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I discovered ContestBlogger.com recently and I have been back just about every day. This is a site that gives added exposure to ongoing contests in the blogosphere.

I go there for two reasons. The first is to keep my eye out for contests that I would like to enter. The second reason is to find out what works and what doesn’t work as far as contests go. Bloggers who want to earn advertising revenue with their blogs need to work hard and/or smart in order to build traffic and incoming links. Holding a contest has the potential to improve traffic and links.

I have held three contests since I became a blogger. My success has ranged between nil and reasonable. I have won a contest or two as well. Some contests provide incoming links and relevant commentary as part of their prize. My friend Skeet has a mystery picture contest every Tuesday. The weekly prize is a post from her blog about the site of your choice with links. All weekly winners go into a monthly draw for a $10 certificate from Amazon or Starbucks. Since the contest involves making guesses in her comment section, the traffic benefit must be pretty significant as people go back to the post again and again to see if a correct guess has been submitted. I won this contest twice this year and I have taken a break from participating, but I still look every week.

If you have a contest on your blog, you can submit it to ContestBlogger.com for free. If you want it to really take off, you can pay $20 to have it FEATURED on the site. Features contests get a snazzy graphic thing, a sidebar link for the entire contest duration and a bigger, better mention in the blog. If I ever come up with a contest idea that is both unique and good, I may go for this.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 at 2:42 am and is filed under Blogging, Monetized Blogging, Marketing, Traffic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.