He Was On To Something

In light of the whole Monkey was a fake on Entrecard, I wondered how he got so many credits on his account when the limit is 300. That’s when I learned a little secret of Entrecard. You can have more than one blog on there, and you can transfer your credits to a blog that you want to be “popular”. Maybe this is something everyone’s known since forever, but I didn’t know it. I’m always behind on these things.

This gave me an idea. I was going to do what he did.

Get credits with multiple blogs on Entrecard, that is. Not steal someone else’s content. =p

I tried it, and I had to put four other blogs on my account, not including my main one. So I had five blogs on there. That meant I could get about 1500 credits per day just from dropping cards. I made 1654 today alone. That’s with the transfer fees and such. As I write this, there are more and more credits coming in.

I can easily see how this became an obsession for Monkey. I can see why he did it. With credits come the ability to “purchase” “ad space” on other blogs. Overnight, the traffic here has jumped another 100 hits. In the meantime, all those links out, links in, and hits makes Page Rank go up. I read a site with a PR of 4 or greater can eventually have an ad that runs about $70 per day.

There is a huge downfall to this. I had to stretch my “blogs” to get enough for just 1500 credits in drops per day. I put up both my main blogs, my journal, my test blog, and a blog I hadn’t updated since 2006. I was contemplating adding my school blog, but why? 2000 credits per day seems good. But there’s the downfall of having to actually visit 2000 sites and drop 2000 cards per day. Entrecard wanted to limit the number of card drops to 600 per day, per IP and Monkey complained about that. I guess because it meant that his plan would fall apart. However, with these visits and droppings, comes the task of having 2-4 hours to sit down and actually visit these sites, do the drops, and then collect the credits at the end of the day. I feel if someone spends more than thirty minutes a day on their blog, making layouts and tweaking blogware not included, they need another hobby. Or perhaps a job.

With my high speed internet and super-fast Intel MacBook Pro, it still took me over three hours to get those credits. Monkey must have had a lot of time on his hands to sit and drop all those cards. No wonder he had to steal blog entries. There was virtually no time to actually sit down and write blog entries that were original or creative.

I admit, 2000 Entrecard credits is tempting, and I have a little over a month to collect on these. But I won’t be greedy. Yet. =)

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