Firstly, if you don’t know what Entrecard is then check out this post, and don’t forget you can win 400 Entrecard credits in my competition.

If your looking to drop your Entrecard on many blog sites, SiteHoppin will let you with a simple-1-click, allow you to browse all websites with an Entrecard on. There are many categories you may wish to target and once you have chosen, you can visit a different web page each time and drop your card.

You can create an account at SiteHoppin and recommend your website as well as other people’s websites and then you can discuss that website to. There are many options to customise your search and find your targeted audience.

Don’t have to Click, just Press Play on Slideshow!
A great feature of SiteHoppin is the availability to load a different website every 5 seconds in Slideshow mode. You just press play and a new website loads and gives you time to drop your card. If you want more time to look at that website, just simply click stop and you are free to continue your reading.

Dropping your card is a great way of getting traffic and dropping just got easier!

I’ve learnt quite a lot in my time blogging and there is still a lot to learn but one thing I suggest you do is have a weekly post where you throw as many links to other blogs in there as you can! The results you will get back are very nice.

This was this Sunday when I posted my weekly post entitled ‘Sunday Round-Up - Week 4‘ and one of the links I posted brought me that sudden rise in traffic. It may not be a lot of traffic, but to me that’s an inspiring thing to see.

Some blogs choose to display Pingbacks which basically shows a link to the blogger that has linked to that post and their blog name. Pingbacks are part of the Linkbacks which show links between documents.

People Love Reading other Posts
Personally when I read comments from time to time, I like to read what others have written about that post or the same topic, and if you write your post and link to another blog, you are offering people that are doing the same the opportunity to read yours.

Not to Much
Regular posts with huge amounts of links in can become a bit ugly so unless you’re specifically writing about links limit yourself to the amount you put into a post. On the other hand as I said, if you are actually writing about links, put as many as you want about the posts you like and what you think others will like.

Choosing what Articles You Link
It seems pretty obviously that you will choose to link to very popular blogs. If you take my example of me linking to TheRatingBlog through my post, with the huge amount of visitors that are posting comments on his page (currently 138) you are exposing your blog to large amounts of traffic. Although don’t just stick to the big guns, link to any post that you find interesting. This is the most important part, giving authors ‘link love’ is a good thing to do, after all if people link to your posts, you would like it.

Subscribe, Watch and Post
To know what you are going to write about you will want to subscribe to blogs, read content and make a list of the posts that you want to put in your post. Think of a nice weekly post title and add the links, a brief description and let your readers know about the wonderful things you’ve read that week.

A lot has happened this week and there are some very interesting posts that you will be interested in. First of all I started my first competition on Friday in which you can win 400 Entrecard credits! So for your chance to win, visit that post.

This week I joined Entrecard and since using it, it has boosted my blog traffic and its great collecting credits. I also started using ScratchBack which is a great little widget to add to your blog. People can tip you and gain a text link on your website (Google friendly). You earn money and they spend little to nothing to get an ad on your website. You can put your link on my Top Spots for only $1 by clicking ‘Get In My Top Spots’.

Interesting Blog Links
TheRatingBlog.com
Win Prizes Worth Over $1000 With TheRatingBlog.com - Exactly what is says in the title, have your chance in winning a share of $1000 worth of prizes! It is a must enter.

Articles at TheRatingBlog - I have been subscribed to TheRatingBlog for a while now and the information Alan provides is worth a look through his articles.

JohnChow.com
Renewing Domains? Here Are Some GoDaddy Coupons - If you are planning on buying through GoDaddy soon here are some coupons that John has provided saving you some money.

WinningTheWeb.com
Win 1 of 19 Prizes - $410 in Free Advertising - Another chance for you to win some free stuff. I will be posting a post related to this contest soon with more information!

ProBlogger.net
How to Make CPC Ads Convert - 3 main factors that affect your CPC (cost per click) earning.

How To Use Twitter - Tips for Bloggers - Learn how to use Twitter to help your blog. Here is also a post on 9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers.

Epiblogger.net
It Takes a Community to Raise a Blog - Learn how building a community at your blog will improve it.

There are plenty of contests for you to enter, including mine, and there are some posts there that will hopefully help your blogging. Enjoy.

Here is your chance to win some prizes from a great blog. Alan Johnson of TheRatingBlog is offering his readers the chance to win just over $1000 in prizes. Alan recently guest posted on JohnChow.com which was very interested to read. It also promoted his blog and his contest and will help TheRatingBlog grow. I have been subscribed to Alan’s blog for quite a while now and Alan provides great articles and answers your questions. You will learn a lot from subscribing to his blog.

The Prizes
1st Prize: $500 via PayPal
2nd Prize: a promotional Bidvertiser account with $200 in free clicks (you won’t even have to provide credit card information)
3rd Prize: a $100 Amex card offered by Copeac
Prizes 4, 5, 6: free hosting for one year offered by LunarPages (each prize is worth $95.4)

How can You Win?
Alan offers many ways of entering and these are:
Subscribe to his Newsletter and comment with the same email you subscribed with and earn 1 point.
Subscribe to his RSS Feed and provide a screenshot proving you have subscribed and earn 1 point.
Comment on TheRatingBlog, you will receive 1 point for every 5 comments.
Write about the contest on your blog and receive 5 points as a reward.

The more points you collect the more chance you have of winning.

The Closing Date and Prize Drawing
The contest finishes on the 24th February 2008 and the prize drawing will take place by members of his family choosing from a hat, which is very nice indeed. His daughter will pick the winner of the $500 cash and the $100 Amex card, his son will pick the winner of the $200 Bidvertiser account. Alan will then pick the 3 winners of the 1 year free hosting with Lunarpages.

Good Luck!

This is one sure way, of being labelled an idiot and electrocuting yourself. Very nice idea!

This post in no way recommends floating a power cord on some flip flops!