Thursday, September 4, 2008

Day 10 - earning Entrecard credits

I also wanted to mention earning entrecard credits from the forums in entrecard. Check any forum that sounds like marketing and promotions. Bloggers will pay you to comment, stumble and/or digg their posts. Since commenting on other peoples blogs is a great way to build links and gain traffic anyway, I watch for these offers and frequently hop on them.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Day 9 - just joining social networks - blog catalog, stumble upon, digg

I continue to drop around 20 to 30 entrecards. Additionally, I’m resubmitting this blog to blog catalog. Last time it was rejected because it was too new.

I’ve also joined Digg (HalfFullCup) and StumbleUpon (xmarks1). There are forums on entrecard and blog catalog where you can trade diggs and stumbles. I did that for awhile and got a little traffic but it made me feel dirty. It wasn’t honest traffic. I’m going to build my friends databases on both Digg and Stumble a bit before I try to get traffic. I believe the best way is to Digg and Stumble anything you think is cool as you search the web. Also link to as many people as you find interesting on both networks. After you have built up a good list of friends (more than 30 active members – check to make sure that they are actually digging and stumbling – it won’t help you if they really don’t use the system) and then post you best post. You can call your friends attention to it on both sites. If they like it their activity will bring more people’s attention to it. So for now, I’m just going to build my own activity.