13 ways to promote your blog giveaway
I don’t like to unnecessarily spend money on my blog if it can be avoided. So I’ve complied my 13 ways to promote your blog giveaway for free here.
Running a giveaway on your blog is undoubtedly a great way to get traffic. Some of my most popular posts have been giveaways. I try now to run at least two a month and it means I get regular returning visits of people checking out my latest giveaways.
However it isn’t as easy as setting up your gleam widget, plonking it on your blog and hoping people will organically find it. It takes a lot of promotion.
I use social oomph to promote my blog giveaway, I tend to use the hashtags #win #competition #prize and #giveaway. Scheduling the tweet once every eight hours for the duration of the giveaway. I also use #winitwednesday and #freebiefriday when I can remember!
I don’t always use Instagram to promote my giveaways. However if it is something that with photograph really well then I will. I will only post it once. These are the most popular hashtags for giveaways I’ve found
#competition #giveaway #giveawaycontest #giveaways #win #freebies #freebiesfriday #freebie #instawin #instagiveaway #prize
Then I would also tag with relevant descriptions of the prize and the usual #lifestyleblogger tags I use.
You can join some groups to promote your giveaways.
Mummy and Daddy bloggers. You just add your link to the pinned competitions and giveaways thread.
Linkies
Other sites to promote a blog giveaway
Money saving expert – you can’t upload your own giveaways, but if you can get someone else to do it for you you. It sends lots of traffic. I often find this is the best referral site.
Do you have any other great free tips to promote your blog giveaway? Share them and I’ll add them to my list.
Another one to add which I find gets me the most referral traffic for giveaways – Competition Database…it is such a gem! Thanks for linking up to #coolmumclub xoxo
I hadn’t heard of that one. Thanks I’ll go check it out now 🙂
I’ve not really delved into giveaways, but I’ll deffo be coming back here when I do! #stayclassymama
Thanks for that now I need to find some brands for giveaways:)
#ablogginggoodtime
Good luck 🙂
I’ve been wondering about how else to promote giveaways! Bloggers required I didn’t know about, thank you x
#Coolmumclub
My pleasure 🙂
These are great tips, giveaways are brill especially when they get the right exposure! Thanks so much for sharing with #Blogstravaganza xx
my pleasure
This is really, really helpful and useful. Thank you for sharing X #blogstravaganza
My pleasure
Popping back for #Blogstravaganza, thanks for linking up x
This is a very comprehensive list. Thank you for sharing with #StayClassyMama
I did a similar post to this a few months ago – so nice to share tips. Thanks also for featuring lucky linky.
thanks for linking to #ablogginggoodtime
Yes, I love reading tips posts from other bloggers. So I thought I’d share some of mine 🙂
Wow this is a great and very comprehensive resource. I’ll definitely save this for later. #TheListLinky
Glad it could be of service 🙂
I use Loquax to find giveaways. All the giveaways are posted to the forum by Loquax members or by the giveaway host / blogger. It’s fairly simple to add a new competition using the special input form, which has self-explanatory fields such as Site, Prize and Closing date, as well as icons you can select to show whether the competition runs on FB, TW or Instagram, uses Rafflecopter, Gleam, and so on.
These are all great ideas. I’ve never done a blog giveaway before but I would like to do one someday soon! Maybe to celebrate a blogging milestone or something 🙂
Julia // The Sunday Mode