The ‘Why You Should’ Enter and Host of Blogging Contests

AnnieInfinite — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:41:36 +0000

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Have you ever wondered why blogs hold Blogging Contests?

One of the best reasons is that they can result in amazing Win/Win for both the host blog and the entrant bloggers in so many important ways!!

Both blogs/sites will as a result of hosting and entering the contest boost traffic, readership, and backlinks to their websites and create more excitement and promotion opportunties through the generated extra marketing involved. Add to this that winning the Guest Blogging Contest means that you will have the opportunity to guest blog with links and full attribution back to you and your blog every time you guest post!

Here’s a list of the main reasons for entering blogging contests and winning of course:

Increase in traffic to both blogs
Increase in comments on both blogs
Increase in subscribers in both blogs
Huge increase in backlinks to both blogs
Shared more often
Excitement generated
More mentions and followers on social media

Now that has to be worth the time it takes to enter and create a really great post, link it to the host blog and promote the contest and your entry with gusto for a couple of weeks. The result could be a sky-rocketing of your blog stats and your brand awareness right throughout social media and the blog-a-sphere!

They do mean more work for the host who will have to check their blog and social media stream daily so that they can respond to all the new backlinks, hashtags, comments and mentions and usually every backlink coming from an entry post is reciprocated via the host blog in another post on their blog so it is a lot of work. The results can be amazing and the work well worth every minute for all the reasons described above.

Blog contests can be found all over the web and some are held regularly, however I love to find the new and once-in-a-while bloggin contests as I have a much bigger chanced of winning it. The latest blogging contest I am entering is the Culgoa Point Resort – Guest Blogging Contest and it is so easy to enter:

just post an appropriate post on a range of subjects based around Noosa Heads where the resort is based or about the competition itself and link to the blog or the post about the contest in your post which is exactly what I am doing here.

So if you’re ready to make a huge difference to your marketing for your blog today, why not head on over by clicking on the link above, read the rules and how to enter and enter yourself? Too easy!!

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Why Onsite Blogs Are an SEO Winner!

AnnieInfinite — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:59:53 +0000

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Last week I was asked a question about having a Blog as well as a site on our Facebook Fan Page and this was the answer I gave:
AskAnnie: Q I have a site.. do I really need a blog too? A: This is really up to u, I like to add a blog to a site as

search engines love new content & blogs r gr8 for that,
ur posts help to brand you as an expert in ur niche,
adding ur posts to social media sites etc.. creates backlinks to ur blog & to ur site.. if you don’t like writing try outsourcing ur writing to a uni student or a place like odesk.com

Now that we have more space I thought I would give you a much fuller explanation:

Blogs are one of the easiest way to increase your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) especially for beginners, with almost no experience in SEO at all you can use an onsite blog to do some of the most important aspects of SEO for your site:- adding new content to your site, create backlinks, create deep backlinks, regularly add and refresh keywords to your site and that’s just for starters!

Let’s take a better look at what those things mean:

New Content: One of the things those little search engine spiders are looking for when they crawl your site every few days is NEW CONTENT (remember content is King!) and the easiest way to give them something new and tasty to munch on is one or more new posts.

Refreshing and Adding Keywords: New content that is matched to keywords used within the content is even more appetising to those cute little bugs and if you haven’t started using the keyword or tags in your blogging yet, may I suggest you do so immediately.

Branding you as The Expert: your blog posts when informative and interesting allow your readers to see the depth of your experience for themselves. They will often subscribe to your posts so that they can keep up with your updates and you become a trusted expert for them, who they will then tell their friends about (WOM), ReTweet, and generally help you create buzz around your brand.

Creating BackLinks: Once you have created a blog post you would immediately post the link and post description into your social media sites, bookmark it and ping the post out into the world (well at least I hope you do?:) This creates backlinks to your site. Adding into the post itself links to other pages on your site create what are known as deep backlinks into your site, something that search engines love!

There you have it just by having a blog attached to your site, like this one, you have become your own SEO expert! Well almost

The Zen Bull

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