Nice post! I've been meaning to register with entrecard for a while now, but for various reasons never really got round to it.
You have entrecard as you first killer way to get free traffic, is it really that effective? Can't help but think that it's a futile exercise, but I can be convinced otherwise!
PS linking out to other bloggers is absolutely underused by the majority of bloggers out there! We're all in it together, give kudos to the guys (or gals) who are making noises within your niche!
I've had mixed results with entrecard. Although I've discovered a lot of new blogs, however the traffic sent from entrecard advertising isn't much valuable - most people just come to your site to "drop" their card and don't read your post often. This results in a high bounce rate and lower pageviews/visitor (often as low as 1.1)
Well done Mushfiqur. Keep writing quality posts like this and I might have to retire :-)
Mushfiqur Rahman
· 1 year ago
@ BB
Consider retiring sooner than you expected ;-)
Kuanyin
· 1 year ago
Excellent article. My sense about Entrecard is that it's a passing trend...just haven't felt called to engage with it. However, you asked for other ways to drive traffic, and here's my answer: Facebook, Plurk, Twitter, and Stumble work for me.
Well, article directories send very little if no traffic at all. They're a resource for syndication, and the most sites that publish your submitted article article get very low traffic themselves. I don't know, but if you write a good one and gets syndicated a lot, you could have a pagerank boost. Then again, nobody with a PR 3 or 4 is going to syndicate your article :-), and mostly you will get PR 0 or PR 1 backlinks.
Dennis Edell
· 1 year ago
I'm afraid I must disagree, strongly. I just started, so I have personal proof yet, but it has indeed been proven many times over that article marketing when done correctly to the proper directories is one of the BEST traffic sources there is.
To add insult to injury, I haven't been able to log in to my Entrecard account in the past three days. Anyone having the same problem? I've got to approve a couple of ads ;-), it looks like their servers are experiencing overload.
BLOGBloke
· 1 year ago
Submitting is a numbers game. It's no different than the court room racket. My motto was "whomever throws the most cocca poo against the wall that sticks, wins".
It's the same with blogs. The more places you get your name out there can't hurt. Some will bring in more immediate results, some will bring in higher volumes. Some will result in higher conversion rates of casual readers to subscribers, whereas some chase the long tail.
Marketing never ends and you need to put the time and effort into it to see results.
Quickroute
· 1 year ago
I discovered posting to relevant Forums and relevant Facebook pages can draw in significant traffic.
I emphasize relevant as you obviously need quality content to keep them on to explore your site and hopefully come back.
Entrecard can bring people in purely to click your Entrecard. I find sites like that frustrating and of little value e.g. linkreferral.com etc!
I'm glad you mentioned that. The bottom line for any traffic generating method is you want to convert them into subscribers and regular readers. Digg and StumbleUpon can generate high traffic temporarily, but the conversion rate into subscribers is rather low. It seems that these type of readers are more addicted to following their favorite SN headlines than subscribing to an individual blog.
Mushfiqur Rahman
· 1 year ago
Well said my friend.
David Kam
· 1 year ago
I have tried entrecard, but the traffic is like really not that great :(
I have no problems logging in. I will repeat myself though, if I may...I've never really thought of EC in terms of traffic, as the bounce rate was pretty apparent right from the get-go.
Think of it in terms of the AMAZING networking tool that it is though, and you'll do fine ;)
Glad to see you two working things out. ;-) After reading this article I decided to open up an Entrecard account. I wanted to change my pic but it wouldn't let me so I contacted them. It's been 3 days now and not a word. I give up.
Mushfiqur Rahman
· 1 year ago
Can't you change it in your dashboard? There's usually a link there that allows you to upload a new one. As for me, I'll take down Entrecard from my blog :-(. I'm still not able to log in to my account.
But the reality is that internet marketing and any other marketing for that matter, is the life blood of any business. But your advantage on the internet is huge, cause of the low cost and ease. (you can do it yourself) But you still have to work hard and put time into it, and this is the problem, no one wants to work....and we all know that nothing is for free in this world. (usually)
Actually, I'm wrong, there's tons of stuff for free on the internet, and you can also get a ton of traffic to your site for free, if you know how to play the game, work hard, and know how to market yourself.
There's tons of tricks and tips and I try to learn one everyday.
Mushfiqur Rahman
· 1 year ago
The whole business world is a game. *Ahem* Sploggers *Ahem* who keep on recycling old content keep getting dugg and get the most traffic while someone with a great original voice will never see the daylight.
Basically, it's a game and you have to play it right.
BLOGBloke
· 1 year ago
*Ahem* ... amen to that brother!
Mushfiqur Rahman
· 1 year ago
Hey Bloke, some of my comments didn't appear. Did you check it out?
Thanks for the tip about Entrecard. I have never heard of it but I will take a look. Does it work on Squidoo lenses? I guess I will find it.
