Entrecard is the latest blogging and traffic tool to go viral. Everyone from John Chow to John Cow is using it. I don’t know how I missed out on this interesting new blogging toy to play with. Blog about your Blog is late to the party, but we are jumping in both feet first.

What is Entrecard?

Entrecard offers a basic point system where you can buy and sell 125×125 banner cards on other blogs. These cards can be placed anywhere on your blog. The idea is to exchange traffic. With button banner advertising being so common now, it’s really an excellent idea.

The idea gets a little ‘complex’ but if you break it down, it’s pretty easy.

Dropping Your Card

When you drop your card (the 125×125 banner) on someone else’s blog you get one point and so do they. What you are doing is basically saying that you viewed their entrecard widget. By calling attention to their widget, they can sell their actual advertising for more.

Advertising

To determine how many credits you can sell your space for, it is the number of credits to twice the number of cards dropped on that widget each day. To place an ad on our spot, it currently costs 16 credits. Therefore 8 members have dropped their card.

Each ad runs for 24 hours. We are currently displaying A Frog To Kiss. In another 4 hours or so, we will be displaying our next ad, which happens to be Internet Dreams.

The Most Popular

Of course the most expensive entrecard belongs to none other than John Chow. It currently costs 122 credits per day and I’m sure that number will go up. I expect BAYB to be rivaling some of the other popular entrecards in the days to come.

Be Careful It’s Addicting

Each day you can visit other blogs and “drop your card”. This gives you 1 point. With each point you get, you then can advertise your card on other blogs. Do this everyday and you can be set to advertise on popular blogs. The more popular, the more traffic. We all know, traffic can be addicting!

How Does It Perform?

The most important thing is the traffic. As I mentioned I have only been on it for a day now. What is good about it is that they give you stats on how much traffic you’ve received. What’s bad is, I don’t know where it came from. I would definitely be more interested in finding out which blogs are sending me the traffic. Therefore I could obviously advertise on them again.
So far we’ve received 34 clicks from entrecard.com and 17 clicks from the ads we’ve purchased. Another problem is the quality of traffic. Yes, they are visiting our blog, but they are also just looking for the entrecard widget.

Have you registered to entrecard? If you have make sure to drop your card on ours!

The email subscriber contest has ended. We went from having only 14 email subscribers, all the way up to 78! I imagine we will have a few people unsubscribing, but I plan on having other contests and competitions where we will give our rss feed readers prizes.

The winners are:

76: writetome (at) thesilvas [dot] com

1: 06lisam (at) gmail [dot] com

64: Dreaming to Infinity – Review

The way I will decide the prizes is whoever writes me first gets what they want. If I get no response after 48 hours, I will chose another winner.

Remember the three prizes are:

• 1 month 125×125 banner spot
• 1 month blogroll link
• 1 month rss feed advertisement

Thanks to all our subscribers and to everyone who posted about the contest. We’ve received some great additional prizes for tomorrows contest that I am very happy about.

Mark wrote a quick review about RSSHugger and how you can use it to promote your blog.

Now by posting about their service you can get a free account. Your RSS feed will be listed for free. For people to find your RSS feed they have a listing of the Top 100 feeds. There is only 255 feeds on RSSHugger at the moment, so with a little promotion your feed can get to the top!

Top 100 List

For the top feeds of November BAYB found itself in good company at the top. Within a day or two, we got a few hits per day. Of course to get to the top is going to generate the most traffic.

The best way I found to get a quick boost is to stumble your RSS feed page. This should increase your views, traffic, and ranking.

The obvious other way to promote your feed listing is to mention it like I am doing. I hope you all will visit our page and increase our ranking. The month just started, so start getting your rankings. For anyone using RSSHugger leave us your URL to stumble!

Welcome to another edition of the Weekly Contest Roundup here at Blog About Your Blog. Today we have lots of sweet prizes for you to win including a Nintendo Wii and an iPod Nano, as well as a couple of more interesting ones… plus all the contests are pretty easy to enter! So without further ado:

Red Hot iPod Nano

Franchise Sizzle just opened their doors and have a Red Hot iPod Nano to giveaway. You can get one entry just by making a comment on their blog, but if you want a couple more chances then you can also blog about the contest. An iPod Nano for a comment? Entering this one is a no-brainer!

