Facilitate and Run Contests and Giveaways via your Web Site

Increase Traffic To Your Blog Via Contests & Giveaways

It’s true. I love to win free stuffs through blog contests and giveaways. Off course all people want to win free stuffs. Then why don’t you use any nice giveaways or good blog contests to increase your blog traffic? I am not any expert in blogging, but, I am learning to take my blog higher. If you don’t have many visitors to your blog and you are new into the blogosphere, then this article is for you.

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By the way, let’s come to the point. I also saw a huge viral effect on my Tech blog after announcing a Nokia X3 Giveaway, from which I got more Facebook likes and subscribers. You can understand the profit behind a good giveaway and blog contest. This is the Win-Win situation for both the bloggers and its readers. But be careful and sure to check the below points:

For Organizers:

• Don’t just announce a contest and sit back. Market it in social media and through Facebook friends and Groups. Take some time to visit other blogs and websites to announce your contest. Your friends will first take part in your contest and it helps to spread your contest viral.
• Provide a nice giveaway to your contestants. It should be attractive and find sponsors for your contest. If you won’t find any of them, then there is no any problem of giving something from your pocket. You should send the prize to the winner by your own money, which will make a standard impression. There is a beautiful saying, “To achieve something, you should giveaway something!”
• Keep the contest as simple as possible. If you make any tougher ideas as compulsory, then you will lose many contestants. Remember, you need many contestants and finally you need to increase the identity of your blog.
• You can have a contest like “tweet in twitter” or “share in Facebook”, which is very simple and effective to go viral.
• Importantly, make your contest or giveaway information visible to your blog visitors. Make it as sticky post, so that it will stay in front till the contest ends. It should not hide away, if it does, then you will miss the real visitors of your blog to participate in your contest or giveaway.

For Contestants:

• Actively take part in the contests like “tweet in twitter” or “share in Facebook.” You will not going to lose anything by doing this. But, you might have the chance to win free goodies and stuffs worth some bucks.
• If you are a blogger, and you want to increase traffic to your blog, then participating in blog contests creates your identity. And think, if you win the contest, then you will have a good follower to your blog and you will become a celebrity blogger (at least for some time!). You can continue to be a celebrity blogger, if you continue to take part in the contests and win prize.
• You will get some Backlinks through participating in the contests. If your article is providing some good information and solves the problem of your reader in contest article, then readers will follow you to your blog.
• If your friends are struggling to get market to their contests, it is well and good to take part and spread the word. He might help you in near future. This is the matter of humanity and friendship. As Vijay Kumar said in one of his blog post, Newton’s law applies here: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction!

So, if you are really interested to do some crazy things and become an online celebrity, then organizing contests and actively participating in contests leads you towards the Celebrity in the blogosphere. By the way, I won in one of the contest for guest articles. I have written 5 articles for that contest and I won the prize of “1000 Facebook Fan”, which is going to be delivered to me soon.

To increase traffic to your blog, do some other important stuffs too, such as Optimizing your blogs to Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing etc), Social media marketing (Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon etc), Creating Backlinks to your blogs in high page ranked blogs or sites(Commenting and guest posting!) and Actively participating in forums of your niche. Final word for you, take participate in the contests and organize contests, increase your visibility and identity in online world. Now tell me, who don’t want to win free goodies in this easy way?

This article is written by PythonSkynet from TekNoise