While I do not promise you’ll get 614 comments “overnight” like the guy I’m going to talk about in a minute did, at least you’ll get some inspiration and have fun along the way.

Here is what I’m talking about:

Just recently I’ve found about CopyBlogger’s writing contest . This blog is my all-time-favorite when it comes to copy writing and there’s no wonder it attracted 43,000+ RSS subscribers as we speak.

Some bloggers would need 100 years to attract that many readers, how is Brian different and what it does that separates him from the rest of the wannabe pro bloggers out there?

1. It’s the content he (along with his team) delivers

2. It’s the fact that he knows how to write compelling, motivational and emotional copy that moves hordes.

3. And the most important fact is that he knows how to run contests and blog competitions.

If you visit Brian CopyBlogger site you’ll notice there are up to 1,054 comments on that “writing contest” posting alone!

You might tell that a thousand comments is something normal since he has 40+ thousand readers, right?

Nope. Think again. Most bloggers get less than 1 comment for each 100 RSS readers they “own”. Brian should expect to get less than 400 comments if we consider a 1% response rate (which I found to be the standard in the blogosphere).

If you take a look on his recent 10 posts you’d notice he gets less than 100 comments, which is about 0.3% response rate.

Lesson learned here: if you want an instant boost in comments, subscribers and traffic, you need to run a contest on your blog.

If you want to get 100x times more comments than regularly, running a contest is not an option! But not any type of contest.

You’d have to run a desirable contest, where you give away top-notch prizes (products, services, cash, etc.).

Learn from Brian as he’s a master at blog competitions…

The key to running a blog contest is to have a prize that your target audience desperately wants, otherwise it won’t click with them.

Another important part of this is to make sure the contest is easy to get in and state the rules. Keep it simple.

I once tried a contest on Codrut Turcanu dot Com blog and it was a dude.

My plan is to study the topic more in depth and come up with some great contests (and prizes) for 2009 and beyond. I’m currently analyzing the contest machine solution. You might want to check it out too. It’s free at the time of writing this!

Another “blogging contest” I like because it exposes how to create your own (if you study it carefully) is the letssermo post with $300 prizes galore (it got 75 comments already!)

You now have the solution to boosting your blog comments and traffic. The question is:

What are you going to do now?

What about you create your own contest or link to your last one (if it’s not expired already!) and mention it on this post (in the comments section)?

Stay tuned for the next post as I have a hot interview with a top blogger — it arrives tomorrow, and I bet you’ll learn something new about blogging for money…

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.