Exclusive Expired Domains List

This contest appeals to me because it could give someone the opportunity to register some valuable domains, and maybe learn a thing or two about domaining (something which I do as part of my living). DXExpert is going to be giving away 5 exclusive lists each containing 200 expired domains (meaning they will have just become available to register again). If this sounds interesting to you then check out the details here – to enter you just need to blog about the comp.

Nintendo Wii

Nintendo Wii’s are hot gaming machines, I own a Xbox 360 myself, but if I was going to get another it would be the Wii. TrueBlueTitan is giving one away on his blog and to be in to win you can either comment on his blog and also subscribe to his RSS, or make a post about the contest. This one ends on December 14 and you can read more about it here.

Money Making Affiliate Accounts

I bet that a couple of you readers are affiliate marketers and so this contest might be worth a look at. Rich Sage is running a contest where they will be giving away various affiliate accounts that are already making money (up to $5,000 per month), and entering can be as easy as subscribing to their mailing list. The only catch is that the accounts won’t be given away until the end of next year… however still one to keep an eye on I think.

That’s all for this week, but make sure you check out Contest Beat for more contests to win everything from cash, to books, to vouchers and more. Otherwise subscribe directly to our feed for contests delivered to your inbox!

In October we earned 316.10$. The income has remained pretty steady, but I really want to increase it. With Christmas coming up that would definitely be nice.

Traffic

According to statcounter, our traffic was almost 9,000 unique visitors. We had a great day with the RealRank article going crazy on stumbleupon and sphinn.

RSS Feed

Our RSS feed count has been steadily increasing. Thanks to a huge boost in our email subscribers that number has hit the 500 mark. To end November we reached 528 readers and 75 email readers. That’s 100 increase from last month.

Popular Articles

Our most popular articles for the month include:

• Arrival and Departure Traffic in Realtime with FEEDJIT
• Top 20 Contest Blogs
• Future of Blogging
• Does McDonalds Pay More than Blogging?
• Blogging Fingers is Sold
• RealRank Won’t Work With Google PR

Earnings

Now onto the good part, the earnings.

Google Adsense: 13.27$
TLA Referral: 25$
PayPerPost: 48.50$
Sponsored Review: 39.00$
Sponsored Review Referrals: 10$
Private Ads: 120$
Direct Reviews: 40$
ScratchBack: 8.84$
Kontera: 3.90$

That brings our monthly total to $308.51. *sigh*.

Advertising

Blogroll We are offering two more spots for 10$ per month.

RSS Feed You can also advertise at the bottom of the site feed for only 10$ per month. We have 528 readers! That’s a great rate.

Banner We have 125×125 banner space available. For one month we are looking for 25$ per month to get it started. The max will be 4 banners.

If you are interested in any of these please use our contact form and get in touch with me.

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ScratchBack is a method of purchasing links on another person’s blog and do so without being penalized as these links are nofollow.

Specifically, Scratchback is a widget you place in your sidebar that serves as a type of ad placement/blogroll. People who want their link to be included in your list can do so by clicking the link at the bottom of the widget and make the appropriate payment.

The cool thing is, YOU get to set the price. What’s more, you can decide to have every submission to be approved by you before it gets displayed. So while you can allow people to submit their links on your blog without your approval, it’s not something I would recommend.

If you’d like to see what it looks like, then click over to my blog to take a peek. You’ll find it in the far right sidebar near the top.

I’ve never been a fan of the “buy me a beer” thing or some variation of it. But with ScratchBack the purchaser is getting a link in return, which makes me feel better about the transaction.

Get in BAYB’s Top Spots for Only 2$ 

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Magazine themes are making a stronger presence on the Internet for bloggers. What’s a magazine theme? It’s one that provides snippets on your blog’s home page for one thing, so readers can see a variety of things going on in your blog, not just a summary of posts you’ve made.

To give you a better idea of what one looks like, I’ve rounded up three magazine themes that I think are pretty cool. Only one of them has to be purchased, but I think you’ll see why when you take a look.

Mimbo Magazine (free)
Mimbo is very clean and a nice balance between text and images. I also love the drop-down menus in the nav bar at top.

Revolution – Magazine Style (pay)
This is the one that’s pay-for, but honestly, you’ll get no argument from me. Revolution is a darn good layout that’s well-thought out. There are two other themes that are variations that you’ll find when you work the demo — all equally as nice. Single and mutli-use licenses are available depending on your needs.

Cybercafe Sandbox (free)
A very narrow theme, but still possesses elements that make it a magazine theme.