Saturday, May 2, 2009

Is Entrecard’s Paid Ads good?

>> “Advertise across the entire Entrecard network for $.02 per click, or $.30 CPM”
I know that Graham has to find a way to earn money to maintain entrecard site.
Entrecard gets paid (real money) by the paid ads.But we are not paid ‘directly’ by running the paid ads. Instead Entrecard will buy EC credits from you , and in that way it pays you indirectly. I really do not like it. He should do like google do. Publisher should be paid by real money not EC (We can not exchange EC to real money). We also have the site to maintain. We also need money like he need. So why he used our website to earn money without pay us? We also dropped card, link to EC site, make the site has good pagerank, SEO entrecard for free. He should think about entrecard community.
1. I suggest he should allow us exchange EC credit to real money.
2. Give us $0.01 per click and he keep the remaining.
It will be fair.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Easiliy to hide affilitate link

1. Meta Refresh

<html>
<head>
<title>Affiliate</title>
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow” />
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”1; url=http://www.affiliate.com/?ref=123? />
</head>
<body>
<p>You are being taken to the correct page.
<br />If the page does load after 5 seconds,
<a href=”http://www.affiliate.com/?ref=123?>click here</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>

2. PHP 301

header(”HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”);
header(”Location: http://www.affiliate.com/?ref=123?);
exit();

3. .htaccess 301

Redirect 301 /go/affiliate.htm http://www.affiliate.com/?ref=123

4. JavaScript redirect

<script type=”text/javascript”>window.location=”http://www.affiliate.com/?ref=123?;</script>

5.000webhost referral program

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<a href=”http://www.000webhost.com/” onClick=”this.href=’http://www.000webhost.com/92312.html‘” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.000webhost.com/images/banners/468×60/banner13.gif” alt=”Free Web Hosting with Website Builder” width=”468? height=”60? border=”0? /></a>
=======================
<a href=”http://www.110mb.com/” onClick=”this.href=’http://www.110mb.com/aff.php?un=blog4blog‘” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.110mb.com/images/banners/110mb-hosting-b2.gif” alt=”Free Web Hosting with Website Builder” width=”468? height=”70? border=”0? /></a>

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Long time not drop entrecard

Hi everybody,

Because i am very busy in this month and previous month, i do not have time to drop cards. Sorry for do not drop back. And i am very appreciate to anyone drop on my card in this time. And in this time, i will analyze statistic when i do not drop any entrecard.

+ Traffic: My traffic decrease 10 times if i do not use entrecard.

entrecard.com (referral) 36.59%
(direct) ((none)) 30.91%
entrecard.s3.amazonaws.com (referral) 18.71%
iamburaot.com (referral) 10.54%
google (organic) 0.95%

Note: My traffic is totally from entrecard because i want to find the best way entrecard can help us to increase traffic.

As we can see that, 30% traffic is direct traffic. It means that 30% of entrecard people has their own list and drop in this list. ==> If you are in those lists, you will have the loyal visitor.

55% from entrecard, so it means that entrecard newbie will let entrecard system find sites to drop. To get those traffic, you only have one way: drop as much as posible to have the high rank.

10% from others site, to get those traffic, you have to had the good relationship with other blogger. To do this, just comments on their blogs and give your ideas, make friends...

1% from google: only for my site, because i only use entrecard as SEO tools. Other sites should focus on SEO using google search.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

My Entrecard Experience

Hi. I'm Fitz and I blog at Ready To Be Rich.

When I started blogging, Entrecard was the biggest thing in the blogosphere. And although many blogs are now removing their Entrecard widget from their blogs, I still keep mine.

Here's why:

1. There are still a lot of blogs with Entrecard. Given that, Entrecard is still the cheapest way to advertise your blog in others.

2. When you drop cards often and advertise in new blogs, more often than not, you convert the rookie blog owner into a subscriber in your blog.

3. I usually use my credits to become a sponsor in blog contests of others. Thus, giving me precious link love from the blog contest participants.

4. The Entrecard Market is a very interesting place and I've used my credits to buy some stuff there, both virtual and physical goods.

