Running contests on your blog is one of the best quick traffic building methods. As contests can give people an opportunity to win some not free stuffs for free it can generate much traffic for your blog.
In this post, I will let you know about how to build traffic effectively by running a contest in your blog.
1. The Giveaway !
First of all, the effectiveness of the contest, depends on what is the prize, or giveaway that the contest winner will get. If it’s something valuable and useful for your readers, then it would be easy for you to bring out the best from your contest. Otherwise, the contest won’t get good number of participants, which ultimately means a Failure!
So be very careful before you decide the giveaway.
2. Building The Buzz
As already being said, if the product which you have selected is a good one, and an useful one, then building the buzz for your contest will be very easy.
The best way to bring traffic to your contest page, is Social media. I don’t think that I have to explain why social media works like a charm in attracting traffic to a contest.
Don’t forget Forums, it’s another good place to find traffic for your contest.
3. Make Use Of Each Participation
You could have seen bloggers asking you to tweet, like, or share the contest page in your social media profiles. When the number of participation is big, the number of shares on the social media will also be a big number. This can bring a tonnes of traffic to your contest page.
It can also bring a traffic that you never imagined. Contest can really do magics!
4. Collect Information
You can have a registration form that one has to fill in order to enter the contest. Using the form you can get the E-mail addresses. With which you can build a good mailing list.
In future, if you are running another contest, you can just send out an email to your mailing list, which will be much for easier to build a buzz for your contest.
Got anymore ideas? Share it with us, through your comments. Hope it helps 
Some good tips here Praveen. It will also be helpful to leverage any relationships you have with other bloggers and site owners. Have them help spread the word to their readers to increase sign-ups and participation.
Yea, I agree with you Tory.
Thanks for your comment
This is a great idea, I haven’t thought seriously about it, probably I will give it a try, thanks for the tips
Good luck dude! Hope it was helpful to you
I would like to say that contests are a highly effective way for the owner of an online resource to build incoming links and drive targeted traffic to a website. The point is that the information about interesting contests is quickly spread in web. So, it is a quick and effective way to build links and attract website traffic.
Good post, Praveen. Contests are a very effective way to get more visitors involved and foster a sense of community. I believe contests that require a good deal of involvement from the visitors works best for this, rather than generic contests with a randow draw. And of course, an useful and sensible prize for winning is also important.
-Jean
Running a contest is one of the greatest ways to get huge traffic and building Links in a natural way. Thanks For sharing these nice tips.
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Yeah, sounds great. Perhaps I should run a contest on my blog too!
nice post praveen but can you tell me more about not so expensive giveaways
No doubt that contesting is a stimuli everybody to give his best! Besides of course this is the best way also to boost your traffic and get a lot of backlinks!
Good ideas, Praveen. Perhaps I can run a free web hosting contest in the future… what do you think? Will free web hosting be interesting to get a lot of participants?
Webhosting giveaways can go really viral
Good luck Jasmine
Nice tips Praveen! but all depends on prizes. Success or failure?
Ofcourse! Only the if prize is capable of attracting people, your contest can become a sucess.
Contest are nice way but most of visitors only use your blog for the prize and they are not regular visitors of the blog.
You can convert them into a regular visitors with your other interesting content and the mailing list that you build using a contest (point #4).
I can use this as a topic for my upcoming posts
Hey there Praveen,
Those are some really nice tips that can help anybody to organize an awesome contest/giveaway which can in turn help him/her to gain more visitors or subscribers. Giveaways are great way to make your blog known to new people.
It’s great to see you here Shiva, Thanks for dropping comments
Hey Praveen,
Been reading some articles for days now which had connection regarding on making your traffic goes up, but none of it really telling the truth. So glad that I met this fabulous article of yours, didn’t know that running a blog contest could help your traffic goes high. Thanks.
But I think that need enough traffic before can start a content or else look bad if no participant.
You are right. I have similar concern as yours…. so, do you think it is time for me to run contests on my blog?
I am not sure as I am not familiar with your blog. By the way, your blog look great.
Seriously I have thought about this method of driving traffic for years….but I have never ever used them…why? I guess it is because I need to give something-prize. :p
but all depends on prizes. Great tips Praveen! Contests are a very effective way to get more visitors involved and foster a sense of community. So glad that I met this fabulous article of yours, didn’t know that running a blog contest could help your traffic goes high.
Buddy, You give an another way of organizing a contest without any fails…
Thanks for sharing this great post
Have you any suggestions to choose winners in a trusted way?
I mean the winner choosing method must looks like a fair one to attract more readers, no?
I can’t understand you exactly. Anyways if you are asking of a way to choose a winner, I use http://www.random.org/lists/
This is a great idea, I haven’t thought about it before, but it sounds too promising to not give it a shot, will implement it in my next campaign. Thanks for the tip