Two Superheroes Clone

When I first saw cards like this on blogs, I was puzzled. What the hell were those things ??

When it first launched Entrecard has a very original concept, and still does.

Bascally you go out and hand out a virtual business card to help with the promotion of your blog. No money involved. All credits are virtual! (However there are people selling EC credits on eBay for real money).

How it works

You sign up (one blog one email) and you have an initial price of 2 credits for advertisers to put their cards on your blog. The price goes up as you collect more credits. You can go to other sites and click on "Drop" to earn one credit. The website owner will see your card that you drop in their Entrecard admin panel. The same goes to you. You can see all the cards other people have dropped in your inbox.

Advantages

The cool thing is once you sign up and become a regular card dropper, you'll see a spike in traffic. Many say Entrecard traffic is useless and junk traffic because Entrecard visitors aren’t very likely to hang around after dropping their card.

However, there are some who stay around and actually read your content if you can have something that catches their eye.

Another positive is that you can even get your ads on one a popular blogs such as problogger.net or johnchow.com without paying a single cent. Just need lots of credits that's all.

Joel Comm that Adsense ebook seller has just become a member Entrecard and you can advertise on his site too.

So far my experience using Entrecard has been positive. I have to say that established blogs like 5xmom, LiewCF and HongKiat would not benefit at all from this program. Only newbie bloggers like us will benefit more in the instant traffic and potential to hook one or two loyal reader. Just make sure you have some good content or interesting post.

 

Whoops... previous blog post was about Apple computers and it's clone. Now we are talking about REAL apples.

Twosuperheroes original bought an Apple Peeler from Ikea for RM9.90. That's about USD 3. Found an almost exact copy (clone?) on eBay for a fraction of the price at USD 1.11. However packaging and postage pushes it way above the price of the peeler itself. Shucks.. looks like we have to make our way to Ikea to get one :(

We kept checking and checking. Finally we are now in Google's index. Getting in Google Search Engine Result Page (SERP) is important. If you are not there then you are invisible to the online world.

Now we just have to target some important keywords to bring in some moolahs from Adsense :)

2.2GHz Core 2 Duo E4500 processor, 2GB of memory, integrated GMA 950 graphics, 250GB disk and 20x DVD burner. Add another $155 and they'll even install Leopard on the non-Apple kit with the help of an EFI V8 emulator

~ from Engadget

See, even Apple is cloned. If I had a choice I'd probably go for the cheaper cloned version and get a nice big 22" monitor :)

Currently tracking 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.

Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”

It is the Google of blogs. So we registered wtih them

And they offer yet another metric to track your blog's progress (or lack of it).

Our Technorati rank: 4,978,471.

We must aim to go down to 1 million in a month's time.

Here's a before and after picture of our Alexa widget:

Before:

After:

That's a tremendous 15 million drop !!

It seems the folks at Alexa threw away the original algorithms and cloned a new one. We don't like the new algorithm, Alexa!! Particularly when it dropped us by so much.

Could there really be 27,754,366 more blogs better than us?

That's depressing.

On the other hand, as clone we understand why Alexa is trying out the new alorithm. They were tired of the original and thought that a clone will have improvements. After all they have become the 2nd most important ranking mechanism on the net after Google Page Rank.

Established blogs like HongKiat.com was 20,000 something also dropped to 47,238. More blogs dropped instead of improved in their rankings.

Anyway, a positive light to it is we are only beginning so we will be seeing some leap and bounds (like some million rank jumps) the next couple of weeks !!

Advertlets vs Nuffnang

Two of the earliest local online advertising companies is none other than Advertlets and Nuffnang. Much has been blogged about both and from our own experience in our other blogs we make more money with Nuffnang. We don't want to play favourites to any but we will give our 100% support to the company that clones us the most money , of course. Money talks!!

Advertlets a clone too?

As Advertlets was created and launched just after Nuffnang, we as clones feel for Advertlets. In some ways on business idea, Advertlets is similiar to Nuffnang, strikingly similiar to a clone (emphasis in "similiar"! ). Even though it didn't work for us in our earlier blogs we want to give Advertlets a second chance and try to monetize it here on this blog as an experiment.

Experiment

Our objectives is to hit 100 visitors daily and see what sort of revenue Advertlets can generate. That's because with Nuffnang, once we had a website hitting 100 visitors or more, that site usually will start generating money from Nuffnang. Let's see if Advertlets is the same.

As you can see we have already placed Advertlets ads on prime locations on this blog.