There is some buzz surrounding the newest way of generating traffic to your blog, and it costs nothing. It is a unique concept and is very easy to implement on your blog and use it on other blogs. Entrecard was founded by Graham Langdom, the creator of the Million Dollar Wiki, and is completely free to those who want to use it.
I will provide an overview of what Entrecard is exactly and how you can use it to generate traffic.
How it Works
The who premise of Entrecard is based around a business card for you blog and credits. Every blog on Entrecard is allowed to upload on 125×125 pixel image to act as their business card. This business card is then placed on another blog as advertisement for your blog.
This means that what image you upload has a great effect as to how many visitors your will get. If you create an interesting business card, then you will probably get many visitors.
Now before you can submit your business card to any blog, you will first need to earn credits. Credits are the currency used on Entrecard. It is not hard to generate credits, but it does take some minor effort.
Credits are earned by other blog authors buying advertising space on your blog, the same way you do for theirs. Each blog costs so many credits per day to advertise on, so you may not be able to advertising on some of the more expensive blogs until you have earned enough credits. If you blog costs 8 credits/day, and you approve of a blog to advertise on your blog, then you have just earned 8 credits.
The cost of advertising on your blog is determined by a formula–meaning you can’t set the price yourself. The price is determined by twice the number of cards on that widget each day. If you get 20 cards dropped on your widget each day, then the price of advertising on your blog is 40 credits/day.
When you visit a blog that has installed the Entrecard widget, you can drop your business card on the widget and earn 1 credit. Your business card will then appear in the blog authors’ inbox within Entrecard. This is also another way of building traffic to your blog, as the author can now click on your business card to visit your blog.
For me, it has been interesting to discover, and visit, blogs that I may not have known existed. There are many great blogs out there, and this site allows you to visit many of them.
Summary
Like so many other blog authors, I have joined up with Entrecard and have immediately notice that traffic to my blog has increased. I’ll continue to earn credits by dropping my card on the widget, and then pay for advertising on other blogs. Since Entrecard is free to use, everyone with a blog should take advantage of this site to help increase traffic to their blog.