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What can you do today or right now that will affect change on your blog or site? Can you get 5 links back to your blog today? Can you gain 1 RSS reader or get an extra 100 visitors? Sure you can.

Remember, proven basics come before unproven success. It is easy to dream big, but the best way to reach those dreams is one step at a time. I remember thinking it was hard to get any extra visitors to my blog in a day. Now it is only a couple clicks and a post away. Set high and challenging goals for the long term and small accessible goals for the short term. Once the foundation is laid, the bricks and mortar will fall into place quite easily.

It is possible to achieve great traffic from Entrecard, and the best part is, it’s free. Okay, it is free if you feel like building networks and dropping Entrecards yourself, otherwise it will cost you a few bucks. What am I getting at here? I have been performing a little unofficial test on the best way to spend Entrecard credits for advertising on blogs. Of course, you could choose to spend all your credits on stumbles, Digg, or in the Entrecard shop or forum and could very well achieve more traffic. I am talking about using Entrecard for the core it was designed for, advertising on blogs.

The most beautiful part of the Entrecard model is the ability to advertise on other blogs for free and with little time invested. Dropping Entrecards and earning credits has become an art, and many people are becoming highly efficient at it, taking only 25-30 minutes to drop all 300 cards. For those who don’t know, you are limited to the number of “drops” you can do a day in order to keep ad-price stability in the system.

The number one goal when advertising on other people’s blogs is to receive the highest number of return clicks for the amount of credits spent. On the statistics page of the Entrecard account, there is a section that tells you how many credits it costs you to receive one click. The best possible result is to have return clicks to your blog cost less than 1 credit. None of my top ten returns cost me more than .9 credits per click. This means I am getting more than 1 visitor per credit to my blog. If I am able to do that with all 300 credits I can collect in one day, I could possibly have 300-400 visitors to my blog for 25 minutes of work. I don’t know about you, but this seems like a really good idea worth perfecting. If you get really lazy, you could buy the credits you spend and save even more time.

How do I select what blogs to post my advert on?

The secret is to select a blog that will provide you with more than one visitor per credit. Most of the blogs that will provide you more than one visit per credit are blogs with low advertising costs. I rarely advertise on a blog that costs more than 30 credits unless I know or really like the blog. If I want to advertise on blogs using 300 credits per day, those credits will go further if I advertise on blogs that cost between 2-30 credits. On average, 300 credits will allow me to advertise on 20-40 different blogs a day. Advertising on this number of blogs each day leads to some interesting results, mostly positive.

How do I pick the blogs?

When you go to the campaign tab on Entrecard, one of the options is to select “unseen” blogs, or blogs that you have not visited recently. I find all the blogs under 30 credits and advertise on all of them. Then I hit refresh and repeat the process until all my credits are gone. I do encounter some rejections advertising like this, but I get the credits back and typically if someone rejects my advert, he or she visited my blog, and I got one free visitor ;). I think you are beginning to see the logic I am diving into. The idea in the stock market is to buy low and sell high. The same applies to Entrecard. An advert that costs you 2-4 credits to advertise on really has no way to go but up. When its advertising price goes up, more people are visiting the blog and therefore you end up with more than one visitor per credit spent.

In the Entrecard community, it is better to be on 50 blog in a day than two. For the same cost as advertising on some of the top blogs for a day, you could advertise on 20 smaller blogs and receive a better ROI (return on investment). I have never received as good of ratio advertising on the higher priced blogs than I have the lower cost blogs. Take this marketing idea and run with it. You’ll thank me later.

I love Jeeps. They are great vehicles with a wide array of uses. I fell in love with them after my mother got one a few years ago. I have since bought my own and cherish it greatly. I do look forward to the day that I can upgrade and continue the Jeep tradition in my life. I have nothing but good things to say about their capabilities and the many uses they can take on. The gas mileage on the other hand is a little lacking, but easily overlooked in the winter or on the mountains.

I am not at the point in my life, nor do I think I ever will be willing to take on a car payment. The numbers just don’t add up and I have moved away from the consumer debt trap. So, I patiently wait for a nice used Jeep SRT 8 that I can afford. Maybe in the next couple of years one will be mine.

What’s so special about the SRT 8? Power is pegged at 420 hp at 6200 rpm and torque is an equally impressive 425 lb-ft at 4800 rpm, though you don’t need much more than tickover in any gear to turn the approaching horizon into a streaky blur. Behold the 0-60 mph time of less than five seconds, the 0-100-0 time of less that 19 seconds, and a top speed around 155 mph. The Grand Cherokee SRT8 is fast, people, faster than the Cayenne Turbo and X5 4.0iS that used to look down their premium noses at the Jeep. In fact, it’s almost as quick to 60 mph as a Porsche 911. You may gasp when ready. There is a lot more but I think you get the idea.