I’ve recently been on a bit of a mission with Entrecard to see how high I can get my card in terms of price for advertising. A few days ago I discovered Power Dropping which makes the task of dropping cards quickly much easier. Essentially, you use a list of sites with fast loading Entrecards above the fold, together with a Firefox addon called “Perma Tabs“, to load up multiple tabs, click through their Entrecards one after another, and then load another batch from the list. I find it very quick to scan through a couple of hundred sites a day and drop my card on them. I know just doing a drop and run is gaming Entrecard to maximise credits, but I am on a mission for now. Even so, I do like to keep about 100 (you can drop 300 cards a day) to drop on blogs that have dropped on me, bought an ad off me, from my favourites, ones I might advertise on etc.
While on the subject of Entrecard, Tina has a competition going at her blog, and is giving away 2 prizes of 1,000 credits – actually drawn from a hat by one of her children. Her competition ends February 29th. Enter now by posting about her contest, its very easy, and you’ve got to be in it to win it, as they say.
Tina is one of the very active Aussie Bloggers, and I noticed on Power Dropping there are plenty of us on the list.
Thanks for posting about my giveaway, Ian
Good luck!
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Matt Hanson
(BTW that last comment was “spam” see
http://www.aussiebloggers.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,1188.0.html)
I’m having a rethink of the strategy with EC. While it’s great to get the price up, at the end of the day I wonder if having a high “price” on a blog with modest traffic (i.e. me) will reflect good value for an advertiser?
Meg – I thought it was, but I let it pass because it wasn’t soliciting links or anything like that.
Re the EC strategy, I tend to agree. I’m thinking I’ll keep going a bit longer to push my price up , then let it drift back to a more modest level. Mind you, even where it is, I’m still getting buyers fairly regularly.
I tagged you at my site. Come check it out.
I don’t think I understand the entrecard thing…cause if you have a higher price for your card…who could afford to advertise there? Obviously I should read the instructions…but I hate instructions.
Ian
I strongly recommend getting a life. I am still looking for one. I am always hopeful.
As for Entrecarding, I just cannot work up the enthusiasm to power drop or the like. I would much prefer to do the dishes or wash the floors.
I much prefer when you read and leave comments on my blog, That way I may even reciprocate