Metro Dude

I’m giving away some Entrecard Credits (actually 448 to be precise) to the first three people who comment on this post, but let me tell you why I’m doing this first.

Another blogger, actually you probably already know him, its BloggerNoob no less, is holding a contest on his blog for all bloggers to sell themselves and be in the draw to win $10 and the possibility of BloggerNoob paying you to put his advert on your blog.

Now I know $10 doesn’t seem like very much however I have a goal of being able to make a part time income from this very blog and I’ll take advice from anyone who’s already been there and done that and who at least on the face of it seems to have been mildly successful.

So I return to the reason for this post, you see I want that $10, I don’t need it, but I’m hungry to win a contest and since my blog is so new I don’t have any statistics to show how many people look at my blog. Winning this contest will demonstrate to Bloggernoob and all the people who visit his blog why I should be taken seriously.

Let me tell you what I’ve observed, and if you’re an advertiser no doubt you’ll be impressed, hopefully enough to buy a slot on my Scratchback widget, or maybe even leave a comment asking to talk. So, without further ado, this blog was started on the 11th April 2008, very new I’m sure you’ll agree, yet in this time I’ve generated 19 posts including this one, and managed to attract 35 comments and 1 trackback.

Bloggernoob should be impressed by that, but there’s more. I’m also active in Entrecard and I regularly place advertisements on other Entrecarder blogs and my Entrecard activity has resulted in 114 clicks from ads I’ve placed, but more impressively, 1074 clicks from Entrecard to me.

Entrecard has been good to me and I’m trying to learn how to use it properly, this is why my Entrecard widget is a bit further down the page than my scratchback. You see I work hard for my traffic, just like BloggerNoob does, and advertising on Entrecard is cheap, it requires no money just a little effort. And this is one of the reasons I think advertising on my blog is such a great investment. I actively work my traffic but paid advertisers get what they deserve, the top spot.

If I get interest from other advertisers then the Entrecard widget will slowly sink further down. At the moment Entrecard advertisers get a bargain, a low priced blog with the widget above the fold but this can’t last forever.

So with all that effort I’m expending getting traffic you’d think my advertisers wouldn’t need more from me, and yet I still do more. I’m active in the BlogCatalog forums and I regularly visit other BC profiles and their blogs looking for bloggers to befriend. Whenever I can I leave a comment so I’m building up the backlinks to this site and it’s paying off. My blog has 12 pages indexed in Google already.

More than that I don’t think I could have done in my first month, but for my second month I plan to join other social networking sites in my continued efforts to boost traffic. Yet despite this I’ll still be writing my usual humorous drivel, er quality posts, so my advertisers continue to get value for money.

As my final effort to impress BloggerNoob and win his contest I recommend you read one of his recent posts, its about growing a thick skin if you want to make money.

Right, about those Entrecard Credits. All you have to do is be one of the first three people to comment on this post, and make sure you leave the URL for your Entrecard profile page. The first to comment will get 256EC, the second will get 128EC, and the third will get 64EC, that’s it, and thanks for reading, oh, and make sure you check out BloggerNoob’s contest.

A few of my mates have got blogs and I’ve seen this Entrecard badge everywhere, anyway I signed onto it to get some traffic so it should be interesting to see it works. Not sure how many people I can get reading my blog but all the experts say if you want to make money you need traffic and this seems like the kinda thing to help me out. Oi Dave, get it yourself mate.

So I signed up and I can start clicking other blogs straight away but the Entrecard thing told me it couldn’t find my widget so I hope it gets sorted otherwise it’ll be a waste of my time clicking all those other blogs.

I like the idea of being able to put my ad on another blog but the little badges they give you look pretty sucky, I guess I’ll need to make a new one but I how? It wouldn’t let me use my profile picture coz it isnt 125×125 pixels, damn I hate the way modern technology works.