Entrecard was released a few months ago and is growing rapidly. The system has been said to be easily scammed, the users have been ridiculed, and the owner called names. But at the end of the day Entrecard comes down to one thing: member activity. If you own a website that receives 10,000 visitors/day but don’t drop cards, advertise, or participate in the forums, chances are your card worth is going to be far less than others who do.
If you are using Entrecard and are dissatisfied with your results thus far, try these 10 things
- Host Contests. You don’t necessarily have to give out $100 or 10,000 credits, just give something out. Be it a new card design, a free ad on your website or even a website review, contests work and will get the Entrecard community active on your website.
- Write about Entrecard. Every time someone writes about Entrecard it circles the community and is read. If it is good enough, people will comment and link to it.
- Drop 300 cards daily – day starts at 5:00 GMT (Midnight EST). Although some call this ’scamming’ (although, really I have no clue how… it is just using the system to your advantage), this will greatly help out your site. Not only will there be a chance all 300 will see your site in their inbox, there’s a very good chance those same people will return the favor and drop their card on you. If you stop by for a few seconds and comment, chances are much greater and you might even receive a comment back – or even better, a new RSS subscriber. It also gives you 300 points/day.
- Advertise on the cards within the recent tab. This is almost always overlooked. You never know how active a member on Entrecard will be after just recently joining. Your 2 credits might just turn into 40 or 50.
- Check all stats available to you and advertise on the cheapest sites that receive the best traffic. There are many sites out there that have the visitors, but just aren’t active. These guys are what I like to call “the sleepers”. Since their drop numbers are usually low, the amount of people dropping on their site is less than someone else who is more active. Nice traffic, a somewhat low credit cost, yet when advertising on the site, tons of clicks.
- Advertise on medium-expensive sites (128-512 credits). You might want to see how steady their credit cost is first as fluctuation means there might be disappointment ahead so keep a watch on the owner.
- Offer something in exchange for credits; card design, website design, reviews, etc. This will gain awareness of other Entrecard users and allow you to gain credits without tediously dropping cards throughout the day.
- Give credits in return for something in the shop. This is a great way to get something back that isn’t just Entrecard related. If you buy advertising for a month, a review or even a blog post you are expanding your horizon beyond that of Entrecard. Always have more than one basket when going fruit picking.
- Participate in the community, on the forums, by giving recommendations, etc. The community is substantially under-rated. Being active in the forums will not only increase the amount of cards dropped on your site, but will also open your site up to other Entrecard activity such as comments, recommendations or even free links. Hell, the forums might even give you an idea for your next post.
- Comment on other blogs. Like all social sites, Entrecard isn’t much without actual activity unrelated to Entrecard. Comment on others’ posts and you will likely get something in return. At the very least someone else will read your comment and click through to your site.
Written: Jan 29, 2008
Tags: entrecard, traffic, visitors
Aaron Wakling
January 29, 2008 @ 12:15 am | Reply
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Aaron Wakling
Gary R. Hess
January 30, 2008 @ 1:20 am | Reply
Thanks for the complements Aaron, welcome aboard
mastersofseo
January 29, 2008 @ 6:40 pm | Reply
lol i don’t know whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. I suppose it’d good that people get clicks from my site, i suppose I just need to put away more time for card dropping. Thanks for the link!
mastersofseo
Gary R. Hess
January 30, 2008 @ 1:21 am | Reply
Well, it’s a free link plus you at least have people coming to your site for something… even if it is dropping a card
Ederic
January 29, 2008 @ 8:19 pm | Reply
“Advertise on the cards within the recent tab.”
I do this, too. Sometimes my ad request gets rejected, but most of the time it’s approved.
Gary R. Hess
January 30, 2008 @ 1:24 am | Reply
Yeah, for some reason there is a rumor going around that if you decline cards when you join you will somehow gain more credits later on. Sure, it is true that if you wait you will get paid more (for instance, if your card is worth 100 credits you will get paid 25 credits). However, it doesn’t make that much difference. So instead of earning 1 credit you receive 25 after a day. Whoopty doo. Just drop 25 cards.
I guess it doesn’t really matter, whatever floats their boat.