Entrecard: The Fun In Dropping And Advertising

Entrecard is basically an online advertising system wherein you use points (entrecard credits or simply ec) to pay for a 24-hour advertising space in another’s website belonging to the community. It is very helpful to small and medium-sized blogs in increasing their traffic and visibility in the worldwide web.

That 125 x 125 adspace is the most popular these days. And you can actually advertise without using real money, but just entrecard credits. You earn points by: 1) dropping 2) getting drops and 3) selling ad spaces. More innovative ways of earning points includes 1) winning in a contest 2) direct buying from sellers, 3) subscribing to the feeds of certain bloggers, and 4) getting paid for goods and services sold using ec.

Dropping

The maximum drops you can make is 300 per username and 600 per ip. The former is already practiced in the past but the ip limit is something new. Those with multiple identities used to gain points on drops as much as they want. But now, that enterprising practice is stopped. If you want more credits, drop till the limit and take note of those with “you drop, I’ll follow” signs.

Since I am in a third world country with internet connection speed similar to that of a passenger jeepney passing Colon Street, it will take me many hours if I aim to drop at 300 websites. That wouldn’t be fun. So I just limit my dropping to 40-60 per day. The maximum I’ve dropped so far is a little over 100.

Don’t just hop for the sake of dropping cards. It’s not entrecard’s intention. You’d miss out the great posts of many bloggers. In my hopping and dropping, I bookmarked certain sites I planned to revisit. Not just for dropping, but also for my reading pleasure. I discovered new and interest sites and it’s really fun.

Advertising

Advertising thru entrecard is announcing to the blog community that you have a website and you have something for the blogosphere. I really don’t want to spend real money on advertising. Not now, but maybe for some real business in the future. But entrecard enables me to advertise my blog in the sites of others. Isn’t it great? In the past, I can use 2 ec to advertise on the blogs of new entrants. But now, the cheapest I pay is 8 ec. My budget is 64 ec the most. But I usually choose the most popular among the 16ec flock.

I’ll have another post about the pricing. But why advertise when you can’t afford it? I’m advertising up to the level of fun. And yeah, seeing your logo in the website of others is fun. Much more if it brings actual traffic and new visitors each day.

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