Guys, I'm giving a free copy of Snagit 9 And WinZip Pro to my visitors as New Year Giveaway. Will it help me to get more visitors in my blog? The condition to win these gifts are: 1) Subscribe my blog's RSS Feeds. 2) Write a good new year resolution. Check this link: http://tech-thunder.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-giveaway-get-full-licensed.html Guys pls comment on this topic, will it help me to get more visitors?
Nope. I'm currently giving away two free games, and I've gotten a total of 0 signups from them. You are better off pumping that money into adsense or backlinks.
it depends on how you are marketing it....maybe charge them in another website..then provide a contest for people who sign up to your feeds.
aha~ I think giveaway is a good way to promote your website but it needs time and patient. it will help you get lots of return users but for new users you still try your best to get more traffic from search engines. Maybe you should try more on PPC or get more backlinks and improve your rankings.
Giving away free stuff does get you visitors in my experience - if it's unique free stuff. In a way free stuff is no different to other content on your site - it'll only attract visitors if it's good content. The other problem with free stuff is that people will g;ad;y take it but it may be difficult to get people to buy any other kind of service from the site, i.e. people visit to get free stuff not to purchase. I have offered free stuff from some of my sites to act as link bait. The idea behind this is to start early on a product and let other people build links for me. I've got page 1 rankings for some good keywords using this method.
This type of promotion will definitely help to get more visitors. But the traffic may not be targeted. You need to get a good sponsor so that more giveaway softwares are given.