Guest post from Breaku, on "The List"

Hey guys, I'm Breaku. I write for That Blank Media frequently, but never for the advertising blog.

I'm here to explain what "The List" can do for you and your blog and why you should try to get on it.

"The List" is a list of blogs, currently featuring 71, that are fast loading with both Entrecard and Adgitize on them. If you're a user of either of those systems, then you know how important it is to actually be able to find the blogs that use these systems. If you don't drop your entrecard, you won't receive drops, ergo; lower traffic. If you don't click the adgitize ads, you'll have fewer points hurting your income.

As an experiment, I went one week clicking/dropping on only the blogs on the list. Investing no further time to finish and reach 100 (which, the list will hopefully have those numbers soon).

The results were incredible. My Adgitize earnings went up greatly, those 71 points were excellent, and I was able to break into the Adgitize leaderboards for last month, which earned me a backlink.

Entrecard saw similar results. Not only did I have more credits to advertise with, but many people will return drops! I went from 8th ranked Politics Blog, to 4th ranked that week. The cost to advertise on my blog capped out at over 256 credits, and my cards dropped on me increased by 60%.

Then, just to be sure that it wasn't a fluke, I stopped using the list. My stats sunk. And quickly. I was almost as low as I was before. And I realized how useful this list can actually be.

Getting on the Easy Advertising list is simple. Post a comment here. E-mail my boss. Post a comment on the list itself. But be sure you have both Entrecard and Adgitize, or you're wasting time.

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Breaku is a regular poster on That Politics Blog, and a Member of That Blank Media.

To leep or not to leep?

Shouldn't be a question if you're a blogger.

Is a great advertising network

I've recently discovered 2leep, and have just started using it as a test on our most popular blog in the network. It's highly customizable, and will help both your earnings and your traffic. For every click your blog generates on a non-monetary link, your blog will receive one in exchange. You then have the option to sell a percent of your displays. Clicks on the monetary links will generate you money. You can use it in unison with any other ad network (even adsense), and the increased traffic will help your bottom line with the other publishers as well.

If you'd like to see what it looks like, check out the latest post@ That Politics Blog. Under the content, before the comments, is their widget.

Advertising with Barcodes?

Scanning this with a smartphone will bring you to my blog!

QR codes are very interesting. They offer a lot of unique opportunities for bloggers and advertisers. QR codes are a perfect way to multiply your advertising. Seeing QR codes always makes people curious, because they're still pretty new. For example, placing a QR codes as my Entrecard 'card', it doubles the potential exposure.

To generate your own QR code, I'd recommend this website, they're great. http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

I'm going to play around with QR codes, and some potential ads using them, and write a more in depth guide as to how to get the most out of your QR codes.

Entrecard related widgets -- a guide!

Rather than just leave my response in the comments section, I've decided to write up a quick guide. Hopefully this will be all inclusive, if it isn't feel free to ask and I'll try to clear things up.
I recently added a new widget to this blog, one that shows the ten most recent Entrecard droppers. It's a neat widget, that allows you to get more out of dropping on this page. Setting it up is rather simple.
First, you need to obtain the RSS feed URL from Entrecard. Depending on the type of widget you'd like to add to your blog, this URL will be in one of two places.
If you want one that shows the most recent droppers, then you're going to look on your dashboard. The URL will be to the right of the card roll that is underneath the main buttons on the Entrecard page. There will be a RSS button (  ). Click it, and get the URL.
If you want one that shows the most frequent droppers, then you're going to look on your statistics page.  Under the tables section, will be a "top droppers" table. Next to that table is yet another RSS button. Grab that URL.
After you have that URL, head over to feedburner. Enter the RSS URL that you got from Entrecard, and burn it.
Once you've burned it, click the publicize tab.
From the publicize tab, click on "BuzzBoost". 
From there, it should be fairly simple. Follow feed burners prompts, and they should present you with some html code to past into a widget box. It should be a simple iframe.

Entrecard widget.

Here's a great way to get more out of dropping on my page. From now on, the ten most recent droppers on this page will be displayed underneath the follow links.

So drop to the left, and look for your blog link to the right!

Profit or fame?

There are many reasons that people blog, but most are looking to gain something.

What are you looking to gain? Would you prefer to be rich or famous? (Both are highly unlikely)

But, what I mean by that is simple. Do you blog for a few dollars here and there, or do you blog to spread your knowledge? Is it possible that you can combine the two? I feel like it is. Blogging purely for profit is boring and pointless. What good is receiving millions of hits if nobody enjoys your content enough to revisit?

Strangest Google search?

Alright, I'm curious. I don't get much search engine traffic on any of our network blogs yet, as we haven't been around very long, but some of the hits from Google that I do get are rather strange. This one is my favorite:

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They landed on That Politics Blog, of course.

Are people really that bad at searching?
What's the strangest search hit you've received? Let me know in the comments.