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Entrecard Sucks Just Like Blogrush Does

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A while ago i was writing a post about Blogrush and Entrecard. This was a few days after i discovered EC. It worked nice (so i thought). However, in time, my opinion has changed.

ENTRECARD IS THE SAME CRAP FREE ADVERTISING CAN OFFER.

But what else should you expect from free stuff. For people who don’t know what Blogrush is I will tell you immediately. Blogrush is a program that will send readers to your site (or so says it’s admin) for free. The only thing you have to do is place a widget on your site that displays links from other sites. This is something like link exchange without the backlinks. At first glance this could work, but it doesn’t. You place the thingy on your site and wait. And wait, and wait. Your latest post is displayed 5000 times but still no one click on it. So it’s goodbye free traffic. The reason why this system doesn’t work is because your posts get displayed but no one sees them. This is because everyone can (and will) place the widget on a almost invisible position. Nobody wants to use their good space (used for advertising) for some crazy widget. This was the almost invisible position, because you can use the absolutely invisible position. You can place the widget in an iFrame and set the iFrame’s dimension to 0×0 pixels. The Blogrush spider will find the html on your site but no one will see it. Great. So in my opinion Blogrush is doomed. It will fail.

As for Entrecard… It also sucks. When i found EC I was excited it worked. It sent visitors to my site. And that’s just about it (you should keep in mind the fact that autosurf programs also give you free visits). The thing is EC sent visitors to my site, but not readers. 95% of the visits EC sent me just bounced off after dropping their card. Dropping what card I hear you ask? Entrecard’s system is based on a liason between webmasters. Webmasters get in touch with each other by dropping their card (something like a business card). This way you get credits to your account and you can display your ad on other sites in the network. Besides getting credits from dropping your card, you can also get credits from people (webmasters) who drop their cards on your site. Anyway, most of the people over there get their credits by dropping their cards on other sites. And this is more and more like autosurf.

So to continue my story… I a couple of weeks I had the amount of credits needed to display my ad on a popular site like Problogger or JohnChow. Getting on a site like this means huuuge exposure. But the problem is big sites never have free ad space. You’ll have to wait 12-14 days. Patience is a virtue and I have it. So i have waited 14 days for a free spot on Problogger. The wait time was 1 hour. I was getting anxious. My site was going to be on Problogger. Great. But the only problem I had was that the waiting time remained at 1 hour for the whole day (23 hours to be precise). And after that all the ad spots were again full for 14 days. So I guess there’s something going on in here. I think you must know the right people to get featured on a famous site.

So the conclusion is that Entrecard is nothing but an autosurf program that gets you visitors not readers, and only if you people in high places you can use it at full capacity.

So the final conclusion is: all the free advertising methods tested by me so far (Blogrush, Entrecard, Adgridwork) don’t work any better than any autosurf system.

Popularity: 37% [?]

Blogging, Affiliate Marketing Or Both

Before I get started with this article you must know that Affiliate Marketing needs promotion. Any kind of promotion you can provide.

Blogging is not normally an activity for earning profits, or so it may seem. Many bloggers post blogs to inform other people of any news or information about anything under the sun. Blogs would be a pathway to personal expression or a means of teaching others. Whatever the use, all blogs have a tremendous business potential.

For affiliate marketing to be productive, it must have good exposure and a lot of visitors. This can be achieved by combining it with blogging.

Blogging is a great way to attract web viewers especially if the blogs have interesting and quality content. In a business sense, blogging can be a tool for advertising and in this case, affiliate marketing. If you are able to come up with a good and popular blog, chances are that when you put ads for affiliate marketing on your blog there will be many readers who will click on the ads. The more readers who will click on the ads, the better the chances of landing sales which would ultimately bring you profit through affiliate marketing.

There are other methods for advertising, but blogging is more advantageous. For one, blogs are free and can be easily made unlike hosting and creating a website of your own. Another perk is that search engines usually prioritize indexing blogs with good content over websites. Blogs can also serve as tools to bring web traffic to websites. This can be done by putting links to partner sites or to your own sites if you have one. Web features such as RSS Feeds allow readers to be notified upon addition of new blog content allowing affiliate marketing ads to be visible and reachable to more people as well as attract new ones.

