Blog contests are extremely popular lately, and that means you can use that to your advantage. However, the more creative you can be in designing your contest, the more traffic you can expect from it. Want an example? Sure you do!

A savvy blogger might take advantage of an upcoming holiday such as Easter, for example, and design a clever little contest, in which she hides Easter eggs throughout her blog. She then invites visitors to find the hidden eggs within her blog to win a cool prize - which just happens to be a product that the blogger is going to be launching soon.

Now let’s analyze this clever contest strategy.

1. The contest is centered around a theme - in this case a holiday that many people

Posted on March 21st, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
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I’ve mentioned before that you should always take advantage of free information, especially when it comes from an expert. Yaro Starak has created a video case study where he goes through someone’s blog, and explains in detail how they can make changes to bring in more traffic and subscribers. It’s nicely done and very detailed, so be sure to check it out. He also released a sample lesson recently that I forgot to tell you about, so I’m telling you now to make up for that oversight on my part. That’s it for today. Have a great weekend!

UPDATE: Apparently the case study is no longer available. Guess you had to be quick to see it… Continue reading

Posted on December 7th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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We all share a common goal - increasing traffic to our site or blog. Without traffic, our sites are invisible. Traffic, however, can come from many sources. Some of those sources are gold mines of highly targeted traffic consisting of visitors who are wanting to consume and interact with our content. Some sources are next to worthless and our sites would be better off without the waste of bandwidth. Below, I’ve listed what I consider to be the most common forms of traffic, rated from best to worst. Use this as a guide when promoting your site, so that you focus your energies in the right places.

1. Organic search engine traffic - This is the granddaddy of all traffic

Posted on November 12th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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If you blog, you’ll find that many of your posts, no matter how great they are, may end up being somewhat temporary in terms of drawing traffic to your site. Occasionally, you’ll have a really sticky post that keeps people coming back months or years later. Often that post ends up surprising you because you didn’t expect it to do so well. No matter how hard we try to predict the success or failure of a post, we very often guess wrong. I do think, though, that we can successfully predict often enough to make a difference.

Even one highly successful post can consistently bring you a substantial amount of traffic. The key is to make sure you have at least one… Continue reading

Posted on November 4th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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