how to promote a competition

[mountrecruitment]

Hi All,

I am launching a competition to help increase site exposure to potential clients and candidates as well as boost serps (link is required from entrants) and i have set a pretty good prize.....however does anyone know of some good places to promote it on?

Rules stop me from giving details of comp etc.

Thanks
Grant

 

[Esk247]

Facebook? although your probably going to get a high bounce rate as people are just coming in for the competition and not what you offer on your site.

 

[mountrecruitment]

Facebook? although your probably going to get a high bounce rate as people are just coming in for the competition and not what you offer on your site.

actually it is more of a link building exercise than trying to sell more directly so could work....just reluctant to start paying for fb ads straight away.

 

[adam391]

Getting the competition featured in relevant blogs, with a good number of readers, is always a good. You get a link on the blog as well then.

 

[mountrecruitment]

Thanks - any more ideas welcome!

 

[Spapro]

Trade Magazines ? They have to fill their pages and are always up for offering their readers something for nothing (I am not suggesting you pay for an ad).

 

[unet]

perhaps twitter? contacting people in twitter that sit in your niche?

 

[mountrecruitment]

perhaps twitter? contacting people in twitter that sit in your niche?

Yes that was first port of call thanks!

 

[Phil Richardson]

Hi, i'm sure you know the law surrounding running competitions but this is a great site for most things legal.

http://www.out-law.com/page-6780

 

[mountrecruitment]

Hi, i'm sure you know the law surrounding running competitions but this is a great site for most things legal.

http://www.out-law.com/page-6780

Many thanks for this. As far as i can tell i actually have it all covered! Thats a good summary page though.

 

[mountrecruitment]

Just a quick update to say the competition seems to be working!

A lot of applicants have new or low ranking sites but not always the case. Anyway the site has stepped up to 12th for IT Recruitment Agency so steady move in the right direction!!

Fingers crossed!

 

[keyideas]

You can promote your competition through social networking websites where mass number of people are visiting every daylike Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reditt and more...

 

[mountrecruitment]

Very Happy to say that i seem to be showing as 10th result on page 1 for IT Recruitment Agency......Looks like the competition is working!!

 

[workwear]

Very Happy to say that i seem to be showing as 10th result on page 1 for IT Recruitment Agency......Looks like the competition is working!!

Glad to hear the competition is working, make sure you keep up the activity link wise after the competition ends otherwise search engines can think it is just a 'timely' website rather than keeping up there

 

[mountrecruitment]

Thanks Workwear i will do.

Could a few people check my rankings for that term (IT Recruitment Agency) as it seems i may have stepped up to 8th!!

 

[workwear]

You came up 5th on my default browser because of google places

 

[mountrecruitment]

That's great for local business but not counting google places in the comp though.

even so i am around 8th and 9th dependant on location i believe.

 

[shanemiller]

You can try on facebook and twitter more than concentrating on any other site.

 

[mountrecruitment]

We have now hit 6th (not counting google places).

I can sense that 3rd place is just around the corner!!

Still taking entries by the way.

 

[KCasey]

Have you tried submitting to free Press Release sites?
A lot of them are free for a reason but it helps get the word out!

 

[KCasey]

If you've got a wee budget for this capign too you can add to press release submission sites - less cumbersome than having to trail around the web yourself!

 

[mountrecruitment]

plenty of SEO work went in to reaching top 20 but began to falter at 14th so launched this competition on the 9th of April and just kept moving up the rankings. Currently 6th and still big step to reach 3rd but fingers crossed!

 

[Nick Jones]

Wow, I read through this thread expecting someone to have beaten me to this, but no...

If you're running a competition, get it on The Prize Finder and Loquax. These sites have huge followings and you are guaranteed to get loads of hits to your site and loads of entries.

http://www.theprizefinder.com/

http://www.loquax.co.uk/

There are other ones but these two are the daddies.

 

[Nick Jones]

Thinking about it, I'm not sure this competition will actually do you much good in the long run. Many of the people that enter are going to remove their links once the competition is over so any improvement you gain in your Google ranking will be short lived.

Or have you thought of a way of enticing people to keep the link up? Another prize in a few months' time, perhaps?

 

[mountrecruitment]

Thanks for those links the competition has been added!

Yes there is always that risk but i have a few plans for the future ;-)