What is the best way to increase blog traffic? Start a contest. People want free money, so give it to them. You can’t just throw a contest and expect that traffic to stay afterwards. I feel like I have a pretty foolproof plan of what I am going to do to get that traffic, and how to keep it.
Here is the plan for the Monthly Blogosis Contest.
Every month there will be one winner randomly drawn. This winner will get a cash prize of an uncertain amount. Why am I unsure? Because it is constantly fluctuating, getting bigger and bigger. The prize: 10% of all my online income. This includes income from my Squidoo lenses, my other blogs ( moneyandblog dot com and stumbledhere dot com), my Adsense profits, any affiliate programs I use… absolutely every way I make money will give you a chance to make more money.
What? That is crazy, Justin! Hell yes it is, but I figure it’s the only way I will ever get traffic to this blog. Imagine that if in 1 year, I am making 10,000 dollars a month (I am only aiming for about 500, but you never know). That gives one lucky subscriber $1,000.
Justin! What do I have to do to enter?
So, what is the total prize so far? Well, not much. With Money and Blog being my first blog, and the one making most of the money (from Sponsored Reviews.com) I have about $10 from that, and about 13 dollars from Adsense. That makes the total 10% about $2.50. I know that isn’t a lot, so what I will do for the month of January is give you a little push. The winner will get an extra $20 dollars (plus the 10%) to celebrate my 20th birthday on January 19th. On top of that, I have $25 dollars on my Amazon.com account that I will use to buy the winner something (the prize must be under $25 dollars with shipping).
What is the point of this contest? Obviously to increase traffic to this blog, as well as my RSS subscribers numbers. I feel it is completely worth the money, as subscribers are hard to come by without the right connections. This is my attempt to make those connections.
So don’t miss your 11 chances to win this contest. At the moment I only have 1 email subscriber, so your chances are sky high on winning this.
Winners will be announced the 1st of every month at approximately 12:00 pm (noon) Central Time. Ending time to gain chances to win will come 2 days before that at 12:00 pm.
For more updates on my wallet giving you money, Subscribe (and also get your chance to win.)
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Hi Justin,
I’m entered and I’ve done all the ways to enter your contest for 11 entries. here’s my blog post:
http://erz.tech36.com/2008/01/monthly-blogosis-contest/
My blog homepage where your link is in my blogroll:
http://erz.tech36.com/
Have subscribed to your feeds by email. Thanks!
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Good luck Justin. Hopefully this drives some traffic to your site. Six points please.
I have a PR3 Wordpress blog that I want to do the permanent-link thing on. Do you have some kind of image that I could use?
Max size 125px/125px for the sidebar image, but if you’re feeling creative you can do a 350×350, and I’ll upload it as a post.
~ Wogan
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Here is the post:
http://www.woganmay.com/2008/01/15/how-would-you-like-to-win-1000/
I’ve linked to the contest post, your site, your rss feed, email feed, and two other of your posts - plus informative titles on most of them. A search engine’s dream
I’m going to add you into my blogroll, and I’m going to post something on my wordpress blog soon:
http://woganmay.wordpress.com/
~ Wogan
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I’ve subscribed via email.
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Hey, I subscribed and wrote a post on my blog, I’m pretty sure that means I’m getting 6 entries…
I hope I win!
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Here is my blog post about your contest!
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Okay, I read your blog constantly (that’s what happens when you subscribe I guess) and its the only blog I’m actually subscribed to, so you’re on my Blogroll.
Does that get me a bonus five chances??
Hope so…
Ofcourse it does! As long as you are subscribed by email you will be entered for a chance to win and will get those extra chances as well.
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Hi! here my post about your contest:
http://aboutblogcontest.blogspot.com/2008/01/monthly-blogosis-contest.htm
Also subscribed by mail and added a link to my Top Spot blogroll.
Thanks!
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