Mushfiqur Rahman
· 1 year ago
Well, entrecards, as far as i know, don't work on Squidoo lenses. I posted a reply earlier but it didn't show up here. Maybe it's stuck in your spam comments BB?
In my earlier reply, I said to head to the entrecard blog @ http://entrecard.com/blog and download their free e-book which contains useful tips for beginners as well as advanced users alike.
Mushfiqur Rahman
· 1 year ago
I've tried replying to your comment twice. But for some reason it's not showing up. :-(
Kevin
· 1 year ago
Great guest post. Entrecards are a great way to get some traffic.
You're welcome. Keep an eye on blogbloke.com for even more articles from me.
Quickroute
· 1 year ago
I just got an email from entrecard to say they have partnered up with SezWho commenting.
It seems they are trying to promote and reward commenting on entrcard blogs. More here http://entrecard.com/blog/
Not sure if this will work yet - thoughts?
BLOGBloke
· 1 year ago
I got the same message. I'm taking a look at it.
Mushfiqur Rahman
· 1 year ago
Me too. But it's a little too late. I'm not interested anymore, plus I STILL haven't been able to log in to my account.
Usually, I found that if you have good traffic and some great content, comments will automatically follow.
BLOGBloke
· 1 year ago
Here's the best tip of all. Do you want to get lots of traffic? Then write a post about getting free traffic. It works like a charm ;-)
shawal
· 1 year ago
Really good tactic that you have here....
What i like is the Yahoo Answer tactic coz i'm doing it to my blog - to sell product but you should write that no affiliate link are allowed in Yahoo Answer, I have been banned for those...
Helsa
· 1 year ago
Hello, yes it is all true. You can link to wikipedia as well if you can write a blog that can be considered reference to any of the article in it. For example if you write about flash games and your blog is about flash games then should be fine to link it I think.
Gill ¦ Build Down line Traffic
· 1 year ago
Nice post, more like this please, Can I use this in my blog?
The Viral Script
· 1 year ago
The possibilities are only limited by your imagination. Imagine the email lists you can build, the affiliate sales you could rake in, this script is DANGEROUS in the right hands. You may just unleash a flood of traffic that you have no way of shutting down.
We all know that traffic equals money. Here's a site we're starting up soon that is designed to build a mailing list... FailureProofProfits.com. Can you imagine having your subscribers actively promoting your squeeze page for you? It's entirely possible with The Viral Script.
Vitaliy Syromyatnikov
· 1 year ago
As for me I also use free Impact Popup in my articles to attract visitors’ attention. It works great! You cant try it too!
britishidol
· 10 months ago
Hi your Tips are really worthwhile . I had got lots of support by these . I am right now getting 300 clicks daily in my site .
BLOGBloke
· 10 months ago
Excellent! Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.
Ramzshine Ramzshine
· 9 months ago
Nice tips i have joined entrecard today.... it seems to be good medium... thanks....
Ann Reilly
· 9 months ago
You want people to find you too! For that you need to generate some buzz about your site, you and your blog. Paying for advertising is ok too as many legitimate businesses do this all the time. Singing your own praises like Linkreferral does and charging people to collect on the hits they bring him for having his link on their sites in exchange for being on his site isn’t. It is a scam! Sadly many of his members are impressed by his google and alexa rank and the $ he is making off them and are too stupid to hear him laughing all the way to the bank at them!
Mike the site owner from Canada, is the only one making $ off this online MLM scheme! the rest are just getting some untargeted leads and traffic. The best way to get hits to your site is to have good content and be interesting. Look at Megan Fox! She is gorgeous! does she need to pay Mike at Linkreferral for hits? I think not! For the rest of us who are ordinary and not blessed by great genes, we have to work at it a bit! We do not have to cheat and badmouth our competition though! All I am doing is reporting the facts here. The truth speaks volumes!
“You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time!”
Not everyone is impressed with Linkreferral, affiliate marketing and MLM’s. Just do a google search on Linkreferral some time and read the comments page if you don’t believe me! Many prefer like me to just comment on what they find interesting on other people’s web sites and blogs. I do use entrecard and blogupp to get some hits but most just say for 5 secs. Who needs that? Many are deluded into thinking this is FREE advertising but time is money and it takes time to visit these sites and drop and click on them! However, you get a shot at people here you would not ordinarily come into contact with. If you are a gifted writer and sell a good product, you just may grab them into being loyal readers or buyers of your product. That is up to you!
Happy blogging and surfing!
Pete
· 8 months ago
Well Entrecard isn't always viable. Showing the 125x125 isn't possible on every website when you try to keep it as cleana s possible. Same for pop-ups, visitors are often scared away by these objects. Good post though
Well, I know all the most methods that you listed here in your article. Except for the first one, that about entrecard. I will try this, bookmarked the page and see the results. Thanks.
