Get More Traffic With Contest
Aug 13, 2008 Traffic
I was just experimenting on something earlier this year, and these are the things that I found out.
Burst Your Bandwidth With Contest
You can easily gain more traffic by having a contest. And I did with the Threesome contest (together with Blogjer and Cyza Sector) even when the prizes were only reviews from our blogs.
At the same time:
- My posting frequency increased.
- Traffic doubled during that period - from contestant, and also from the search engines due to more posting.
- My earnings from Nuffnang increased - due to more traffic from Malaysia.
- I got a few new readers.
Maybe after this, I should give real prizes rather than a review. Maybe a hosting package, a discount coupon, a mug 
or even a dinner date with me 
(open to single ladies only)
Don’t Hold Any Contest If You Are A Nobody
Before holding any contest, just make sure that you are well known. Not necessarily famous, but at least there are people who knew your blog exists. How to know?
- Review you traffic. Don’t do it if you have only 3 visitors per day.
- Take a look at your comment sections. Is there any comments?
- Consider your emails too. Do you get any inquiry from your readers?
Leverage Your Network’s Traffic
That was one of the reason I did the Commentators Contest with two other awesome bloggers. We leveraged our traffic and at the same time made new friends.
Drawbacks
However, the drawbacks of having a top commentators contest is the spam like comments that your contestants left. It’s better to have a rule at the first place and make sure the rules are clear.
You will not gain anything for PPC type of advert but you will from the ones based on impressions type.
Oh, have you read my review? You can refer to:
Vangardx
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Tags: contest, leveraging traffic, awesome friends
August 13th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
yerlah.. this is a good offer for who need free backlink for their site.. review from well known blogger.. with good amount of traffic from their blog.. everyone should try to become top commentator in every blog you usually visit..
August 13th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Walaupun nama aku tak cukup besar tapi aku penah mengadakan contest gak.. Banyak gak yang menyertainya
August 13th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
aku tak memang pun dulu. huhu
August 13th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
2 days ago i got an idea to have a contest for my blog but definitely i won’t go for the top commentator kind of contest. the possibility for our readers to post spam comments are high. as you said, It’s better to have a rule at the first place to avoid it (spam comment). maybe i’ll go for a write-your-own-story kind of contest…
August 14th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
agree. Contest not only double your traffic. Its only triple the earning and visitor.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
but my blog not popular as yours uhuh. i have to find what type of content that will be very useful.
maybe i will start with the small token to rank my traffic first!
August 14th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Am,
will all the contest around, maybe we should enter contest for money rather than blogging. how about that?
August 14th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Zool
I exaggerated a bit, as long you have a circle of bloggers around you, fine. but if you only started blogging yesterday … then takde harapan lah
August 14th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
KNizam
Kau tak terror
August 14th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Syam (right?)
i’ll think of something for abu and nadia .. if i remembered correctly
August 14th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Titan
I am still thinking of one. Project finishing soon. I have more time to blog after this
August 14th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Megat
mana pulak blog aku popular, posting pun tak kerap. semua ikut schedule kerja. kau apa kurangnya.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
So bro,
Are we set for the September plan? Cannot wait to have a new contest…
August 15th, 2008 at 12:07 am
kool! an invitation from aeropama. anybody who read this comment, you are invited to enter my very first contest. i really need your funny dialog to cheer me up.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Zaki
will discuss when we meet next week
August 15th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
will update my next post accordingly
August 16th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
OK …cantekk… pilih tempat yang boleh online sekali beb
August 16th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Guys, berita terkini. Aku hanya available Sunday 24/08/08. Sabtu ada kenduri arwah kat Gombak and birthday pary anak saudara kat Puchong. Sunday confirm free.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:04 am
just do that again. I believe many people will come again this time.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
still thinking about it
August 25th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
blog aku pun ade buat contest jugak sekarang.hadiah nyer USD30.dtg la yer blog aku.sorry azwan promote sikit.hehe.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Amirul
No problem.
September 14th, 2008 at 5:03 am
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