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The Aussie Entrecard Conspiracy

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 9th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips

Well, it’s not really a conspiracy in that we’re not linkswapping, but there are a group of us on the Australian Bloggers Forum who use Entrecard to promote our blogs. You can see the Entrecard widget in my left hand sidebar - it advertises a different Entrecard user blog every day.

Entrecard is a way of advertising your blog on other blogs - advertising costs points, gained by:

  • dropping your entrecard on other blogs,
  • when other people drop their entrecard on your blog, and
  • you advertise other blogs.

There is a variety of other ways to get points - including swapping them for goods and services - if you’re interested, look at the Entrecard site.Janet from Discovering Australia has a list of Australian blogs using Entrecard:

You can see that there are quite a range of blogs represented - from the very new right through to Problogger.net.

Are you using Entrecard and living in Australia? If you aren’t in the list, let me know, and I will add your blog URL.

UPDATE: The people have spoken and I have responded - to Janet’s list it is my great pleasure to add:

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15 Responses »

  1. Ian (9 comments.) on January 9th, 2008 at 7:34 pm:

    Andrew - you can add me to that list.

  2. Lightening (20 comments.) on January 9th, 2008 at 8:16 pm:

    *sob* How come I’m not on the list?????? *sob*

  3. AndrewBoyd on January 10th, 2008 at 11:05 am:

    Hi Ian, and Lightening,

    done! Added :)
    I was just working off Janet’s list - will keep an eye on the forums from now on, promise :)
    Cheers, Andrew

  4. Lightening (20 comments.) on January 10th, 2008 at 11:12 am:

    Thanks Andrew. :-)

    I can’t seem to find your entrecard widget which means I can’t drop a card for you. Are you still using it?

  5. AndrewBoyd on January 10th, 2008 at 11:14 am:

    Hi Lightening,

    strangely, the Aussie Blogger’s Forum icon in the right hand sidebar forced the left hand sidebar out and down - don’t ask me why :)
    Fixed now, Entrecard is visible above the fold again.

    Best regards, Andrew

  6. Lightening (20 comments.) on January 10th, 2008 at 11:45 am:

    Yep, all looks good now. I wasn’t sure if it was my browser as I’ve had trouble with some other sites. I had to resize the ABF icon for my own sidebar.

  7. AndrewBoyd on January 10th, 2008 at 12:53 pm:

    Hi Lightening,

    thanks :)
    This is what comes of adding things in a hurry and not checking them - weird stuff happens (inevitable) that I didn’t notice (very evitable!).

    Just updating the other post for the changed size in the code now.

    Best regards, Andrew

  8. Today’s Entrecard Blogger is… at On Blogging Australia on January 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pm:

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  9. James (1 comments.) on January 10th, 2008 at 6:26 pm:

    another aussie blog here..

  10. AndrewBoyd on January 10th, 2008 at 8:30 pm:

    Hi James,

    done :)
    Feel free to jump onto the Australian Bloggers Forum Entrecard thread and add yourself there too - or let me know and I will :)
    Best regards, Andrew

  11. Ian (9 comments.) on January 29th, 2008 at 6:43 pm:

    I see now that they have a tab on the campaigns page which lists the nearest blogs to you, based on location. Could be useful?

  12. AndrewBoyd on January 29th, 2008 at 7:14 pm:

    Hi Ian,

    bloody oath it could be useful :)

    I wish they’d send an email out to all users when they add a useful feature like this - I for one would be very happy to receive them! :)

    Best regards, Andrew

  13. Ian (9 comments.) on January 29th, 2008 at 11:36 pm:

    There’s also a nice new table at the bottom of the stats page that tells you the clicks per credit for the ads you’ve run. I think it shows the top 10 or something like that.

  14. AndrewBoyd on January 30th, 2008 at 6:45 am:

    Thanks Ian,

    another very good idea from the Entrecard crew. It would be interesting if they moved to a little more sophisticated analytics setup, and maybe allowed common access to the information (so that everyone could tell who the best ad deals are).

    Best regards, Andrew

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