Well at work I cant surf alot of websites due to the lovely websense firewall. Granted I used to bypass it easily (IT fixed that lmao) and I really don’t want to take the time to tunnel. WOW im ranting again… Anyway, back on topic..
I get home to find a facebook message from a newly created account with no information on it. They want to know how I gamed the system and if they would release how I did it to everyone. The fact that is was simple scares me. The fact that people want to game the system bothers me even more. People like you are ruining the who economy of the thing, that’s what I was trying to get across. Instead of trying to cheat, Tell the entrecard admins that you are concerned. Seriously, that Ben guy replies to all my posts.. and usually same or the next day…
I chose entrecard because it was relatively small. Small communities get you more contact and more personalization. If I was looking for monetized clicks I wouldn’t have chose entrecard, I just would have chosen some horrible ad exchange. The whole point of entrecard is to expose you to people with similar interests. If you really need points, hire someone to do it for you, or BUY EC POINTS. They are actually really cheap.
As always, automation will never get you as far as personalized comments will. If you want readers, read others blogs, become friends with them, write posts related to their posts… Cross traffic always wins.
I know how to get the hits, but I simply don’t have the time to do it. If you don’t have the time to do it either, then blogging really isn’t for you. Its a two way street people. So far I have only subscribed to 4 blogs, and 2 of them I actually read. Whats funny about this, is the 2 I actually read and comment, THEY READ MY BLOG TOO AND COMMENT. Amazing concept.
BTW: those two are: dube.wordpress.com (found from digg post about best lost moments) and adamriggins.com (his comments perked my curiosity and I ended up liking his writing).
As you can see, I pooled from a very small sample size, and if I were to take the time, I could have alot more readers.
Here are some simple ways of getting traffic. They all take work:
- Read others blogs, and comment.
- Participation in forums, helping others, not just spamming your crap.
- Write posts often with amazing content. (I fail at this, but im not out for a following)
Easy.
Well I wasn’t getting much out of the entrecard system so I thought I would try and boost my chances. The system uses a crappy system that has a drop button image that contains the user ID number and relies on a cookie on your computer to tell it who clicked. This is great for cheating. I noticed alot of people are repeatedly clicking my drop but my website hits aren’t really increasing..which means they aren’t even visiting my site. PEOPLE ARE GAMING THE SYSTEM. Just like digg, people are scripting to gain points.
Well since entrecard hasn’t shown me any improvements I thought it was time to try something everyone else is doing. I decided to game the system. It was really simple too. I took a mouse recording software, right clicked on my “drop” button, and changed the link to a random number… and wow it worked. So I loaded a little piece of software that randomly generated a number between 1000 and 28888 (since that was the highest number I saw in the “new users” section)
Then the mouse recording software generated the new number and I simply pasted the new number over the one that existed and the mouse clicked the load page button. Then it simply clicked the new drop button.
It worked. It was working. Then I got greedy and set the speed of the mouse to maximum. Three drops later it banned me and took all my money! HAHA! oh well right? It was an empty account when I started.
If they ban me thats fine, their TOS should include something about spamming but it does not… sad right?
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