John Chow came up with a very good idea of give away 10,000 Entrecard credits for one of his readers to use to advertise the blog. As he said in the article Entrecard is the only way to advertise in blogs like John Chow dot com or proBlogger.net without paying money for it.

For example, the average of the price to advertise in JohnChow dot com and proBlogger.net per day is 4096 credits on Entrecard, the best way to that is to win the 10,000 credits from the contest John created.

My blog is brand new and I don’t have enough money to spend in advertisement right now, for sure if I win the contest it’d help me a lot to increase the visits and as long as people read my blog they can like it and make it popular. Also if I win I will use my credits to buy an Ad at John Chow dot com two times and I know doing that it would increase so much the visits on my blog. Eventually if I win John is going to be able to do the same contest next month because he’s going to have it back right away.

Advertise in blog like John Chow dot com is a Return on Investment guaranteed, if you have money to spend on advertise it’s way better to pay $500 to John Chow write an review about your site than use it with Google adwords or similar service. Just to reinforce the idea, John Chow dot com has over 23,000 people reading its RSS feed everyday, that means if at least 50% of the people click on you link you’ll have over 10,000 unique visitors in the first and probably you’ll have at least 30% or 7,000 for the subsequent 7 days. And your website is going to be linked to his blog as long as the blog exist. Very good deal!

Everybody knows that to make a blog a success it has to become very popular and for that happen the blog has to be seen for a lot of people, if they like it they are going to spread the link to every friend they have and it’ll make the blog popular.

My start as a blogger was after I read an e-book wrote by John Chow about how to make money online, I thought that could be good for me and I persist on the idea, I created my own blog and it’s helping me in many ways. But it takes time to get noticed on the internet unless you lucky to create something new or your blog become viral for some reason.

Since I read that e-book I never stop reading about blogging and how to improve my blog, but the fact is to make money you need money. To make your blog noticeable you have to invest a little bit in advertisement, and to do that you need money or very good friends that want to see you grow(Almost never happen).