Top Entrecard Droppers Widget

This is a simple widget that you could implement on your own blog to help increase the number of people dropping their card by offering them a way promote their own website at the same time. This simple technique use RSS feed from your Entrecard dashbor to show the link of those Entrecard droppers in your sidebar.

Step 1. Log-in to your EntreCard dashboard

Step 2. Click on “More Stats” link, you will be taken to a page contains lots of useful information such as number of cards that were dropped on your blogeach day, number of clicks through to your site from Entrecard, number of cards that you dropped on other peoples sites, … Scroll down a bit to the middle of page then you will see a RSS feed for “Top Card Droppers”, right click on it and choose option “Copy Link Location” to copy the link to clipboard.

Step 3. Login to your Blogger account

Step 4. Click on the “Layout” link

Step 5. Make sure you are in tab “Page Elements”

Step 6. Choose a place where you want to put your widgets on, then click “Add a Gadget”. When a pop-up window is opened, choose a Feed gadget (its location is in the middle of the pop-up window)

Step 7. Press Ctrl+V to paste the link you put to clipboard at Step #2

Step 8. Change title, options if you want

Step 9. Click Save and DONE

Conclusion

This widget give a much more long-term benefit to those that are featured. They will remain featured for as long as they drop their card every day while those that miss a day or more will slowly find themselves moving further downthelist. This encourages everyone to drop as often as possible to get themselves featured on your site or to keep their current position.

I think this widget is better than Recent Entrecard Droppers widget because those that are visiting your website regularly are receiving the greatest benefits for doing so while those that only drop occasional will not featured as much.