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Social Networking using Entrecard

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I finally had the opportunity to install my Entrecard widget on this site and so far I’ve had nothing but a positive experience with the system. With high profile blogs such as ProBlogger and John Chow using the widgets, I figured I should give it a shot. I was pleasantly rewarded in less than 24 hours with some increased traffic and exposure.

The Entrecard site itself is very user friendly. Once you familiarize yourself with the dashboard it takes just a few clicks to purchase ad space (using credits earned off the site) and/or sell an exclusive spot on your site. Your banner will run for a period of 24 hours and with enough credits its actually possible to land a advertising spot free of charge on several reputable sites.

I highly recommend Entrecard to anyone interested in increasing traffic and exposure of their sites. Its only takes a few minutes to sign up and set up your personal widget and ads. I know it was definitely worth my time.

Problogger actually has a really good write up on Entrecard effectiveness in increasing comments on your site, boosting your Alexa rank, and attracting more RSS subscribers.

Google Ad Sense

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I was looking at my Google Ad Sense reports from July to November today and I’ve suprisingly racked up a total of $464.53. Not too bad if you ask me. It paid for a couple things I wanted online to improve my web design portfolio. The first thing I paid for was an upgrade from Photoshop 7.0 to Photoshop CS. I’ve used the pirated version for awhile, but I think that buying the legit version was well worth the investment. I also bought a external hardrive to save all my work I do for the small web companies I admin.

There are several other things I want to purchase to enhance my knowledge base on web design and I think I’ll be able to pick that up early next year. Its great knowing that these simple ads are working.

I’ll admit that at first I was very skeptical about the entire thing, but when my first check from google came in, and it cleared at my local bank I was stoked. It was a little over $200.00. My 2nd check was around $120.00 and I expect it to remain in that ballpark from now on. I guess it pays to place a small ad on your sites…