April Top Entrecard Droppers

It's gratitude time once again!

First, I would like to thank this group who deserves some link lovin' for being my consistent Entrecard droppers for the month of April. Bloggers who, despite my utter delinquency in dropping back, took time to visit me several times last month. As a way of showing my gratitude, I have advertised on these sites, regardless if they carry EC paid ads on them or not:

verITableLIFE

ik.my
Programming Made Easy
Mr Soleh’s Outburst
Warcraft Blog
On The Bricks
First Time
Freelunch Comics
Jean sQuared
Beethoven Midi

On the other hand, a new group of lovely people was added to my list of Followers:

Please click on the icons/avatars to visit their cool sites!

And to everyone else who continuously support, read and subscribe to this blog along with my Entrecard friends and Followers, my sincere thanks and wishes of peace and blessings!

***~ DOMO ARIGATO ~***

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My February Top Droppers

It's that time of the month again to spread some link lovin' to my top regular droppers. Thank you for always visiting here even during times when I couldn't visit you back. You all deserve the special mention and to share my favorite sinful Ube Macapuno cake!

I will try my best to do my regular rounds again, after I finish a couple of important stuff offline. Anyways, more power to your blogs and see you again next month! :)

TOP DROPPERS FOR FEBRUARY

Warcraft Blog 31 Lola's Diner 31 ik.my 31 Programming Made Easy 31 Mr Soleh’s Outburst 31 Freelunch Comics 31 verITableLIFE 30 Of Trends and Aces 28 My World in My Own Word 27 SkipRatt The Mountain Bike Enthusiast 26

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Entrecard Top Droppers for January

For the last few months I've been missing out on Entrecard dropping due to a lot of offline work. I used to drop non-stop until the system tells me that I've already reached the maximum limit for the day. I'm thankful that my Entrefriends (I made it up, okay) still 'drop' by despite my inconsistent drop backs.

Now it's time to give out some link love for my Top Droppers for January. The number of drops are placed at the bottom right corner of their respective ECs. Do visit their great blogs!

Mr Soleh’s Outburst
LadyCoder
Programming Made Easy
verITableLIFE
Warcraft Blog
Lola's Diner
Windmill on the Hill
My World in My Own Word
C'est La Vie
Dunia soer

Thank you guys! Until the next Top Dropper Day! :)

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Entrecard 102: Next to the Basics

Entrecarders know by heart the importance of spending their precious credits on advertising, with the hope that their time-consuming and sometimes carpal-tunnel-syndrome-causing Entrecard dropping will not be wasted in vain.

If you are a newbie who don’t have enough credits to advertise on a popular site, you are only left with 3 choices:

1. Drop like crazy! – A fast and sure means to amass credits.

2. Hope and pray the advertising rate for the blog you got your eye on lowers – Though highly unlikely, especially if the owner is a very active Entrecard member, it’s worth a shot. Just put it on your watch list and be ready to seize the moment when it does happen.

3. Purchase credits – you should only purchase credits from trustworthy sources. When I say trustworthy sources, you should foremost consider the sellers’ background:

- Is the seller an Entrecard member?
- Is he/she a new member with a young or spam-looking blog?
- Is he/she a dedicated/serious dropper or a drop master?
- Does it cost a lot to advertise on his/her site?
- Does he/she have a high popularity ranking in Entrecard?
- Is he/she selling at an outrageously low rate per 1,000 credits?
- Did he/she win a large amount of credits from a contest somewhere?
- Is the seller leaving Entrecard that’s why he/she is selling all the credits?

Answers to the above questions would be helpful in discerning if a seller is indeed capable of selling genuine credits acquired through valid means.

If a seller is just a new Entrecard member, has a young and spam-looking blog and sells 5,000 ECs for $3.00, then you might have to think twice.

Of course, the most reputable seller would be Entrecard itself, with the current selling price of $9.50 for 1,000 credits.

Entrecard Advertising

We don’t know how our blogs perform in terms of getting clicks for our EC advertisers unless we ask them how it turned out, when we get repeat business from them, or when other thoughtful bloggers do their gratitude link love for top performing ads and you are on the list.

Not all advertising days are created equal in the EC world. Advert clicks highly depend on a blog’s traffic for the day. If it has a good advertising day (clicks from its own EC adverts placed that day), your advert on that site has a greater chance of getting visited too.

