Apr 23 2009
Contests go hand-in-hand with Blogging
This is a guest post by Darren Singleton, he is a Webmaster, Blogger and Internet Entrepreneur who loves to teach others!
Looking around the blogosphere, contests can be seen being held everywhere. Some of these contests can be quite small, offering Entrecard credits or a months free advertisement and other contests are offering huge prizes.
Recently, some of the pro-bloggers such as ShoeMoney and JohnChow have been using Twitter as a means to collect contest entries and increasing their number of followers dramatically as a result. These contests are held for no reason other than to gain exposure. And it works!
Infected by Bugs’ Contest – Shannon, here at Infected by Bugs, has still got a contest running, for which you should take a look at the contest post and sign up for his RSS feed to make sure your entry is valid. Who wouldn’t want to receive a free iPod Shuffle?
Shannon’s contest is proof that it works. His subscriber numbers have increased, he has received over 130 comments on his original post regarding the contest and I’m sure his number of back links have increased also, with people informing their readers of this opportunity.
Shannon has also been intelligent in the way he has set the contest up.
He stated that: “If we can reach 700+ subscribers by the end of January I will get this Apple iPod Shuffle and give it out to one lucky reader!”
He has set a target for his readers and it is in their best interests to tell others about it and increase exposure of the contest further. He gave 25 days to increase his RSS subscribers by 75 people. If three people a day signed up for his feed, he would be giving the iPod Shuffle away.
Running a contest can be great for your blogs exposure and it doesn’t have to cost you a lot of money. Giving away items such as iPod’s, Amazon/iTunes gift certificates or even advertising space on your blog, can have a huge impact on your followers and increase your blogs readership quite quickly.
