Entrecard vs. Blogrush: the Battle of Blog Promotion Strategies
Noob Basics:
Entrecard - installs a widget in your sidebar where people can “drop” cards. Dropping literally means the person will visit your blog, view your content and look for the widget in order to earn credits to be used to advertise on other blogs under the Entrecard system.
Blogrush - installs a widget that contains posts of other bloggers within your chosen category (including yours). Viewers of any site with that widget may see your post title on the widget, click it and go to your site.
Effort Output and Fun Factor:
Entrecard - high. A blogger must visit sites to earn credits and increase in popularity within the Entrecard network. The more active a user is (this includes card dropping and commenting), the more people know of him and visit his blog. Fun factor includes getting to meet new bloggers and their niches, and learning several moneytization tips just by viewing other blogs.
Blogrush - low. After you have installed the widget and submitted your RSS url to the Blogrush system, you do nothing, except perhaps hope that people are actually seeing your posts in their widgets and getting interested enough to clicky. I guess the fun part comes with the notion that you just sit back and concentrate on posting, and don’t clutter your mind with popularity or other people’s recommendations, while your post titles are getting circulated worldwide.
Traffic Results:
Entrecard - High. When you make the effort to be active and at least make sure that you comment on others’ blogs, post in the Entrecard forums and drop your card regularly, people start getting curious and visit you more often.
Blogrush - low. I have tried refreshing the Blogrush widget several times (actually, more than several times) and my posts did not appear. The BR dashboard tells me that “yes, it has appeared a lot on others’ widgets! See this number?”, but traffic is still very poor.
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Can you guess who just won this battle?
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i’ve been contemplating on joining entrecard because of its popularity among american/european users… i’ve joined blogrush for two weeks now but i haven’t seen the traffic they so boastfully advertise on their site. ur right, traffic generated from blogrush is very minimal
i’ve been on blogrush during their phase 2 and they were so arrogant with it, so i expected better results… but zilch, nada… im better off joining blog catalog and now Entrecard.
The buzz about Entrecard is turning me toward it, you buzzing buzzer, you ;)
hello there witchypoo… it’s really good… join now! :D
buzz buzz
Still astounds me how many people have blog entries about EntreCard. Makes me wanna blog about it myself, but after reading everyone’s opinions, it’ll be just repeating what y’all already said.
hi rudy! cmon, blog about it too! the more people who join the entrecard system, the more diverse the community will be, and the more people we could advertise to… :D
yup. entrecard gives you a new way to connect to fellow bloggers. and have fun as well. good thing i listened to you.
blogrush? does not live up to its name.
Don’t know why blogrush rejected me twice. Grrrr….
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hi
@ambo, yeah, BR is soooo picky… they sent me an email saying “you are indeed very lucky to be one of the chosen.. blah-blah… we have rejected 10,000 blogs that are low quality blah blah….” OMG!!! then I look at my BR dashboard and all my posts are freezing cold.
@Buraot
hehehe… your politics blog deserves to be up there with the best of the best
I joined Blogrush some time ago and stayed with them for at least a month. I received very little traffic, so I dropped their widget.
I joined Entrecard December 2nd, and have drastically increased my traffic. Granted much of the traffic are form those looking for the widget, but if even one of those visitors reads a few posts, that’s more traffic than BlogRush…and in less time.
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How about adding Arkayne to the review?
It is a content linking widget and I’ve had great success with it. The widget is based on actual relevance vs. popularity so its less traffic trading and more valuable service. My users are happy with the links on my blogs.
For the curious: http://www.arkayne.com