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Archive for June, 2008

Early yesterday, Graham brought up an idea in the Entrecard forums, deciding to organize a comment “bomb” or I guess it is also known as a comment “rush”. The idea is to select a quality post from a member’s blog, and spotlight it on the Entrecard blog. Users will be pointed to the user’s blog and post and then asked to comment on that post. The goal is to give 100 comments to that blog post.

There are many benefits to this comment rush, for both the receiver of the comment rush and those who comment on the receiver’s blog.

Benefits for the Commenter:
-Share your thoughts and critiques on a fellow members blog
-Free exposure, even if it is just a little bit
-Participate and give to the Entrecard Community

Benefits for the Receiver of a Comment Rush:
-Tons of free exposure
-100 quality comments with feedback on the post
-Chance to receive new regular readers and feed subscribers

Of course, if you’re selected for the comment rush, there are greater benefits. Imagine having free exposure to a site with thousands of active members! That should get your motivation up and running, right?

Personally, I think this new comment rush is a great idea. For one, it will help develop a community-like feel to Entrecard. Not that there isn’t a feel already. It’ll also motivate users to produce quality articles for their blog. If you could write an original, quality article for the chance to receive a spotlight on Entrecard, wouldn’t you? It’s a great way to reward those who put a lot of effort into writing something worth reading!

If you want to spotlight one of your posts, send Graham a message!

Entrecard’s First Comment Rush

The plan was to hold the first comment rush this coming Friday, but I guess excitement got the best of Graham and he decided to do it later yesterday, after the response in the forums was overwelmingly positive! So, was it a success, or a failure?

Success!

Before the day ended, the first ever comment rush was organized, produced, and then completed. Ken Armstrong was the first lucky victim of the Entrecard Comment Rush with his post, “Music and Driving“. As of right now, 10 AM Monday, Ken has received over 150 comments on that post. That is truly the work of a helping community! Ken received 150+ comments, tons of exposure, and probably a dozen links to his post and blog.

Now here’s the ultimate question: Will the users of Entrecard continue to comment on this new regular event? Or will momentum rub off and after a few weeks, it’ll take more than a day to get the 100 comments to a blog post? Only time will tell!

Two months worth of giving away free Entrecard credits! Woohoo! Week 7’s winner of 200 ECs is:

Mark of World Wide Travel Blog – Check out this travel blog for regularly updated posts with interesting places and pictures!

Congrats! Your ECs have been sent!

Week 8 Info:

Pot: 321 ECs

Sponsors: Worldwide Travel Blog  (150 ECs) – This weeks winner and sponsor! I guess that equals out to two free links and extra attention in just one post!

Entrance: Comment on this post and you will be entered!

If you’d like to donate to the Weekly Entrecredit Blast, visit my Entrecard profile! Your donation will be put in next week’s pot and you’ll receive a link to your blog! Plus, you’ll still be allowed to enter for a chance to win the pot!

Effective July 1st, this coming Tuesday, Entrecard Quick Drop sites will be banned from Entrecard. These are simple-crafted pages and even entire sites made with nothing but Entrecard widget(s). Also known as Power Dropping, the idea is to easily locate the Entrecard widget(s), making it fast to just drop and leave the empty page. It’s just another way to cheat the system and now the Entrecard Team has decided to penalize those taking advantage.

I repeat: Starting July 1st, all Power/Quick Dropping Websites will be banned from Entrecard. Additionally, any of them that slip through the cracks and eventually caught, well the people that have been using them can be penalized as well.

Do not get confused. If your site is fast loading or your Entrecard widget is in a very prominent location, you won’t be banned. For example, those using the Entrecard Popper plug in on their blog is still acceptable.

I’m back from vacation! That means I’m back with regular dropping! Thanks a lot to those who dropped whilst I could not reciprocate! I appreciate it. Now I can work on gathering sponsors for EntreBlast’s Summer Credit Splash!

This week’s question is related to blogging and vacations:

Do you bring your work with you on vacation? Do you blog while on vacation?

Drop a comment and share your thoughts!