Be aware that the internet is flooded with all kinds of blogs created by millions of bloggers. There are simple text blogs, photo blogs, and video blogs which contain their own specific content. In blogging, you should focus on one specific topic in order for you to specialize or be an expert in that specific niche. Creating blogs in your own unique way can bring you popularity and avid readership and from there, making money blogging is really just a matter of focus.

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A Short History Of Blogging

You blog every day. More and more people do it. There are loads of blogs on the internet and this will become a world wide phenomenon. You may think that blogging is something new but it has been around for quite a while (except back then people didn’t know how to call it).

  • 1983: First site managed by an individual, Brian E. Redman. He posted summaries of interesting postings and threads taking place elsewhere on the net. It was called mod.ber.
  • 1986: Brad Templeton creates a newsgroup called rec.humor.funny which he claims to be the world’s oldest still existing blog.
  • 1992: Dawn of Internet Time begins keeping a list of all new sites as they come online.
  • 1993: NCSA’s oldest archived What’s New list of sites.
  • 1993: Netscape begins running it’s What’s New list of sites.
  • 1994: Justin Hall launches Justin’s Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.
  • 1997: Dave Winer launches Scripting News. His company, Userland, will release all website and blog content software.
  • 1997: Slashdot launches their news for nerds.
  • 1997: Jorn Barger comes up with the term web log.
  • 1998: Cameron Barrett publishes the first list of blog sites on Camworld.
  • 1999: Peter Merholz coins the term blog after announcing he was going to pronounce web blogs as “wee-blog”. This was then shortened to blog.
  • 1999: Brigitte Eaton starts the first portal devoted to blogs with about 50 listings.
  • 1999: Metafilter’s earliest archives.
  • 1999: Pitas launches the first free build your own blog web tool.
  • 1999: Pyra releases Blogger which becomes the most popular web based blogging tool to date, and popularizes blogging with mainstream internet users.
  • 2000 > present: The phenomenon spread worldwide starting with american blogs related to politics and technology. Even iraqi bloggers gained wide readership when the Iraq war started. Blogs cover various topics from war, global warming and terrorism to how to’s, cooking, making money online and many many more.

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The Importance Of Feedburner

Feed readers. Aggregators. Call them whatever you like. They help you keep track of all your favorite sites. All in one. Just like a magic device. There are numerous feed readers but the one that i like best (and i think it’s best for any webmaster) is Feedburner.

Here was the part where i had to explain you the importance of RSS subscribers and how important are they to a blog and how you subscriber count represents a very important stat for your blog.

If you don’t use Feedburner, you should start using it right now. Besides the fact that the stats that it can give you are very accurate and very diverse, Feedburner gives you the best monetization methods available for a RSS feed.

  • Adsense. Feedburner allows you to integrate adsense ads into your RSS feed. Text based ad, banners or referrals, just like on a regular site. Easy to integrate and multiple setup options. You can place them at the top, bottom, after each post and more…
  • Bidvertiser recently allows you to integrate their ads into the Feedburner platform, fact that demonstrates further the importance of the RSS feed. Also multiple positioning options and easy integration.

In terms of revenue, monetizing the RSS feed can give you a constant income stream because your RSS subscribers are your loyal readers and they will read your feed every day. Just imagine you have 1000 RSS subscribers that read your blog daily via a feed aggregator. This means that your ads are viewed by at least 1000 people per day, every day. And the thing is most of your RSS subscribers (75%) do not view your site. So this kind of readers don’t get to view the ads you display and that is why monetizing your RSS feed will increase your overall site income.

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17 Wordpress Themes That Can Increase Your Income

Ad placement and ad awareness are 2 things that must not be overlooked. The location of the ad and it’s surroundings are very important when it comes to monetization. And if you are not a php/css expert, you’re in luck because these themes are FREE. And fully customizable, without any css knowledge. So here we go.

1. SimpleGreen

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2. MyApril Reloaded

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3 Pre intentions

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4. Blog Oh Blog v2.0

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5. DotDotDot

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6. Biru 2.0

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7. Mezzo V2

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8. Soloss

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9. Deep Red

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10. (Not So) Fresh

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11. SEO Adsense

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12. Blogging Pro

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13. Dilectio

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14. Polaroid

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15. Bluehaze

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16. Upstart Blogger

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17. Mandigo

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Popularity: 100% [?]

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