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Entrecard - the better Blogrush?

A few months ago I blogged about Blogrush which promised increase traffic between bloggers. I tried it for a while but finally removed the widget because of their bad performance.

Today I discovered a new service called Entrecard.

Their idea is simple:

You design your website's business card ¹⁾
You put up their widget on your site
You place your business card at other member's websites using Entrecard credits
Traffic!

So how do you get credits? Credits are earned by displaying other's banners and by swapping “business cards”. The latter might be the real traffic source here. The widget doubles as advertising space and as a business card inbox. Wherever you see an Entrecard widget you can leave your card. This has three benefits:

You earn 1 credit
The owner of the page will see your banner in his inbox and might get interested in your site
The owner of the page earns 1 credit and might invest it in advertising at your site (which again earns you credits)

What bugs me a bit is that you can drop your card at as many blogs you like. This might be exploited soon and will probably lower the usefulness of your inbox.

On the other hand, because you can manually approve each “advertiser” and can decide where to advertise yourself, the overall quality of the network should be much higher than it was on Blogrush.

I will give it a try for a while and see how well it works.

If you try it, don't forget to leave your card and leave recommendation at my Entrecard profile ;-) .

Tags:: entrecard,; blogrush

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¹⁾ we called them banners in the old days ;-)

Posted on Tuesday December the 4th, 2007 (8 months ago).

Comments

I'm a huge fan of Entrecard. It's sent me over 400 unique hits in the 20 days I have had it on my blog.

Here's a post I wrote about it a week ago:
http://heavilytrafficked.com/m … ts-traffic

Entrecard is way better than blogrush, which brought me 2 hits in two months.

2007-12-04 20:54:17

steve

I have Blogrush too and a bunch of "credits". You guys are right, I don't get traffic going to my site. I get better results with StumbleUpon, Digg, and EntreCard.

I'll give Blogrush another month and see how it goes. Then it's off my main blog site.

2007-12-04 22:10:52

Rudy

It's a small price to pay giving entrecard that tiny bit of blog real estate. I started a blog in October and was getting virtually no traffic. Then I installed entrecard and my traffic is up 300 percent. And it's only been four days! I'm keeping this one. The hell with crappy Blogrush.

2007-12-05 02:48:32

rob

I really dig Entrecard's concept. I'm dropping mine into yours. lol. Hey, i have 25 credits already. *giggles* Take care. :)

2007-12-05 08:01:02

Laarni

So far Entrecard performs quite well. It was the top 3rd direct traffic source for my site yesterday and brought 4 new commenters to my blog ;-).

The traffic isn't huge like when your page gets stumbled, but if can continue to bring a steady flow of visitors it's likely to stay. But I wonder how it will drop when the novelty of the service wears off...

2007-12-05 09:17:05

Andi

That all sounds very interesting :-), although I am not that much into the whole SEO thingy I think I'll give this one a try too.

2007-12-05 11:09:49

Chi

This is the first post about Entrecard I read so I thought to come back and let you know of entrecard wordpress plugin I made to make life with Entrecard easier http://www.prelovac.com/vladim … trecard-me

Cheers

2007-12-05 15:51:08

vladimir

I`m using it for about 1 day now and it`s great.. 53 click in one day from entrecard, what can be more beatifull than this? Well, there is: comments. I just had my first comment from a stranger after more than 1 month i launched MyBlog.
It`s a great idea, ppl already embrace it.. and it will give you real viewers, real traffic, real jump to hit the top internet.. it`s just Business :)

my2cents

2007-12-05 20:01:48

Hodirlan Cristian

I personally think EntreCard is MUCH better than BlogRush, and I speak from experience, considering the fact I run both widgets on my website--and I am tempted to take blogrush off, because of it's inability to perform very well (at least with my blog).

EntreCard has given me quality traffic, some regular readers, and the opportunity to network with many bloggers I would have never came in contact with otherwise.

Because of all the traffic I've been getting lately, sure, my credits in BlogRush have been building up, but I don't get very many click-thrus, and there's nothing about BlogRush that makes me want to connect with the other bloggers that are being displayed on my widget.

On the other hand, I connect with pretty much EVERY blogger that displays my EntreCard widget, and I go around picking and choosing which blogs I want to be displayed on. Also, EntreCard gives new bloggers the opportunity to appear on high-profile blogs at no cost every once in a while. EntreCard wins, hands down in my book.

2007-12-07 13:10:00

xicom

EntreCard is way better than BlogRush. I was first rejected by BlogRush, then suddenly they decided to accept me. After receiving 4 hits in 2 weeks I decided it wasn't worth it. EntreCard has brought me to blogs I may never have found, most of which I've added to my feed reader. It's more of a community feel and I hope it stays that way.

2007-12-09 00:20:00

Beth

I wasn't bloggy enough to be accepted by BlogRush, but liked their concept. I have EntreCard on my site and can echo similar concepts to previous posters about the increase in traffic. I'll keep it on there atleast until I'm done my next upcoming site revision. The increased # of daily hits isn't a bad thing, however, I have a criticism of it based on my 3 days experience in the system.

The average time someone who lands on my site has gone down to less than 15 seconds. How many people stop to actually look at the site they are on, and how many are just hunting for the next click to generate a credit?

2007-12-15 06:40:51

Jamie Oastler

Jamie, you're right. I think most traffic generated by EntreCard comes from other members "chain dropping" through blogs to earn credits.

But I see a small percentage of the EntreCard traffic which really creates readers. People like you or the others who commented above. Most of you would probably never had visited my blog if it had not been for EntreCard. But because of this service you came, took the time to read what I have to say and even left a comment. What more could I ask for?

With EntreCard growing, advertising will become more targeted, because there is more choice of blogs fitting your niche. This again should increase the chance of visitors actually reading your blog instead of quickly dropping through. Or so I hope.

2007-12-15 10:29:22

Andi

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