Basically, these are the top 4 reasons why I still have an Entrecard widget in my blog. I noticed that by putting it below the fold, I've minimized "bouncing" in my blog.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Truth about entrecard

There are some facts on entrecard
1. Entrecard does not bring much traffic as you expected.
According to google analytics, my blog got from entrecard about 100 visit per day. The bounce rate is 93%.
2. Entrecard traffic can not bring money.
According to my google adsense, i got 1$ from the beginning till now from clicks from entrecard. Strange. That is because of high bounce rate and people do not have time to click on real ads :)). Another reason is that entrecard people try to remove ads and images from the blog they visit.
3. People rare comment on blog post or read post.
It is the trouble of entrecard system. You got award only when you drop as much as posible.
If you drop so much, you will be tired and do not want see or read any blogs. I am sure about it.
4. You can be banned very easily.
Many famous bloggers are banned from entrecard. And you should be carefull when your blog has high popularity rank.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Entrecard - Above The Fold

What do you think about having the ability to place every Entrecard widget Above the fold? See the demonstration in this video:



Leave your comments below. Thanks!

Pagerank updated - PR 2

Now my blog has pagerank = 2. I satisfied in this rank. Really, i do not spend much time on SEO. Actually, if you do SEO seriously, your pagerank will increase. But it will fall down when you do not SEO. Therefore, i make the pagerank increase naturally. That mean that people will make backlink on me naturally. And it also points that content is king.
We do not need to care about pagerank. Just care about content. Your pagerank will increase along with your content.
Good luck to you.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Do you think that entrecard rule is strict?

I think entrecard rule is very strict in some aspects but is loose in others aspects.

>> 1. No nudity: Entrecard, and its members blogs, are generally family friendly. Blogs with images containing nudity are not permitted. This includes nudity in advertisements.

+ I know it is because of children. But how can we identify that an image contains nudity.Do we consider a photo of a girl in bikiny contains nudity? How can we measure the nudity? This rule is not strict and make people confuse. The rule is depended on what moderator thinking. This should be more clear.
+ Another thing is nudity in advertisments. How can we know when ads show nudity?

>> 2.English only: Until we develop the infrastructure necessary to facilitate non-English
>> language blogs, English is the only language allowed in Entrecard.

It's OK

3. Minimum 5 posts: Blogs with no posts, or less than 5 quality posts written within the last 3 months, will be removed.

Remove spam blogs. I think it is ok.

4. Content must be original: Reproduced content does not provide the specific qualities we are looking for in the Entrecard network. This includes both sites that use legitimate reprintable content such as “free articles”, abstracts and public domain content as well as illegitimate, illegal content such as stolen content or scraped feeds. Duplicate content, such as posts that appear on two or more blogs belonging to the same person is also unacceptable.

It is difficult to find out if your posts is original. Because not all knowledge is ours. We have to reference to other sources in order to write a good post. So i think this rule is very strict. We only need to show where the sources come from.

4. No full-screen ads or popups: Blogs that include full-screen ads or popups will be removed. This includes any popup window that appears when the site has finished loading or when clicking to view an article. It is OK for links to display a popup window if the user clicks a link, e.g. FeedBurner email subscription, but popup ads or forceful messages asking people to subscribe without clicking anything are intrusive and therefore not allowed.

I also do not like popup. But prohibit full-screen ads is bad. Entrecard site do not provide the quality traffic. And publisher can not earn from entrecard traffic. I see that many people block ads and therefore no money from banner or texts ads. Full-screen ads will be the suitable ads in this case.

5.No illegal file downloads: Blogs that link to illegally shared files, such as music, movies or software, will be removed. By “illegal” we mean content that you do not have the right to distribute. Linking to free, legal music and software is permitted.

It's ok

6.Entrecard widget must be present: Including the widget on your site is a requirement if you wish to participate in Entrecard.

It's ok


7. No redirects: Sites that use a redirect (such as tinyurl links) as the URL on their account will be deleted.

It's ok

8. No duplicate accounts: If you have more than one account for the same blog, the duplicate account will be deleted.

It's ok

  • URLs must be valid: Sites with URLs that do not work or are wrongly typed will be deleted.
  • No autoplaying audio: This includes music that plays automatically when you visit the page, or short audio ads that come up unannounced.
  • Content must be recent: Sites that have not been updated in 3 months will be removed.

  • It's ok

    Sunday, January 25, 2009

    Does advertise on entrecard like gambling?

    Does advertisement on entrecard like gambling? The answer is YES. Sometimes i got many clicks from low value sites. But many times i got a very few traffic from my advertisment in some season like christmas, holiday season... So to increase traffic by using entrecard, you should follow some hints:
    1. Content is king: so write a hot news and unique news
    2. Entrecard should be attractive
    3. Advertise on many different blogs as much as posible and chose site which generate more traffic to advertise again.
    4. Make friend. With more friends, you can have more loyal readers. You can do this by comments on his blogs.
    5. Do not advertise on specific niches. You should try more niches. It will bring more traffic to your site
    6. Some 8ec,16ec blogs which have less traffic from EC but they have a lot of traffic from outsite. So you should try to find those blogs and advertise on good site.
    7. Advertise on working day not weekend.

