0000

Most of us place ads such as Google Adsense and Referal links in our blog to make some money. Most bloggers, will click it as a way of showing support. There are also those, on the "boat" that likes to wonder where it goes.

But since this is illegal, why not show the blogger that you would like to donate?

Or maybe not? because clicking on an ad means the advertiser paid the blogger, while donating means taking money out of our own pockets?

I personally don't like donate buttons unless

1) you are a charity, non-prifitable organisation
2) you are providing a service or product for free

It's unprofessional. Just because the blog looks nice, doesnt mean the visitors should feel oblige to donate.

The purpose of this Blog isn't for charity work or such, but we are all supporting one another. Our way of supporting is by giving away free Entrecard points, networking, referal network, and relative information.

Do you have a donation button in your blog? Why?