Blogging Tip: Generating Traffic with Entrecard

For those of you who took up the blogging for money hobby that I posted a week or so ago, or really anyone who has a blog, may want to check this service out. It's called Entrecard, advertised as "your internet business card".

It's an extremely easy service to use, and to date it has generated more blog traffic for me than Stumbleupon or Digg. Here's how it works:

Step 1: Visit Entrecard.com, click the giant link that says "Sign Up FREE", follow the prompts and you're good to go.

Step 2: Create an eye catching 125x125 logo, this is all you get, so make it good.

Step 3: You earn credits by dropping your card on other peoples widgets, when someone clicks your widget or when someone advertises on your link.

Step 4: Make sure to pay attention to your Dashboard, pending advertising offers come in as soon as the code hits your blog, simply because you're cheap, to put it bluntly. Your price is determined by how many people drop cards on your site. Example; to advertise on 03Cents, it will cost you 24 credits as of 2/06, against ProBlogger which costs 356 credits.

Tips and Tricks

1. Use SiteHoppin'; This browser in a browser will allow you to browse sites that use entrecard similar to how you can browse the web with stumbleupon, only this requires no sign up, no download, just clicking 2 buttons, 1 to change sites, the other to drop your card.

2. Research your site, if you have the Alexa tool bar, you can see a sites Page rank and Alexa rank. Use this to your advantage when choosing what site to place your ad on.

3. Scrape the bottom, sometimes you can get more traffic by putting your ad on 10 10 ec priced pages than 1 page for 100. This goes back to tip 2, when someone is new to Entrecard, their pages will be cheap to advertise on, but they may have tons of hits.

For those who go this route, what have you had the best luck with?