Published on March 27, 2008 by Christian
If I where to say I had found a technique that let’s you drop all of your 300 drops on entrecard fully automated. You could start the “thing” when you go to work and come home to 300 drops. It could be highly customizable so that you could configure it to start with the users that lately has dropped their cards at you and then move on with eg. users in the same group or random.
Forget about powerdropping, chaindropping and so on. Also forget about the Ethical/Moral issues here. Because entrecard is built upon the idea of bloggers visiting each other and leaving their card done in a human way, every technique, even powerdropping breaks this scheme.
A tool that could enable a user with one or many blogs to drop 300 cards for every blog, every day could be of some power. Today Entrecard users could even buy and sell credits. I have seen prices of 10.000 entrecredits as high as 85$.
Lets do some calculation:
1 blog
300 drops = 300 credits.
30 days x 300 drops = 9.000 credits
Lets assume that you get 50-100 drops at your entrecard daily if you drop 300. That is average 75 /day a month.
30 days x 75 drops = 2.250 credits
SUM: 11.250 credits!
2 blogs: 22.500 credits!
3 blogs: 33.750 credits!
If you count that in dollars., you might get (if you are lucky):
1 blog: about 90$!
2 blogs: about 180$!
3 blogs: about 270$!
That beats a LOT of link-exchange/affiliate/adsense/etc programs!
Now, as you can see, you can easily make 270$ a month. How much would you been willing to pay for such a tool? Please comment!
Disclaimer: Just a mindbugging experiment.
Published on March 23, 2008 by Christian
10 First users will get listed here (comment here when it is added).
Users running the Entrelist:
About
As you can see on my right sidebar I have a list of the last Entrecard droppers. It is automatically updated with the last droppers. You can choose to display a list of 1-98 links, where 5 is default. This widget can be useful for both you and your visitors. You don’t have to check your inbox all the time and you show appreciation to the ones that drop by your site!
How to use
Locate your RSS-feed. To do this:
- Log on to Entrecard.com
- Go to your dashboard
- Right-click on the RSS-icon as you can see in the picture
- Choose “Copy Link Location”
- Paste the URL in the code and place it on your webpage (eg. Wordpres: Theme editor)
- Note: Be careful if you are trying to add it as a text-widget in wordpress. You can take a look here at the wordpress support, though it shouldn’t be any problem.
Disclamer: You may use this code on your webpage, but then on your own responsibility. The widget can be removed at any time, without notice. I will try my best not to do that.
Example:
RSS-Location: http://entrecard.com/feeds/inbox/xxx/rss2.0
Then, the code is:
Published on March 16, 2008 by Christian
First, a little introduction. Although we all want to live out the dream of earning all of our income from online advertising, it’s quite obvious that this isn’t done in a day. In this series I will try to share my knowledge in some areas, and maybe learn from the audience trough comments. My knowledge concerns development (university degree & business) & communication (business). A lot of the work involves for me to get inside the users mind, and think like the user so that the interface is intuitive to the users. Watching the users try the interface and learn from the observations is also being used. Okay? So why do I need this info, example me!
You signed up for a text-link-ads program because they paid 0.1$ more in pay-per-click, instead of your earlier images ads. Great! You think, I will now earn more revenue. Though, the result of your converting now resulted in some loss, and you don’t know why.
Color blindness & poor sight
Did you know that one in 12 men, and one in 200 women has some kind of color blindness? You may also think about all the users with poor sight. Let’s say your site has 5000 unique visitors a day, a simply calculation will result (1/12 * 5000) in 416. That means that in a situation 416 potential users may have not seen or have problems with viewing your ads. That’s almost 10% not clicking your ads! In those situation keyword-relation doesn’t mean a thing. What simple tasks can fix these to problems? Read upon color blindness, often some specific colors are subject of color blindness. Use contrast websites. As for users with poor sight, offer a way to increase the text on the site.
Short about ads
There are many ways to place ads, but concerning usability a few things comes to my mind. You may think. Hey! “If I have a blinking banner with strong colors, users will se it and therefore most likely click it.” This might be right, but it must be placed with great care. If you place it alone and badly integrated to the site the users is most likely to ignore the ad subconsciously and proceed on the site, this is done because the users don’t percept the ad as a part of the page. The gestalt principles explains some reasons for this. It also happens if you use (eg.) borders on images you can click, and no borders on images you can’t click. Many ads don’t come with borders, so in that situation your site should not use borders on images that is clickable. This because users won’t percieve the ads as clickable.
Figure 1 - Placement example
The reason this is better is because the user now percieves the information the way we want. Now we need to integrate those ads well and we have a good basic for traffic. Now that you have placed ads, you may have several groups of ads (like shown on the images above) in your page. Maybe in the left and right sidebar. It is very important to distinct the different groupings of ads as they may have quite different results. There are many ways to do that. Find a script that distinct outgoing links, or use the channels setting in Google AdSense. In AdSense you can make different channels for your ads. You can make a channel called “Left sidebar” and another one “Right sidebar”, after some time you might find the reason for that the “Left sidebar” is more effective than the other. This is it for know, I will close with some recommended reading.
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