Comments on: Case Study: Should you run a contest for your blog? http://www.theanand.com/blog/index.php/reviews/case-study-should-you-run-a-contest-for-your-blog/ Ripples of a Blogger/SEO Dude from Cochin Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:53:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Blog Contests And Traffic | TheAnand http://www.theanand.com/blog/index.php/reviews/case-study-should-you-run-a-contest-for-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-16218 Blog Contests And Traffic | TheAnand Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:05:53 +0000 http://www.theanand.com/blog/index.php/reviews/case-study-should-you-run-a-contest-for-your-blog/#comment-16218 [...] back I had done a small un-comprehensive case study on how blogging contests affect traffic metrics on blogs. But then this contest was not meant to be a traffic puller, but was in essence to [...] [...] back I had done a small un-comprehensive case study on how blogging contests affect traffic metrics on blogs. But then this contest was not meant to be a traffic puller, but was in essence to [...]

]]> By: Anand http://www.theanand.com/blog/index.php/reviews/case-study-should-you-run-a-contest-for-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-2189 Anand Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:03:05 +0000 http://www.theanand.com/blog/index.php/reviews/case-study-should-you-run-a-contest-for-your-blog/#comment-2189 I mentioned rss too, but took it much lighter than the rest. Im sure that RSS readers should have increased, but only that I have no way of tracking it... :D Yes, I became a regular reader of your blog after you won the Zune from John. :-D The content was much more detailed and interesting. I had noticed the same and since you took some time to end the contest. A lot of people would have checked out your blog once in a while to see the updates on the contest. hehe, I was only analyzing the effects of a contest in general with the data available for the general people so I missed the RSS. Hope you get a good pagerank this update. ;) Thanks for dropping by!!! I mentioned rss too, but took it much lighter than the rest. Im sure that RSS readers should have increased, but only that I have no way of tracking it… :D

Yes, I became a regular reader of your blog after you won the Zune from John. :-D The content was much more detailed and interesting. I had noticed the same and since you took some time to end the contest. A lot of people would have checked out your blog once in a while to see the updates on the contest.

hehe, I was only analyzing the effects of a contest in general with the data available for the general people so I missed the RSS. Hope you get a good pagerank this update. ;) Thanks for dropping by!!!

]]> By: ms danielle http://www.theanand.com/blog/index.php/reviews/case-study-should-you-run-a-contest-for-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-2182 ms danielle Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:58:30 +0000 http://www.theanand.com/blog/index.php/reviews/case-study-should-you-run-a-contest-for-your-blog/#comment-2182 hey anand, this is an interesting break-down. i'm not sure i even properly tracked the results. i think the one statistic you didn't mention that is the one i look to the most is RSS numbers. if mine were a "make money" blog, and i took advantage of all the page views, and used the subscriptions and audience as leverage, then i could have made some money off the contest. but i don't have a make money blog. also, i haven't had a contest since, so if i had opted to roll over into another one, that would have sustained all the stats you mentioned. it's a mixed answer. i also have to add that my content was stepped up at the time i announced the contest (frequency, depth of content, commenting, etc...) which i think had to do with me sustaining the spike in traffic. right now, i'm happy with the readership i have, and with the content i'm providing. although the stats you mention have been on the decline, my RSS total is at an all-time high. go figure ;) hey anand, this is an interesting break-down. i’m not sure i even properly tracked the results. i think the one statistic you didn’t mention that is the one i look to the most is RSS numbers.
if mine were a “make money” blog, and i took advantage of all the page views, and used the subscriptions and audience as leverage, then i could have made some money off the contest. but i don’t have a make money blog. also, i haven’t had a contest since, so if i had opted to roll over into another one, that would have sustained all the stats you mentioned. it’s a mixed answer.
i also have to add that my content was stepped up at the time i announced the contest (frequency, depth of content, commenting, etc…) which i think had to do with me sustaining the spike in traffic.
right now, i’m happy with the readership i have, and with the content i’m providing. although the stats you mention have been on the decline, my RSS total is at an all-time high. go figure ;)

]]> By: Linky Love http://www.theanand.com/blog/index.php/reviews/case-study-should-you-run-a-contest-for-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-2173 Linky Love Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:34:39 +0000 http://www.theanand.com/blog/index.php/reviews/case-study-should-you-run-a-contest-for-your-blog/#comment-2173 Competitions attract: -gamblers, -people with too much free time or -people that are bored, can use the extra buck but have no clue how to. Competitions attract:

-gamblers,
-people with too much free time or
-people that are bored, can use the extra buck but have no clue how to.

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