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Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | 1,045 views
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This is a quick tip to increase your blog’s link rankings, oh well, as far as technorati is concern. All you have to do is to be an entrecard member, then drop on the Entredroppers plugin users that I have provided below. Please take note that you will feel the link boost when your link is still in the entredroppers list at the time that particular blog is updated. If your in a hurry, use Ping-o-Matic to update the directories. One warning though, slow down in pinging cowboy! So what’s the moral of this? Keep on dropping on them. But don’t forget to apply the entrecard dropping etiquette huh! Read the latest post of the blog, and if possible, comment on them..
The plugin creator:
Entredroppers Users (with no particular order)
- Pinoy Biz Blogger
- First Door on the Left
- Simply Stating the Obvious
- Table for Five
- Blogging Over Coffee
- PlotDog Press
- Whooah.biz
- Fabulously Jinxed
- The (Other) End of the Internet
- Money Maker Times
- Foolsville 2.0
- My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings
- Colloquium
- Mummified Times Five
- On the Horizon
- The Original Mx5
- Blogging Over Coffee
- Multifarious Mushrooms
- Not Just Mama
- Mixed Metaphor
- Dream-Act-Plan-Believe
- PinoySkull Dot Com
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | 1,214 views
I have told everyone that I’m conducting a blogrush experiment for my personal skill development, so here’s a brief update on what happened and what’s going on.
As of today, the experiment has gone in a long path of nowhere. Out of an almost 3,000 page impressions (aggregate), I got an enormous Click Through Rate (CTR) of 0.067% or two massive clicks. Is this time to conclude that the Blogrush widget is 99% near to being useless in bringing some traffic? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not yet concluding this experiment, as I have said, this is just an update. The technique that I used in my previous blog post titles is in between being cautious and aggressive, although much nearer to being cautious. I tried making strong titles such as “Gaming StumbleUpon: Exploiting the Traffic” which gave me 152 unfiltered views, excluding my own page views, and two clicks from the blogrush widget, which represents 100% of my blogrush clicks. The results are not enough to conclude anything, so I’ll still continue conducting these experiment.
There are few constraints that may lead to unsuccessful results of this experiment. The most limiting factor is my blogrush credits. Due to the very little traffic that I’m getting from this blog, I was unable to gain sufficient credits to syndicate all of my posts. An average of 600 page impressions is very small. My target is to give my posts 2,000-3,000 page impressions each, which is still far out of my league. Anyways, I’m trying to work on that.
On the other hand, there are few things that keeps me from using the blogrush widget. Although blogrush failed in bringing a considerable amount of traffic, it is somehow successful in introducing to me quality posts. There are few articles here in Pinoy Biz Blogger which are inspired from articles syndicated through the blogrush widget. For that particular reason, even though my experiments goes out to nowhere, I’ll still be using blogrush for discovery purposes.
I’m not done yet with this “Title Making” experiment on blogrush, so expect a few updates regarding this one.
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Friday, April 11th, 2008 | 410 views
During my previous post, I featured a widget called “You Drop, I Link” widget that acts like a blogroll that ticks the latest 50 droppers of your entrecard widget. Ok, I must admit that I liked the idea of giving links as an incentive to my regular droppers, but I didn’t install that widget because I didn’t feel it appropriate in my blog’s theme, and it seemed that it will just clutter in my sidebar. Also, another thing that I pointed out there, is that the free-of-any-nofollow-attribute feature is useless because it just points out to entrecard’s page, and not to the dropper’s blogs. That won’t contribute anything to your rankings.
Earlier today, I saw a similar plugin that has the same idea, the same function but a little better (I would like to thank myself for not giving up with blogrush 
). First things first, yes, this is a wordpress plugin. Sorry for other blogging platform users because you may not enjoy the functionality of this great tool. 
As a fan of simple designs, the first thing that indulged me in using this plugin is it’s simplicity. It really doesn’t look like any special widget in your sidebar, unlike the first widget that I have introduced. If you will look at the bottom of my sidebar, just before the Meta and Akismet widgets, you will notice that it is just like your ordinary blogroll links, aside from the “EntreDroppers” label, you can’t really differentiate the this plugin from your ordinary blogroll, which is really great in keeping your sidebars neat. Another thing that you will love with this plugin is it’s ability to link directly through the dropper’s blog and not to the dropper’s entrecard page, in which, if this plugin is free from any nofollow attribute, will help in increasing your blog’s inbound links.
Try this one! It’s really a great way to give your droppers more reasons to keeping dropping on you. I’ll be using this one until a better plugin arise, if there would be any.
Visit Owen’s page to take advantage of the functionality of this plugin.
Update: I’ve found a similar plugin in the Entrecard Blog, visit them here.
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | 453 views
The use of StumbleUpon has brought great wonders in my blogs, bringing me an immense load of hits (phrase relative to my newbie status ) and a number of subscribers. Taking this blog for example, as of the date I have published this article, I have 706+ visitors (I’ve just started last week), of which, almost 600 was brought to me by StumbleUpon alone. That’s over 80% of my total traffic to date. From there, I gain a few subscribers, a few comments, and well, a lot of hits enough to boost my alexa rankings from the 5 millionth spot to the 1,200,000+ rank. Because of that, this blog was instantly approved in SponsoredReviews, an addition to my online money making portfolio.
The best thing in the traffic that StumbleUpon gives is that they are relevant to your content, the highest quality of hits. With that quality, hits can eventually turn into leads or sales, with a very high possibility. As I have read as I was stumbling through the net, StumbleUpon produces 32% of bounce rate compared to other social networking websites, like Digg that produces 75%. That means the traffic that you receive from StumbleUpon are people who are really interested in what you offer in your website, staying longer in your site and not just surfing through.
Because of that, webmasters and advertisers are making ways to maximize the potential of StumbleUpon, and ending up to gaming it or making money through the system. Here are some of them.
Gaming StumbleUpon
- Selling and Buying of stumbles. SubvertandProfit is an example. Mashable has something to tell about this one. Please read the comments there, it’s very interesting.
- Beneficial arrangements in Stumble Exchanges.
- Building a network of StumbleUpon users so that you can collect stumbles from them. The purpose is to put your stumbled page in the Stumble Buzz webpage. (doshdosh.com)
- Stumbling pages that links and blogs about you. The intention is very simple, the traffic brought by StumbleUpon to that particular webpage will eventually follow the link and will be brought to your website. (doshdosh.com)
- Using the power of redirect. After stumbling a domain that you own, setup its redirect attributes and point it to the website you want to promote. Just make sure that the tags you used is relevant to site that you wanted to promote.
That’s all that I have collected on how people game the system of StumbleUpon. There are no guarantees on how effective they are, and also, by using the said tactics, your website may possibly be banned from the StumbleUpon network, so I advice you to take the proper precaution so that your site won’t get exterminated in such a promising service.
Please use the comment section below to let me know how you think about gaming the system of StumbleUpon.
