comment bubble 150x150 Drive major traffic to your blog with a first to comment contestSo you all know that you can make some great traffic gains with contests. I have with a recent contest to win free advertising here on my blog (which is still open until June 27th, 2010 by the way). You can be all sorts of creative to get traffic and commentators on your blog. But what if you wanted a flood of comments?

I thought of this while thinking about how some of my posts get lots of comments, and some get just a few. My idea is to promote the blog at some point with a “first to comment” contest. How it works is that you would announce the contest and let everyone know that for the next month, the first comment on every post will be an entry to win your contest. You might end up with 10 “first comments” of people who are on the blog at the same time and saying “yay first!”, and then they will see when they go there who is really in first. The key obviously is to ensure that everyone knows their comment has to have value to qualify. They can’t just show up and say “first”. They can say that, then add on their comment about the specific post in question.

You don’t have to worry about people not commenting because of arriving late. They will still comment saying that they wish they made it on time, and they would comment on the article in general. But they will also end up trying hard to get an entry which ensures that your blog will receive a lot of daily traffic for that month. Hopefully, after the month is over you will have gained some loyal daily readers.

The cool thing about all of this is that it can become fun, with people laughing and commenting just because they missed it by a second. Your readers will actually engage each other like a family or good friends.

Now, off to find the prize!

Drive major traffic to your blog with a first to comment contest

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