Entrecard is the new venture of Graham Langdon, the creator of the Million Dollar Wiki. Entrecard brings the concept of exchanging business card onto the Net. In this case, the business cards are 125×125 buttons.
How Entrecard Works
Once you sign up for a new Entrecard account, you need to install the Entrecard Widget on your blog. There are three widget sizes to choose from. I’m running the 250×127 wide widget. The widget allows other Entrecard users to drop their card. You get one credit for every card dropped. Additional credits can be earned for dropping your card on other Entrecard blog and by other blogs buying an Entrecard advertising spot from you.
The Entrecard Control Panel
The Entrecard control panel seems overly complicated but it’s really simple once you get use to it. The dashboard shows information about your account, your ads, sites you bought advertising from and sites that wants to buy advertising from you.
Your ad price is based on how many people drop cards on your widget and how many cards you drop. Currently, this blog is the most expensive to buy advertising from. You will need to build up 97 credits before you can purchase a spot on John Chow dot Com. Even if you have that many credits, the wait time is 13 days.
Before everyone gets all excited about getting a 125×125 button on John Chow dot Com for free, there are a few things you should consider. The first is the button only shows for one day. The second is the button is placed below the fold so it wouldn’t get as many clicks as the normal $500 sponsorship buttons. However, this hasn’t stop other bloggers from lining up for an ad spot.
Good Traffic Source for Small Bloggers
Because credits are build by having members drop their card, EntreCard can be a good source of traffic for the small blogger. Your control panel shows the blog that stop by and dropped their card. This in turn encourages you to visit their blogs to drop your card. This does bring up the question about the quality of traffic. Are people visiting your blog to read it or just to drop a card? In the end, it shouldn’t really matter because a visitor is still a visitor and it’s your job to turn them into readers. If your content is good, they’ll come back even if their original purpose was just to drop a card to build credits.
Since its launch at Blog World, Graham has been busy adding new features to Entrecard. There is a now a review function for people to make recommendations and tell what they like and don’t like about your blog. The stats page has been greatly improved and the help guide has been revamped.
The success of Entrecard will be largely based not on its ability to sign up new blogs, but on its ability to sign up the big name blogs. So far, Graham has been doing a good job. Beside this blog, Entrecard is being used by Shoemoney and Problogger.net. If you’ve ever dreamed of getting a free 125×125 ad on the “Big 3″ then you better join Entrecard now.
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Entrecard is a nice service, but I think the “entrecards” are visually lacking.
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Thanks John. Looks like I’ll be joining that to help raise money for charity!
You design your own card I believe.
You can OR you don’t have to. But if you don’t you get a crappy text 125×125 pixel ad. If you do design it, well, you get what you design, which is cool…
Dude….1buck ….you owe me 5 words on your 5dollar site…for blogging about your blog and enterign the contest…what’s up??
Oh, I e-mailed you and left a message on the blog post too. You want to e-mail me your desired 5 words?
I will hook you up right away.
Yea you have to design your own and i can’t design. and i can’t find a pic on the internet thats 125 x 125 that will work for my site.
John Chow has very good timing or I have good timing. I just dropped a card to John’s inbox when he took the screenshot. I am the second one on the inbox list - Michael Talk - http://entrecard.com/details/993
LoL…
ROFL , it is a good “visual advertising” tho
well done hehehe.
Indeed, entrecard is good for small blogs that want to increase a little their traffic and the readers, since this is mainly used from bloggers it also helps you that bloggers hear about you if you are not popular enough.
Too bad its not linked
Well, I guess so
Exactly the reason I made my services available. For a mere $10 you can get a custom designed Entrecard. I could charge more, but I can turn out the designs pretty quick especially if you have an idea but you just don’t know how to create it.
Oh yeah, I’ve seen that, but I though Unique Blog Designs were offering FREE EntreCard 125×125 pixel ads? (sorry, i have a good memory for free stuff…)
Here’s the post if you want a free design for EntreCard,
make sure to go buy a quarter page at http://QuarterWiki.com if this helped you, we need some buyers honestly. :p
http://natewhitehill.com/entrecard-and-unique-blog-designs-team-up/
In the interest of full disclosure, what are you getting of this review, John?
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ENTRE card is better than the blog rush i join it and it give me quiet
good traffic
I’ve been using it and so far I’ve got a decent amount of traffic. For smaller sites it is definitely worth a try. Some sites are reporting decent ROI in the entrecard forum
THIS POST ARE EXCELLENT I ALSO SUBSCRIBE AFTER THAT POST TO ENTER CARD BUT PLEASE MORE ABOUT CPM ADNETWORKS OTHER THAN ADSENSE
Although not meant to be one, EntreCard is a better traffic exchange network than the much hyped BlogRush.
