Hi, I have around a $100 cash budget for my blog. What do you think shouldi do, i need to have a contest for it? Or Should i instead spend it on SEO
You need to write useful, helpful and compelling content that both engages and helps people, otherwise you're wasting your time. The market is to competitive to be creating poorly written, poorly constructed content. If you truly want to succeed, you'll have to be creating top quality content on a regular basis. Also about your budget, yes spend it on SEO. But, try and do most of the SEO yourself to ensure quality.
save the $100 for more domains. $100 won't even get you a custom design (a good one). you need a lot more cash if you want to buy traffic as well.
The best question here is what is your blog about? If its the one in your signature.... then I think a "best wordpress design" contest would be a good idea, maybe make it where the winner gets money PLUS you make your blog design their design that has won for XXX amount of time People really love when you spotlight their work
I would like to suggest you to create such tool where everybody used your tool to get more twitter followers and facebook likes.