EntreCard Series - How To Make EntreCard Chain Droppers Read Your Blog?

In the EntreCard Series, I'd planned to write an exhaustive collection of articles on everything concerning EntreCard. After explaining how EntreCard works and the concept of chaindroppers, this was a natural question that needed to be answered.

How To Make EntreCard Chain Droppers Read Your Blog?

Despite all the nuances of chain droppers I'd pointed in my previous post, they are very much a part of the daily lives of all the EntreCard users. Here are a few tips on how to make chaindroppers read your blog.

• The very first point that needs mentioning is the design of your blog. The design and flow of your blog should be compelling enough for anyone to feel like stopping and look around the page.
• Try to write quite a few posts on EntreCard and keep them at the top of your blog. However, if they seem to get lost in the archives, later on, showcase those articles in a space around your EntreCard widget such that the links are easily visible to anyone wanting to click on the widget. This is primarily because no EntreCard chain dropper can stop himself if he / she comes across posts on EntreCard itself.
• Always drop cards at the ones who drop on you. This can create interest within the droppers about your blog provided you keep dropping onto their inboxes everyday.
• Always advertise on blogs on your niche & resist dropping cards on blogs that don't belong to your niche. This is because you get most of your EntreCard traffic from the users' inbox or through the ads you have placed.
• Last, but never the least, start out on contests that give out EntreCard credits for prize. This is a win-win situation since you can attract a lot of traffic because of the contests and the prizes (EntreCard Credits) that you dish out are all free.

So, do you too have any more tips to add to this quarry? Do feel free to comment.

Coming Up On EntreCard Series -

1. Great Things About EntreCard.
2. What Make EntreCard Suck?
3. Tips To Make Your Blog Go Places With EntreCard.

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Entrecard Series - Chain Droppers

I had started a series of posts earlier this week where I'd planned to write an exhaustive questionnaire about EntreCard. Last time, I'd answered to the questions What is an EntreCard & how does it work. Today, I plan to write a few lines outlining the idea of chaindropping and how to use the methodology to the best of a blogger's advantage.

What is Chain Dropping & Who is a Chain Dropper?

As I'd mentioned in the last post on EntreCards, the registered members of EntreCard can earn EntreCredits by only five methods -

• Putting up advertisements from others on your own widget.
• Selling ad space or services at the EntreCard shop, in exchange of credits.
• When other people "drop' their cards on yours.
• When you "drop" your card on others.
  
• When someone decides to send some credits to you, in return of love or contests in their blogs or even when he/she might be benefitted by your expertise in the EntreCard Forums.

Now, it is clearly understandable that other than you yourself dropping your card on others by visiting their web pages, you can't use any other method actively without involving others. Since dropping your own card onto others is the easiest way to earn more and fast money (EntreCredits), many EntreCarders just visit other blogs that have the widget, drop their cards and off they go to their next destination. Yes, I know you do earn an extra credit because of that. But other that one single benefit, there are few more darker sides to it as well.

• The values of the advertisements on your blog reduce a lot. If you get paid per impression (page view) then the advertiser gets to shell out much more in return of considerable less. That'll make the advertiser think twice before renewing their contract with you.
• With increased bounce rate, it creates an illusion that a lot of people are reading your blogs whereas in actual there might be very few.
• A lot many of us think of building contests on the blogs, one time or the other. Now, if you happen to start a contest with the illusion of a lot of readers, there just might not be enough participants at the end of the day, sufficient enough for the prize you'd shelled out.

Thus, as we can see, there are both good and evil sides of the same phenomenon. Yet, there are people who keep chaindropping everyday. Thankfully, EntreCard has put a cap of 300 "droppings" per day.

By the way, if you are a chaindropper yourself, how often do you sit back and go through a blog?

Coming Up On EntreCard Series -

1. Who Are Chain Droppers?
2. How To Make EntreCard Chain Droppers Read Your Blog?
3. Great Things About EntreCard.
4. What Make EntreCard Suck?
5. Tips To Make Your Blog Go Places With EntreCard.

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EntreCard Series - All The Dope About EntreCard

What Is EntreCard All About?

Widgets on the sidebar had never been a new thing for the bloggers. Almost every blog has a MyBlogLog widget or a counter showing where the visitors are from or at least a blogroll. This isn't really an uncharted territory. However, EntreCard has almost revolutionized the widget world. The concept of "dropping" started by EntreCard is already a buzz word. It's a great way to push youg blog that extra mile so very much required by the bloggers, especially the new ones, to reach out to new audiences. Moreover, the idea of creating a "visiting card" also sounds pretty cool.

How Does EntreCard Work?

