Boost your traffic by Entrecard

Greetings Entrecarders!
With our recent move to up transfer limits to 25,000 credits per week, we’ve gotten lots of reports from happy Entrecarders who are holding do-it-yourself contests once again. These contests, where Entrecard Credits are given away as prizes, are a great way to increaes your traffic.

How to hold a contest
Step 1: The Prizes
The first step to holding a contest is deciding what you’re going to give away. Do you have a few thousand credits you’re going to offer up as a prize? Are you going to put in the extra effort, and get other people on board and offering up prizes as well? What will you offer the other prize-poolers to make it worth their while? A link back to their blog is a great way to reward them for offering prizes in your contest.

Step 2: How to enter?
Determining how readers will enter your contest is something you should do carefully, and tailor it to meet your own goals. Will you give out one contest entry for each person who leaves a comment? Will you give out extra entries for people who write a blog post about your contest? A google search for “Entrecard Contest” will give you lots of ideas of things other people have done before. Be creative and enthusiastic in your blog post about your contest.

Step 3: Paying the winners
Once the contest is over and the winners have been selected, it’s time to pay them. Make sure to send all other people contributing to your prize pool the profile links of the winners.
All Entrecard Credits are transferred from the profile. So, on anyone’s Entrecard Profile (which you can always get to by clicking the Entrecard logo on their widget on their blog) you will see these options on the side:

Simple click the 4th option down from the top, “Give credits to this site” to transfer the winning credits!
That’s it. Enjoy! Don’t forget to promote your Entrecard contest on Twitter!