Before the promised dating posts, I just want to briefly promote this new blogging promotion strategy that I really like. Entrecard.com enables bloggers big and small to get the chance to promote themselves to other bloggers, including the A-listers and famous ones.

The scheme is simple. Once you sign up with Entrecard and created your widget (logo), you must immediately accumulate credits. How? You visit the other blogs who are members of Entrecard already, and on their sidebar, look for the “E” (Entrecard) widget and “drop” your card. That way, he earns credits and so do you.

What are these credits for? There are campaigns within the Entrecard site that enumerate blogs belonging to different categories. You can see the message “5 (or any number) credits per duration to advertise here” at the bottom of each blog’s logo. If you have en0ugh credits, you can apply for advertising on his site. Note also that there’s a message that says “slots full” or “1 day to advetise here”, which mean that that blogger has a lot of pending requests and if he accepts all those advertisement requests first, it will take a day before it’s your turn to have your logo on his site (IF he accepts your advertisment bid).

The trick to landing the spots on the best blogs will have to be accumulating a lot of credits by (a) letting other bloggers advertise on your site (they pay you in credits per duration), or (b) visit other blogs like crazy and drop your cards on all of ‘em. The more active a blogger is with this scheme, the more expensive his ad slots become. So the really popular ones will want 50-100 credits or more for you to advertise on their sites.

But it’s all in CREDITS, no real money involved!!! And in the process, people will be visiting your site looking if they’ve already dropped their cards on your widget (the message “thanks” appears if they did already), and you will be visiting theirs to see if you have dropped your card already.

Traffic… lots of traffic. In fact, I’ve been inviting friends to join with the promise of doubling their pageviews on their first few days alone. I won’t spout that kind of guarantee if I haven’t tried it myself. Traffic from Entrecard members is great!

One other tip I could think of is making your logo as cute as possible. Other bloggers may want your logo in their blogs if it’s elegant, even if they don’t really like the category your site belongs to. The default templates are attractive enough, but there’s an option to place your own 125×125 image, so make it a good one. Important note: your logo that appears on other blogs’ sidebars links directly to your blog. So, no going back to entrecard to view your site, unless it’s the “E” logo that they click.

In the case that they click the “E” logo, the entrecard site page that appears belongs to the one who actually owns the blog that housed your logo. There’s an option there to “write a recommendation for this site” which means that letting other people’s logo in a blog site will also fetch reviews for the blog owner.

Confused? Just give it a try, will you. Be visiting your blogs soon!!! *waves*