This is truly a little tricky part. However, if you can get through this little detail, life's so much fun in the EntreCard world. Here is a complete showdown on how EntreCard works.

• After you get yourself registered into the website, you end up in a dashboard with a few nuggets of information served to you. the most important part out there is the amount of EntreCredits you possess. Yes, you start off with zero but don't you worry, it's really easy to rake up millions of credits, provided you be patient and have unlimited download limit :-P (I know I'm getting you scared. All I pray is kindly read this article through.)
• EntreCredits are nothing but the currency in the EntreWorld where all transactions, be it advertising on a page, leasing out ad space on your blog or even buying services from a very interesting shop, happen in terms of the same.
• After you register, EntreCard provides you with the code to a little widget that you can publish in your blog.
• Now, here is the dope. This widget that you install is the portal where other bloggers from EntreCard shall advertise in your blog, in exchange of EntreCredits.
• Similarly, you too can buy ad space in others' blog page by leasing out the real estate in exchange of EntreCredits.
• As you can see, this is a great way to publicize your blog without the need to actually shell out any dough. This is almost like the age ol' "link exchange" but more fun and if you are lucky, you just might end up advertising on ProBlogger for as low as 200 EntreCredits :-P
• Now, here's the catch. You can advertise on others' widgets for only one day, rather 24 hours. After 24 hours, you shall have to make way for other publishers. Of course, you can again advertise on the page, but never more than 24 hours at a stretch.
• Moreover, after you apply for advertisement on a certain page, the admin of that page has to approve your request before your ad actually starts showing up on the page.
• For advetising, you are expected to provide for a 125x125 card which is known as the "visiting card" for your blog.
• Moreover, you can even visit other blogs that have the EntreCard widget and click on "Drop Yours" which is a portal through which your drop your card, letting the person know that you'd visited his site. More often than not, he/she shall definitely give you a visit back.
• Every time you "drop" your card, both you and the page holder, where you "drop" your card, get 1 EntreCredits.
• What more, EntreCard community has been growing at a huge rate and it already boasts of over half a million users. So, you got a lot of blogs to advertise on, all for free (for EntreCredits, actually).

Coming Up On EntreCard Series -

1. Who Are Chain Droppers?
2. How To Make EntreCard Chain Droppers Read Your Blog?
3. Great Things About EntreCard.
4. What Make EntreCard Suck?
5. Tips To Make Your Blog Go Places With EntreCard.

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EntreCard On FaceBook?

Talking about EntreCards, here's an interesting post I came across, today. Of course, FaceBook has been a great social networking website for quite some time now, almost running parallel to Orkut. However, it was interesting to know that Affiliate Lounge has been getting a lot of visits from searches like "facebook and entrecard" & "entrecard facebook", as pointed out in his post EntreCard on Facebook.

I, kind of, agree with his analysis that such a search request is because of the growing popularity of EntreCard and the curiosity of the folks to be able to use EntreCard related applications on their Facebook profiles. Now, why would someone ask for such an application? Here are a few reasons that I could think of :

1. Advertising is all that EntreCard's about. Everyone wishes to advertise their weblogs and what better place than FaceBook itself where they can show off their blogs to their own friends?
2. The thrill of being able to publish their EntreCards for the world to see.
3. A well designed application just might help them to earn credits without the need to keep "dropping by" other blogs.

So, what do you think? What's your take on the issue?

EntreCards - Latest Wave On Blogosphere

It's been 3 days now that I've gotten myself registered on EntreCard (to know more about EntreCard, you can refer to this interview with Graham Langdon by Darren Rowse of the Problogger fame). I absolutely loved the service. What intrigued me the most is the idea of a "visiting card" for your blog. While I was browsing through the endless list of blogs listed out there, I was kind of impressed with the beautiful 125x125 cards that people had designed for themselves. In contrast, i had the one above which hardly looks snazzy. Yet, Transparent Hypnotist, another member, messaged me pointing out that there is a certain romance in my card too. It is the very simplicity of the same that pulls viewers' attention towards it. However, I still decided to go on with a revamped design that I could use as a logo too, for Labyrinth. This is where EntreCard helped me a lot. It is via Entrecard that I got connected to Chemist2dio who is a graphic designer and has promised me to design me a lovely card. I just had the privilege to check out the initial design and i must say, I am impressed! I'll unveil the logo as soon as it gets built up, which shouldn't be more than 4-5 days, I assume.

Oh, by the way, I have currently been vacationing for the past 2 days and it is because of this that I haven't been able to post as frequently as I'd have liked. I promise to get more regular the day I reach back home. After that, i do plan to write a few pretty little pieces on EntreCard, my experiences as a member and my analysis of the usefulness of the system.

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