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EntreCard Success

August 30th, 2008 |

Over the last month I have been working on increasing my site views. One of the ways that I decide to do this is by joining a website know as EntreCard. I was hoping to find some EntreCard success like I had heard about from others that had joined. It is a great idea in that it helps to draw traffic to your site by you going to others participants sites. I do not really think that this is revolutionary or even unique as much as I think that it works because the people themselves work at it. I got the idea for this post after reading a post called Outside the Rain that was written by my business partner, Rich Dansereau, on his blog called Rich’s Blog.

The way that EntreCard works is quite simple really and takes a level of commitment from the people that join. It is not a “Get a ton of traffic” type site that you join and it just happens. You have to stick with it, do it daily, and then it will work for you. When you initially join, I will tell you that it is better to create your own “drop card” such as the ones that you see here. It is better to have your own because it shows a level of commitment. The goal is to attract people to come to your site and drop their card on your site. This is typically done by visiting their site and “dropping” your card. You can also get your card on someone else’s site for a 24 hour period by “purchasing” ad space. There is no exchange of money as everything that is earned here is in the form of “EC” of EntreCard credits.

Over my time on the site, one of the things that I have notice is the lack of “working it”. I have seen people sign up today only to be gone tomorrow. I have seen people sign up today and never even participate with one single drop. As I said before, it takes a level of commitment. In most cases, it is about 45 minutes a day to top it completely out. Once again, that will be based on your computer. All in all, for me, it is the best 45 minutes that I can spend at this point. I have increased my views for about 50 to 75 a day to 200 to 275 a day and it is still climbing. My goal is to get the site recognizable and have people visit it on a regular basis. And even at that point, I think that EntreCard will still be right for me because it can only bring me more new viewers and readers.

As for the cards that are displayed here, these are the top 10 websites that have visited my site through entrecard this month. I just wanted to recognize each one of them. I hope that you will take some time to check out their sites. Each of the cards have been linked to their websites. I have also listed them each below and added the links for easy access too.