Entrecard, A Blogger’s Best Friend
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Hats off to Entrecard! Graham Langdon and his team have consistently refused to sit on their laurels, always taking on board feedback from service users, and continually implementing improvements. Entrecard is evolving into a major blogging network and online community.
A few days ago, came the announcement of a new partnership between Entrecard and SezWho, the popular and well-established blog commenting platform.
Reward Rebel enjoys a pretty satisfactory level of commenting, and yet there’s already been a noticeable increase since SezWho became part of the Entrecard equation.
Evidently bloggers value comments - and Entrecard Credits - very highly! And so, as part of Reward Rebel’s forthcoming first birthday celebrations, I’m going to backtrack over the comments here, and rate as many as time permits.
In fact, talk about excellent timing! I had already started to showcase my favourite posts to Entrecard visitors, and you’re invited to participate in Reward Rebel’s birthday bash by taking a moment while you’re here to rate any post or comment that you’ve enjoyed. After all, what goes around, comes around, and your turn will come!
Since its inception, Entrecard has helped launch many blogs, and has been a good friend to Reward Rebel. Bringing SezWho onboard will undoubtedly provide the icing on the cake.
Happy blogging, and enjoy your internet marketing adventure.
Reward Rebel
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Entrecard And SezWho Launch Partnership
If you haven’t already, go to the Entrecard blog now, and read the article about Entrecard’s new partnership with SezWho.
Although I’ve not previously engaged with any commenting platforms, I’ll install SezWho on Reward Rebel and monitor developments.
This sounds like a new arm of the Entrecard venture that has massive potential to further assist bloggers in their own internet marketing adventure!
Reward Rebel
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The Party’s Over
Euro 2008 is over for another four years, and Glastonbury Festival has vanished beneath a mountain of trash and discarded sub-standard tents. It’s wonderful that this year’s patrons didn’t have to endure rain and mud, especially as my beloved sister — who’s a 60-year old grandmother — was there working hard, and partying even harder!
I was utterly horrified to realise that she and I did Glastonbury Festival together back in the Summer of 1977 — the weekend of 7th of the 7th ‘77 to be precise – 31 years ago…. Aaaarrrrggghhhh!!!!! Frackin’ freak out!
Of course, the great thing back then (before Glasto met corporate hospitality) was that you could get in for free by climbing over the barrier, or by strolling through any weakened areas in the fencing (weakened by kicking it wearing big boots and also pulling very hard).
I caught Joan Armatrading’s performance on the telly, and Joan’s classics just melt the heart, don’t they? Love and Affection, Willow, Tall in the Saddle…. they are all so exquisitely beautiful, and always make me feel all gooey and soft-centered.
So I’m now looking forward to this coming weekend, as it’s the British Formula One Racing Grand Prix at Silverstone, though sadly I’m too strapped for greenbacks to attend — but soon, I’ll be cheering at every GP of the entire season – all around the globe, oh yeah!
During my recent break from blogging, I got into watching some TV again, but Battlestar Galactica is taking a nap before engaging warp drive for the second half of the season, so what the frack am I supposed to do with myself in the meantime? Oh yeah…. work.
Reward Rebel
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The Twerpy Lil Things That Niggle!
I have a lot of tasks to get done on this site – there have been problems with the form on the Contact Page, and I had to take it down, and other nuisance difficulties have plagued RR for too long.
The problems of blogging do wear me down… the niggly lil twerpy things that just won’t go right, and when you’ve exhausted your ‘call a friend’ options, it gets even more frustrating!
So be warned… watch your ‘Inbox’, as you may receive a communication from me asking for your assistance!
Reward Rebel
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Hey, I’m Back! How Y’All Doing?
My last post is dated 1st June and, incredibly, now the month is almost over. Where have I been? I wish I had a tale of excitement and adventure with which to regale you, but quite simply I had nothing new to say, and the more I pondered blogging, the more I realised that it was taking up much more of my life than I’d planned. And with less going on in my life, there was less to blog about!
Blogging was an ‘add on’, it was intended as a supplement to my internet marketing, and Reward Rebel blog was supposed to be the reflection of my work. Somehow it started to eat up so much of my time that there wasn’t enough left for me to maintain the projects I already had set up, never mind research new ones.
Well, I’ve had a break, and I’ve caught up on TV – I’m particularly enjoying Battlestar Galactica. In the UK we’ve just reached the midway point in the story, the Humans and Cylons have located and landed on Earth, only to find it dismal and desolate. Who is the final undisclosed Cylon? I think it might be Lee Adama, but most of my theories so far have been dashed, so I’m probably wrong! Ooh, it’s so exciting – have I ever mentioned I’m a massive sci-fi geek?
