To those who don’t know me or remember me dimly, my blog was the most popular among tens of thousands of blogs/websites in Entrecard a [...]]]> It’s been quite a while the last time I was active within the huge Entrecard community. And I feel it’s time to connect with you all again.

To those who don’t know me or remember me dimly, my blog was the most popular among tens of thousands of blogs/websites in Entrecard a number of times. It was always a blast, and I connected with some great people.

Also, here’s how I reached Alexa Top 100,000 In 66 Days, and here’s the world’s most popular (& still unique) Entrecard Contest I ran with very good friends — with outrageous prices worth more than $7,000 PLUS 66,666 EC a.k.a. Entrecard Credits (sorry, contest is already closed ;-), and then the crazed Winner Party where everyone celebrated fanatically. :-)

Although some things have changed over time, I still consider Entrecard to be a great place for getting targeted traffic to your site and, more importantly, to connect with outstanding individuals all the while having a wonderful time.

So again, welcome back y’all, and let’s have some fun again! :-)

—Marcus

This is [...]]]> Just noticed my blog now belongs to the Top 100,000 sites worldwide according to Alexa. In the toolbar, it may still display the old 3-month average I posted yesterday, though on their Web site it shows the new 3-month average of 99,455!

This is the result of my efforts of only 66 days—my first 66 days blogging, and I’m NOT a full-time blogger! (Can you believe it?)

As a side effect, now I’m entitled to teach others how to increase their site’s Alexa Ranking, catapulting it to Alexa’s VIP arena. :-)

The good thing about being in the Top 100,000 is that the Alexa data are now more accurate. Their data more or less match my Google Analytics stats.

The main “cause” for this success is certainly Entrecard and the fact that my Internet business blog is considered as the most popular among its entire community of 5,000+ high quality blogs.

With that being said, I’m going to throw a little party by giving away 100ec (ec = Entrecard Credits) to EVERYONE posting a comment to this blog post (and perhaps digg and/or stumble? :-)

If you are not a member yet, I or my assistant will get in touch with you soon and send you the credits to the e-mail address you provide when posting your comment. With these 100 credits handy, you’ll have a smoother start with Entrecard, the E-Business Card 2.0. Meaning, you can already start driving more traffic to your site by advertising on a couple other high quality blogs.

If you are a member, you’ll simply receive the credits to your Entrecard account.

Let’s celebrate!

—Marcus Hochstadt

P.S. Don’t hesitate to ask me any questions you have when posting your comment. Be it how to improve your ranking in the Entrecard network, how to receive more targeted visitors from Entrecard, how to improve your Internet business, or any other question you may have. Just ask! I’m here for you and may end up answering it…

P.P.S. Anybody knows how to get on Alexa’s Movers & Shakers page? It shows a whopping 89,900% improvement in Reach! That should bring my blog on that page, shouldn’t it? Any tips on how to get there are much appreciated. :-)

Note: The party time is officially over since the Hochstadt.com Party Contest; see my own comment for details. In other words, feel free to continue to celebrate, but Entrecard Credits won’t be distributed anymore. Thank you very much for your comprehension. ;-) ~Marcus

I first noticed his blog when I stumbled upon James Brausch’s “retired blog” (was December 2007) when he honored Aaron’s [...]]]> Aaron Anderson’s blog is going up like crazy. I’m amazed. I’m stunned. I love people that take action like turbo speed. Incredible.

I first noticed his blog when I stumbled upon James Brausch’s “retired blog” (was December 2007) when he honored Aaron’s there. I forgot about it for a bit but am now following his blog almost every day and put his RSS feed into my NewsFox reader.

You know, I’m fairly new to all this blogging stuff. I feel like an alien in the blogosphere, and my knowledge of PHP is in the minus section (i.e., under zero.) Although I do have some HTML and CSS knowledge, I was a plain dump when I fist visited wordpress.org and downloaded the free package.

“Famous 5-minute installation” they say; ah yeah, sure! 5 minutes… *pfff*

It took me more than five DAYS!

Not because of WordPress though. After many nights I figured out it was because my old host did not support the “mode_rewrite” module in their Apache server. Sounds Chinese, I know. In plain English, I couldn’t run the blog the way I wanted, so I had to move everything from Germany to a host in the US.

OK, as you can see I’m over the first hurdles and my blog is up and running the way it should be (for now.)

There are still a ton of things on my to-do list though. One of them is was subscribing to Entrecard in order to see if my results will be different to Aaron’s. “What’s Entrecard” you ask?

It is basically an online service where you exchange business cards by visiting blogs that are part of the Entrecard community. The more blogs you visit and leave your card, and the more are visiting yours and dropping their card, the more points you’ll earn, and the more visitors you’ll receive.

And you’ll get to see really excellent blogs that you probably would not find otherwise!

It is not my intent to give you a full-blown review just yet—too early. I’m going to do that once I have enough data, OK? (Aaron reported 308 new visitors in 6 days due to Entrecard.)

Stay tuned for my report folks; perhaps I can beat him (at least in THAT small area, Aaron… ;-)

And make sure to check out Aaron Anderson’s blog. He offers very helpful tips that are spot on.

—Marcus Hochstadt

P.S. Aaron, there is no spot providing a Trackback URI. Hope you receive my wink though. (Yeah I know, newbie worries.)