Hold a Competition to Build Links & Targeted Traffic

Hold a contest is a little known way to make known his blog and get RSS subscribers with a minimum investment.

There are different ways to promote his blog, all more or less known:

• Have a good search engine optimization
• Using digg
• Have partnerships
• …

Unfortunately each has drawbacks:

Have a good search engine optimization is a difficult task, it requires getting a good content and get linkbacks …

Using digg often brings visitors on short-term and a specific article, promote his articles in order to get votes …

Have partnerships may be a good solution, however, you ‘clutter’ part of your site links or images that encourage visitors to leave your site.

Hold a contest

Hold a contest is to propose one or more lots (virtual preferences) to the best commentators (amount and / or quality) or one of your RSS subscribers (randomly). I advise you to offer:

• Money (Paypal)
• an insert advertising on your site
• a license fee (software, games, etc.).

Remember to contact your partners to diversify your lots. Submit them to offer a flyer to the winner for example, it does not cost them anything and they will gain visibility.

Here are some examples of competitions to be organized in order to gain traffic and RSS subscribers.

1. 1.Simple Competition

Provide a lot to your subscribers RSS: subscribe to an RSS feed is free, fast and useful. You can be assured of 50 subscribers get all the duration of the competition whatever the lot.

Offer a lot at the best commentator: This means defining the term ‘best commentator’,  watching you :

1. the quality and quantity (best choice)
2. quality alone,
3. or just how much (beware of spammers …).

2. 2. “Marathon”

By organizing a marathon, you play your visitors on several tables. The principle is simple, you make a ranking points earned by performing actions:

• Comment an article 1point
• Subscribe by email: 5 points
• Write an article about your site on his blog: 15 points

At the end of the competition, accounting issues and offer different lots (see above) as classified.

Conclusion

Hold a contest requires an investment more or less important. But you may be on to get maximum return with just a few dollars.

The Black Hat Tips :

1. Cheat ! Hire friends to participate and said they have win.

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