Positive And Negative Side From Your Blog Contest
Blog contest is one from many ways for bloggers to promote their blog. But create a blog contest basically have a positive and negative side. You must know about it first before you go too far. These ways help you to prepare your blog contest more carefully so you can achieve your goal.
This article try to see what is the benefits and the loss by making the blog to promote your blog.
The positive side created blog contest are :
1. Get New Readers
One of the main goals to create a blog contest is to promote your own blog. In other word you get help from other blogger to introduce your blog tto their reader and hopefully they can be your readers too.
2. Creating Buzz Words and Viral.
Create a blog for the contest can also be a very good tool to promote your blog by creating a viral buzz words, or words. The greater the “Wow” effect that you get, larger audience from other blog readers will visit your blog. Contest with great prizes and the unique idea are usually having greater effect.
3. Keeping Old Readers.
Making contest for your blog also help you to maintain loyalty of your old readers. By making the contest, you can give award or appreciation to those who have visited and become a faithful reader of your blog. For example, you can create a special contest for RSS subscribers to your blog and give special gifts to those who diligently to comment on your blog.
4. Building Blog Community.
If you do this correctly, create a blog contest can also means to build a community of your blog. One common strategy is by give requirement to the participant to become a member of MyBlogLog community to your blog or become a member of the forum you have. With conditions like this, you will increase the number of your blog community members and promote it to the bigger audience.
5. Getting Backlink
Benefits to create a blog contest that I like most is the opportunity to get a backlink from the contest participant. By making the review contest, you can provide the requirement of a particular link is a link to your blog with certain keywords appropriate with your blog topic that you want to promote. This type of blog contest usually results big backlink support which in turn will push up the position of Page Rank and your blog in Google SERP (Search Engine Result Pages).
6. Increasing Page Views
Other advantages to make blog contest is to increase the page views of your blog. One common way is to ask participants of the contest to make a comment to your particular article in the old archives of your blog (as one of the terms of the contest).
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