Tag Archives: Entrecard

Entrecard after a Month

April 15, 2009 – 5:56 pm

In my narcissistic quest to find more traffic I have learned a few absolute truths. The biggest one is this: “Nothing I can ever invent will bring me more traffic than the existing tools around me.” In the spirit of this truth, I have been exploring those services and tools that currently exist to help bloggers get traffic.

By Damien Riley | Posted in Blogging A to Z | Also tagged traffic | Comments (3)

Manage Your Comments: Recaptcha In, Akismet Out

July 15, 2008 – 9:46 pm

Akismet, the native WordPress comment spam protection service, spams a lot of good comments on my blog. I don’t always have the time to check it for false-negatives. As a result, I probably have missed at least some comments from many great writers, friends, and visitors. I’ve suffered with it long enough. Today I deactivated it and now I’m using Recaptcha. In the future I may use them both in concert with one another.

By Damien Riley | Posted in Reviews | Also tagged akismet, blogosphere, comments, Discussions, networking, plugin, Recaptcha, spam protection, Wordpress, wordpress plugin | Comments (0)

Suggestive and Summative Titles Make Bloghoppers Stay

April 9, 2008 – 1:02 pm

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I see the biggest challenge to blog authors today as keeping visitors on their site long enough to have an impact through their writing. I’ve seen and heard the effective traffic brought on by games and gimmicks for shiny items like designer jewelry. I wonder if that traffic really reads their stuff though. [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged art, blog, Blogging A to Z, blogosphere, brain, Creating, creative thought, ec, electronic medium, gist, idea, initial reaction, innovate, intention, patience, personality, reading, social norm, SUMMATIVE, teacher, Writing | Comments (0)

Entrecard's New Price System: Deal? or No Deal?

April 8, 2008 – 1:12 pm

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I wrote just days ago about how to choose Entrecard advertisers. It’s still valid except for one thing, cheap doesn’t mean what cheap used to mean. Here’s an excerpt from the article on their blog below:
Written on April 7th, 2008 by Graham
Today we release our long-awaited modification to the pricing system.
It’s going to [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged ads, blog, blogger, how to, internet business, marketing, sidebar, social networking | Comments (0)

Get More Ads that Count out of Entrecard for less EC's

April 7, 2008 – 9:54 am

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What I have read in the FAQ’s at Entrecard, and my own experience bears it out, is that the EC cost to advertise on a site is not proportionate to that site’s traffic.  It is based on how many sites they drop on.
For this reason, as you consider what sites to advertise on within Entrecard, [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged blog, tips | Comments (0)

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