Why avoid EC quick drop lists?
I’ve already showed you how to create your own targeted Entrecard “drop list” on your Firefox browser as a better alternative to using those quick drop lists that have become very popular among EC users.
Here is an even more compelling reason to avoid some of those “quick drop” sites:
VIRUSES!!!
With those “quick drop” lists you don’t get to specify which sites pop up on your browser. Not surprisingly some of them contain viruses, pop-ups, and other unwanted intrusions. These sites aren’t supposed to be Entrecard members, and the quick drop list owners aren’t always quick to remove them from their sites.
How to get targeted Entrecard traffic
If you’re an active Entrecard user, you might have noticed that a significant percentage of your Entrecard traffic comes from blogs on which you dropped your card.
Participating in drop clubs is one way to get lots of ECs quickly, but none of the drop clubs I’ve come across organize sites by category.
Why is it important to group sites into categories?
You might want to drop your card on only those sites that are related to yours, so that those bloggers who return the favor by visiting your blog are more likely to be genuinely interested in your content.
Here is an easy way to create your own EC “drop list” on your Firefox browser:
1. Go to Entrecard.com and search for blogs that are related to yours. You might search for the most popular blogs within your niche.
2. Visit each blog from the search results and look for the EC widget on each site.
3. Bookmark sites that load relatively fast and display EC widgets at prominent page locations. You’ll want to place the bookmarked sites into separate folders, each containing no more 10 or 20 sites (or 5 for slow internet connections). You might name your folders Entrecard1, Entrecard2, Entrecard3, and so on. If you put 10 sites in each folder, you’ll end up with 30 or more folders containing only sites that are related to yours.
4. Once you’ve bookmarked your favorite sites, click on “Bookmark” on your Firefox browser menu. Next move your mouse cursor to the Entrecard folder containing the sites you want to visit (e.g. Entrecard1) and right-click on the folder to bring up the pop-up menu. Then click on “Open All in Tabs” to open all sites within that folder on your Firefox browser. Now you can drop your custom targeted “drop list”.
You’ll want to update your bookmarks regularly, adding relevant blogs and removing those that load too slowly or bury their EC widgets within clutters of ads or in hard-to-find locations.
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5 Reasons Why Your Blog Sucks
1. Your post titles suck.
As the saying goes, first impressions count. They count when you’re out on your first date, when you go for a job interview, and when you try to get a website visitor to read past the first line of your blog post.
Nowadays, with many visitors arriving at blogs through advertising networks like Entrecard and Adgitize, you have really only a few seconds to make a good impression. And your blog is competing with thousands of others vying for reader attention.
Your post title needs to be relevant and descriptive, but it also needs to jump out and grab the reader’s attention right away if they’re to continue to read your article. While there is no magic formula for coming up with a killer title, here are a few pointers to keep in mind when titling your entries.
“How to” titles are generally effective as many people visit blogs to find free information to accomplish a specific task like backing up a Wordpress database file or monetizing their blogs.
Did I mention free? Some words are inherently more attention-grabbing through their abilities to evoke certain feelings and emotions. Free is probably the most over-used word in advertising, but it continues to be a highly effective attention grabber. Truth be said, nothing in life is really free, which probably explains why people are always looking for something that is. Other attention getting words include killer, amazing, and even suck.
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Automate your blog commenting campaigns
An important aspect of blogging is that it is a two-way, peer-to-peer communication medium. To get your blog read by others, you must actively engage your readers and build mutually beneficial relationships with other bloggers.
One way to get others to know about your blog is to leave comments on their blogs. I regularly read blogs not only to get ideas and inspiration, but also to reach out to other bloggers and promote my own blog. Leaving relevant, on-topic comments on other people’s blogs is a source of both direct traffic and one-way links back to your own site.
But blog commenting can be a tedious process. A few days ago I stumbled across a blog commenting software that relieves much of the headache involved in finding blog posts and leaving comments on them. With BlogCommentDemon, I can find hundreds of blogs that are related to my topic of interest and quickly leave comments on them. This piece of software is the only one of its kind with a comment tracking system. You will be able to track if your comments are approved.
Don’t get me wrong; I don’t advocate spamming in any way, shape, or form. I am not suggesting that you buy this software to leave “great post…I agree” comments to thousands of blogs. But if you want to make life a little easier, BlogCommentDemon is the way to go.
Here are some of the features of BlogCommentDemon:
- Track your comments to check if they are approved.
- Deep crawl a website for more similar pages.
- Sort blogs according to TLD, PageRank, Dofollow/Nofollow.
- Scan the number of comments and outgoing links on a blog page.
- Random proxy server support.
- Dashboard showing all your recent dofollow blogs.
- Ability to add and organize the blogs as favorites.
- Auto-fill the comment field.
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