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2009/11/11 10:51 AM 

Over the last few months I have been thinking of and developing various ways and methods that will help bloggers with promoting their blogs and increasing their traffic. One of those methods is Free advertising.

To that end I came up with an idea. Why not offer free advertising on my blog. Why not help others to promote their blog, by doing this I will be helping to promote my blog.

But I must admit there is a catch. I am not just going to offer free advertising to every Tom, Dick or Jane. That would be crazy, and I would not be able to handle that. So what I decided was to have some sort of competition.

My blog averages over 8000 page views a month, so you could end up having 2000 ad impressions in a week. That’s about R400 worth of advertising. Not bad for free hey? According to Alexa.com, I am in the top 80 000 visited sites in the world, and rank in the top 700 in South Africa. Not bad I think.

The competition

The competition will have three flavours or divisions to it:

Best Comments - If you comment on one of my posts, I will choose the best comment and you will win one week of free advertising on my blog.

You mention and link to my blog in a post - If you mention and link back to my blog in a blog post of yours, you will win one free week of advertising. No judging here, you just get one free week of advertising.

You write a post about my blog. If you write a full post about my blog I will give you one month, thats right, one month of free advertising.

Some Rules

Obviously there are rules. Please read them carefully.

• No Pornography, foul language, hate speech, racists, gambling , or any site a child cannot browse allowed.
• I have the right to stop an ad campaign at my discretion.
• Ad sizes will be 160x160
• Your ads should be ready before hand as your ad campaign will start the following Monday.
• These rules will change and be added to in the future
• DM me at @robertbravery on either Twitter or Gatorpeeps if and when you participate
• You supply the ad and the back link address before the following Monday.
• The back link has to point to your blog and not some other third party website
• I will DM or email you if and when you have won the ad space. Make sure you are contactable

Let's get started

To start this off, I will be testing this idea and campaign out this week. So for the rest of this week, including this post the competition is open. Dm me if you want your comments to be included in the competition, particularly comments on this post. You're welcome to share this with your friends and fellow bloggers, I will accept any blogger into the competition, provide they have adhered to the rules above.

I will let you know at the end of next week how this idea panned out. Let’s work together, we can help each other. 

If you can't create an ad for your blog or don't have an ad, let me know. I can create one for you. Obviously at a price, but it won't be expensive or expansive.

So the best comment on this post will win the free 160x160 ad on my blog

Update:

The competition is working out great. I have some great comments. So far I have had 5 winners who have enjoyed over 50,000 views for their ads. So lets keep this going.

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