    Saturday, January 17, 2009

    Today, i share my blog

    Today, i share my blog. Everyone can post his idea about entrecard life by using my new email
    username: entrecardseo@gmail.com
    password: entrecardseo123

    Please do not change email password. I would like everyone can access it. If you change it, i have to change it back. And i do not want to waste my time and your time

    Best regards

    Thursday, January 15, 2009

    Share my blog?

    What do you think if i share my blog for anyone to write their experience in entrecard?
    I will create another account, people can use it write their own idea. But i wonder the security of my account. Can they hack my account from the account i shared?

    Tuesday, December 30, 2008

    What should i do?

    I have 2000 EC credits. What should i do to promote my site? Any ideas is appricate.
    Thank you.

    Friday, December 26, 2008

    Noel - Entrecard statistic

    According to my statistic, only few people click on entrecard. The number of droppers decrease and equal to 1/2 previous days. So do not spent much ads on these days. Go and relax with your family. Happy new year and Merry Christmas

    Sunday, December 14, 2008

    Life of entrecard guy

    He slowly open website. Go to entrecard site.... Login and go to the inbox. Next, he clicks on all droppers. He clicks ay much as he can. And he thinks those sites load so slow. His computer are frozen and CPU is 100%. He can not do anythings and wait for all those website finish loading. He starts clicking on entrecard. Sometimes, he is angry. He can not find entrecard in some sites. He close it immediately. He clicks as the machine. Did not notice on what the site about. After two hour, he finish and relax. That's all for today. All the droppers are drop back. The next turn is another guy. He has to drop back all others who drop on him. And we are in circle that never end up. You and I will do the same things in the same ways to make the virtual traffic. If we break this rule, all will be gone. :( This is the thing i realize when drop card.

    Wednesday, December 10, 2008

    The statistic of advertiese on 32ec card

    I have tried to advertise on 32ec card. I did not have enough money to buy them. And the result is not good as other choice. The traffic is not as expected as i had done before. That is also the reason that many people does not chose to advertise on 32ec card. Refer to previous poll:
    http://entrecardseo.blogspot.com/2008/11/suitable-entrecard-advertisment-price.html

    Saturday, December 6, 2008

    Crazy Day

    Today is the crazy day. I have all trouble. Deadline are comming and the software is not finished. Today i have to work overnight. Terrible. Help meeeeeeeeeee

    Tuesday, December 2, 2008

    Sezwho Review

    I have already registered sezwho at the time i register my blog with entrecard. Now i only got 10 sezwho registered comments. That means people do not want to spent time on sezwho. There are some reasons:
    1. If you want to use sezwho, you have to do some complicated steps to register
    2. Comment with sezwho is not easily
    3. I personally do not think that sezwho bring us the real benifit. And i think that others also think that too.
    4. People do not like to comment ==> do not use sezwho.
    5. Can not find sezwho easily.
    ==> We need another good tool to promote site.

    Saturday, November 29, 2008

    Weekend = Nighmare for entrecard advertiser

    Unbelievable, I got very few traffic from ads at weekends. It seems that people do not like to work at weekend. All the traffic i got from people drop back me.
    Therefore, we should not advertise so much on weekend. Advertise only on the most popular site, one or two ads is enough. It will bring more traffic than advertise many site at weekend.

    Friday, November 28, 2008

    Good marketing strategies

    As i said in the previous posts, i will try to advertise and see the result.
    It is exciting. The traffic is double. More people comments on my posts.
    And my blog is more poopular now. So what do i do?
    1. First i use all my money to advertise (not enough money because the ads price is high) on the site which is more popular and less price.
    2. I try to advertise as much as posible
    3. When i have more people drop on my sites, i also has more credit. Another income is from people buy my ads
    4. Now i have more credit to advertise. I do again from the step 1.

    After 4 days advertise, the traffic is double. Many people ask "how can i get more traffic?". And this post is the answer. Advertise as much as posible. That's all. Ialso will try to promote my site using event through forum to see what happen. Wait for my next analyse

    Which browsers does entrecard community use?

    Hereunder is the statistic of browser which entrecard community use:
    Browser
    Visits
    % visits
    953 80.90%
    120 10.19%
    51 4.33%
    49 4.16%
    4 0.34%

    It seems that Firefox is widely used in webmasters ^_^ even though IE is the most popular browser in general
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