Comments on: Does running a blog contest work?

By: khalid

khalid — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:15:26 +0000

@Matthew, you provided great help in marketing the contest and I am sure we will continue to use your services

@El Yanqui, setting up goals will help you drive more traffic to your website. Make sure to keep us posted whenever you decide to run your contest

@Snel, I must agree that there is a luck part to it. But with little planning you can reduce the amount of luck and hopefully increase your chances of success.

By: snel afvallen

snel afvallen — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:48:09 +0000

I think some competitions just take of a lot more than others. Some luck involved here for sure.

By: El Yanqui

El Yanqui — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:05:00 +0000

I’ve been thinking about running a contest, not so much for links and page ranking but more of a why not approach. After reading this I think I will set up a goal and see what kind of results I can measure.

By: leslie

leslie — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:06:44 +0000

Blog contest is definitely one of the better ways to attract traffic to your blog. What’s more the participants stands a chance to win a prize.

By: Johnkain

Johnkain — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:43:12 +0000

Its nice idea to conduct a contest to increase traffic.

By: ayat

ayat — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:47:18 +0000

lol, so Steven, you’re suggesting that out of laziness our RSS has maintained and increased in number? hehe

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:44:42 +0000

I am glad to read the contest was such a big success. 130 is pretty good. I’ve been working on hosting my own contests and the results have been great.

I hope I am in your plans for your next contest. I’m looking forward to it

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:26:50 +0000

Congrats Khalid on the success of the contest. I’ve seen a few other contests results reported and I think what you’re seeing is similar to what others have said.

I suppose it’s natural to think people will unsubscribe as soon as the contest ends, but I’ve always suspected that most will stay. It takes an action to unsubscribe and it’s easier to leave the site in a reader.

By: ayat

ayat — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:44:58 +0000

We were really skeptical at first and decided to put off writing this post until the results were confirmed. I actually did not think it would work, and as soon as the contest ended the contestants would drop the membership. But all along Khalid had high hopes of it increasing our RSS membership at least. Lo and Behold! It did more than that which is really exciting. Keep your eyes peeled for a new contest coming soon!!

By: Beach Bum

Beach Bum — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:35:53 +0000

I am running a Halloween Contest on my blog and so far the entries are very low. None of the entries followed the rules. Fortunatly I have a note with the contest that the prize will be reduced if the number of entries is reduced.

I agree on your thoughts about contests and feel the money would be better invested in other marketing.

BeachBum Michael