Link Bait Me

Most of you have heard, by now about Entrecard, in which you get credits for dropping your virtual business card on someone’s site and for others dropping their card on your site. Today, I want to talk about a couple fun marketing projects I put together pretty quickly after being given a great idea. I had just written a post about future pro blogger, Jason Boom and emailed him to let him know. In our correspondence, we spoke of Entrecard and my abundance of credits. Since I had just written a whole post about how we can all learn from Jason, I decided to put my money where my mouth is and ask him what HE thinks I should do for a promotion. Jason quickly shot back a short email about an Entrecard Slots concept, and I immediately liked it. Later yesterday, I spent a couple hours building it. Today, I built the version for those of you not on Entrecard yet.

The Entrecard version

http://www.joetech.com/ec_slot/

This works pretty much like you might expect. When you visit the page, it simulates a “pull” for you. If you get a winning combination (as indicated by the prize chart above), you win that prize. In this version, the prize is Entrecard credits, and you could win as much as 1,000 in one pull. You get one free pull per day. If you win, just send me the winning code and I’ll send your credits. The idea is that you’re going to get credit for dropping your card on my page, so while you’re at my site, just click the slots widget and you can win even more Entrecard credits instantly. The Jackpot is 1,000 credits. 1,000 credits just for playing a free slot!

The Free Ads version

http://www.joetech.com/ad_slots/

What if you are not an Entrecard member? What if you ARE, but you want some more free advertising? The answer is easy. Check out the Free Ads Slots. I made this version just for you. It works in pretty much the same manner, except that instead of credits, you win a live (and instant) link from the slots page. You can win varying sized links and the link stays until enough people win the same size link that it rotates out. So if there’s not a lot of traffic, it’ll be there for a while, but if the link rotates out quickly, that should mean there was a lot of traffic, and a lot of eyes on your link. In this version, the Jackpot prize is a 250 by 250 pixel linked ad.

Webmasters get two ways to win
If you’re visiting either page, it’s because you have a site, or more likely, a blog to promote. So what’s the best way to get more traffic to the slots and also give you another way to win? Why that’s the widget, of course. Each version of the slots has its own widget, so you can run them both on your site like I am. All you have to do is copy a single short line of code and you’re done.

If someone clicks on the widget, the slots page knows where they came from. If they hit the Jackpot, you also hit the Jackpot, automatically! That little widget could earn you some easy jackpots.

Just want to buy an ad?
That’s easy enough, too. Both versions of the slots have Project Wonderful ads on them, but that’s not the only way to snag a link from these pages. On the Free Ads version, you can buy a symbol. If you want the Lucky 7 to link to your site, fork over the small fee and it’ll link to your site every time it surfaces. The ones that surface less are cheaper. I’ll probably implement this with the Entrecard version this weekend.

So that’s it. Check them both out and grab those widgets to maximize your chances at hitting a Jackpot!

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