How to Increase Traffic during Contests – Part I

Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by in Blogging for beginners, Wordpress Wednesdays

Contests are great way to attract people, to make your blog reach more people, increases your traffic, gets you in touch with readers, and so many benefits. But, if you haven’t done this properly, your contests don’t get noticed and you don’t get anything expected. Most beginners hold contest to increases the traffic so if this failed you get no traffic and contests are the most important when it comes for blogging for beginners. This makes clear that you must promote your contests. Here I share few of my experiences when I held contests for Google wave Invites.

This is a two part series and in this part we deal with how you can use social media for this.

Facebook and its groups:

Facebook, needless to say is the most used social network in the world. Making the most of it can be the beneficial one. The best thing about Facebook, once shared it reaches most of the users displayed in their wall. It gets more powerful with the groups. When you share in groups, it reaches all the members easily. Find groups relevant to your contests, share those links, once in a day so that people can notice it often. I searched Google wave groups and shared and I got more traffic from Facebook each day. Word of caution, don’t search often for groups and use Facebook only for this. This makes you to be treated as spam and banned :o

Twitter is your friend

Another wonderful and easy to use networking site. People often look for things, ask queries and you can easily find what’s hot now by seeing Twitter’s trending stats. Twitter‘s search is powerful since it caches real time and gives you instant results. So, searches regarding your contest, or a search about ‘contest’ can show you what people speak about. Replying to them about your contest can give a good push in traffic.

Utilizing Friendfeed

Friendfeed is a place like Facebook where you can have groups, link to other services and get the feeds posted to your wall. Friendfeed is another good place, posting to your wall and at groups related to the contest can get you more traffic. When I held contest for Google Wave Invites, I found that I got the most traffic from Friendfeed, only next to twitter. Hence I started to concentrate more on Friendfeed, too.

Real time search engines

Though we dealt with using Twitter real time search capability for promoting contests, we must not other real time search engines too. Though Google has become real time search engine now, updating latest results about the given keyword, there are other real time search engines that can help you to get the most out of them for the contests. The best thing about these is, it doesn’t only take results from Twitter, but it also takes updates from Blogs, Blog comments, identica and other status updates. Thats why I preferred these than Google as it takes mostly from Twitter. I used Collecta for the real time searches and of course, it gave me the most traffic and accurate and immediate results.

I am sure these can promote your contests, and in our next part lets deal with four more tips to increase posts during contests. Lets know what we feel about these tips and do you have anything more to add to these, in comments.

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21 Responses to “How to Increase Traffic during Contests – Part I”

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    23. Dec, 2009

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  2. David Hobson

    24. Dec, 2009

    Nice post i have been considering running a contest fopr a while i will have to keep up with this series of posts.
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    24. Dec, 2009

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  4. Chethan

    24. Dec, 2009

    What Type of Contests?
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  5. Robert Bravery

    24. Dec, 2009

    Nice article. I see that it is primarily aimed at promoting a contest on your site. You list some good ways to do it. Mostly via Social Networking. If you have a good community then that will help tremendously.
    Good Stuff.

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  6. Blogger Den

    24. Dec, 2009

    Very impressive tips! Holding contests really is a great way to gain more traffic, RSS subscribers, Twitter followers, and tons of other stats about your blog. Readers just eat them up, and they’re very popular styles of posts!
    .-= Blogger Den´s last blog ..Interview with Rent A Coder Founder Ian Ippolito / JRB =-.

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  7. Dennis Edell

    24. Dec, 2009

    Very nice. I’ve always done pretty well with contests, but this just might ramp things up a bit in 20120. :)
    .-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..The Final “Official” Post For DSWM! =-.

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  8. denbagus

    25. Dec, 2009

    thank you for information… but how about submit in several dofollow bookmarking ?
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  9. How to increase Traffic during Contests | Blogging for beginners and newbies

    25. Dec, 2009

    [...] can be taken as How to promote your Contests, too. We have dealt in the part I of the series as, how to increase the traffic using social media sites, like Twitter, Facebook [...]

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  10. Anand Srinivasan

    25. Dec, 2009

    Interesting post there, But I would add one more point. You have to have all of what you have mentioned ready even before you start a contest. I recently started a contest even before getting a Twitter username (LOL@ me), and by the time I managed to get things straight, the contest was already old news..

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  11. Benjamin Hübner

    27. Dec, 2009

    Some great methodes – I would add forum marketing.

    P.s. I found this Blog some time ago on Twitter – So it really works!
    .-= Benjamin Hübner´s last blog ..Massive PPV Traffic, Extra Bonuses Added! =-.

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