One of my favorite free tools ever sadly went down all weekend due to a fire at their host company The Planet, but they’re BACK! Surviving a shutdown of 9000+ servers, Entrecard is back up and running. Many veteran bloggers speculated that perhaps the users of Entrecard rely to heavily on the site for their traffic after traffic bottomed out with EC, as it’s lovingly known, went down. Old hat’s in this game will recognize that the key is moderation… EC is a terrific tool to assist in blog traffic, but it’s even better than that.

Creating their own currency called EntreCredits, creator Graham Langdon took the vCard to the next level. An Entrecard, for those not in the know, is a 125×125 advertisement displayed in a widget on a blog’s website. You purchase 24 hours of advertising space on the blog of your choice with entrecredits. You earn entrecredits by dropping your virtual business card on other blogs with the EC widget and by other users dropping their cards on your blog and purchasing ad space on your blog.

I can personally attest for the traffic driving power that is Entrecard. Not only will you receive traffic from other users coming to your site directly from the EC interface, but of course the visitors to the blogs you advertise on click on your ads there to go directly to your website. In the last month, Entrecard referrals directly from the ec website and from ad spots I’ve “purchased” are the top 2 traffic sources for this blog.

The second traffic source there is from the ad widgets that are on the member’s websites. This is a great traffic source that’s totally free. If you do want to invest some money into it, you can purchase entrecredits from other users. Rates are set by those members that choose to sell them. The easiest way to get entrecredits to purchase ad space is to drop your EC on other blogs. You can drop up to 300 per day, so get started and drop on my blog! Rack ‘em up.

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