Graham, owner of Entrecard.com, is doing a pretty good job trying to keep a community feel with Entrecard as well as being involved with the users that have made Entrecard successful. One way is by posting a link to his twitter profile. You can follow Graham Langdon on Twitter!

For those who are unfamiliar with Twitter, Twitter is a cool social networking site where you can follow your friends and see what they are doing, and update your friends on what you are up to! It’s a great way to get exposure for blog posts and sites, but it’s also useful in getting to know people you are aware of, like Graham for example.

You can follow me on Twitter too! The Entrecard community is invading Twitter!

So it’s been a bit quite for us in the dropping department this weekend. I apologize for not being able to drop! I’m on vacation with limited, slow internet access and it’s a pain in the butt trying to load some 50 websites! I will try my best to drop this week, but things will be back to normal on Friday when I return home! In the meantime, subscribe to EntreBlast so you don’t miss new posts due to the lack of dropping! See, I’m sure you’ll forget to visit if you’re visit is due to reciprocating a drop. Just because I can’t return your drops this week doesn’t mean I won’t dish out new content!

This week’s winner of 150 ECs is…

fool of foolsville.net – Check out this interesting web blog!

Congrats! Your ECs have been sent!

Week 7 info:

Pot: 200 ECs

Sponsors: Worldwide Travel Blog  (150 ECs) – Check out this blog for cool facts, information, and pictures of various places!

Entrance: A simple comment on this post will get you in!

If you’d like to donate to the Weekly Entrecredit Blast, visit my Entrecard profile! Your donation will be put in next week’s pot and you’ll receive a link to your blog! Plus, you’ll still be allowed to enter for a chance to win the pot!

Two months of doing the weekly poll! Wow wee!

This week, with recent drama in the Entrecard forums, will be focused on the forums.

Do you read or post in the Entrecard forums?

Drop a comment!

Like the name? So the last post mentioned an EntreBlast contest was just basically rambling. I was celebrating the entrance into the top 100k of Alexa and the next thing you know I’m asking for a bunch of different stuff to sponsor a huge giveaway. Well, I’ve now come to my senses and I realize that I don’t want to giveaway a ton of variety of stuff- that would just make it confusing and potentially disastrous. Let’s stick with just Entrecard credits.

Donate to the EntreBlast Summer Credit Splash

You can donate ECs to the contest via my Entrecard profile. Then click on ‘Give Credits to This Site’. Your credits will remain securely in my account and I will distribute all EC prizes to the winners. It’s preferable that you donate in even 00 increments (100, 200, 400, 1000, 5000, etc). Any amount of ECs is appreciated! However, if you want a link to your blog on the sponsors list there is a minimum required! These are set to shorten the list and reward those that helped support the contest the most!

400 or less: Thanks for the donation! You won’t appear on the sponsors list but we’ll still thank you.

500: Minimum to appear on sponsors list. You’ll be on the list but it won’t be required for contest entrants to link to you when they publish the list on their blog. This is to shorten the list so it’s not spammy looking.

1000 (to 4000): Thanks! You’ll appear on the sponsors list and be included in the link-to-sponsors-for-an-entry section.

5000 (to 9000): Awesome! Thanks for sponsoring! You’ll appear higher on the list in a separated section.

10,000+: Wow! You’ll be on the top of the list plus you’ll receive a month’s worth of advertising on EntreBlast for free!

Visit my Entrecard profile if you’re interested!

How would you like to win 10,000 ECs? What if all you had to do was blog about it?

What About Brazil has launched a new monthly contest and is giving away 10,000 ECs to the blog that sends them the most traffic. So, all you have to do is write a blog post either about the contest or the site, and you’re in. There are no specific requirements for writing the blog post, but something brief and sloppy probably won’t attract your readers to check out the blog! The contest’s deadline is July 31st, so you have over an entire month to enter!

Psst… The chances of winning are pretty good right now. Only 3 people have submitted article links in the contest post, which you have to do in order to be entered. You might as well give it a shot! Who knows, you might end up 10,000 ECs richer!