Hey everyone. THanks for hanging tight! We should have everything back to normal by tomorrow. That means repairing the forum as well. The contest is canceled this week, due to the voting problem, but will start next Sunday night. the winner will get 2,000 Entrecard credits!
More later!
Entreview
12.Aug.08 
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WE have corrected the coding error that caused the voting and views to stop. Weshould be restoring the views and votes tallies to their proper values.
Of course, while we repaired the voting, it appears that we overwrote the forum design… UGH…. LEarning as we go…on the job training. We will restore the forum design from our backups this week. Right now we are focused on on what happened with the voting script. Thanks for
11.Aug.08 Uncategorized Comments (0)
We just crunched the numbers (well ok, we looked at AWStats) and our first month we had 63,800 pageviews! Not a bad amount for the first month of operation. Of course now the challenge is to keep the numbers up! We foresee the potential to make August a great month. We also see some challenges ahead.
Some challenges we perceive:
Some Buzz for us!
So, stay-tuned we are targeting to grow in August, but who knows by how much! Matching 63,800 will be tough but we think we might be able to do it, or at least come close. Be assured we will be working extra hard behind the scenes to make Entreview a more pleasurable experience for you!
Entreview Team
04.Aug.08 Uncategorized Comments (0)
Ok, so the explosion in Blogs is nothing new. Neither is the Blogger’s desire to bring a multitude of hits to their sites. Dreams of Dollars, Pounds, Dracmas, and Euros dance through the heads of all bloggers. Why is that? because from the stay at home mom writing about life with Kids, to the SEO expert, we are all Entrepreneurs at heart.
Why Entrepreneurs? Because it is EASY to write about something you love. It is HARD sometimes to turn a buck from it. Entrepreneurs understand exactly that. It will take time and care to nurture your investment (your blog) until it can stand on its feet and be recognized (Alexa, Page Rank, etc.)
Another rules is that it takes money to make money. That is one of the aspects of Entrecard that appealed to me right off the bat. Bloggers from all over the world have a common currency with which to buy and sell ads. Much the way Linden Dollars are Valued on Second Life, Entrecard Credits have a value unto their own within universe of Bloggers signed up for the service.
Here at Entreview we use Entrecard Credits to pay for our contests. This frees up our real world $$$$ to advertise on sites to attract more visitors and members to submit links. In this way, we hope to achieve a sort of parity where our contest become self sufficient.
It will take some time. We are only 3 weeks old. But we had a great First month and we are looking for an even stronger August!
Thanks for your support!
Entreview
01.Aug.08 Uncategorized Comments (0)
A few Viewers emailed me about the Featured Post and asked why it was such a good deal.
Let me explain:
For 100/EC per day (that’s right you need Entrecard. Great service, go get it!) your story will be exposed to up to 2,400 page views per day. (this is an average of the three weeks we have been running). In addition, along with all of our post, you can instantly see how many people have clicked the link to view and potentially have dropped on your blog.
For example:
In the above image you can see that this Featured Post had 80 people click on the link to view the actual post and therefore 80 potential EC Drops. It was also voted up 13 times within its 10 day run. Currently, the typical post gets around 7 votes and 5 or 6 page views within 10 days.
Since the Featured Posts targets individual Blog entries or contests, all the click-throughs will be targeted. Instead of 80 hits on your entire blog in different sections, you will get 80 views of a specific link. Because the Featured Post always is at the top of the Page for all link displaying pages, it ALWAYS gets looked at.
I hope that expalins it a little better.
If you are interested let us know.
31.Jul.08 Uncategorized Comments (0)
We are working on an easier way to vote for stories. Look for that to come online this week. Hopefully!.
We also have had some visitors ask us what the “views” mean. Well since our name is Entreview we figured that people would be more interested in how many views (Actual “Views” of their sites and possible conversions to Entrecard “drops”) then how many votes there were.
Of course, votes do matter a lot becuase the more votes your story has the higher you rise in the Top posts in each category which increases your chances of being viewed and dropped on.
BTW if you don’t have an Entrecard widget, you really need one. Go get one here.
In the example below, you can see the two ways to gauge your post.
Look for improvements to both in the short term!
Tags: drops, entrecard, views, votes
28.Jul.08 Uncategorized Comments (0)
Welcome to the Entreview blog. In the coming weeks we will be working on prettying-up the blog, but for now our concentration is focused on the social blog aggregator section of our site. We have been working hard behind the scenes and it is beginning to show results. It appears that we have leapt into the Alexa standings with a good representation in only 3 weeks.
We also recognize that Alexa only measures people with the Alexa toolbar installed and so is very skewed. But hey the graphs are kinda cool and anything that helps us burn through the midnight hours to improve the code is worth it.
Of course our Google PR is in the toilette with a rating of zero and they are still penalizing us for who knows what, but things at Entrecard have been good. We have been getting good traffic from them and people seem enthused to contribute to our site and build up their own sites. Keep it coming.
So this is just our welcome to the Blog message. Stop by and say “hI” if you care to!
Entreview
Tags: alexa, entreview, google Page Rank
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