Todays’ post revisits the issue of fast clicking in Entrecard. Let’s face it, dropping 300+ cards can be a chore. Even if you enjoy reading the sites, maximizing your efficiency just leaves more time for commenting. Currently, there are four main systems fast clickers use. Let’s examine all four in no particular order.
- The Turnip Method: Still the fastest and best method. All you do is bookmark sites above the fold, group them in folders of 50, and open them all at once. Being my method of choice, I’ve now refined it to cut the time in half. I have 6 folders. One folder is called “Favorites”; any blog that is a friend, I like, or comment often on goes here. These are sites I read in detail. Another special folder is “New Blogs”, where recently discovered blogs get put. *Bonus Tip! I examined my method to discover any flaws and found a big one. Turns out, what was most tiring wasn’t clicking the gold boxes. What was exhausting me was clicking those damn red X’s to close tabs in Firefox. My super tip is to bind a mouse button to “Ctrl + W”. That’s the key combo in Firefox to close tabs. Unless you have long fingers, clicking “Ctrl+W” 300 times is tiring as well. This tip alone cut my normally fast click times in half. So fast, in fact, that the only thing slowing me down now is Entrecard itself.
- Sitehoppin!: Sure, I’ve blasted this service in the past, but figured I’d check it out again. No idea if it’s out of beta yet, but there were some new features. First, the positives. It’s good for those droppers who would like to see a random selection of sites in any category to drop their card on. The interface is simple and has an automated feature to advance to the next page. Now for the negatives. Using the automated feature was like a bad arcade game. You had to find the gold box on an unfamiliar site before the timer sent you to the next page. Too slow and you missed your chance to drop a card. Game over at 300. Also, you can’t bookmark a site, instead you bookmark Sitehoppin. Using this method won’t get you on anybody’s “top dropper” list either.
- The Pea’s Hack Method: What this method does is load only the Entrecard widget without loading the site. This will get your banned Fast. Getting your account removed is not worth the risk.
- Entreranker + Linky: Entreranker is a tool made by John from Johnisfit.com. You go to the Entreranker page and type something like http://www.johnisfit.com/entreranker.php?page=recent. Up pops a nice page showing the names of all recent sites, the link to the site, the link to the Entrecard page, and finally a graphical display of their Google Pagerank. Then you activate Linky. Linky is a Firefox extension that allows you to highlight links on a page and open all the sites at once. This Entreranker tool + Linky is very useful for quickly evaluating new sites as potential advertising opportunities. Only danger is that the queue might fill up before you make a decision. That’s why I suggest grabbing all open ad spots, then cancelling your ad later if the page is a stinker. See John’s video for a quick and simple demonstration! What would make John’s tool even better? A method to display on the page whether or not the site has an opening for advertising, and a way to click a link to place an ad. That would be sweet!
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25 users commented in " Fast Entrecard Clicking Reviewed "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback **********thanks for those tips
very informative as usual
Love the ctrl+w tip!
That deserves a special miracle grow watering for your roots. Nice find.
Install the Close All Tabs Firefox extension at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2914 - then you an do all your dropping for for your folder, close all the tabs with one click, then open up your next folder. Works great.
In addition to Ctrl+W you might also find Ctrl+Tab useful in moving from one tab to the next!
The turnip method works great! Though I don’t have any spare buttons on my mouse (um… my Mac mousie) to do the “Ctrl + W”, but the keyboard method works well for my Mac fingers because I do “Apple + W” which is a bit more ergonomically friendly. Plus I have smaller folders for my bookmarks (20 or less) as I find blogs loading incredibly slow or not at all with the bigger folder size.
I tried the sitehoppin’, but ran into the “timed out” problem as well. But it is a neat way to see new blogs you wouldn’t normally go out of your way to look at by conventional methods.
I have used the turnip method and love it. I have always used the ctrl+w to speed things up. It works like a charm.
Glad you all enjoyed it. I prefer to close tabs rather than just move over 1 tab. When I close all the tabs at once Firefox tends to crash. The only thing we need now is something that finds the gold box for us.
Hi, thanks for the tips on speeding up the entrecard dropping. I followed your directions and unzipped the file, but then you sort of lost me.