There are only a handful of sites that consistently yield good results; while most sites have a balance of high and low performing days. So before advertising, try to keep these in mind first, before taking the plunge:

1. Not all expensive and popular sites give a guaranteed high number of clicks. Even if it’s too intriguing and tempting to advertise on an 8,192 site, it’s wise to think a couple of times before you let go of those hard-earned credits.

2. Don’t underestimate sites that have low ad rates, I have already experienced getting 100+ clicks from a 16 EC site.

3. Spend what you can only afford and set a reasonable ceiling.

4. Make the most from your credits by purchasing a mix of high and low-priced adverts from different categories and cross your fingers that you get little or no rejected ads.

5. A good friend advised that it’s also helpful to check the site’s Alexa ranking and number of subscribers before placing an ad. Good numbers give hope, but not assurance that your ad will be given enough exposure. You can download your Alexa Toolbar HERE.

6. Some sites have a naturally charming ‘clicky’ feel regardless of where the EC widget is placed. If it gives you that feeling, then by all means, advertise on it!

Why You Should Consider Advertising on Your Other Site

If you have confidence in someone’s site to drive traffic to yours, why not be confident in advertising in your other site/s as well? Entrecard allows us to do so, in good faith, and not to be used as a way to manipulate our advertising rates.

I have tried it with the little lady’s blog and hers in mine. Take a look:

So explore that option for it just might surprise you. Besides, no matter how high the price is, or even if it doesn’t perform well, still, your credits go back to you.

See what hard times bring? Ingenuity!


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My Entrecard Gratitude List

It is the 1st of May! And what better way to start the month, than by posting my own gratitude list to recognize the top droppers on my Entrecard during the last 30 days!

60 Were Enough	29
Pixelated Thoughts	27
Aerten Art	26
Absolutely Mom's	26
Sonnie's Porch	25
Urutora no Hi	25
On The Bricks	25
ahkong.net	24
Is a mans world	24
Scramories	24

I would like to thank each and every blogger who spares a little time each day to visit and 'drop' by here. I really appreciate it!

I feel great today (notice the exclamation points?)! I don't know if it is due to the fact that it rained (as it always does every May 1st of every year), PGMA's announcement of the 10% salary increase, or maybe because it is barely 9 days away before my birthday?! *hint* :D

Entre… What?

A lot of raves are doing the rounds lately in the blogosphere about EntreCard, and the wonder it does in bringing traffic to one’s site. I am just too glad that I became a part of it pretty early in my blogging stint, and has benefited from the practice of ethical reciprocity in its good community.

For the benefit of some who are not yet familiar with EntreCard, it is basically a social advertising network that grants you a digital card that you can drop into other blogs’ widget, and functions pretty much like a business card. Most of the members reciprocate by visiting your blog and dropping on your widget too. The system is mutually beneficial because both the dropper and the receiver get points for participating, which they can later use for advertising, exchange for cash, or getting other cool stuff at the EntreCard shop.

I usually drop around a hundred per day, but there was a particular day last week that I have dropped almost 300 cards! I don’t know what has gotten into me that I lost track of time and just visited one blog after the other. I guess that earned me this status in the community: “A dedicated dropper, with a hint of addiction.” Cool, huh?

Well, it was actually a good thing that I’ve seen and read a lot of blogs because I stumbled upon articles that included my blog among the list of regular EntreCard droppers. Thanks to Wangbu of Hulag, for including me in the famous EntreCard Drop Wall and Lisa of Lisa C Writes (to name a few) for the lovely articles you wrote. I really appreciate the special mention.

Apart from getting new messages in the widget after dropping a card (from the usual “Thanks!”, when you reach 50, it will say “Go!Go!”, then “Alright!” on the 100^th drop, “Wicked!” on the 150^th, “Yeehah!” when you reach 200 and "Awesome" thereafter), there was a recent update about the advertising system that did not make everyone happy. According to them, “this new pricing system will give a more accurate representation of supply and demand for different people’s advertising spots. It no longer has anything to do with drops, but is now based solely on how many other people want an ad on your site.” To learn more about this, please visit the EntreCard Blog.

Nevertheless, if you haven’t registered yet, then it’s high time that you do! You are missing out on the additional free traffic that it can drive to your site, plus the opportunity of meeting bloggers from all over the world and learning something new from their respective blogs.

So catch it while it's hot! After all, registration is for FREE.

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