But is it productive? Hard to say. We’ve landed on some interesting sites that we’ve stopped to check around. Some of those people have landed back here and become subscribers.

We’ll see how long we keep up with the entrecard game. We haven’t started to advertise on other blogs yet, so that’s the next step for us once we build up some credits.

Some people laugh when they hear companies promoting Alexa ranking because they know that the ranking system is biased towards industries filled with computer-savvy people that have the alexa toolbar downloaded. (So tech sites tend to do disproportionally well.)

Other people laugh at Alexa because they say you can game the system. We haven’t tried, but apparently you can download software to refresh a webpage every couple of minutes. (I think it’s used to check your bid on an online auction). Because your Alexa rank is affected by how many unique IP addresses visit your site every day, if you install an anonymous proxy, you can trick Alexa into thinking you are someone else every time your webpage refreshing software reloads your page.

We can’t figure out if this strategy is a scam because most of the products we looked into cost money to use. So we never bothered to find out.

Thanks for the info on Entrecard, I’m going to try it now.

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