The Entrecard Blog Startup Project
Casey | August 18, 2008 Yesterday Graham unleashed a new project, called the Startup Blog Project. The goal is to prove how beneficial Entrecard can be for any blogger.
How it’ll be done: Graham is going to use Entrecard like any other blogger- dropping on cards and using those credits to advertise to related blogs. He won’t be buying credits, or giving himself free credits because he could easily do so. Howeer, us normal Entrecard users can’t just give ourselves free credits, so he’s going to play the game fair.
In the end, Graham’s out to prove that Entrecard IS a great way to build a blog. Once he starts dropping, others will visit his site. He’ll eventually gain regular readers and subscribers. Then, after his blog has been live for some time, he’ll start receiving backlinks, search engine traffic, and social bookmarking traffic. Eventually, his traffic won’t come from Entrecard as much anymore.
I’ve already proven this idea. EntreBlast is based on Entrecard. For a while, all my traffic was from dropping and being dropped on- 100% Entrecard traffic. Now, almost 30% of my traffic is from direct and search engines combined. Overall, Entrecard is less than 25% of EntreBlast’s source of traffic.
To avoid skewing the project, I won’t be linking to Graham’s case study blog. You’ll have to check out the Blog Startup Project post yourself.
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Interesting. I’m going to have to keep reading about how his project turns out. Thanks for the info!
I think I’m gonna have to agree with this. At first, Entrecard is all about driving traffic to blogs, but as the blog grows older, traffic just comes from different sources. I am actually thankful to Entrecard because at first, I thought the value of a blog comes from age, but as I go through different sites to drop cards, I learn lots of things about improving blog life. I owe so much to Entrecard!
Entrecard really has been very useful for smalltime bloggers. A little EC magic and our ranks will gradually go up!
I am looking forward to the day when this theory comes TRUE in my blog’s case. Thanx
I’m with kaydee, I’m new to EC, so I’m looking forward to all my drops and advertising paying off!
Entrecard has helped my site gain the much-needed rank upliftment. I’m not sure any other platforms or networks can do what it has done to my blog so far.
Kirhat — We are on the same page here. I just opened a new blog, and if not for Entrecard, for sure the blog will just sit there. I wonder why I didn’t know about this when I started blogging. =)
Aside from Entrecard, mybloglog and stumble upon also helped, but I sometimes wonder which facilitated which. Did my site got stumbled more often because of EC or is it the other way around?
I believe I have MyBlogLog, but truth be told, I still don’t know its potentials. Whereas Entrecard’s effect on the blogs are clearly seen.
I’m optimistic with the project. Entrecard has been bringing a good amount of traffic to my blog.