This blog is supposed to provide useful information as well as the Freebies, so here’s a short (but sweet-ish) review of the latest crazy way to drive traffic; that is Entrecard. Entrecard was the brainchild of Graham Langdon - the same guy who created Million Dollar Wiki, and whilst that idea was IMO a pretty shit one (fookin’ lucrative though as he earned around $100k from it), Entrecard is one that is helpful (and not to mention free) to all bloggers around the blogosphere.

What does Entrecard do? Well, basically it gives you a widget - a 125 x 125 ‘business card’ that you can display on your website. Now, this allows other bloggers to ‘drop’ their cards on your blogs - giving you traffic, and letting you know about other interesting websites that you made have not known about prior. By using Entrecard, you can advertise your business card on some of the biggest blogs around - whilst it takes time to get the required amount of ‘credits’ , buying even just a days’ worth of advertising on John Chow Dot Com would not be feasible - Entrecard makes it possible.

Here’s a look at the homepage of ‘Make Money Online’, obviously the most popular category for most webmasters - as you can see, John Chow is first followed by a few other big names like Problogger and Tyler Cruz; it’s not just the big names that are running it though, as I’d never even heard of a few bloggers in the top ten - the likes of Toni Turner, Colin King and a few others have interesting blogs which I wouldn’t have found without Entrecard.

Yours truly is at around the 30th mark in the list, with a daily cost of 60~ credits; Mark started off a bit later than I did and so is slightly lower but slowly rising. One of the keys to getting popular on Entrecard is having a ‘sexy‘ business card - that’ll be the thing that drives people to your website at the beginning. The quality of the content is what’ll make them come back a second or third time, which is why a few people who shot up at the beginning have now dropped down to a level more indicative of their blogging style.

Most bloggers, whether new or old have already started out with it - if you haven’t, I’d suggest you do so - the best thing a new blogger can get is traffic, and whilst a lot of it is crap - people coming just to drop their cards, it is a valuable tool as even if a couple of them stay, you’ve got some new readers that you wouldn’t have come across otherwise. To signup, go to www.entrecard.com and make sure you drop a card on mine and Mark’s blogs.

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