Get the most out of entrecard in a short period of time

If you’re one of the bloggers who barely get the time to spend on using entrecard, you’re not alone. There are many of us around who can barely use entrecard except for approving the advertisement requests and reciprocating a few drops here and there and that’s it. But you should also be aware that being in this stage all the time won’t get you what you’re expecting out of entrecard. You might as well remove entrecard out of your blog since, obviously, it’s not going to help you by leaving it stagnant all the time.

If you truly want entrecard to work for you, then you must at least do something, even how little, to expand your reach within the system from time to time. Now, how do we do it? Basically, I have here a few notes of my own on how I plan to change the direction of my entrecard utilization. If you’re looking for hack solutions then I’m sorry to disappoint you but I’m not very well versed in such. Basically what I’m proposing to solve the dilemma we’re under is through the prioritization of our actions in entrecard. You must prioritize which actions you must do first, do together, or do without in order to get the most out of your time.


Step # 1 (Reciprocate)
See your drop inbox all the time and your advertisers too. Reciprocate or drop them back. It’s a mutual activity where the guy who gave you 1 ec should also get one from you. Also, you might’ve dropped to some people before and the cards in your inbox were the rest of them who decided to drop back. That means it’s ok to drop them back again and again; and one drop to them will give you 2ec. Why? It’s because they’ll almost always reciprocate back when you do. Oh yeah, don’t ever forget opening each link in tabs so that you’ll be able to deal with them simultaneously. Close the tabs when you’re through.


Step # 2 (Advertise)
You’ll get more drops back to you once you advertise. You’ll get more opportunities for traffic when your card is not just in somebody else’s inbox. Now, where to advertise? Basically, try advertising on blogs related to your niche since you’ll seldom get denied with them compared to others. Try to also advertise in blogs advertising in yours if you can afford them. Well, they have the guts to advertise in your “flower” blog. Why the hell can’t you advertise in their “sports” blog? I can’t recommend advertising in the newcomers nowadays since there’s so many who’s after the cheaper ones that it often gets difficult to spot a newcomer without having a “spot full” or an “ad queue full”. You can also try to spot blogs not related to your niche but is willing to have your card shown in their sidebar which will be discussed next.


Step # 3 (Pay attention)
There are many ways to drop plenty of your cards and get 300 or more entrecredits out of it in a short period of time. But if you’re just going to do some “hit and run” where you just visit the site and drop your card without even bothering to get the slightest idea what it’s all about then you’re just firing aimlessly to the sky. Try to at least see what’s going on in there and if it’s worthwhile. Of course, you are in a limited time so try to look for some key features that should determine if you’re staying or not. It should be something that should benefit your entrecard activity, or your interests. Here’s what I look at when I get to a blog from entrecard:

• The position of entrecard widget – It should be in a place where it’s easy to spot so that your card will be easily noticed if you decide to advertise in it.
• What is currently running in it – When the blog’s about health and it features a make-money-online blog in its EC widget, you’ll have more chances of getting your advertisement accepted.
• It talks about something that captures my interest – makes me want to comment and read more from it so I’ll subscribe.
• Link Exchange – Are there any mention of link exchange anywhere? Some say it’s spam to do reciprocal links. I don’t care. As long as it’s a real blog, not a splog and related to my niche then I’ll definitely exchange links.
• EC contests – Not that often but if it’s really easy and my chances of winning is high what should keep me from joining. More ec more advertising power.
• Other programs – there are blogs who are promoting some form of program or cause that could help boost your blog’s performance in some arena such as technorati or StumbleUpon. If it doesn’t feel like over-rated cheating, then I might consider joining.
• Pagerank – I won’t be a hypocrite, one important factor that I take into consideration when to be active in a blog is its pagerank. I have a google toolbar installed so I know. If it’s 3 and above, I know my blog will benefit from it in some way even outside the entrecard system.

Step # 4 (Bookmark)
Bookmark blogs that drop back and the ones that keep on returning drops. Bookmark your advertisers. Bookmark your entrecard friends. Bookmark your commenters (if they are entrecard users). Organize them in folder groups according to niche, their loading speed, position of EC widget, etc, depending on your own volition so that you could open a group in tabs to save you time instead of hunting your drop inbox forever. Then drop your card to all of them and so on and so forth. Just keep on bookmarking those that does something back. This is all about saving time and effort in dropping your precious cards.


Step # 5 (Organize your action)
Your priority is to drop your entrecard on the right places and see if it’s possible to advertise. Everything else follows while you’re dropping your cards. If you can manage to squeeze-in a few things right there and then, it’s always up to you.

You can do these steps in an hour or perhaps less since it only focuses on the efficient use of card dropping and advertising power. Everything else is omitted. I didn’t include exploring other blogs that you haven’t seen and haven’t seen you since, I myself can’t find the time to do it except when I’m researching for a topic to write, in which case I frequently forget to sign-in to my entrecard account to be able do some drops. Any how, I still manage to get new cards in my inbox despite it.

Eventually, as you progress, you’ll need more time to attend to your growing list of bookmarks and entrecard droppers, the time which you don’t have. I haven’t come to this situation yet but I think when this time occurs you might want to schedule your card dropping activity in batches.

Finally, I will not say that this is the perfect plan for you since it’s what I plan to do myself after all which I’m sharing to you. Maybe you might have some working tips yourself on how you manage using entrecard efficiently, in which case you can share in the comments below.



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