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Entrecard: Advertise Your Blog for Free!

It’s hard to get exposure for your blog in today’s bubbling melting pot of a blogosphere.

And it’s even harder if you’re a new blogger just starting out. Build it and they will come just doesn’t work.

Well there’s a great little blog advertising scheme that might just help you out.

It’s called Entrecard and it’s been around for about six months or so, although I’ve only just recently cottoned on to it myself.

This is the way it works.

You sign up your blog at the Entrecard site and you upload a 125×125 pixel graphic which is your blog’s advertisement.

It creates a piece of code for you that you copy and past into a text widget and display on your blog. If you look over on my sidebar you can see what I mean.

Now as you hop around the blogosphere, whenever you see an Entrecard widget you click on the bar at the bottom. This is called ‘dropping your card’. It’s the same principle as leaving your calling card with someone. And every time you drop your card you get credits in your account. The more you drop, the more credits you build up.

Other people will drop on you and they will also request advertising on your blog. When that happens, your graphic will be replaced by their graphic for a day. This also earns you more credits. And you have to approve or reject their request before it will appear on your blog. That means you don’t wind up with links to sexy photo sites or other inappropriate ads on your blog.

And what do you do with all these credits you’re accumulating?

Well you find blogs that are also Entrecard members and that you think are likely to have a readership that would be interested in your blog and you request an ad spot with them.

Easy peasy.

Now I’ve only been playing with this for a week so I’m no expert. But one of things I’ve noticed is that a lot of people put the Entrecard widget a long way down on their sidebar. Personally I wouldn’t bother placing an ad where it probably won’t be seen by anyone. So I recommend that if you decide to join, you place your widget in a spot where it gets good exposure. If people don’t want to advertise on your blog then you won’t build your credits as fast.

And if you can accumulate a lot of credits quickly you can start advertising on more prominent blogs (their credit advertising rate will be higher) and that will obviously give you more exposure.

And all of this has cost you nothing.

Plus it’s a bit of fun hunting for the Entrecard Widgets on all the blogs you go to.

So if you’re looking to get some extra exposure for your blog but you don’t have dollars to spend, why not check out Entrecard. You have nothing to lose. Just click on the Gold Bar at the bottom of my Entrecard Widget and you’ll be taken to the registration page.

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