This is a guest post by Riyanne @ Blogging From Scratch
When you create a blog, you surely desire for it to succeed. You may want it to succeed financially, convey a message to as many people as possible or whatever your hopes may be.
If you are blogging for quite some time now and have no audience at all, then something must be awfully wrong. You got the right material, invested on a personalized design, bought banner advertisements and you even have a mascot. And yet, your blog is dead or the statistics does not meet your expectations. Your efforts are not good enough.
What if I could tell you on how to spice things up? To liven up your blog through contests! I was joining blog contests before even having my own blog. I even won my blog’s hosting and domain name from one of the contests that I joined. In those times, I observed that when there’s an ongoing contest, people starts noticing and patronizing the blog. People are suddenly buzzing about those blog. They increase their feed subscriptions, newsletter, free reviews and many more endless opportunities.
Having a blog contest is one way of promoting your blog. You can boost your traffic, increase RSS subscribers and more. Yeah, blog contests are cool but don’t just jump into organizing one. Be smart!
They can be quite expensive especially when you are sponsoring by yourself and there’s a contest in your blog every month! Because no matter how big your prizes are, it might suck.
So I made an ebook entitled Blog to success with Blog contests that will guide you to create contests that rock and can deliver the following in your blog.
- Boost your traffic
- Build links
- Network with other bloggers
- Increase your feed subscriber and
- Be a successful blogger
You could get the ebook for free if you subscribe by email and the download link can be found at the footer of the feed. After reading, you can now start organizing contest that will be a sensation! It will teach you on how to properly set your goals, the contest mechanics, set your budget and more. In the end, there are scenarios on when to organize a contest and aftermath reports of my two blog contests. Better subscribe now to learn all of these for free.

4 responses so far ↓
1 Wei Liang | ABloggerBlog // Dec 10, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I am definitely in for blog contest as a way to market blogs. At the same time, I also recommend bloggers sponsor for contest as a way to obtain backlinks as well. Great share by Riyanne.
Wei Liang
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2 khokon // Jul 5, 2009 at 8:56 pm
what will happen if i use copy content?
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3 john // Dec 12, 2009 at 6:39 am
Sounds a like a great idea to take your traffic to the next level once you have a decent number of opt ins. But is it something that a newbie can or should put to use?
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Codrut Turcanu / Blog for Profit Reply:
December 12th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
# john: yes, why not try it for yourself and report back your results?
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