Blog Contest To Increase Traffic

With my latest contest proving to be a success for both myself and the winner, David Cooley, I have created another brand new contest. You will absolutely love this one! Being blog authors, we are always looking for excellent ways to increase our traffic and our reader base. My latest contest does this both for you as well as for myself! This is a contest that will increase your traffic as well as my traffic. Here is how it works:

Contest Description

This contest is going to be a blast! I am offering to display your most recent articles on my sidebar. As we all know, most blogs syndicate their content. This gives other bloggers the ability to easily provide excellent sources of information to their own readers. Blog authors can easily with a click of a button display the titles of the most recent posts from any blog they want. Some blog programs, such as Wordpress, even include special widgets to do it. The end result is that the blog author who displays the external links enhances their site while the original blog author gains more traffic and links back to their blog. And in short, that is what makes RSS Syndication cool! And that is what will make this contest a total success! I want to display your most recent post titles and link them directly to your articles. The above image on the left is an example of what you will win! In this example (and live on the site) I am displaying the most recent posts from Aaron Wall’s SEO Blog and the most recent posts from Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s Amazon blog that promotes her brand new Wordpress For Dummies book that will be released this fall.

Contest Details

You are competing to win a premium sidebar placement of your most recent posts. The placement is site wide and above the top fold within my entire blog. Here is an actual screen shot of the position that is live on the site:

Contest Rules

• I will make a beautiful blending graphic which will replace the default one that says, “Win My Contest… Display Your Posts Here”. This graphic will blend your existing blog logo into my sidebar seamlessly. If I can’t use your existing graphic, I will make a brand new one.
• I will be displaying your TEN most recent posts at all times. This is done by way of utilizing your blogs RSS syndication feature. As you write and publish new articles on your blog, they will instantly update on my blog.
• Your most recent posts will be displayed for one month!
• You must uphold content that is not offensive to others. Basic rules apply such as no profound language in your titles. I will have the final approval on displaying your syndicated post titles on my site.
• If you win the contest but your content doesn’t meet my minimum quality standards, I will simply reward your winning with a $10 dollar Payment via PayPal.com.

How Do I Participate?

This is the easy part! My contest couldn’t be any easier to participate in. There is one thing I know about bloggers, we don’t have a lot of time to participate in contests. They are fun, challenging, etc… but time is always a factorization. I have considered this and made participating in the contest so simple it will make you silly!

Blog contests are typically designed to help other bloggers while helping yourself achieve a goal. I’ll be completely honest with you… I want more traffic! Who doesn’t? If you didn’t want more traffic, you wouldn’t be interested in this contest.

This contest is designed to give you more traffic and give myself more traffic. I am interested in having more traffic so that I can do what I do best: Convert Traffic Into Regular Readers. To participate, all you have to do is send me traffic. And this can be done by using my special link so that you can get credit for the hits.

In your blogroll, posts, link pages, etc… use my special link to send more people to my site. The more people you send to my site the more chance you have of winning. The special link is easy to use and its unique for everyone who wants to participate:

http://www.garryconn.com/?reader=yourname

Lets use my friend Kyle Eslick as an example:

http://www.garryconn.com/?reader=Kyle-Eslick

Kyle would create this link and add it to anywhere he wanted to try to get people to click. These clicks are tracked and if he sends me the most traffic, he will win!

* Kyle, if you participate, please use a different URL such as
/?reader=Kyles-Cove

• The contest is going to run for about two weeks to a month. Depending on the number of people who are participating and how well the results are going will reflect the time frame of the contest.
• The contest will run no later than Sept. 26th. 2007.
• I will be using Google Analytics to track the amount of clicks being sent.
• I will also comment frequently with updates and let you know which people are leading in the contest.

If you want to participate in the contest, drop me a comment below just to let me know that you are playing. Let me know what the special link is that you created. Again, you can create the link using this format:

http://www.garryconn.com/?reader=Your-Name

Use your name, your site name, it doesn’t matter. However, when you choose your special link, stick with it and don’t change the link.

If you should have any questions, please feel free to drop me a comment. I am here to answer any questions. Good luck, and remember to drop a comment if you would like to participate.

Where Do I Add The Link

Here are a few suggestions on places you can add the link. Be creative and add the special link in places that you think people will click. You can start playing immediately. Drop me a comment and let me know.

• If you already have my blog in your blogroll, you can easily update it with the new URL.
• If you don’t have my blog in your blogroll, add it using the your unique URL.
• Do you need something to write about? You can write a post about my contest and ask your readers to help you win!
• Submit your post to DIGG and include your special URL.
• When you leave comments on other blogs sites, substitute your URL with the special URL that links here.
• This is just a few creative ways you can get more clicks in order to win!

Oh! I Forgot To Mention!!!

This contest has a KICKER BONUS!!! In addition to having your most recent articles featured on my sidebar, I am also offering a money matrix! The money matrix is offered to the winner of the contest. The amount of money you win depends on the amount of traffic you send me. Here is the money matrix breakdown:

• 1000 clicks = $10 dollars
• 5000 clicks = $20 dollars

Don’t cheat. I am also logging IP addresses and I can easily detect to see if you are running an auto linker or clicking the link yourself. Cheaters will be removed from the contest without warning.

Good luck and have fun! Don’t forget to drop a comment and let me know you are playing. Also let me know the URL that you created for the contest.

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