Perhaps the reason that BlogRush has been removed from this site?
definitely, BlogRush sucks period. Get EntreCard, where you can earn fair credits and not be penalized by the man, or whoever calls himself the man there.
Oh, very interesting - I haven’t noticed that. And perhaps that is an indication that I will never click on the BlogRush links cos I didn’t even notice it!
first thing I really notice is that every blog on EntreCard has a “real” blogger behind it, not just some robot or some non-blogger or whatever crap…
BlogRush isn’t the best idea for traffic. Entrecard hit the nail. The problem now is making the entrecard members stay on our site and read
Also, if is a little hard to get a spot on John’s blog as time goes by.
It sounds good, I went to the site and watched the explaining video, but I got lost in the middle of that.
But If I’m not wrong you can sell credits… that sounds evil.
I hope this service is not for english only websites.
BlogRush was english only and I was disapointed at first, but now I don’t see many of them around the web.
Well you are going to see one less.I’ve decide to dump BlogRush and reclaim that space in my sidebar. I’ve had thousands of impressions and very few actual click throughs to my site.
I had signed-up like two weeks ago, and never got around to actually inserting the card widget on my blog. I just tweaked it and added it, go drop your card.
Hey, what’s up Missy, it’s good to see you here. LOL…
I was just checking out EntreCard today. I’ve been seeing it all over the place and I’m going to join already.
BlogRush = sucks because you got too much human moderation and bs
EntreCard - Automated and more blogger friendly version of BlogRush.
Thanks for the info, I will be joining and trying it out. I have heard good things so far.
I love Entrecard. It’s the only way I’ll ever get my ad on John’s site for free!
I’d advertise with you again, but your spot is always full!
Even if it is not full, it is tooooo expensive for me
These new ways of free advertising (BlogRush, EntreCard) are just the beginning. I have a feeling 2008 will bring some really innovative techniques.
Now, if I could just think of one first..
I really like Entrecard, and I agree that it’s great for small bloggers, but your article is a little misleading. You didn’t mention that the owner of the blog you want to advertise on has to approve the ad before it runs. I’ve submitted my ad to be run on both John Cow’s blog and Shoemoney’s blog, and both were denied. So really, it’s not a guaranteed ad spot, but at least it makes it available to those who don’t have the money to pay for an A-list blogger’s ad spot.
It seems like a pretty cool concept. Be good to see if it works.
Hey, I see my alternate blog logo there
Bloggin-Ads.
Once I saw that the evil John Chow is running an Entrecard, I quickly tried to get in on the fun, but I missed it by a whole lot. I missed it until the tech team removed all the pending cards and it actually freed a spot. I took advantage of it and now, similar to a few of you, I’m waiting in line.
-Mike
Yeah me too… all i am wondering is, how the hell did John rack up so many credits in like couple days since he signed up? I’ve been with EntreCard since the beginning. Graham must have hooked up john for sure… which isn’t a bad thing at all.
Ok, I join one hour ago and start understanding just by using it.
It’s easy and really funny. Go drop your card if you like, hehe
It’s a lot of fun dropping cards, networking and discovering new blogs.
for sheezy
Hey Cant Get Rich, I agree with you. I just happened to be on EntreCard when it appeared that ProBlogger.net signed on. It said 1 hour and 2 credits. So of course I jumped on it. But alas, I was rejected by the great Darren Rowse. I would like to know why. While my blog isn’t a powerhouse, I have had some good success at passing SEO techniques and tips on to other beginners.
Oh well. I can only imagine what a day on ProBlogger.net would have done for my blog. I have only rejected one and that was because it was way off subject and when i checked the site there was no content.
Unless your blog is way out there, I will approve so drop by NoviceSEO and drop a card…..
eric aka NoviceSEO
This is a great way to network with other bloggers and possibly run ads on some big blogs. I ran an ad here on JC for a day, and I got a significant amount of clicks from JC that I never would have gotten had he not been a part of the program.
You manage to get your EntreCard advertised here? Good for you!
I just tried it today and I already got comments on my articles from members who have already joined.
It would be good to get a spot with the big guys but to be honest,it’s best for the small blogger like me who can now be able to network amongst themselves. Already got a few friends there.
eh, how to put a higher rate for the advertising price..mine was 2 credits/day
I still haven’t figured this out either but I think as long as you advertise a lot and drop lots of card, the numbers seem to go up.
Maybe Graham can enlighten us on the exact EntreCard Algorithm.
Rates are determined by how many people start advertising and dropping cards on your widget. The more ads you sell and the more dropped cards you get, the higher the cost is to advertise on your widget.
Hmmm… so you basically repeated what I said…
Thanks for the clarification. 