EntreCard does have some flaws in it but it’s bringing in traffic right now, even if it’s mostly junk traffic. Once it stops performing or they screw it up with rules or other stuff I’ll drop it.

Google traffic from BZ seems to be a slow build-up, not a burst of traffic. Vic can tell you more about it but I gather it has to do with how Google views the authority of your site for certain keywords.

I am getting some good traffic from BloggingZoom. But, I didn’t really notice any great increase in my Google traffic. Maybe I need to take another look at my stats.

I love your images. They are great. I am a bit jealous. Well done! Keep it up!

I’m not sure a catchy post title would do it reliably. These people are on a mission to find that little button, click it and move on. Of course, one of my strategies I’m trying here is to distract them by putting the button between big honkin’ ads.

I do recommend that if you use EntreCard try to be kind and provide some value to your visit when you’re ‘carding’ around. I try to treat it just like I do when I’m using the stumble button to check out sites.

I don’t submit reviews, paid or free, or video posts most of the time. If something is exceptional in one of these I’ll submit it. My regular articles I’ll usually submit.

First of all thanks for stopping by my site, and dropping a card off via Entrecard. I’ve found that doing so usually brought someone back to my site especially if they were new with not too many cards in the inbox yet, or if I repeatedly dropped numerous cards over a few days.

I notice that the ones who come from the Entrecard site itself don’t stay for long, but many of them are repeat card droppers. I think I just need to post a catchy post to make them stay, and read something. Those stats you are getting is eerily similar. 90% bounce rate from the fly by night card droppers, and averaged 1 min.

The ones who came in via ads that I placed on other people’s sites tended to stay on the page longer. Their bounce rates were marginally lower(about 10-15% lower), and page view/times were up(average 1min 40sec). I’ve been picking up newly added sites for fairly cheap(5 credits and under), and well I’ve been getting alot of repeat visitors from them coming in via the ads again. Its nice that the Entrecard site, is different from the Entrecard ad site to see the difference in visitor logs.

I haven’t tried Blogging Zoom yet to really compare the two so that’s something I’ll need to take a look at now.

I just stumbled your “Blogging Straight To The Point” article. That should send a nice little wave of traffic through your site

But you shouldn’t complain about traffic, your Alexa is higher than mine.

You should analyze your traffic often because that lets you know if your promotional methods are working or not. Remember Vic analyzes traffic from an online marketing point-of-view which is much more strict/brutal than the average blogger does it. But, if you want to build serious traffic, he knows how to do it.

I’ll breeze through some sites too as I a ‘card run’ but I do feel a bit guilty about it sometimes. If the site is decent I’ll click ads, leave comments and the like.

As for my monetization here, it is really a “try it and see if it sticks” method. I’ve done several tightly focused sites, so I wanted to try something wide open with few self-imposed rules.

You may have noticed that I offer free blog reviews so you might want to apply for that if you want your relaunched blog evaluated.

And just for the heck of it, I dropped my card in your Widget. I still have some credits left, think I’ll spend it on your blog.