What Type Of Contests Would I Be Interested In To Join

Contests are on in whole of the blogosphere nowadays. There are contests with giveaways of 1000s of Entrecard credits, sitewide advertisements, text links and hundreds or even thousands of dollars on many blogs. And as a contestant who doesn’t want such great prizes worth thousands of dollars. However as blogger who is hosting a contest, you must know how you can attract your blog visitors to participate in your contests. So today I will tell you what type of contests I would be interested in, to participate. This will give you an idea on how to host a contest so that you can attract more contestants and have a successful contest.

The contest should be easy and attractive. How? I’ll tell you. The entry for participation in the contest should be easy. Like you can let your visitors enter in to the contest just by digging or stumbling your posts or something like that; or by commenting on your posts. Something easy and not time consuming will attract contestants.
Don’t force contestants to write about your contest on their blogs. Many of your visitors will not even enter after seeing way more points being given to contestants who blog about that contest and that’s because it takes some time to write an article.
If you are an entrecarder you may want to offer entrecard credits as the prizes. Why should you offer EC? Because EC are cheap. So you can buy 1000 EC for <$10. So if you offer 1000 EC you will attract more contestants than when you offer $50 cash.
Try to have some point system for choosing the winners; Like 3 points for commenting –> 1 point for stumbling and so on. Don’t use random system, through which a winner is chosen randomly. I never like contests where there is random system.
If you are planning to give prizes in objects and not money or EC then you should set something interesting as your prize. Things like Ipods, XBox, and laptops work very well. You know things like those attract average peple(including me).