Maximize entrecard traffic

One of the hot traffic exchange site for blog is Entrecard today. Many blogger signup and forgot about it though.

I’ve been with Entrecard for some times, I can’t say that I’m expert or master on it. However, in order to get enough bloggers to advertise on your widget, there are tricks – Make them happy. Many bloggers tend to put lots of widget, which I don’t know what was that too. Here are my idea…

Let useless item be in trash.

Like I mentioned, a lot of widget/banner that is useless, delete them. You don’t need them to place all over your blog. What do you want your blog to be? Traffic jam the blog or traffic jam the sidebar? Beside, banner/widgets often has their own code (Be it JavaScript or plain HTML), it require time to load. Make them happy, let’s assume they have a slow connection. To be honest, I close blogs/sites that take up more than a minute to load If your sidebar is packed with banner/widget, how can I assure that if I put my entrecard on your blog, visitors can see it?

Entrecard on top.

I know that content is king. Think about this, the purpose you put entrecard is to…? By the way, some people are selling entrecard point. Many sites (Not blogs) that has in entrecard tend to put the widget at the bottom. I myself use entrecard a lot for this blog, but I do look through all the blogs and sites to make sure their placement is visible enough. It’s not gonna take you lots of space, it’s just a 280px height banner.

Good web code.

I fed up with some blogs though, really. Some blogspot users love taking template from other blogs, import/edit whatever and voila, they love it. But hey, love is love, don’t forget to check with browsers. There’re plenty of browsers on the internet, I used FireFox and Safari (Mainly Safari though), if the coding is not that professional, it’s a mess. Sometimes I can’t see the entrecard widget too. Either tried to validate the code or simply use some more browsers to browse your blog to make sure it’s ok.

Don’t Updead, update!

Here is the thing – If you have a blog and want to have traffic from entrecard, update your blog. Doesn’t matter if it’s simply “Hi visitors, I’m an asshole, you’re pussy! Bye!”. All you need is a little care about your blog so the advertiser would see more happier than a dead blog, with last entry from somewhere June 2007.

These are what I can think for the moment, would update it once I notice something else Well, my entrecard widget is prominent and visible enough, it would be nice if you advertise here. And I would be happier if you advertise here too

Tags: Entrecard, tips, traffic