Hello, I'm looking for various methods that you think would be best to drive traffic to a contest site. Without giving away too much of my business plan.. here's a bit of what we do. The site holds one free sweepstakes each month and one contest. The sweepstakes is free and the contests is $2.50 to enter. The contest allows users to answer questions and the person who gets the most correct, wins the prize that month. The sweepstakes is drawn at random each month. How can I get qualified traffic to this new site, when it launched May 1st? Things I'm considering.. Article Marketing - but about what? SEO - of course just looking for key words I'm on facebook/twitter.. Any other ideas? [Not sure if I can post link here or not]
Advertising can play a vital role for direct visitors. Direct visitors are important too. Best of luck
Article marketing - Write about things related to contests. Make sure that the keywords are well integrated in your articles, in well structured sentences that convey a message. Your articles should be informative and with high quality content!! SEO - Well You should do this first before you try anything else. Otherwise your efforts will be worthless. Social Networks are great for advertising gaming and contest sites. However, set a plan for using them adequately, this way you avoid wasting valuable time.
Try creating simple video describing your contest. Put your website url in your video and also use targeted keyword in the video description for SEO purpose. Also on youtube, you can create video response and reply that to a video that is related to your contest. You can aim for video with high views so to gain more exposure for your video. It will work very well if your sweeptake prize is a hot product like Ipad or Iphone.
Join sites that follow contests and freebies. Post in their forums and contact the site owners about doing an article about your give-aways. Maybe come up with a special contest for members of that site.
Our publisher network has a segment dedicated to gaming, sweepstakes, enter to win, casual gaming, etc. We certainly could drive traffic to your site. I'd estimate we could drive 50,000 to 75,000 uniques to visit each sweepstakes/contest for consideration. I'm happy to discuss further. I can be reached at or 773.546.9644.
The best way is advertising in those sites which have huge youth traffic. You need to target communities, groups and youth fourms for it. I think you will get huge popularity and traffic to your site there. Even twitter is a good option.
Just write some related article and submit them to social bookmark such as ezine or digg Other than SEO, article marketing and social network, you can also try on forum posting. Also, make a video and submit to youtube is another way to generate traffic If you are wiling to spend some money, then PPC advertising and affiliate program cna helps too Finally, yes, you can post your website link if it is legal site
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You might want to use affiliate marketing. You could pay affiliate for each referral, but I would suggest that you have a contest instead. The affiliate (or top 3) that refers the most people to your contest each week, or each month will win a price. This way you'll have a contest within your contests
Facebook/twitter would be very good because you have built a list of friends who trust you. Only thing you really have to do is send out a message to the list letting them know about the contest. Also think video maketing can be good also.
Craigslist, backpage, youtube, build a twitter following, free classified ad sites. You said your on facebook, so try this. In your status updates, ask a riddle and see who can ques it first. Do the same thing on twitter. Get people involved in the process. Tell them the ones with the correct answers get registered for a free prize. Then, after a few hours post the correct answer and tell the winners to go to ".yourlink" to registrar for their prize. Now how many of the people who guessed the wrong answer do you think will follow the link anyway? Just a thought
I'd be writing articles about how super the contests are and putting them on web 2.0 properties... bookmarking them and pinging them.