Five Tips
1. Make sure you visit the site and look around before accepting their ad, linking to pop-up window sites, full-page ad sites, and especially spam sites reduces your credibility.
2. If you think your visitors will mind, don't sell ad spaces to unrelated places.
3. The latest offer from an advertiser is likely the highest price, so approving it will earn you the most credits. It will appear at the bottom of the list.
4. Make sure your ad requests box doesn't stay full. If nothing else, reject some ads with "Other" as the reason and tell them to try again later. That will make sure when your ad space goes up in price, there will be room for people to request an ad for that space.
5. Drop off your EntreCard at others blogs, they will often return the favor, then your ad space will go up in price and you can sell it for more per day.
6. Make sure you're buying ad spaces too. When people see your image on other EntreCard users blogs, they'll click on it, come to your site, then drop their card on yours too, boosting your ad space price.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Buying Ad Spaces
Basic
1. Make sure the place you're buying from has their Entrecard near the top of their page, so users don't have to scroll down to see it, especially very far down to see your ad.
2. Judge their traffic: Do a quick scan, see how many comments they're getting, if they have a page counter on their site, or even better; see how many subscribers they have if they have a FeedBurner subscriber image.
Advanced
1. Judge their traffic even more: Go to Alexa.com and type in their domain name, see how many visitors they get, or go to pr.blogflux.com and chexed out what their Google Page rank. Don't rely on those completely, sometimes newer blogs with traffic wont show up in Alexa or with Google Page Rank
2. If someone doesn't have their EntreCard near the top of their page, it may still be worth the EntreCredits if they get a lot of traffic.
1. Make sure the place you're buying from has their Entrecard near the top of their page, so users don't have to scroll down to see it, especially very far down to see your ad.
2. Judge their traffic: Do a quick scan, see how many comments they're getting, if they have a page counter on their site, or even better; see how many subscribers they have if they have a FeedBurner subscriber image.
Advanced
1. Judge their traffic even more: Go to Alexa.com and type in their domain name, see how many visitors they get, or go to pr.blogflux.com and chexed out what their Google Page rank. Don't rely on those completely, sometimes newer blogs with traffic wont show up in Alexa or with Google Page Rank
2. If someone doesn't have their EntreCard near the top of their page, it may still be worth the EntreCredits if they get a lot of traffic.
Cheap Advertising
Two Tips
1. Click "Campaign" to launch your ads, then click the "most recent" tab, and buy all of the available spots up (after checking to make sure they have the card on their site.
2. Choose the category or categories most related to your website, then scroll to the bottom of each list. The cheapest ad slots will be there.
1. Click "Campaign" to launch your ads, then click the "most recent" tab, and buy all of the available spots up (after checking to make sure they have the card on their site.
2. Choose the category or categories most related to your website, then scroll to the bottom of each list. The cheapest ad slots will be there.
Quick EntreCredits
Two Methods:
1. Speed Dropping pages is great because it goes as fast as you can go and it's easy to get started, but it's bad because there are a few bumps in the road using this method.
Be prepared for these small setbacks with the speed dropping method; Some people don't have fast loading pages, their EntreCard isn't above the fold (don't have to scroll down) on their page, there's not an active ad on their page, in which case clicking their ad will take you to the site you're already on, and lastly you have to close out the previous windows or your computer may start going slow. Just watch the video though, it's pretty fast.
2. Bookmark pages that load fast with their Entrecard positioned near the top of their page, then revisit them each day for quick "card drops" so you can earn quick credits. Here's a fantastic list of Entrecard users with their card "above the fold."
Eventually, you will likely read some of the blogs too and possibly become interested too, so you will benefit in more way than one. Those same people will also see that you're dropping cards on them often, and may return the favor, boosting the price of your advertising space. Eventually someone will be buying your Entrecard ad space for 100 Entrecard credits, and you wont have to drop as many cards to get credits.
A few "above the fold" sites to get started with bookmarking are...
I recently found another great list of entrecard sites for quick drops! It lists 300 fast loading sites that use Entrecard...
http://www.powerdropping.com/
1. Speed Dropping pages is great because it goes as fast as you can go and it's easy to get started, but it's bad because there are a few bumps in the road using this method.
Download or embed the speed dropping video.
Be prepared for these small setbacks with the speed dropping method; Some people don't have fast loading pages, their EntreCard isn't above the fold (don't have to scroll down) on their page, there's not an active ad on their page, in which case clicking their ad will take you to the site you're already on, and lastly you have to close out the previous windows or your computer may start going slow. Just watch the video though, it's pretty fast.
2. Bookmark pages that load fast with their Entrecard positioned near the top of their page, then revisit them each day for quick "card drops" so you can earn quick credits. Here's a fantastic list of Entrecard users with their card "above the fold."
Eventually, you will likely read some of the blogs too and possibly become interested too, so you will benefit in more way than one. Those same people will also see that you're dropping cards on them often, and may return the favor, boosting the price of your advertising space. Eventually someone will be buying your Entrecard ad space for 100 Entrecard credits, and you wont have to drop as many cards to get credits.
A few "above the fold" sites to get started with bookmarking are...
- http://howpantiesdefineus.blogsopt.com/
- http://chexed.com/
- http://entrecardtips.blogspot.com/ (this one, of course!)
- http://www.amid.com/werd/
- http://www.swollenpickles.com/
- http://chexedcoolsites.blogspot.com/
- http://khrone.chexed.com/
I recently found another great list of entrecard sites for quick drops! It lists 300 fast loading sites that use Entrecard...
http://www.powerdropping.com/
Signing Up
When you first sign up on entrecard.com to get web traffic, reject at least the first 5/10 requested ads, you will only earn 2/3 credits from them, something you can earn in 2 minutes of "Dropping Cards" on other peoples websites. Rather than letting someone place their ad on your website for a full day for 2 credits.
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