300 Entrecard drops in 20 minutes

Many of you are well aware of the Entrecard network. It is basically a free advertising program. Instead of spending real money, you spend credits that you earn by drops or earned from others wanting to advertise on your site. Each drop is worth 1 credit. Soon after I signed up for Entrecard, I got rather bored with it. I recently read some entries on people buying and selling these credits. I don’t want to spend money, and if I did it wouldn’t be on Entrecard. It turns out there is a limit to 300 drops (possible credits) per day.

So why would I want to spend my time doing this? Well 20 minutes out of your day isn’t really too much time for a blogger. You don’t really notice but a handful of hits until you start tossing around 200ec per ad. If you are messing with finding out how to disperse your 70 credits among many decent sites, you are wasting your time. That time could be put towards getting 300 credits in 20 minutes. Do this for a few days and start paying 200ec per ad, but on ads that are actually worth it.

Just because you bid on a high priced site, doesn’t mean it is worth it. Check out the web site and look for a few things. First check the comments. If you see a decent amount of activity, then that means the site’s visitors actually interact, thus increasing the odds of a click on your site. Also check the appearance and the topics. If the site looks very ugly, and the topics are not at least half-way close to yours, then you may want to invest elsewhere. You could also check the page rank of the site. If it isn’t ranked, you also may want to keep looking. Once you start climbing up the ladder, you can then be more picky and bid on sites with at least a page rank of 2. If your site isn’t ranked, you have better chances increasing your rank by PR1 sites compared to higher page ranks as it looks like paid advertising to Google.

OK OK, Where do I find these 300 sites though? Glad you asked. There is a very good list that gets lots of attention over at PowerDropping.com that you may want to check out. I prefer using Firefox to do this. You can hold CTRL when you click the links to force them to open in a new tab. Power Dropping maintains a list of fast loading sites that present their entrecard code above the fold. This makes hitting the drop button much faster.