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?