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Entrecard Drives Traffic
By brewmaster | March 31, 2008
Without a doubt, one of the newer social linking systems is a real traffic producer. I first got involved with Entrecard a few weeks ago when launching a blog aimed at promoting the content for the websites produced by my day job. It’s an experiment in content syndication and promotion that is working really well, thanks in large part to Entrecard. Since then, I’ve put my personal blogs in the system. It’s great.
The premise is simple, but effective. Earn credits by visiting member sites and then use those credits to advertise on member sites. Their growth seems to be explosive, and I hope they’re able to scale well enough to keep this wonderful system going. They’re using Amazon’s S3 scalable web app environment, the same one used by Jungle Disk, so they shouldn’t have the growth problems that have plagued so many other successful startups.
If you look to the right, you’ll see an Entrecard ad purchase on DollarJoe. If you’re a member and you click the “Drop” button, a credit appears in your account, one of a maximum of 300 you can earn in a single day. You can then use those credits to buy ads on whatever member sites you want, provided you have enough credits. The more Entrecard traffic a site gets, the higher the ad rate.
Click on the badge to go to the Entrecard Blog. Good info there. Join up!
By the way, directly under my Entrecard widget, you’ll see a list of links called “Entrecard Blogs.” It’s a dynamically generated list of users who recently dropped their cards on one of my sites. I used Yahoo Pipes to combine and parse my Entrecard inboxes. Just another way to support the community.
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August 17th, 2008 at 5:56 am
EC sure does drive traffic, I have an Alexa that went from over 6 million to under 300k in under 3 months.
Bad about EC, people don’t usually stop and see the site, the drop and run. I try to comment and stumble the interesting sites I find (I stumbled this post) because it dives even more traffic. Actully make an effort to stumble every time you comment. If you are the first to comment it only takes a few seconds and any stumbler that comes to the site you stumble may follow your link back and visit your site. (come stumble my site!)
To speed up my drops I made a set of batch files. Each batch opens about 15 tabs in your browser. While I work I do a batch, open a new one and minimize the window. The next time I pause my work I visit the next set of open tabs.
The batches are here http://cheapkeywords.info/Entrecard.html if you want to give them a try.