EntrecardThe internet is full of good ways to get traffic to your blog without spending any cash. Entrecard is one of the best methods that I have come across. If you have a blog, I would definitely recommend you check out Entrecard.

Entrecard is a great way to bring traffic to your blog. It is basically a virtual business card. You sign up to Entrecard, and set up an image for your card. Then once you have completed the signup and setup you will be able to get the code to put your entrecard on your blog.

After you put the Entrecard on your blog, people will be able to advertise on your blog using their entrecard. They pay you in Entrecredits. The cost for advertising depends on how many people are in line for it on your blog. The first ad costs 2 Entrecredits, the next costs 4, the next 8, and it doubles for each person after that. Some blogs cost over 4,000 Entrecredits because there is such a long line of advertisers. If you stop getting advertisers for a couple days, your line gets shorter, and the cost goes down.

Selling Advertisements on Entrecard isn’t the only way to earn Entrecredits. You can earn Entrecredits by “Dropping” your card on other blogs. Just go to other blogs with the Entrecard widget, and click “Drop”. You will then receive an Entrecredit for the drop, and so will the person you dropped your card for. Chances are that person will drop one in return. Some blogs will have a “U Drop I Follow” image under their widget. This means that if you drop for them, they will return the favor. Most people will drop a card for you whether they have that image or not though.

Getting Entrecredits isn’t all about the exchange though. In fact, Entrecard actually encourages you to sell Entrecredits for real money! So, you can go around earning a bunch of credits, and just sell them. Or, you can buy credits from other people, and use them to advertise your blog on other bigger blogs.

Here are my Entrecard stats so far (after 4 days of membership):

  • 50 cards dropped on me
  • 134 credits earned via drops
  • 84 cards dropped by me
  • 64 credits to advertise on my blog
  • 4 credits earned via ads
  • 6 ads bought from me
  • 57 clicks from entrecard.com to Buck it All

Now, I have probably spent 20 minutes total on dropping cards. Thats not bad at all for 57 unique visits to a newbie to Entrecard.

I have dropped around 84 cards in the past 4 days, and I have received quite a few drops on my card as well. Some bloggers really don’t think that Entrecard is worth the work put into it. They don’t feel that the traffic brought from it is significant enough for what you put into it. Well, it takes about 2 seconds to drop a card, so I feel that its worth it. Honestly, I feel that any traffic is worthwhile, especially for a new blog.

I will keep  you updated on my experience with Entrecard.