Hi Guys, Im looking to promote my blog with a contest in the coming weeks. I have 2 options im looking at 1. Should I radomly give a prize to someone who has signed up for my rss feed? 2. Should I award the prize to the person who sent the blog the most traffic? Anyone had any experience in these? Actually one last thing what is a good idea for a prize. Straight out cash prize is that the best one? Hopefully someone can help me out. The blog is in my sig..i think
How about giving prizes to the top 3 comments posters of your blog for the particular month? Its just my opinion. Best wishes Jackie
I'd do you're "1." option. Simply because even if they like you're blog, they wont try hard to get you traffic as that is very difficult and would only be worth while if they stood a good chance of winning a big prize. And i wouldn't do the most comments, because that just asks for spam which is just a hassle.
Give as much prize as you can and ask participants to participate by giving them several means to join. (i.e. subscribe to your rss, make a post about your contest, leave comments on your post, review your blog, stumble your post etc.) Check my contest and hopefully you get some tips. Cheers
John Chow did a similar contest in regards to users signing up to his RSS feed. Check out his blog and read about his technique/results.
Nice PLug but thanks for the advice. Your contest is a good idea probably a little two much management for me though. I think I will offer a straight up cash prize (everyone loves cash) to a random subscriber who places a comment on the contest blog page. I dodnt think I could do a visitors one yet as I dont have enough readers or a loyal following that would want to link to my blog. What do you guys think. Sound like a good idea?