Running A Contest To Build Links
by Mike on February 27, 2009
in Link Building
This post is a part of my ongoing series on link-building. It’s going to seem awfully short but with good reason.
I have a lot of ideas on how to run a successful contest and I even wrote up a pretty detailed post outlining my thoughts. But since I’ve never actually run a contest as a blogger its all just theory.
So I decided to ditch the post I had written for now so I can actually test my theories in the real world. Then I can write up an even better post and discuss my case-study in detail. 
Yes that means I’ll soon be announcing my own contest here at imiseasy.com. I’m thinking it’ll run through the month of April (or May?)…depends on how much time I have to work out the details.
In the meantime, if you have anything you’d like to donate as a prize (a product, service, review on your blog, etc.) you can contact me here. Anyone who supplies a prize will get a backlink and some free promotion here.
Smart move. Many blog owners are doing such a contests lately, and seems they are working, so i guess you wont make mistake by running one by yourself.
Hey Colin,
I will be glad to sponsor a prize for your upcoming contest. Can you contact me with more details like the date and I will be one of your supporters!
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I’m looking forward to the contest. Perhaps I’ll offer some kind of free placement on my site, though I don’t think it will be of great value yet. I’m interested to see the results and what they will signify in regard to the quest of building links.
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@Ben: I think you mean Mike..haha.
Thanks for the offer! I’ll get in touch when I figure out what month I decide on.
I like contests. Can’t wait for yours.
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Contests to build links tend to work out pretty well. I’m looking forward to seeing what your contest will be.
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Hey Mike,
I have been thinking of running a contest on my weight loss blog, I’m going to wait and see how you do it and what kind of results you get from it.
I have no idea where to start with it.
Steve
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This is a great idea for healthy competition to broaden our minds. thanks!
Wow, another contest, Im excited about it!
Please do it on May! Thanks!
It’s a good idea to run a contest after you have a nice readerbase going, which it appears that you have. I’ve ran one for one of my blogs too early and it still helped, just taught me that it was important to give it time before running it. Good luck.
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Cool idea… seems to be the trend; but it’s working. Good luck!
Hosting a contest is a great way of building backlinks if you ask the people participating to write a post about your contest
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Anyone sign up to give away prizes yet? Curious what might be offered.
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Can’t wait to see what kind of contest this is, contests are always great ways to get more links
I wish you good luck with your contest, I am looking forward to learn something from this, as I running my first blog contest recently on one of my blogs, but unfortunately it didn’t went good as I have expected, probably because it was not planned good.
so plz I am teling my personal experiance on first contest just as an advice, so take care and study it well so you can get better chance. so plz take care.
let me know if you need help with your contest, I will be happy to help on a way or another.
Good luck!
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Can’t wait for the contest! I’m glad you haven’t publish a post that’s not based on your personal experience – it makes your blog look more proffesional.
Hi Mike
Your prizes need to be exceptional if you want to be heard above the din when you run a blog contest.
People just tend to not want to write about a contest someone is running in their own blog.
Hi Mike,
We would be happy to provide a free gift from http://www.gofrostfire.com
Hi,
Sorry I must be a real newbie in this area! How does a “backlink contest” work? Does everyone start on day 1 with a new domain, and then after a month, the one with the most backlinks wins?
Yours confusedly
Zander
It’s the fact that many bigger companies forget. Running contests and sending freebies to people costs nothing (as compared to any other form of advertising) yet often brings better results than regular ad campaign.
Contests are very effective if done well, if not, then its kind of embarrassing, if you dont get much interest!
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@Firany – I’m pretty sure it costs some serious dough to send all those freebies out!
Build your list of emails and send the proposal manually to get huge links to your website.Its really worth. try it.