In my personal experiences, I had say YES as many of my friends are running blogs and they had good experiences by running competitions on the blogs. By embroiling competitions on your blogs in your busy blog posts schedule, you generate a reader interest and they tend to get little excited in your blogs. Giving away free stuff on the blogs are surely going to get your readers hooked on to your blog for more than the usual period. This helps in creating goodwill for your blog and also getting some loyal readers to the blog. In over 5 years of my career in blogging world, I have realized one important thing that a change in your usual routine does attracts more attention from the readers. The best thing that works is to keep your contest SIMPLE AND CLEAR. The contests are the best thing to bring a success in your readership quotient. Running contests means creating common interests for your readers. The excitement would stay on your blog, till the time span of the contest and there by  [...]

Bloggers have always been misinterpreted or rather they misinterpret the way blogging cycle works. The famous blogging networks are earning well so they can well check with different settings on their blogging networks like the common question troubling most of the bloggers today is the design of their blog - whether their blog article should be fully visible on the homepage or it should be just a partial post. Both the arguments have equal amounts of choices people make so it’s surely a win-win situation for both the people who choose to show partial posts or full posts on their home page. Any blogger would love to see more traffic on their blogs but it does not happen overnight as it requires due patience and knowing what your readers want to read on your blogs. The big question is whether people should be using more tags or should display the whole article on their homepage. Even if you had been not using more tags all this while, I am sure you would have surely come across them  [...]