My Entrecard Review

Well since everyone had talked about Entrecard, I might as well discuss my experiences. I mention this site in a post a while ago actually. Graham Langdon created this new site which is popping up all over the blogosphere.

Basically, you sign up and display the entrecard widget on your page, and other passing members can “drop” their card on you. Everytime someone drops a crad on you, you get a credit, and everytime you drop your card on someone else, you get a credit. Dropping your card means very little really, it just means your card appears in the other person’s entrecard inbox.
However, the whole point of this system is the free advertising you can get from it. A 125×125 card ad is displayed in the widget, and you buy an ad on someone else’s blog using the credits that you gather. Each time you buy an ad on someone else’s page, the ad is displayed in their widget for 24 hours. I’ve had a lot of requests from obscure irrelevant blogs looking to advertise on here, which is irritating, but you can simply reject them.

Sounds rather complicated, but once you set up your own account you get the hang of it very easily.
The blogs are categorised, and at the moment, as you’d expect, the most popular blog category is “Make Money Online” which yours truly is in. I started a little later than most, but started creeping up the ranks fairly well, until yesterday when my hosting went down, and I’ve slipped back down again. Up at the top are the usual suspects, John Chow, Problogger etc, but there’s a complete newcomer up there too. Toni Turner bypassed John Chow for the top spot last week, and though Chow’s taken the top spot again, Toni’s holding strong in second position. I had a look at her blog and picked up a paid private ad for $5. Her price for private ads has now risen to $10, which is still quite cheap, but I’m glad I managed to get in there at such a low price, since I knew she was bound to be mentioned on a few sites as the stranger who overtook John Chow.

There’s the top of the Make Money Online category, where you can see Toni’s a good 54 credits clear of Problogger in third place. Fair play to her.

I’m currently saving up my credits to get an ad on John Chow for a day. Most folk have reported a traffic increase because of Entrecard, but there is a flaw with this. A lot of the traffic you get from Entrecard will simply be people coming on, dropping their card, and leaving, which is useless. I’ll keep an eye on my stats and update soon regarding traffic changes from this. At the end of the day, it’s a free method of getting advertising, and a free method of finding other great blogs out there, and a kickass idea from Graham Langdom.

Any bloggers out there who haven’t signed up with Entrecard, do so immediately and realise the brilliance of it.

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