Thinking of running a giveaway campaign to increase readership - what is better, social media increase or something else? | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

As far as what social media is best, honestly try for all of them. But the method that I've had the best success with is Twitter. Although I've only done group giveaways and cannot give you any input for a single site one.

On a related note, I've read on blogging tip sites that giveaways themselves don't increase readership. Most people who join a giveaway do so for the prize and not so much for the content of the site.

However, they can be valuable as a means of increasing social media followers which can give your site a boost if you prominently display how many followers you have somewhere on your site.

For example, people think that your doing well if you have several thousand Twitter followers, but perhaps not so much if you only have a couple hundred.

This is only something that I've read and I have no experience with it. Hope this helps.

Great input guys, thanks!

I'm leaning towards twitter too, since with the new followers and RT potential I think the impact of blasting my new posts will be increased, whereas people on FB and Email might not care about the message, if I could gain say, 1000 followers and get a couple of future RT from them on new posts exposure would be a lot better than just a comment on FB or the post….

I guess it would be nice to get FB up too – so I could start posting the Stats, as that might be a good way to lend credibility as suggested.

Will think on it more, but appreciate your insights.

Thanks,

Matt