I’m not sure if writing about it counts as “fanfare” but … with little fanfare or a do, Entrecard has returned to
Life In the Internet. If you are not familiar with Entrecard, (check it out
here) it certainly is a great way to build traffic to your site … and with a little work can even boost your page rank! But first, a little back story.
My First Go-round with Entrecard
I got signed up with Entrecard right after the site came on line a little over a year ago. Like most of those “early adopters” I spent lots of time getting everything just right and doing what you needed to do to get traffic, namely, dropping my card on other blogs and sites. The short version is this got very boring very fast and of course with my “web development” background, there had to be a better way. Besides, there were more lucrative ways for me to spend my time, right?
Well, lets just suffice it to say that the Entrecard folks and I didn’t exactly see eye-to-eye on my new “card dropping methods” and after some short discussions, I managed to get my account cancelled. “Well fine,” I said, “it was just a time suck anyway!”
Then It Hit Me!
While generating traffic is cool, and everybody likes to look at stats filled with lots of visitors, the real genius of this thing comes at the end of each month. While my earlier “card dropping methods” were working, I was consistently being listed in Top Card Droppers Last Month type posts with a link back to my site! Now if you know anything at all about Google page rank and Search Engine Optimization you know that links are king. Even better are links from similar sites with similar content that link to your keywords! CLICK—lights are on now!
It Can’t Be That Simple Can It
You bet it can! For ranking purposes do you realize how valuable backlinks with PR are? I just finished dropping 100 cards this morning before starting this post. My very unscientific survey using the Search Status Firefox plugin revealed that of those 100 sites I dropped on today, over 70 of them had PR greater than 0. If I rank as a top dropper on 25% of those sites and they post a link for me at the end of the month, that will be 17 quality backlinks with a PR > 0. Awesome!
But I Don’t Care About Page Rank and SEO…I Just Want To Blog
If that’s your story, and you’re stickin with it…fine. There is no shame in that. There are thousands of blogs out on the Internet run by good folks just like you…and if that’s what you want you should do the very best you can with it! Good luck and let me know if I can help. If you are serious about PR & SEO that leads to $$$ … give Entrecard another thought!
