26 Aug 10 Secret of Running a Contest and Getting Torrents of Visitors to Your Blog
Winning has emotional value. People love to win prizes, and more than the actual price they win, it is the feeling of winning defeating everyone else is what motivates people to participate in a contest. You can capitalize on this, and get more and more people to your blog.
Starting a contest is not a big deal, and nor it takes a lot of money to run a contest on your blog, contrary to what most blogger thinks. You need to just be creative in the prize that you offer to the contest winner. It could be either cash prize, or funky new gadget (ipad, etc.), or it could be the product, services, or consultation that you offer as a paid product.
If you do not want to go through the process of creating and running a contest then you can also think of sponsoring a contest. This, for many bloggers, is the best thing to do, especially for the new bloggers, as they do not have sufficient traffic or network to get more visitors.
2 types of contest you can run
Content-led contests
This is a kind of contest in which your visitors will have to spend some time creating some kind of content (comment, guest post, reviews, etc.). To participate in this type of contest, a visitor will need to spend good amount of time, so the reward should be comparable to the time spent in creating content.
Click-led contest
Promote my blog, retweet my posts, share with your friends, etc. are the examples of click-led contests. In this kind of contest, the visitors do not need to spend more than 5 minutes in order to participate in the contest. This could be a big crowd-puller, as not everyone enjoys the idea of writing for some other blog just to get a chance to win contest.
With this, we will bid adieu only to meet next time around with more information on contests and types of contests you can run.
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30 Apr 10 With rising web Usage in the U.S., eBay and AOL are climbing up fast
Surprisingly with the increasing web browsing habit among Americans during March 2010, it’s the ebay and AOL who are enjoying maximum share of the cake. Recent observation of The Nielsen Company has brought this fact in notice of all.
March 2010 witnessed 57 internet sessions during the month among the Americans, 7.6% more than 53 the previous month. Remarkably the average number of domains visited per person increased by 7.2% and the average number of web pages visited per person also sharply increased by 4.1%. Research further unveiled that average PC time per person increased by 5.9%, amount of time spent viewing average web page sharply rose by 1.2%. Most interestingly number of active internet users accelerated by 3.3%. Such growth rate in such small time span has been truly phenomenal.
In contrary to February 2010, when six of the top ten parent companies missed audience share and all lost average time spent on their websites, March 2010 brought in a gasp of all relief to all; as nine of the top ten companies witnessed major growth in both the segments.
ebay and AOL reaped in maximum benefits. The online auction retail giant ebay topped in both unique audience (5.8%) and time spent on website (12%) growth rate. ebay cherished a unique audience of 66.3 million users who spent an average of 1 hour, 26 minutes and 8 seconds on the website. It secured 8th position in terms of audience size. Fifth ranked AOL LLC followed ebay with an audience growth rate of 5.1% and 8.1 time spent on website growth, with an audience of 85.1 million users spending 2 hours, 14minutes and 38 seconds on average everyday.
Leaders ranked between first to fourth rank, enjoying the largest monthly audience and maximum times spent on the website are – Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook.
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06 Feb 10 Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 4
Presentation is important. How you present yourself will decide how people will perceive you. And believe me know one likes to befriend people who do not conduct them smartly. In this article I will talk about presentation part of a blog.
Get a professional designed blog theme
A blog design plays a very important role in making your blog look good. You should not mess with the design part of your blog. Hire a designer and get a custom theme for your blog. It will make your blog look different, and as they say it, looks matter.
If not, buy a professional theme
If you are just starting out then you may not have the budget for hiring a designer to design a cool theme for your blog. If this is the case then at least buy a professionally designed theme for your blog. I will not recommend going for any free themes, as they are bad-looking or overly used.
Post Format
It is not just the content of the post that matters, but it is the way it is presented. Use image, table, graphs, videos, and presentations etc., to make your post appear cool. In the text-only posts as well, you can craft paragraphs in such a way that it looks cool. You can use bullets, nested headings, etc., to achieve this purpose.
Before I talk about anything else in the series—which actually I am tempted to do—you should apply these tips in your blog. Go ahead and get a professional theme and also create a simple post. I will wait till you are done with that.
Word of caution: Do not waste inordinate amount of time on searching for a web designer or a professionally designed blog theme. Overdoing kills the joy.
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