How to use Entrecard to grow your blog

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Entrecard seems to be the new/future of social networking. Keep dropping on me and I will continue to drop on you. I really do not mind bounce rates in a non-self hosted blog yet. Conversions are all important so if you get 100 droppers a day and 5% convert to your blog, at the end of 100 days, theoretically you should have 500 converts! That is the way to look at entrecard. There is a wonderful blog dedicated to entrecard and it has great posts that will help beginners and older users as well.

Many droppers just drop and go, well, you are welcome. I do that too sometimes. However some blogs are welcoming and interesting. They have what I am looking for or what I did not know I needed and that gets me reading and leaving comments. Believe it or not that comment brings me visitors. Dropping brings me visitors. Blogging brings me visitors.

Getting your visitors to come back is all-important. How to do that with entrecard is relatively simple. If you look hard and long enough, you will find blogs/bloggers that interest you. Warm up to them, make useful comments on their blogs, reciprocate their drops, put them in your favorites list. That suddenly becomes social networking. Soon you have a community no matter how small and it will grow into what you dream of some day. Consistency is the word.

Do not lose focus and do not be in a hurry. If you realize that with 5 subscribers to your blog daily in one year you will have up to 1825 regular readers of your blog (from Entrecard alone). then if you use Blogcatalog or Digg or Stumble also, the number further increases. Soon adverts on your blog will be going for double and triple figures.

The good thing about entrecard-grown blogs is that majority of the readers are entrecarders so you will continue to get drops. The hard work is at the begining. I think the first 100 days. If you make 300 per day drops in those early days, certainly you will have loads of converts. However, you must have great fresh and useful content if you want me to be back to your blog. Pro-blog reviews also has a few lovely entrecard and blogging posts.

Drop and go, but please bookmark me, subscribe to my RSS feed and drop a comment. I will reciprocate.

22 Must have Firefox add-ons for Bloggers (Blogging tip 1 of 22)

#1: SEO for Firefox add-on
This is the number one Firefox add-on for bloggers. It is much the same idea as other Firefox browser add-ons, but it makes a huge difference when it comes to assessing web pages.
There are several aspects that I will touch on however this post can not be exhaustive, as there are many other aspects beyond the scope of the write-up.

It makes in-depth searching a breeze. This add-on is very nifty and easy to use. The writers advice that it is toggled off and on, based on need. After installation, the button sits at the bottom of your browser screen. When you want to search for the ranking of a web page like SEOBook, all
you have to do is go to the page, then turn the toolbar on (by clicking on it in the lower part of your browser) and then right-clicking anywhere in the homepage which you have opened.
Then select SEOforfirefox>Look up this page. The result is an array of values including Google Pagerank, the Google Cache date, date page was written,Yahoo links, Alexa Rank, DMOZ rank and other parameters.

This is a screenshot of SEOforfirefox in action

This tool makes it possible for a blogger to be able to quickly assess the authority of any web page and to know whether to link to it or not.


Another capability of this add-on is in the area of regular Google and yahoo searches. Ordinarily, these major search engines do not give you details of things like Keyword research, Traffic estimator for that keyword, trends for that keyword and a host of other things. It also gives you the SEO details of each of the pages in the search results.

This is the Google search page with the SEO for Firefox turned on.

This is the Google search page without the SEO for firefox turned on.

Below is a video that may be more visual, but I would strongly recommend this for any and every blogger!