How Having a Contest Can Help Your Blog or Website
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You may have noticed I have posted about quite a few contests on this blog. Some of you are probably wondering if this is a Make Money and Save Money Online blog, why am I posting about contests?
First, I have an opportunity to win prizes, which I can turn around and sell if I don’t really want or need them myself. Second, I give you my readers an opportunity to win.
What’s important though is you should also notice that I link to each blog post of the contest, and sometimes a contest sponsors. We all know how important links back to your site are. Creating a contest for your own blog or website could generate those same types of links back to your blog or website, which can also increase traffic to your site.
You do need to offer prizes that will interest your visitors so they will want to take part in the contest. You can get prizes on your own or find sponsors to donate prizes.
You then have to give your visitors tasks to enter your contest. For most of the contests I’ve posted, you’ll notice they offer different amounts of entries for different tasks.
Some will offer 1 entry for registering for the RSS feed. This is a great way to get repeat visitors
Some will offer 1 entry for commenting on their blog. You could do this one several ways. You can only allow maximum of one comment for one entry at the contest post, or you can allow many comments for 1 entry each throughout all articles on your blog. The latter will bring visitors back often because they know they get more entries. Repeat traffic is always good right? Of course you have to set some rules to prevent useless comment spam. Perhaps a minimum 25 word comment is needed for entry and the comment has to be on topic.
Some contests offer an entry for a Twitter post about the contest. There are several other social sites that you could use as well.
The task that usually gets the most contest entries for completing it is posting a blog post about the contest (and sponsor if there is one). This will get many links back to your site and there should be an increase in traffic from it too. How many entries you offer is up to you, but the contests I’ve posted about have offered 5 entries up to 15 entries for a blog post about the contest (and sponsors if applicable).
So you can see how contests can help increase links back to your site, increase traffic and repeat visitors. If you’re planning on having a contest feel free to stop by and let me know. I’m sure I’ll post about it if I like the prizes ;-)
I will be planning a contest in the near future when I start posting on a daily basis here, so keep an eye out for that.
22 Comments on this post
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Work At Home Mom Tara said:
I have been planning my 1st contest for a few weeks now. I am excited to see how well the contest will do!
August 24th, 2008 at 4:38 pm -
MoneyM8 said:
Thanks for stopping by Tara! I look forward to entering your contest ;-)
August 25th, 2008 at 8:19 am -
Homes to buy said:
I’ve posted about have offered 5 entries up to 15 entries for a blog post about the contest…
June 2nd, 2010 at 10:41 am -
Homes to buy said:
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June 7th, 2010 at 9:45 am -
internet phone providers said:
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August 15th, 2010 at 2:36 am -
internet phone providers said:
I just posted a new weblog on my myspace and i forgot that i had set the code in to hide my blogs. So i was questioning is there a code for showing your blog…
August 15th, 2010 at 2:36 am -
turkey tourchs said:
I just posted a brand new weblog on my myspace and i forgot that i had set the code in to hide my blogs. So i was wondering is there a code for showing your blog ;))
September 26th, 2010 at 2:16 pm -
turkey toursky said:
I just posted a brand new weblog on my myspace and i forgot that i had set the code in to hide my blogs. So i was wondering is there a code for showing your blog… :))
October 2nd, 2010 at 5:21 am -
istanbul toursh said:
I’ve posted about have offered 5 entries up to 15 entries for a blog post about the contest… ;)))
October 2nd, 2010 at 5:24 am -
vibratör said:
Thanks for stopping by Tara ;)
March 1st, 2011 at 5:28 am -
kadinvesaglik said:
a few weeks now. I am excited to see how well the contest will do! ;)
May 17th, 2011 at 6:35 pm -
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May 26th, 2011 at 12:34 am -
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that usually gets the most contest entries for completing it is posting a blog post about the contest (and sponsor if there is one). This will get many links back to your site and there should be an increase in traffic from it too. How many entries you offer is up to you, but the contests I’ve posted about have offer
June 3rd, 2011 at 4:06 am -
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June 7th, 2011 at 10:48 pm -
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i forgot that i had put the code in to hide my blogs. So i was wondering is there a code for showing your blog…
June 8th, 2011 at 1:42 am -
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Everybody calls ‘em this, even if they happen to be the generic equivalent. Some might say that’s
June 8th, 2011 at 4:56 am -
document assembly said:
I want to know if it is okay to quote a blockquote from a book to post in your blog/website? Reason I ask this is because I find some interesting stuff in a book and want to quote it into my blog/website. I want to make sure it isn’t against the copyright.
June 13th, 2011 at 5:17 am -
cuff links said:
Suppose I heard about a news from anywhere, and I published it on my blog. If that information was already on any other blog or website, will there be any issue over that ?
July 5th, 2011 at 1:11 am -
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July 5th, 2011 at 7:25 am -
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This will get many links back to your site and there should be an increase in traffic from it too.
July 24th, 2011 at 7:39 am -
Ergonomic Chairs said:
Nice Contest ! is ti possible that with out any Contest we can grow or blog or sites?
September 1st, 2011 at 12:16 am -
How to start a Business said:
These contests are quite interesting, I will be on the look out for more.
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:29 am