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Run Blog Contests – Have you been worrying why your blog is not still taking off even if you are working really hard?

Have you ever thought you can bring so much traffic, likes, links, comments, and subscribers just by running regular blog contests?

Yes, running blog contests is one of the best ways to take your blog to the next level.

If you are really serious about making money from your blogging efforts, you must invest the money first. After all, blogging is a business – not fun!

And the best way to invest some money on your blog development is to run blog contests – also known as giveaways.

There are many bloggers who took their blogs to another level by using the simple tactic called blog contests. If you are thinking to start a blog contest and not sure how to do it effectively – this article is for you!

Let’s jump into the details without any ado.

How to run awesome blog contests on your blogs?

Before you are thinking to run a blog contest, ask yourself these 3 questions.

What is your primary goal? Ex: Do you want more comments, subscribers or likes on your FB page?
What is your secondary goal? Ex: Do you want people to share your posts, buy your stuff or anything else?
How much money you want to put in the basket? Pro tip: Don’t invest too much money in the beginning itself.

Start small

Start so small that even if you don’t meet your primary or secondary goals with your blog contests – you shouldn’t be worry about it. Most people invest a lot of money without thinking their primary objectives.

My tip is to start really small. You can start off by giving away something like

Themes
Plugins
Cash prizes
Tools
Software
Videos and anything that comes to your mind (but make sure your offer adds value to YOUR readers)

Make it clear to your participants and keep it simple

If you want to run a successful blog contest, you need to give some rules to your participants.

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And make them as clear and simple as possible.

What do they have to do to enter into your blog contests?
Clearly mention how can they maximize their chances of winning your blog contents?
Do they have to stay active daily or just once?
How many days, weeks or months your blog contest runs? When can they expect the results?

Pro tip: You need to set a start and end date and make it clearly visible in your blogs.

To run blog contests, you need proper tools

My personal favorite tools to run blog contests are

Raffle Copter and
Punch Tab

They are REALLY awesome tools to run contests on your blog successfully and most of all they are FREE.

Approach sponsors and ask other bloggers to run blog contests jointly

Let me make it clear. No one will be interested in providing funds for running blog contests on your websites when you are new to blogging.

So you have to put some money at least in the beginning and until you gain some loyal readership around your blogs.

Then only you can consider asking others to sponsor contests on your blogs.

You can also ask your fellow bloggers (and return them favors by linking to their pages or blogs) to get some money to run blog contests on your blog successfully.

Write a blog post about your contest and make it go viral

This is a must. You need to shout out about your blog contests.

And use the post as a way to showcase your blog contest rules and regulations. Clearly mention what your objectives are.

Ask your participants to share the specific blog post in social media sites like Facebook, twitter, G+ etc. and provide they some rewards for doing so.

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If possible try to promote your post and spend some money on referral traffic like Facebook ads or twitter sponsors to make your blog post go viral, this way you will be able to reach a wider audience.

The more the reach, the better the results.

Last but not least – tell them clearly how will you decide the WINNER

There are many ways to decide the final winner, either you can choose them randomly using randomizer.org or you can decide on their performance (the more likes they get the more the chances of winning the contest). The final choice is yours.

Who else wants to become the top blogger?

Almost everyone wants to be the highest blogger in their niche. But the problem is that no one cares about their vision. Anyone can start a blog. But only a couple of people get massive success in blogging.

It’s not at all about working hard, the more consistent you are – the better results you can acquire in the long run. So try to become the person of changing others’ lives instead of just working hard to make more money.

Here are five golden nuggets to become the top blogger in your niche.

5 ways to become the top blogger

1. Blog traffic builds slowly: Most bloggers strive hard to get traffic to their blogs, there’s nothing harm in worrying about bringing more traffic, but when your focus in only on the traffic you are doing it all wrong.

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Make use of long tail keywords in your blog posts to get long lasting traffic from the search engines. Never worry about blog post length especially if you are new to blogging world. More blog posts don’t mean more traffic.

Just remember that “No posts are better than bad blog posts”. If you are creating blog posts, try to give the BEST possible information to your readers to keep your blog momentum going.

Without having quality traffic, you won’t see any traffic spikes on your blogs. Try to improve your page views instead of bring search engine traffic to your blogs in the beginning. This is one of the simplest yet effective ways to improve traffic on your blogs.

2. Better writing skills play a key role: If you want to become the top blogger, first hone your writing skills. Observe any top blogger in your niche, their writing skills are their biggest assets, they write engaging content to connect with their readers (and to quickly build instant bond with them).

You don’t have to be a master in English to write the prolific way, you must first learn few basic things to take your writing skills to the next level.

Here are a few quick writing tips to become the top blogger.

Use simple language
Don’t fluff
Write in small chunks
Don’t bore your readers
Avoid clichés
End with a call to action
And more importantly WRITE daily

3. Social media is king: If you are not utilizing the power of social media yet, you are losing time and energy. Go out and connect with other bloggers to improve your online visibility.

No one comes and reads your blogs, you have to market yourself to get more visibility on your blogs.

Social media is the great way of networking with all kind of bloggers (from the newbies to the top bloggers in your niche).

Try to spend quality time promoting others’ stuff and sharing their links to create strong relationships with other bloggers in the long run. Sooner or later others will notice your work, if they find your blogs interesting, they won’t hesitate to promote your stuff too.

4. Be consistent at what you do: Did you know Darren Rowse from Problogger.net posted daily almost for 5 years consistently (without missing even a SINGLE day). That’s how the top bloggers are created – they always lead by an example. Take any top blogger from your field, they all are consistent at whatever they do.

If you want to become the top blogger in your niche, try to be consistent. Don’t go after short term success, have a clear vision and work on achieving smaller goals for a long period. It’s how you can become the top blogger in no time.

5. It’s not about the quantity – it’s all about the quality!

Do I have to say anything more?

You don’t have to create the lengthy posts to become the top blogger, but try to create your own persona with your writing and make sure you are delivering the best stuff to serve your readers.