Well we’ve been looking for a way to get more comments out of our readers (lurkers) and maybe get them to take more of a active part in this great site. We get tons of traffic but it seems getting people off the fence to comment is something a little harder than just getting people to visit. So without any further ado we are starting a contest. Basically we are going to pay out $20 (via paypal) to the best comment our readers make. The contest ends at 5:30PM Friday EST. Comments will be judged by yours truly. The comment can be on any article on Noheat as long as its made between the time that this post has been made and 5:30PM EST. Please be sure that you put in the correct email address because if you don’t I’ll have to send your $20 to someone else. One more note, Noheat.com has a page rank of 5 and top commenters will get their website’s link in the Top commentators section meaning you’ll get one hell of a linkback. Also if you want your link on Noheat all you need to do it go to 15blogs.com and enter it there, it will show up in the sidebar automatically. Keep in mind if you put up your link it will only be there until it is moved off by another 15 links. So have some fun and comment away, I will be running this contest at random times so check back in chances are it could be worth $20 to you. So digitalpoint what do you think?
I think you should post this in the Marketplace > Services > Content forum. You'd probably get better results there also. In fact you would get better results by just paying a flat fee for people to comment - e.g $1 for a comment (50 words minimum).
Wow so far this is really paying off, I've gotten 3 referral clicks that have more than paid for the promo. I am not sure if this is due to the promotion but we'll see if the trend continues.
If you install the "Top commentator" and "Dofollow" plugins, and advertise for free links to your commentators, I guarantee you will get a lot more (for free too!).