Entrecard has been one of the good sources of traffic for most Entrecarders [users]. Some good tools are available to enhance the functionality of Entrecard and help the users boost their traffic through Entrecard.
WordPress Plugins:
1. Entrecard Popper. “It’s a WordPress Plugin that pops your Entrecard up to the top middle of the page when a user comes from an Entrecard surfing site, otherwise it stays where you put it.”
2. EntreDroppers. This plugin creates a list of the Entrecard droppers to your blog. This plugin uses the RSS feed of your Entrecard inbox.
Other Widgets:
1. You Drop, I Link. This widget works like a blogroll and displays 50 blogs that dropped on your Entrecard widget.
2. CreateElf also has recent drops widget which works similarly with the EntreDroppers plugins.
You can also easily list your latest Entrecard droppers by using your widgetized theme. AskOwen has a detailed steps on how to easily add this widget on your WordPress blog.
Browsers:
1. CreateElf’s Entrecard Browser lets you easily browse other users’ site.
2. SiteHoppin lets you browse the Entrecard network.
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If you’re stuck, or can’t find the right mood to get into your writing, then here’s a great exercise that will get you right into the writing flow. It’s important that you have a topic in mind before you start.
Start your word processor, and open a new page.
Now, keep in mind that this is an exercise. Nobody will ever see what you’re writing. Just begin writing a page. Do not correct any spelling or grammar mistakes, just keep typing what comes up in your mind when you think about your topic.
Write until you are finished with the first page. Now look at the page that you’ve just written. Check your copy, and try to find the good ideas, the parts that read easy.
This is the style that you’ll use next. Now, simply delete this page, and start with a new one. This time, you should try to use the style and ideas of your first writing, and you’ll soon feel the flow come.
Writing will begin to feel like fun. You may find that you have written far more than you imagined you could, in quite a short period of time.
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Last November 2007, I made a switch to paid hosting account from enjoying almost a year of service from my free host for worries of losing my site as I’ve experienced from my previous free hosts.
Recently, this blog and my whole hosting account were on hiatus. I had experienced two account suspensions from my web host (WebHostingBuzz) and as I’ve already stated, site suspension is one of the worst nightmares a blogger could experience. The suspensions were due to server (CPU) resource abuse. Apparently, some poorly-scripted WordPress plugins that I’ve been using caused most of the server resource abuse. It’s painful to see how my blog income abruptly fell from it’s usual over $10 per day to only $6 per day. This has made me decide to upgrade my account to a semi dedicated hosting. It costs me $35 per month, it’s way more expensive that my previous hosting account which costs only $6/month, however the security and assurance of not experiencing another blogger’s nightmare is worth the cost.
What Are The Advantages of a Dedicated Server or a Semi-dedicated server?
The advantages of a dedicated server can best be described by the following analogy:
Suppose you wanted an automobile. You could not afford to buy one for yourself, so you decided to go in with four friends and everyone would own a piece of the automobile. This meant that although it was cheaper for everyone, they all had to share the car. A schedule would be worked out and everyone would abide by the schedule of when they could use the car.
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Some basic guidelines on blogging, if you use a service blogger.com they have their own terms and conditions for posting content. You can’t just post anything, so always read the t&c’s. If you don’t follow their rules, your blog will probably get deleted.
If you host a blog on your own hosting account, using software like WordPress. You have full control over the content you post, so your blog won’t get deleted.
What are the DOs and DON’Ts of blogging?
First the DOs:
• Do put pictures and multimedia sources to enhance the content. Could either be a vlog, photoblog, etc.
• Do base your posts with a good category structure to make it easy to find content for a particular topic.
• Do put paragraphs and sub-ideas. It’s not entertaining to read one block of manuscript. Digest it into pieces.
• Do create mutual communication between you and your readers. Answer queries without leaving your readers hanging for an answer.
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Promotion is the most important way to get traffic to your blog that even SEO giants agree with. There are different ways that you can promote your blog.
1. Submit your site to web directories
Web directories were the first source of traffic for websites, before the power of search engines was discovered. In fact, Google started out as web directory. Nowadays, the importance of web directories is on building quality links highly valued by search engines.
2. Promote your site through writing for article directories
Article submission is a good way to generate relevant links to your website. Be sure to include your links on your resource box. Article submission is said to have a viral effect. If your article gets noticed, other website owners of similar niche your article is about, they will post it on their websites, giving you links.
3. Advertise your site.
Entrecard is an innovative way to advertise your website. It gives the smaller blogs to get noticed. You can take advantage of the free advertising offered by AdGridwork.
4. Be social.
The power of social networks such as Twitter, Stumble Upon, YouTube, etc. are now exploited by webmasters and internet marketers to promote their website or products.
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Can I use the Google Adsense Program if I Do Not Have a Personal Website? 
You don’t have to have your own website to use Google Adsense. Google doesn’t usually approve personal pages but that is not written in stone. Consult Google Adsense support pages for more information on what kinds of pages are acceptable. If selling a product or service doesn’t appeal to you, you might consider blogging.
Blogging initially meant web log but has gradually come into its own. There are as many different kinds of blogs as there are blogs themselves. A blog can be like a cyberjournal in that you make daily “journal” entries or it can be more like a newsletter set up to inform or communicate with other people. There are several blogging sites in cyberspace that will allow you to create your own blog pages and have targeted Google Adsense ads running on them.
A few of the most popular :
- Writingup.com
- Blogger.com
- Bloggerparty.com
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