I've been thinking about doing a contest to stimulate traffic to my forum. Maybe have a contest with most posts for an Amazon gift certificate prize. That would be easy to deliver via email. I'm not concerned about spam posters winning as spam posts are easily deleted. Any other ideas for site/forum contests to stimulate traffic or posting?
I'm unsure how to effectively use them. I tried one and no one signed up or did anything.. Seemed like a huge failure for me.
I haven't made any site yet but going to, I will make some contests and polls to attract the audience. Quizzes would also be helpful to stimulate people.
It's a very good idea. I had giveaway contest on my first website from automotive niche few years back. Seller of canvas art with awesome car pictures contacted me and we ran his giveaway contest on my site. It was a win-win situation because he got my traffic and I got his because he advertised this contest on forums, social media sites and his website of course
I haven't made any site yet but going to, I will make some contests and polls to attract the audience. Quizzes would also be helpful to stimulate people. \
I ran a 'post the most' contest on my forum and the first prize was a week of home page advertising but the banner runs on all pages on the site under the forum logo. I had so many posts that week. Conversely this past week, i didn't run the contest and posting was down. So the forum posting contest actually worked to get me new posts.
