Networking

posted by Mark posted on 12th February, 2008 at 03:29 pm

Entrecard’s development has been interesting to watch, hasn’t it? When it first exploded onto the scene, pretty much everyone was singing its praises, including me.

Then we kind of realised, wait a second, the traffic from this is a crock of shit. Perhaps that was a bit harsh, but we soon noticed flaws in entrecard’s system, and too many people were cheating it, and this caused the whole ranking system to get a bit screwed up.

However, it does get me some visitors, but another advantage of entrecard is that it has helped me meet some new bloggers, and get my networking on. They recently introduced the option to say where in the world you are from, and then find others that are near you. I’ve since got talking to Bebo Author, and we’ve done a little link exchange. Then today, I found an interesting blog by a guy from Galway. The reason it was so interesting for me is that his name is Marcus Walsh. Marcus Walsh!

It’s actually a nice blog, but I do wish someone with such a similar name to my own would upgrade to his own domain and wordpress. Good thing I bought walsho.com before this guy did though eh? :lol:

So I’ll be keeping entrecard for a while. I’ve built up a good few credits so I’ll pick a day soon and go on a free advertising splurge.

In other news, I was glad to see my image hosting site, ImgSlut.com get a bit of action yesterday. I’ve only recently set it up, and had a custom header designed for it, and am hoping that its memorable name will make it a modest success. It actually earned $1.03 in adsense yesterday, but hasn’t even got any hits today, so I really do need to do some sort of promotion on it. Here’s the main bit of the header :

Do let me know what you think of it, and also let me know of any promotion ideas you may have for an image hosting site. I’m thinking of hiring a few guys to just go spamming a bit, along with my proxy, but that’s a pretty undesirable method of promotion.I have my mock exams next week, so have been studying hard(ish), and even went to the library today to study in a quiter environment that my house. As always, the good website ideas are flowing at a time when I need to be focusing on schoolwork, and I’ve gone and made two new websites this week. I’ll be posting about them both in full soon enough, but for now we’ll say that one of them is a Joint Venture, and the other is a funny one that I’m doing for my own enjoyment than anything else.

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3 Responses to “Networking”

  1. William Montanaro Says:
    February 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    nice to hear business is still going well!

  2. Marcus Walsh Says:
    February 12th, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    LOL!
    what a small world :).
    You end up finding my blog and I end up finding yours :).
    Thanks for mentioning my blog!

  3. scoby Says:
    February 13th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    With a name like that I’d watch out for people uploading dodgy porn or NSFW images. Probably won’t be a big deal but just in case…

    Good luck with it anyway *thumbs up*

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