Many of us have wordpress blogs in which we have blogged to for years. Over the last few years you might have noticed a declining trend in traffic I see this across all blogs I follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the easiest ways to regain excitement and traction is to host a giveaway at your blog. This will help grow your readers, viewers and overall build more traffic flow and exposure to your writings, videos, podcasts etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before we jump into the guts of this one thing you may want to consider is a partnership on the giveaway with another blog or with a product that you promote on your blog. These partnerships can lead to covering the costs of the giveaway to having the sponsor post up the giveaway prizes for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are a number of systems which will run your giveaway. For myself I use Gleam.io<\/a> but Rafflecopter<\/a> would be my other recommendation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are looking for a free system to start out with a wordpress plugin such as Simple Giveaways<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You will need to promote your giveaway in order to gain traction. You can not simply place it up and expect people to come to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have an email list or social following be sure to post it on there and have options for them to share it with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPromote The Giveaway<\/h2>\n\n\n\n