30 Aug 10 3 Click-Based Contest That Will Help Your Blog Grow
Organizing a contest is a great way to pull your visitors to your blog. Many bloggers use this means to generate traffic and backlinks. For last three articles we are talking about this. In the last article we talked about content-based contests, and carrying our discussion further from there, we will be talking about 3 click-based contests in this article.
3 Click-based contest that you may run
Tweet me contest
Twitter is known for its capability to send visitors to a website or blog. You can leverage this tool by starting a tweet me contest. Ask people to tweet a particular post on which the contest is running to get an entry into tweet me contest for the grand prize. Set a time-frame for which the contest will run and actively start talking about it.
Vote for me contest
If there is one contest that you want to run, this is it. It has elements of both content-based and click-based contests. You can ask your visitors to share some tips or a short piece on your blog, which will be open for public voting. The winner will be the one that gets maximum vote.
This is a wonderful way to get traffic as well as backlinks because people participating in this contest will make sure that many people vote on their entry, for which they will promote their entry. It means more visitors to your blog. Sweet!
Send people to me contest
In one word this could be called traffic contest, to participate in which the participants will need to send people to your blog through their websites. You can ask people to post a link to any of their websites, which their visitors will click to visit your page. The website that sends most visitors to your blog will get the prize. For this you will need to install Google analytics in your blog and monitor it for traffic sources.
With this we came to the end of this post. Though I have just listed 3 click-based contests, there are many more that you can come up with. As I see it, to reap maximum benefit from the contests, you should use a combination of both types of contests.
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15 Aug 10 US Advertisers to Spend $ 1.7 Billion on Facebook Like Ads
The United States is going to invest 1.7 billion dollars from its online advertising budget on social networking ads (on ads shown on Facebook and other social networking sites) in 2010. This sum may look like a lot, but it constitutes only 6.7% of the total US online ad spending.
This was found in a study conducted by eMarketer. The study revealed that half of this money will go to Facebook, whereas, MySpace will continue losing its grip on the market. Twitter, which has launched its advertising platform this year only, is also expected to get a fair share of this revenue.
The estimated ad spending in 2010 is 20% increase on the social media ad spending in 2009, and this is expected to grow more in 2011, where it will touch the mark of $2 billion. (See image for detail).
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22 Jul 10 2 Benefits of Buying a New Domain, and Not the Aged Ones
You will often find affiliate marketers lauding the SEO benefit of having an aged domain name. They will go so far as to suggest that given a chance always buy an aged domain name.
Why?
Because you get the SEO benefit because of its (virtue of) being old. This sounds so good that everyone jumps with its gun to find an aged domain that they can use to build their “big business” online.
I am not here to contest the fact that “aged domain names” are not at all important. Rather I think they are way too important for some business, but not for all. For a lot of businesses buying new domain name make more sense than going with any aged domain name, no matter how old or key-word rich the domain name is. If you believe in what I believe then read this post to the end and see why it is important for most of the businesses to buy new domain names.
Fresh and creative
A good domain names means a lot, and a good domain name is not necessarily keyword-optimized; rather, first tier world-class domain names are not at all keyword optimized. They are sweet, simple, and easy to remember.
Think of the ten websites, and chances are the list will constitute of one or more names from the following list: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, twitter, Flickr, Gmail (short name for Google mail), plurk, Hi5, LinkedIn, etc.
Just imagine Google running its services on a keyword rich domain name like bestSearchEngine.com, or something like that. Would it have been more attractive than Google.com? Similarly Facebook or twitter would not have been as attractive if they were after using keyword-optimized domain name for their services.
If you have a world-class service to offer than get a fresh and creative domain name registered. Get a name that excites people, and which gets itched into the frontal lobe of the visitors.
No backlog
Having an aged domain name gives you some SEO benefit (according to Aaron Wall of SEOBook, age of the domain name [read website) has 15% weight in search ranking algorithm), but an aged domain may also have some backlog. It might have been penalized by Google or any other major search engine for malpractice. You need to factor this as well when deciding on an aged domain. With a new domain name, which is essentially your brainchild, this is not the case.
As said, aged domain names have their own benefits, and so do have new domain names. Which one will favor what type of business will depend upon the nature of the business, and at the cost of repeating myself, I would say that for most online businesses, a new domain name is what you should go for.
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