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Your Post is Toast at Entrecard

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Sense to Save blog is hosting an enormous Entrecard New Member drive where new members can win thousands of Entrecard Credits to buy advertising with. Many popular blogs have donated credits - over 45,000 credits will be donated from 38 current members! Only new members will be eligible to win.

Here are the contest details:

• The giveaway will be held March 15 - April 15.
• Only new users that sign up with Entrecard during this promotional period will be eligible.
• Comment (and include your website URL) here to receive a contest entry or you can comment one time on each of the hosting blogs below to receive one entry each comment.
• A 1st place prize of 34,000 credits will be given randomly to a new user.
• Smaller 2nd place prizes will be given within each Entrecard niche category.

Last, please note that Entrecard has a little something for everyone and will be worth your time. Even within the Official Entrecard Blog, users have differing perspectives about whether Entrecard is a place to gain visibility in the blogosphere or make new blogging friends . There is no right or wrong way to benefit from Entrecard. In addition, the increased traffic to your website results in a huge boost to your Alexa ratings. This blog is just a couple of months old and started out with an Alexa rating of 2,780,846. It is now at 173,897.

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Here is the list of 37 participants in this giveaway. Most people indicate they will participate as a host. Visit each hosts’ contest posts and leave a comment to get entries.  . Any host that has created a contest post will be designated with the text: *Contest Up*

• Blogging Resources:
  TysBlog.com (Host, Donation received) - 1000
  MeAndMyDrum (Host) - 1000
• Business
  ReapMoneyOnline (Host, Donation received) - 1000 *Contest Up*
  Career Jobs:
  Bloggin-Ads (Host) - 504 (168 * 3 people, for “prosperity”)
• Computers and Internet:
  Orangeinks - 1000
• Cooking and Dining:
  Jenn Cooks  (Host, Donation received) - 1000 *Contest up*
  I am BM Kia! (Donation received) - 1000
• Education:
  Education Connection (Host) *Contest up*
• Environment:
  We Love Nature (Donation received) - 1000 *Contest up*
• Finance and Investing:
  Sense to Save (Host) – 2000 *Contest up*
  Personal Finance Management Guide (Donation received) - 1000
  The Money Kings (Host, Donation received) - 1000 *Contest up*
• Health and Medicine:
  Diet Pulpit (Host, Donation received) - 1000 *Contest up*
• Hobbies:
  ahkong.net - Deimos Tel`Arin’s domain - Gamer, Blogger, Philosopher - 1188 (Host, Donation received, for “prosperity”)
• Home and Garden:
  You Can Learn Series (Host, donation received) - 1000 *Contest up*
• Internet Marketing:
  Yimto Affiliate Marketing Blog (Host) - 1000
  Dot Com Mogul (Host, Donation received) - 1000 *Contest up*
• Lifestyle:
  Momma Muse (Host, Donation received) - 2000 *Contest up*
  Juliana’s World (Donation received) - 1000
  MarcRoger.com (Host, Donation received) - 1000
  When Silence Speaks (Host) *Contest up*
• Make Money Online:
  CK Marketing (Host, Donation received) – 2000
  Internet Business Guide For First Class Progress – 3000 (Donation received)
  Make Money Online – 1000
• Marketing:
  1 Million in 365 Days (Host) – 1000 *Contest up*
  Josh’s Unconventional Marketing Blog (Donation received) - 1000
• Men’s Interests:
  Trend Spike – 1000 and a Fast Pass (Donation received)
• Mixed Bag:
  An Unsuspecting Notebook (Host) – 1000
  Unique Log - 1500
• Parenting and Family:
  Mommieshome.net (Host, Donation received) - 1000 *Contest up*
  Parent Life (Host, Donation received) - 2000
• Personal Diary:
  An Unsuspecting Notebook (Host) – 2000
  Lee Doyle - Contains Nuts (Host, Donation received) – 2000 *Contest up*
  Joan Joyce (Donation received) - 1000
  Blogging MoRe (Host, Donation received) - 1000
  Crystal - 1000
  Geek Mom Mashup - 1000
• Sports:
  Fantasy Baseball (Donation received) -1000
• Technology:
  Michael Aulia (Host, Donation received) – 1000 *Contest up*
  Technology Blog and More (Host?, Donation received) - 1000
• Travel:
  Gilbert’s Frugal Travels (Host) *Contest up*
• Women’s Interests:
  Five Blondes (Host, Donation received) - 1000
• Writing and Literature:
  A Time and Place (Host, donation received) - 1000 *Contest up*

Okay, good luck!

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You probably know that I am testing out the benefits of Entrecard. I was at the Campaign screen a couple of nights ago and all of a sudden, on the right hand side, I noticed these blog ads being displayed. I wondered … now how do you get so lucky as to get a spot there? Underneath the ads is a little bidding link. I clicked it and it took me to Project Wonderful. It’s a great new service where you can not only place bids on ad spots, but you can also list your own ad spots to be bid on. I immediately bid on a spot for Entrecard. My next step is going to be to check out placing one of my own ad spots there to bid on. Highest bidder’s gets their ad displayed … simple as that. The bids you place are based on CPD (cost per day) rather than a PPC (pay per click) model. You can bid for as little as one day or as much as a year. Read the rest of this entry »

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After Blogrush hit the blogosphere, in comes Entrecard. Both are designed to bring traffic to your blogs. I’ve already removed Blogrush from my sidebar. I got tired of seeing links to all the “big” blogs and never getting more than 1 or two hits to mine from Blogrush. Now tell me, why should I give free advertising to the blogs that are already making a killing off of blogging. If they want to be featured here, they can buy an ad or review.

Entrecard is probably going to go also. With Entrecard, I am getting plenty of traffic, directly from Entrecard, but the traffic is about 70% junk traffic. You see, the only way to wrack up points to buy ads in Entrecard is to drop your Entrecard on other people’s blogs. Every time you do, you get a point and every time they do, I get a hit ….. but what kind of hit is it?

It’s pretty much like a drive-by ambush … a hit and run. They are dropping their Entrecards here as part of a massive campaign to get points and not staying to check out my blog. Therefore, it is completely useless traffic … except that it’s not. The main reason I joined Entrecard is to have the opportunity to get points to be able to buy advertising spots on popular blogs and it has accomplished that. I have sunk some time in it … dropping off Entrecards is a real time-sucking endeavor and not something that I can do for the long term in any significant manner.

Another puzzling thing is the people who have a high rate of rejecting ad offers. I already applied for three ad spots on two great blogs and got rejected. Why? I don’t know. My blog seems respectable enough. Not only that, but some blogs actually approve your advertising only to turn around and then reject it after you are in the que. Sorry, but that seems like a real asshole thing to do. You should take the time to check out a blog before you approve it and once you do approve it, you should honor that commitment.

So, at this point, I am still evaluating the pros and cons of Entrecard and if the time it takes to get enough points to purchase ads pays off big enough to be worth it. As for the traffic … 70% are card droppers who aren’t taking the time to read content but I do get points for it, so what the heck.

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