How to use Entrecard to grow your blog

Unique Blog Contest: Register and win April 2008

BLOGS OF FOCUS

• MCNERI'S WEBLOG

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.

Unique blog competition where everyone wins! April

BLOGS OF FOCUS

• MCNERI'S WEBLOG

This blog does not believe in sweep-stakes and so-called competitions all over the place where winning is by "random selection". Those are not competitions, but gambling. If you want to compete for a position, then this is the competition for you. A-listed blogs are free to compete, as winning depends on your efforts and not on your luck or previous reputation.

I am compiling a list of Blogs/Websites and their link phrase keywords to be displayed on this site at the beginning of every month. It is important to get links and these links become more useful if they link to you through your link phrase of choice. That way, the search engines see that you are linked to for those words and your journey up begins. In addition to being on the list, the top entries will also get featured as one of our Blogs of Focus for ne full month. In subsequent months, you may submit additional keywords/link phrases which will also be added to the list for that new month and published provided you fulfil all the basic requirements outlined below.

To qualify to be listed, all you have to do is;

Basic Points
1.Comment on two posts on this blog. One of them must be this post.
2.Use the same email address to fill in the form below
3.Subscribe to my RSS feed by confirmed by email
The above gets you 25 points. These you may redeem as Entrecard credits without appearing on the list.

Bonus Points
4. As a bonus, if you mention the competition and link to it in your blog, your trackback link will appear below and you will gain an additional 10 points for every link to it. (SPAM,SPLOGS and obscene or illegal sites are not accepted)
5. If you link to any other post on this blog, you get 10 points apiece.

Goodies
The top entries for the preceding month will get reviewed as featured blog here as Blogs of Focus for the month free!

As with many lists, we know that the first entries on the list get the most hits, so be wise. All it takes is a link to the post and you are on!