A little while ago I decided to start a contest blog with a friend of mine and it’s been going okay, nothing too special. Our agreement was that if we won a prize then we would split it. And if we couldn’t split it, we would try to sell the prize and split the money. But this post isn’t about that, it’s more about why you should comment on every contest post you run across.
Since I partnered up and started this contest blog, we weren’t aiming to make money from it or get tons of traffic. Honestly, we just wanted to test it out to see how many prizes from contests we could actually win. So far we won about 4 different prizes or prize packs but nothing to brag about.
We are hoping to see if we can win a big prize like a Playstation 3, TV, lots of money, etc. But also, we’re not really holding our breath especially since we’re not even taking the site too serious. We’re basing the entire site on luck so it’s like playing the lottery… but you do have to play to win! 
The only promotion we have done is simply commenting on people’s contest posts and somewhere within the comment we simply post the URL of where we blogged about their contest.
Simple enough, right? I mean, we’re entering their contest because most of them ask for their contestants to blog about it with backlinks to their site and post, so that’s exactly what we did. Plus, we get to post a free URL link in the comments without it being deleted or marked as spam.
Since then, our blog is now a PR3, we’ve got some more subscribers and our traffic has been steady especially from search engines. Nothing really special especially since the site has only been up for about 3 months and it has less than 50 total posts to it.
Though, I know some of you guys live and die by Google Pagerank, in addition, a lot of you guys need to build links to your sites, I’ll explain how this will benefit you all.
Since contests are very popular, a lot of people will do anything to enter them which include posting and linking to that contest post. Since there are so many one-way backlinks to that contest post, it also means the URL is given LOTS of backlink juices.
I understand most people have “no-follow” attributes to their commenting section but in reality, even if they do, you would still get some backlink juice to your site.
Have you ever noticed how so many individual contest pages or posts have their own Pagerank? For instance, their homepage may be a PR5 but their contest post is a PR4. You may not get as much backlink juice simply because it is “no-follow” but you do still get some.
I had this discussion with someone a while ago and they gave me a post URL that was ranked as a PR7. I went to the page and it was “no-follow” and I told him that there was no point. He told me that I would still get some backlink juices for commenting on that PR7 “no-follow” post and I would probably get more juice than a regular “do-follow” blog that has no rank.
Of course, I think his theory is actually right. I mean, how else is my blog is PR3 out of nowhere? And how is my blog getting so much search engine traffic without a lot of linking or any promotion besides commenting?
Exactly!
So, whenever you see a contest you should at the very least comment on it even if you don’t feel like entering to win their prize. It might help you more than you know in the long run!
That is a great idea. Thanks for sharing. So where are the links to are some good high PR contests? Haha!
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Age also gives good PR to sites
-Mike
Wow this actually makes sense. For some time now I posted comments on blogs that have no more than PR4 but are dofollow and I haven’t seen much traffic coming in. I have ignored nofollow blogs with high PR. I will definitely try this.
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Nice tip. Well I always do comment on a contest. And I can tell you it does work :p
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This is interesting. I always know that commenting on post gives you backlink no matter if it is do follow or not. But you used the opportunity of a contest to get backlinks because commenting on contest would be easy. You can write something like I wish you success on your contest and that would be considered as a statement.
the link for the Entecard brings back a 404 error?
i need a new FlipMino, is there a different link to access?
cheers,
neil
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Contest post do seem to generate the most responses because everyone likes to win free stuff. Hopefully I can host a contest on my blog in the coming months
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This is very true because my blog focuses specifically on contests. Whenever I enter a contest I make sure to comment on the post. My blog is now a PR3 and has an Alexa of 162,222 just by commenting. I haven’t really marketed my site or anything so I think this tactic works.
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I never really thought about this, I roll by a ton of contests and when you think about it your whole link juice theory makes sense. Maybe I won’t just close the window any more and comment.
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I never post on contests, If it really work, i will do then
. Which is best resource to find contests, because in google, most are old.
This is a method i haven’t tried, it’s always good to think outside the box.
Jason
Man.. I never had luck with these contest stuff! Kinda discouraged lol
Ben
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This is a great method, all of the contest posts generate a lot of buzz and usually have a high pr
Great information! I have been looking for ways to build my backlinks and this has been very helpful indeed.
Thanks
Thanks for thinking out of the fixed way.Your way will be helpful to meet our back link requirement.All of the contest posts generate a lot of back links for us.