13 Ways to Get Your Entrecard Going Faster

Entrecard is the newest hip around. Everyone is talking about this phenomenon. It all started from a brilliant idea based on the real business cards. What it turned into was a cool, free advertising method, but also into a pool of strategies, speed card-dropping, www arguments and funny ideas.

What everyone agrees with is that Entrecard gives all of us the boost of exposure we need daily. New bloggers will immediately profit from this free traffic. They will increase the stats that matter, Google PR and Alexa rank. It is also true that this traffic is artificially increased. Speed card-dropping is what causes this. I have lots of new visitors daily but only some of those actually stop to read a post and check other pages. Most of them drop the card and move on. They will read a post somewhere else. But I am ok with that. It's understandable and I do it too. Everyone does it as it's the only way to get fast credits but I am getting away from my point.

Let's start again. What do I want? 1 million readers for my blog. How will I do that? Lots of advertising. How much am I paying for it? Right now nothing.
What do I want from Entrecard? Lots of exposure. How do I get that? With Entrecard Credits. Why? Because if I have enough credits I will buy more ads and more expensive ones. How do I get traffic from that? Well 1) I get traffic from those sites where my widget is displayed. 2) I get traffic from those other blogs I have dropped my card from and 3) I get traffic from those people who are only checking Entrecard's collection of cards.

I get credits every time I drop a card or I receive one. At first I got credits mainly from dropping. then I got some traffic and the credits from the droppers have increased. I purchased more add space and continued the game.

Like me so did others, and others are signing up each day. But this whole Entrecard deal isn't perfected yet. It is nice and neat but there are those who complain. Just two days ago John Cow announced he is dropping Entrecard as it is not a fair system. He doesn't appreciate how a guy like Saphrym with 22 subscribers at the time can have a higher price than him. But this is yet another cool feature of Entrecard. It allows small and big blogs to compete head to head.

What John Cow didn't seem to understand is that not all bloggers are competing to get Saphryms spot. I mean I will not pay 400 EC myself when I can buy 4X100 EC spots from bigger blogs. What I will do though is check those high priced blogs to see what they are all about. I will do exactly what, in this case Saphrym wants me to. Check his blog. If I am interested in what I see I will return. If not then I go further. Either way I won't pay that sum yet. So it's a good thing that Entrecard isn't yet another tool meant to help only big blogs.

So what are the 13 secrets of successfully EntreAds?

1) Go chain-dropping! Whenever you are killing time online, browse through some blogs, get EC

2) Advertise, advertise, advertise! Dont't pile up credits for the top blog in a category. Go for more. Smaller can be better. You will get piles of cards later.

3) Call back! Check who dropped a card to you and return it. It's cool, it's polite, it can start a relationship between 2 blogs.

4) Check forums and see what the buzz it! Find out what other bloggers are doing with EC and Entrecard

5) Stop and read! There are so many interesting blogs out there. It's the biggest online source of info and you will stumble upon things you like. Comment where you want to, sign up for RSS feeds, be active.

6) Join contests and organize contests. Whether you are giving away credits or winning them you will still get traffic, linkbacks.

7) Write a recommendation! Write it where you think you should. It will get you link love back.

8) Exchange/Sell your EC! There will come a time when you will have too many credits. Why not make a profit of them. Get a banner on a site or sell them on eBay (that's something I am thinking about right now and I will tell you all about later), buy something from Entrecard's sellers

9) Learn the rules of the game! Do you know why my price is currently 93? Do you know how many drops I can make a day?

10) Don't overlook anyone! One trend popular right now is getting lists of blogs with widget placement above the fold. Well I don't do that. I am also looking for above the fold placements. These are blogs who are getting less traffic right now, but they are more likely to check back my site as they might have a shorter inbox, especially if they are new bloggers.

11) Never get angry at your neighbour! I don't care if Seraphym has a price of 400 EC . Good for him. He is applying the sistem. He is thinking for his blog and that's a good thing.

12) Be creative and have a life! That will get your blog on. It will inspire you to write. It will make you seek advertising. It will make your EC account rise.

13) Have a decent internet connection and a good hosting package! You will want your blog uploaded fast and you will want to be able to have other sites working fast enough

Is this my personal recipe? Well, yes for now it is. The points above aren't necessarily a secret and that's not an order of applying them for you. I have more advice about Entrecard and there are lots of things left unsaid, as this is my own experience so far with them but I will cover them in the future.
In the mean time I am waiting for your cards and your ads to display.

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