I’ve also been enjoying Euro 2008. Four years ago, I was in Crete when Greece won the 2004 championship, and it was a total trip! On the night of the match, there wasn’t a bar, restaurant, store, nowhere that didn’t have the match on the TV, and when they won, the entire island exploded into lunacy and revelling unlike anything I’d seen before. It was brilliant.
After watching the match, we went straight out to bedlam on the streets — along with the town’s entire population! There was a pick-up truck driving erratically into the centre of town, halting abruptly every 25 metres or so, to eject a passenger brandishing a shotgun he’d fire wildly into the night sky, jump back in and off they’d drive another 25 - 30 metres, stop and do it all over again!
Ah, Crete. If anything inspires me, it’s my plan to relocate to a waterfront villa on the Greek island of Crete. Nothing fancy mind, just as long as it has a private pool and extensive grounds, I’m not fussy.
Before I sign off, I’d like to thank my beautiful friends online who have enquired about my wellbeing and whereabouts… I felt rich.
I’ll be seeing you around.
Reward Rebel Returns
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Entrecard Link Love
Internet Marketing has featured in my life for about 14 months now, and it’s passed so quickly. I remember reading about people working for a year to make money online, and quitting when they still hadn’t generated their first sale! I couldn’t understand why anyone would dedicate twelve months to learning something new - especially something with such life-changing potential - and then chuck it in!
If anything, I’m now more determined than ever because I’ve invested a year of my life in studying internet marketing and acquiring the skills to shape my future and live the life I aspire to. OK, I’m not making a fortune online… yet. But I appreciate that it takes time to build an internet business, it takes time to build anything worthwhile.
As we bid farewell to May and warmly embrace June, it’s appropriate to shout out a big “thank you” to Reward Rebel’s current Top Entrecard Droppers.
I’m grateful to everyone who takes the time to drop their Entrecard on Reward Rebel, but to appear in this list, you know what you have to do, don’t you?
The Path To The Pegasus Letter
Chica & Pumuckl – Living With Cats
I’d also like to thank the sites that have advertised on Reward Rebel this past month. Unfortunately, I haven’t kept a record, so if you advertised during May and would like a link to your site to appear in the “advertisers link love post”, leave a comment below as soon as possible. I’ll be publishing the post in a few days’ time, so don’t delay.
Happy blogging and successful internet marketing to y’all.
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My Time Is Valuable ~ Are YOU Wasting It?
Blogging is one aspect of my internet marketing business, and not a hobby or leisure activity. I have used Entrecard to promote Reward Rebel, and consider that it’s made a significant contribution to the site attaining its Google page rank.
Were it not for Entrecard, there wouldn’t have been anything like as much traffic, as many backlinks, or comments. There have been occasions when a comment has triggered an idea for a further post, too.
Reward Rebel joined the Entrecard Community back in November 2007 and although the degree of involvement has fluctuated, for the most part I’ve continued to network with individual members and drop cards routinely.
Recently, I’ve been ‘outsourcing’ card dropping duties to my partner! LOL But, most days I do a ‘personal’ batch of drops, commenting here and there as and when a post snags my interest.
Many sites display the Entrecard widget above the fold, or nearby, ensuring that it can easily be located and clicked.
Sometimes a blog will load without the widget materialising and, when this happens, I try to be kind, and click ‘reload’ but if it fails a second time…. ‘hasta la vista, baby!’
Sadly, too many blogs don’t appear to have given any real thought to the positioning of the Entrecard widget.
When I’m online surfing blogs and dropping Entrecards, it’s as part of the overall strategy to promote my website. My time has a financial value, and I don’t enjoy, nor intend, throwing away my potential earnings while I’m chasing around a website looking for the Entrecard widget.
It’s vital to position the widget where it’s easily – and quickly – located. I’d recommend you position the widget above the fold (on the opening screen, without scrolling down), and
1. Do NOT position the widget in some obscure spot down the page somewhere. Don’t delude yourself that it’ll entice people to read your articles, all it’ll do is make them click out, so not only do you lose that Entrecarder’s drops, you’ll gain a ‘bounce’ on your site traffic stats!
2. Do NOT position the widget amongst a cluster of 125 pixel square ads making it difficult to spot.
3. Do NOT fail to monitor how quickly your site loads – it should not take half a lifetime.
I personally loathe Blinx Ads obscuring site access, and they have instant B-O-U-N-C-E power!
Am I being too harsh? Do I sound like a bitch? If you think I am and I do, I’m certain that you aren’t involved in blogging as part of an internet marketing business.
Anyone managing an online business, or trying to make money online, will appreciate that every moment spent hunting for widgets to click is time that could be spent more productively elsewhere.
So, if you’re wasting my time, or anyone else’s, Stop It! My time is valuable and so is yours! Use it wisely and productively.
Happy blogging.
Reward Rebel
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