Traffic Experiment Results: 308 Visitors In 6 Days

For the past 6 days I have been doing a traffic experiment. I’m very pleased with the results so far. My blog received 308 new visitors. My RSS readership increased. I’ve been getting more comments on my blog. And I have advertisements that will be running on 20 other blogs over the next few days.

Where Is All This Traffic Coming From?

You’ve may noticed that small advertisement over in my sidebar. It’s and advertisement for some other blogs.

It’s for people who are part of Entrecard. Entrecard is a place were blog owners exchange business card like thing called entrecards.

This is the way it works. You visit blogs in the network and you get one credit for each card that you drop their site. You also get one credit for each card that someone drops on your site. Then you use those credits to buy adds on other peoples blogs (like the one on here).

You’re probably thinking that it probably has a high bounce rate if all you have to do is drop a card. And you’d be right. It has a very high bounce rate actually.

Why Even Waste Your Time Then?

If most people are like me they at least look at the headline of a site they are visiting. And if it looks interesting then stop and read the page.

I admit I don’t always do that. Sometimes I get in a zone where nothing is going to get my attention. But that’s not always the case.

I’ve had more comments and more RSS readers since joining. So that backs-up my theory as well.

But It Does Require Some Work

If you want to get visitors you have to actively go out and drop your card on other peoples blogs. But if you’re not getting a lot of traffic yet it’s worth it.

And it’s a great place to network with other bloggers. I’ve found quite a few really good blogs that I wouldn’t have known about otherwise.

If you need some tips starting out Sam Freedom wrote a couple really good articles on the subject. I highly recommend you go check them out. Here’s one to get you started: 10 Simple Ways to Squeeze the Most Out of Entrecard for Your Greater Advantage.

- Aaron Anderson

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