You don't have to be a webmaster site like v7n.com to start a contest that gets your site noticed. John Scott has said that the v7ndotcom elursrebmem contest has incresed activity on his webmaster forum.
There's clearly some buzz going on here. Links from people who report on SEO things, discussion on SEO related message boards, etc. I want the buzz!
I want the buzz for my travel blog, so I started a 2006 Summer vacation plan travel writing contest. The idea is to get submissions, publish them, and then give out prize money (1,000 dollars total).
This will do a few things (I hope):
1. Give my readers something to read that I didn't write. Sure sometimes I pay for articles, but this should generate lots of good travel articles by lots of different authors. One cool Moroccan vacation plan has already been submitted.
2. Get me some links. John Scott was the first blogger to mention my contest - hopefully he is not the last.
3. Get traffic. People should come to my site to check out the contest, read the travel plans being submitted, or just because they heard about me (if the contest generates buzz, people who never would have heard of my blog otherwise will come check it out).
Wish me and my contest luck!
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