Entrecard? Traffic?

As you guys may have noticed i have a widget in my right sidebar that has an “E” on it. Well this stands for Entrecard. It is a type of social networking system that works a lot like PPC. The thing that is awesome about the whole system is that its free. The more amount of time you put in to it the more you get out of it.

To break it down we will look at the widget itself. Now to participate in the “traffic exchange” you must place a widget that displays an “Entrecard” on the blog. This is essentially called your “card”. This displays your advertisement as well as others when they “purchase” advertising. The widget is a must have and if you don’t have the widget up and running your account will be disabled. Once you have signed up with entrecard and placed your widget on your blog you will now see that the message below the card shows “Drop”. This means you can click it and you will earn 1 credit.

Credits are what you use to buy advertisements from other entrecard users. This is why it is so powerful, it’s free. So any blog can be advertised on a main stream blog so long as the owner of the blog allows the ad to be displayed. The advertisements themselves only last a day but these can be purchased for as little as 4 credits. The credits can also be purchased with cash through the entrecard site. This can range from $10 for 1000 credits to $100 for 10000 credits. There is a downside to buying the credits because there are limited amounts allowed to be bought at a time. Here is a picture of what it looks like when you can advertise on a blog:

That is what a card looks like when you are in the campaign menu. This is where you would go to open up new blogs and to advertise on them. Once you click advertise and you have enough credits it will turn to a blue color and say purchased.

Depending on how many credits it takes to advertise on a blog will be how long the wait is before your ad will appear on that blog. For instance it takes a wait of 6 days to see your ad on my blog. This changes every time someone purchases an ad on your blog or if no one advertises on your blog for that day.

You are prolly thinking “how are the credits calculated for advertising on a blog?” Here is a chart that will hopefully help shed some light on this:

The price calculation is simple, for every spot there are a number of adverts waiting to show. We take a base price of 2 credits, then for each of the adverts waiting, we double the price. The following table shows how it all plays out:

As you can see you pretty much double the credits it takes to advertise on your blog every time someone places an ad on there.

Now combine all of this info with the maximum number of drops of 300 per day and you have the formula for a great and easy traffic exchange that is FREE. People love this because it can deliver mass amounts of traffic to a new blog.

You may have heard that the traffic is weak. Well its weak if you are not advertising and dropping on the right blogs. For instance i get a great CTR because i advertise/drop on MMO blogs. Obviously people going to or dropping from these blogs are going to be interested in domains because they want to make money. Using these types of strategies rather than just dropping on random blogs produces a good quality stream of traffic. Also having quality content and an updated blog will help with the CTR and readers ;)!

So if you own a blog get on over to entrecard.com and sign up. Start dropping. Future post include fast dropping and techniques on selecting your drops.

Good Luck!