Should contests be running your blog?  I'm sure most of you don't realize what contests are doing to your blog, but the majority of you still do it.  After the launch of Entrecard, I've noticed that people are starting to create blog contests left and right, but it's actually destroying a person's blog rather tha

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The SMM Guru has posted todays answers to the contest, and will continue to post them for the hole 36 days. You may or may not have heard, Mircosoft is holding a contest that is 36 days long, and gives you a chance to win every day. The gist seems t

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Want to win a free digital photo keychian? I am giving away three digital photo keychains over at Today's Gizmos, so head on over and enter my contest. The keychains are nice. I put 50 photos on mine and have already shown them off to my friends and family. The quality is great and it's a nice easy way to carry a lot of photo

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Parents need stuff to manage a house full of kids. Parents love FREE stuff. Many internet sites offer giveaways of items that are useful to parents.
Every Friday I compile a list of giveaways that I have found during the week. I know a parent's time is valuable so most of the contests require very little effort to enter, usually you just n

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When you hold a contest you'll need to do more than simply choose a winner, announce it, and explain. You'll need to take into account the human factor. This was my first "big" contest and I have to say what I expected to learn I didn't, but I learned something altogether different.

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Here is another edition of my Friday Giveaway Roundup for parents. Basically I scour the net during the week for sites that offer giveaways of useful stuff for parents. This week's offerings include a Dazzle Stroller, a Day Runner Organizational System, a PRADA bag, and a The Vaccine Book. Go to http://neenmachine.com to find the links to al

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Here’s a competition with a difference. Most blog comments type of competitions want you to leave the most number of comments at the host’s blog - I don’t, in fact I only NEED to see ONE comment from you and that’s your entry comment.

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Contests are a great way to promote a blog whether it is new or established, we could all do with the extra traffic. Here are a selection that you might be interested in.

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I’ve been pretty heavy into promoting this blog lately, jumping on the Blogging Zoom bangwagon, ShowHype.com, Mixx.com, etc. What’s come of it? A lot more traffic, increased subscribed readers and much more fun for yours truly!

So anything that comes along that looks like fun and also helps me and fellow bloggers of mine is something I of

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There’s been no shortage of people who mention that traffic from Digg or StumbleUpon doesn’t really have any long-term advantage due to the fact that the traffic stops by for thirty seconds or so and then leaves, almost never to return. Others have said the Entrecard is the same way.

I don’t think that there’s any reason to think that blog

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Blog contests are a fantastic way to generate traffic and backlinks to your site, and if you’re really good create a bit of blogosphere buzz. When the prizes offered are popular stuffs in high demand, you can ensure to receive lots of entries and tons of backlinks.

But when fellow bloggers abuse the trust of the community by not following

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If you've ever considered running a contest on your blog (or Web site), this is a must-read post from Darren Rowse at Problogger.

Contests are excellent ways to generate traffic, buzz, and links for SEO. But, it's all about the execution of the contest. If not done right it will end up being a colossal waste of time and money.

If do

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But as always in a non-elimination round, they will have to film the show with no money, no cameras and by begging people in the streets of local villages to pair up into teams.

Phil is happy the Amazing Race is still onOkay, none of that will happen, but the best reality show on TV, The Amazing Race, has already been greenlit to start pro

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Every week I will announce one winner who I will send $25 via Paypal. The weekly winner contest will run forever, allowing many people to be able to win a $25 prize. Every week I will also give a link to the winners blog, and that winner will also be eligible to receive any additional prizes that were donated that week. For those people who a

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People seem to like to make things complicated when they make a contest or have a giveaway. I even made that mistake myself I will admit. But we learn from our mistakes and make things better than before. I have added ways that you can make sure that your giveaway or contest involves the most people aside from giving away a really freaking aw

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March Madness isn't only for NCAA anymore, these blog contests in March are the crazy ones! I know we see blog contests everyday but the ones I've seen in the month of March just blows the rest away. I've compiled a short list of contests that I have seen this month that range from $500 to $13,000 in cash and prizes!

Al

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If you are good at poetry, you can be the winner of $10,000 at the draw which will take place on January 15th, 2008. This is a free poetry contest which I thought to be cool, so I decided to tell you about it. The poems can be on any subject, and in any style you wish. The organizers give random prizes every day, so there could be a chance fo

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Everyone knows that Overstock has great prices on all sorts of products. There's no better way to save money and still buy quality items for family and friends than shopping online and Overstock.com is one of the best of the best. Beginning Dec. 3, you can sign up at Overstock.com to win a prize every single day valued at up to $1000!

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