I click on the icon which is on my desktop and it takes me to your list (which is good as most of my favourites are on it). I can only open about 10 windows at a time as my computer crashes if I try too many.
Will you expand on your directions from there a bit please? I’m not sure how to add my favourites to the list (how do I bookmark them?).
I really like the tip on using Ctr W to close the windows - that’s cool! I’d been clicking on the x…. Of course I don’t understand what you mean about binding the mouse button, but I’m on a laptop anyway which only has a nasty red button mouse
You have 2 of my blogs on your list - thanks so much!!! Would you mind adding Boating in Beautiful British Columbia: http://boatinginbeautifulbritishcolumbia.com - if you have room or if you’re adding a new group!
Thanks!
Heather
Heather, The trick is to open Firefox, highlight the “bookmarks tab”, and then click on “organize bookmark”. The bookmarks manager will pop open.
Now highlight “File”, and choose “import”, and select “from file”.
Locate the unzipped “entrecard.html” and you are finished. You can move the bookmarks around into smaller groups if 50 is too many.
Anther trick is you can use my entrecard.html file with linky as well! Just double click it.
Only thing I will add to this is make sure you uncheck load images in your options in firefox and then add entrecard to the allowed sites. It makes loading sites so much faster.
James, I agree, things like disabling images do speed load times. But not everybody wants to sacrifice beauty for speed. Javascript is the big culprit. Images these days are web optimised and load quickly, it’s ads that slow sites down. A plugin that disabled all JS except entrecard would be best. Im sure someone could post how to easily do that.
turnip just right click on one tab then slect close all tabs and it will close them down to the first page.
clint
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br3adman: I do that, but it crashes firefox usually. I like to click and close tabs while sites are still loading sometimes.
[...] Why is this faster than opening 20 windows at once like TurnipOfPower says? [...]
2 slight problems max. Your “control+f” trick to find the “drop yours” only works in firefox. Which is fine, because I prefer to drop using firefox.
As for 50 tabs putting a strain on my system, not at all. I play games in the background while they are loading. So the load time isn’t even an issue. I suppose people could open 20 tabs at one, or 10 tabs, all which would be faster than 2 tabs using sitehoppin.
This is GREAT information Turnip! I’ve been using your list up to now and love it but now I’ll try making my own. Your method is sooooooo fast - thanks.
Because of this I’ve placed my entrecard above the fold!! thank you turnip of power!!!!!!
Hey Turnipofpower,
Thanks anyways for the plug, it’s always good to talk and create a better way to drop more cards. I mean, that’s all I am tryin’ to do.
Maybe you can make a more detailed post on how to open up 20 windows. I don’t know how that can be faster than loading 1 site at a time.
Sometimes, 20 tabs on my PC will freeze my PC for few seconds and I have a pretty fast PC with 4GB of memory.
Sure Max. If your computer is freezing opening up that many ads in Firefox, it is possible to adjust your settings. Depends what you mean by “freezing” though. If the load is too much, then it’s a memory issue, but if it’s a slow loading issue, that is easily adjusted. This site gives a simple answer and procedure: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts
1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.
I only tried tips 1 & 2, but I never had any issues opening that many sites. It’s faster because you aren’t waiting at all. You go do something else while the sites open.
The “Turnip” plan sounds like a good idea. I don’t know if my poor system can handle 50 tabs though, but I get the idea.
Gotta love the CTRL+W and CTRL+F4. Well, I just the ‘F4′ because I remember that more than the ‘W’. I know, longer stretch, but oh well.
Even if you only open 10 tabs at once, the wait comes from java widgets and entrecard itself. Clicking at midnight is almost unbearable because of system lag. Phirate seems to be adjusting settings at that time too.
Ah thanks for the tip Turnip, but I already have the proxy config thing down, maybe it’s time for a new laptop, I’ve had this junk for almost 9 months now. Technology gets better so fast, computers will never keep up with the brain though.
[...] on 300 blogs every day? Everyone has their own system and I’m trying them all, choosing the best suggestions, and developing my own list to maximize my [...]
Unfortunately, I don’t have the bandwidth to open 50 sites at once.
Nice post!
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