I started using entrecard just over a week ago, as a means of driving raw traffic to my blog.

What do I mean by raw blog traffic?  I’m referring to the type of traffic that isn’t necessarily visiting your blog for your content.  In the case of entrecard, people may be visiting my blog for the sole purose of ‘dropping’ their card on my blog to earn credits, which can be used to advertise on other blogs displaying the entrecard widget.

Now, ideally, I’d like to gain the type of visitors that return to my blog over and over again.  But I feel that I can use entrecard to my advantage.  Here’s how…..

Since implementing entrecard on my blog, I’ve seen a big jump in the number of daily unique visitors.  Before I started using entrecard, I was getting around 10 unique visitors a day.  Over the past week, my blog has seen around 400 unique visitors arrive here via entrecard, or other entrecard blogs.

If I can convert even 5% of those visitors into regular visitors by providing great content for them to read, then that’s 20 new readers I’ll have gained.  Not much, I know, but when your blog is relatively new then this would represent a nice jump for my audience figures.  And if I carry on promoting my blog through entrecard (by dropping on other blogs consistently) then I’d expect to receive a good number of visitors to my blog on a weekly basis.

You can also home in on blogs which are specific to your niche.  I am mainly targeting other blogs within my niche (i.e. blog traffic building).  When you log in to entrecard, you can sort through other entrecard-enabled blogs by category.  By dropping on similar or complimenting blogs, you’ll have a higher chance of someone being genuinely interested in what you are blogging about.

So if you are just started out on the blogging road, then I’d like to recommend entrecard as a means of driving raw traffic to your blog.  It’s free to join and only takes minutes to sign up, so there’s really no reason for you not to at least give it a shot.

I’m going to carry on using entrecard as a means of driving raw blog traffic to my blog in the short-term, and I will write a follow-up post in a couple of weeks or so to let you know how my entrecard-traffic-building campaign has developed!

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