A few big no-no for a blog

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I’ve seen and surf a lot in Entrecard recently, looking for more spot to advertise. I don’t know about you all, but SimplyWP is quite strict on looking for the spot in Entrecard. Entrecard members started to lose their passion on Entrecard nowadays, at least it seems this way to me.

1, Sexy banner doesn’t make your traffic goes up
Content does. I’m sure a lot of bloggers who surf in Entrecard see a lot of sexy ladies banners, once you clicked in, the blogs are totally different with the banner itself. Well, this helps the blog to get some click through from Entrecard in a short run, but not on the long run.

2, Entrecard location
Previously I mentioned about putting them as high as possible on the sidebar or whatever highest place on your blog. We here, don’t look for that high, as long as it doesn’t require us to scroll a few times and LOOK for the Entrecard, it is fine. A lot of newbie did it good, that’s why recently we’re advertising on the newbie blog in Entrecard.

3, Background music
There is no need a background music. I mean, the reason you came into Entrecard because you want some publicity and some traffic, if not you wouldn’t have joined Entrecard. So keep your music or sound with you on your music player. Because this background music not only slowing the overall loading speed, it slow down the changes in Entrecard banner too.

4, Content content content
A lot of blogs I see in Entrecard using some magazine or community layout, whatever you called it. You need to keep clicking in order to see the full articles. Worse, there are tons of short articles with title on the front page. This my friend, keep it to the community. If you’re having a technology blog or any other niche content blog, let’s just use the common one. Because clicking = slowing down visitors = clicking X on the top right corner.

Back looking for some better Entrecard blogs to advertise about the next coming contest

Entrecard theme is here!

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Just for fun. Since Entrecard has been widely used by lots of bloggers, some even has a niche Entrecard content, I think it’s good to have an Entrecard theme. Although I’m not sure if anyone would be interested in it or not Anyway, here are some feature of this theme.

This is a 4 columns widget ready theme. The top column was built for Entrecard widget, which is a big box. However, it was named as Sidebar 3 on widget page.

It is recommended to use the standard 250px Entrecard widget.

Have a great blue Monday

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…

1, 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?

2, 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.

3, 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.

4, 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