How to help others increase your traffic to your blog contest

Want to know a little secret on how to increase the traffic to your blog contest post?

The usual way we structure a blog contest
When we run a blog contest, one of the benefits is to actually increase the amount of traffic to our site. It is with this intention that many blog contests require their participants to actually link back to their contest page so that readers of other blogs will also know about the contest.

With this method of running the blog contest, readers of other blogs will normally visit your site, and if you can provide some interesting content on your site, the visitors may just turn into loyal readers.

But have you ever thought that you can aid this process of having more visitors visit your blog by helping increase the traffic over at your participant’s blogs?

Helping bring traffic to another site to help my blog contest?
What was that? Help increase the amount of traffic at the participant’s blog? Wouldn’t that entails me promoting the participant’s blog? Wouldn’t that also mean that I’m taking my readers on a round trip, from my site to the participant’s site and back?

Well, not actually. When I mentioned increasing your participant’s site, it does not actually mean promoting them on your own blog.

Here’s the little secret to increase your blog contest traffic

For this to work, you would need for other blogs to actually blog about you. You can either do this through writing link baits which are so enticing that the other blogs want to write about or the other easier method is to run a blog contest, which requires other blogs to link back to you.

What you need to do is get some social media accounts. Accounts on Digg and StumbleUpon are great for this little trick. (And you might begin to link using StumbleUpon for it’s actual usage too). For every entry from every participants that link back to you, (You can see who links back through your WordPress Stats), go to their post and stumble it (or Digg it if you think it’s a good enough post to warrant a Digg). By doing so, you are helping that particular post gain some traffic from the social media means.

And when that happens, readers who stumble upon the article (which will be talking about your blog contest in the first place) would then visit your site via the participant’s blog.

Using this method, you can get a whole lot of traffic coming to visit your blog contest and getting a bigger participation rate.

Try it and let us know if this works for you.

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