Does Entrecard Really Work?

Apr 30

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Sometimes we learn what to do by looking at what other blogs are doing. Sure, it’s hard to be the leader when you’re following the pack, but hey, we’re still learning here. (I think it’s called adopting best practices. It’s how we found plugins to make this site more comment-friendly.)

We’ve seen Entrecards around. The web’s version of the business card. (Heck, JohnChow has one on his site, so it can’t be all that bad.) Whenever you see a website that has the entrecard widget, you can click on it to leave your entrecard. Hosting the widget on your site, allows people to leave you their card. Basically, it works on a credit system:

Get credits every time you send or receive a card.
If people want to advertise on your entrecard widget on your site, they’ll pay you in credits.
Once you build up a bank of credits, you can use it to spend credits to advertise on other sites or sell them for real money.
Go around to your favourite sites (which you do anyways) and drop off your entrecard daily.

Why did we sign up for Entrecard? For the same reason why we log into our BlogCatalog account, our MyBlogLog account and our Stumble account before we head out to leave comments on the road. We’re going to socialize anyways, and it doesn’t take that much effort to click on the widget to leave our entrecard.

Does leaving a trail of crumbs work? It does for me. I’ve seen Caroline MiddleBrook around on the other blogs just from seeing her picture in the recent visitors of other blogs. Does she have an entrecard? I couldn’t see it on her site. But she still got my traffic today because I saw her icon in a different social networking widget.

Sometimes, it’s quite comical because I’ll follow a lead from a completely different source and see familiar names and faces. It’s a small world.

Bottom-Line: We’re trying to build traffic to this site by socializing with other bloggers. Plus, we want to leave a trail of cookie crumbs leading back to WebDiggin.com. (Plus, we like to see our little monkey logo get around.) So experimenting with Entrecard is part of the adventure.

Question: Have you tried Entrecard? Does it work for you? Have you ever had anyone advertise on your site or have you ever advertised on someone’s blog?