Contests are nothing new in the online world. Many people have been using contests to get free web traffic for years. However, there is a slightly new twist since the blog revolution that has made running a contest much more effective and fun.
The concept is the same. You come up with a prize (or many prizes) that would be appealing to your blog readers. Of course, offering your own product as the prize would be preferable since you can mention it on your blog (so everyone who sees your contest will also see your product link). But, if you don’t have your own product, you can easily ask around and find people who will donate.
Once you have your prizes, the fun starts. You have several options for your contest:
- If your goal is to get people to interact, ask your readers to post a comment to win.
- If your goal is to get incoming links to your blog, and, if your readers are bloggers themselves, ask your readers to blog about your contest (on their blogs) and then comment to let you know they did it.
- If your goal is to get to know your readers, ask them to complete a survey to win.
- Or a combination of the items above.
Immediately after you post your contest, send a mailing to each of your ezine lists, letting them know about the contest. You’ll want your loyal readers to have the opportunity to win.
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Blogging, Contests and Freebies, Tips Blog Contest, Blog Freebies, Blog Traffic, Free Traffic, Increase Feed Subscribers, Submit Contest, Submit Sweepstake
I’ve been a “stumbler” for over a year now but I was not getting any stumbles for my pages because I was not doing anything! I’ve read several good articles about how Stumble Upon can boost your traffic but totally disregarded them. Until recently, I attempted to try Stumble Upon and saw how my blog traffic massively grew.
Previously, I was only getting up to 20 visitors at one time. Last February 24, 2008, this blog had 372 online users, which was the highest so far. Right now, Stumble Upon is one of my top traffic sources.
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Blogging, Internet Free Traffic, Stumble Udon, Stumble Upon
Found this new site StumbleUdon, which lets you exchange stumbles automatically. You may earn up to 15 free stumbles everyday. Without doing anything.
How does it work?
1. Join the program. It will ask for a nickname (your username), password, and your StumbleUpon ID and password. Joining is through invitation.
2. Submit a specific page in your website or blog to StumbleUpon.
3. Then log in to your StumbleUdon account and submit your page. You need credits/udons to submit a campaign. You earn maximum of 5 credits per 24 hours or more if you invite more friends. Remember that you credit score is reset every 24 hours so you have to use it to as soon as you earn it. You get one stumble for every 1 credit/udon.
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Blogging, Internet Free Traffic, Link-Exchange, Stumble Upon, StumbleUdon
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