Mike
· 7 months ago
This was a great post, and the comments were great, too. All the better that it was a guest post. Thanks, and good job!
Stephanie B.
· 6 months ago
Just came across your post. I found it informative for me and I'm sure many others. I did also have small trouble subscribing to the blog but figured it out; I'm still a 2-finger typist :) . Thank you and keep your blogging spirit going strong.
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Nice post! I've been meaning to register with entrecard for a while now, but for various reasons never really got round to it.
You have entrecard as you first killer way to get free traffic, is it really that effective? Can't help but think that it's a futile exercise, but I can be convinced otherwise!
PS linking out to other bloggers is absolutely underused by the majority of bloggers out there! We're all in it together, give kudos to the guys (or gals) who are making noises within your niche!
All the best,
John.
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I've had mixed results with entrecard. Although I've discovered a lot of new blogs, however the traffic sent from entrecard advertising isn't much valuable - most people just come to your site to "drop" their card and don't read your post often. This results in a high bounce rate and lower pageviews/visitor (often as low as 1.1)
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Consider retiring sooner than you expected ;-)
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I'm a little surprised at your response regarding article directories....have you given them a fair try?
Remember, they are for the "long haul" not quick easy traffic.
Great list overall!
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To add insult to injury, I haven't been able to log in to my Entrecard account in the past three days. Anyone having the same problem? I've got to approve a couple of ads ;-), it looks like their servers are experiencing overload.
It's the same with blogs. The more places you get your name out there can't hurt. Some will bring in more immediate results, some will bring in higher volumes. Some will result in higher conversion rates of casual readers to subscribers, whereas some chase the long tail.
Marketing never ends and you need to put the time and effort into it to see results.
I emphasize relevant as you obviously need quality content to keep them on to explore your site and hopefully come back.
Entrecard can bring people in purely to click your Entrecard. I find sites like that frustrating and of little value e.g. linkreferral.com etc!
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Besides, I've not been able to access my entrecard account in the past few days. Are you having the same problem?
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Think of it in terms of the AMAZING networking tool that it is though, and you'll do fine ;)
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I got the same error today.
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Actually, I'm wrong, there's tons of stuff for free on the internet, and you can also get a ton of traffic to your site for free, if you know how to play the game, work hard, and know how to market yourself.
There's tons of tricks and tips and I try to learn one everyday.
Basically, it's a game and you have to play it right.
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In my earlier reply, I said to head to the entrecard blog @ http://entrecard.com/blog and download their free e-book which contains useful tips for beginners as well as advanced users alike.
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Good tips for newbie blogger.
I agreed with you to write blog content for longer phrases (3-4) words rather then target for main keywords.
I heard entrecard before but never try it because I heard it not help much on quality traffic.
Overall your tips is really helpful, Thanks
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You're welcome. Keep an eye on blogbloke.com for even more articles from me.
It seems they are trying to promote and reward commenting on entrcard blogs. More here http://entrecard.com/blog/
Not sure if this will work yet - thoughts?
Usually, I found that if you have good traffic and some great content, comments will automatically follow.
What i like is the Yahoo Answer tactic coz i'm doing it to my blog - to sell product but you should write that no affiliate link are allowed in Yahoo Answer, I have been banned for those...
yes it is all true. You can link to wikipedia as well if you can write a blog that can be considered reference to any of the article in it. For example if you write about flash games and your blog is about flash games then should be fine to link it I think.
Can I use this in my blog?
We all know that traffic equals money. Here's a site we're starting up soon that is designed to build a mailing list... FailureProofProfits.com. Can you imagine having your subscribers actively promoting your squeeze page for you? It's entirely possible with The Viral Script.
It works great! You cant try it too!
it seems to be good medium...
thanks....
Mike the site owner from Canada, is the only one making $ off this online MLM scheme! the rest are just getting some untargeted leads and traffic. The best way to get hits to your site is to have good content and be interesting. Look at Megan Fox! She is gorgeous! does she need to pay Mike at Linkreferral for hits? I think not! For the rest of us who are ordinary and not blessed by great genes, we have to work at it a bit! We do not have to cheat and badmouth our competition though! All I am doing is reporting the facts here. The truth speaks volumes!
“You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time!”
Not everyone is impressed with Linkreferral, affiliate marketing and MLM’s. Just do a google search on Linkreferral some time and read the comments page if you don’t believe me! Many prefer like me to just comment on what they find interesting on other people’s web sites and blogs. I do use entrecard and blogupp to get some hits but most just say for 5 secs. Who needs that? Many are deluded into thinking this is FREE advertising but time is money and it takes time to visit these sites and drop and click on them! However, you get a shot at people here you would not ordinarily come into contact with. If you are a gifted writer and sell a good product, you just may grab them into being loyal readers or buyers of your product. That is up to you!
Happy blogging and surfing!
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