My Own Entrecard Traffic Expirement

I decided to start this experiment while reading the Entrecard blog
post Startup Blog Project Part 1. Now I know Wildheart’s Works is not
a start up blog and has been out there for at least two years and last
year gained major momentum as a serious blog after moving it to its
new home on Word Press last Oct. However, I wanted to see if by
following Graham’s model I could continue to generate some decent
traffic to my blog.

In his first phase he sets a goal of 100 drops per day on relevant
blogs in his niche as well as making 17 comments on those respective
blogs per day. For my experiment I am just targeting drops at this
point and will implement commenting at a later time. Now one thing he
mentions and I will stress it too is that you have to find a niche you
are passionate about or at least actively interested in discovering
new things in a niche that you always wanted to explore.

I chose to drop in the categories of graphic design, computers and
internet and internet marketing. One thing that makes this whole
process a lot easier is if you install the Entrebar if you are using
Firefox as your browser. If you aren’t using Firefox as your browser
the Entrebar will not work in any other browser so I recommend if you
decide to try this that you at least install Firefox as a back up
browser. On a side note I have kept Safari and Flock as backup
browsers in case my Firefox gets a bug in it or something. I need
Safari to access my schools web site as it does not support the latest
version of Firefox. My school needs to get up with the times in a
major way.

I started my endeavor on the 21st and had 520 credits. I ended this
phase of my project on Aug 23rd with 849 credits. During this time I
accrued 6 advert display credits, received 13 drops and
drhowell.net.blog gifted me with 10 credits just for stopping by his
blog during this time. I also bought an advert for 64 credits. This
contributed to the generating of 35 hits to my blog from Entrecard
users. My next phase is going to be going back to the 100 drops per
day and then finding good well put together blogs that match or
closely match my niche and making 17 comments per day.