02:55 by FoxTwo
Entrecard - What Blogrush Should Have Been
I joined Blogrush too, and although I do get a few clicks and and there from Blogrush, it's not exactly a "rush" of traffic.
If you look on my left sidebar, right under the "Crazyhamster.net" graphic, you'll notice a new "adspace". Technically it's an ad, but it's also a "business card" for blogs. The best thing about it, is that it works 1000 times better than Blogrush. It's called Entrecard.
Here's an example. I saw this on Merdurian's blog, approximately 1.50am Singapore time. By the time I signed up and created a widget, and put it on my site, it was about 2am. By 2.30am I've gotten 6 "business cards" from other blogs/websites wanting to post their graphic up on my blog here. That's an average of 1 request every 5 mins!
And, keep in mind, these figures are just for when people actually click to drop their "cards"! There is also traffic where they do not drop their cards (hey I can't blame 'em... can't please everybody all the time).
How does it work? Well you sign up, FREE. You make a widget (and you can put in your own graphic too), and then you post it up on your blog. When people come by your blog and like it enough to want to "advertise" on your blog, they "drop their card" by clicking on the yellow bar at the bottom. It gets routed to your inbox at Entrecard where you can approve or reject their ad request.
Or, you can click the big graphic and visit the advertiser's site.
Simple eh?
In the time that it took me to write this post, I've gotten FOUR more ad requests, and I took only like 15 mins to do this post up! Maybe in a few more days I'll put up some screenshots of website visits to see how well Entrecard worked.
So, talk about "rush". Blogrush should have worked like this.
Labels: advertise, Entrecard, internet
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@ Monday, December 10, 2007 8:36:00 AM EntreCard is by far the best- I was rejected for BlogRush, then accepted and it wasn't worth it so I took the widget off my blog. EntreCard allows us to find new blogs-I probably would never have found this one had it not been for browsing the site. Plus, I try to comment on all the blogs I visit, which I wish everyone would do. It would make the service so much more social.
Beth
http://afrogtokiss.net -
FoxTwo @ Monday, December 10, 2007 11:59:00 AM Hi Beth, thanks for popping by and leaving a note. Yes, I find Entrecard heaps better than Blogrush, and yes, without Entrecard I never would have found many of the other blogs out there too...
I hope Entrecard continue to work for all of us :) -
@ Monday, December 10, 2007 3:42:00 PM
EntreCard guarantee you to drive traffics to your blog BUT they cannot guarantee how many readers would properly look at your blog and leave their comment on it
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lankapo @ Monday, December 10, 2007 11:11:00 PM
I was rejected too by blogrush,so I took entrycard instead.
traffic coming increase day per day
good luck to you -
FoxTwo @ Monday, December 10, 2007 11:48:00 PM
merdurian - yeah I know. Getting traffic doesn't equate to readers. Traffic is just traffic :p
Iankapo - thanks for the well wishes! -
Angelika @ Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:24:00 AM
I've seen my "widget" on 5 blogs so far.
I've gotten about 30 visits from people who clicked on it.
And I've gotten a lot more comments.
I'm LOVING Entrecard. :-) -
FoxTwo @ Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:01:00 AM
angelika - thanks for popping by. Yes I hear many good things so far in Entrecard. I'm pretty excited actually!
