Why should I host a contest?

Regardless of what kind of blog or website that you have, hosting contest has always proven to deliver lot of benefits not just to the public, client or customer but to the organizer themselves. In this case, its you! Yes, you can host your own contest and no one in this world have the right to stop you from doing it. Below are some of the advantage that you will get when hosting a contest;

• Help you to get links and traffic.
• Build site authority.
• Increase publicity.
• Raise awareness of people on your web existence.
• Help you make important decision.

The good news is it doesn’t take a genius to host a contest. You can throw away some cash as winning prize if you can afford it but it is not a necessary factor. Good services or similar incentive will also do just fine. Its all up to you to decide on what to give. After all, its your contest! :).
If you’re considering starting your own promotion, there are several types of contest that can help you to get started:

Blog-based Contest

Blogging is among the most popular contest that you can find on the Internet. There are many types of contest but the main idea is normally to raise public awareness of your presence on the WWW. Here are some way for you to host a blog-based contest;

• Ask for review.
• Ask for blog comment.
• Subscribe to RSS Feed.

Ask other people to review about your site in their blog. This is an efficient way of advertising your website to reader/visitor of other peoples blog. As an added advantage you can ask contestant to include an anchor text that link back to your site. This will definitely increase your page ranking (PR) in the eye of Google’s search engine. Winner is normally decided based on best written review.

Asking for comment is another good example of blog-based contest. This simple contest method encourage your visitor to share their thoughts and views. Indirectly, this will create spark in your site as people normally prefer to support/debate whenever they see other people comments. Winner is normally decided based on most thoughtful comment.RSS Feedcount is what visitor typically seek when visiting a blog. The higher number you have for your RSS Feed subscriber, the better. This is based on generic assumption that you are producing a much better quality articles in your blog compared to other people. So good that you manage to attract certain number of fan subscribing to your blog post. Winner for this type of competition is normally decided through lucky draw.

Forum-based Contest

Building up a forum community is never an easy job. It even harder to recruit forum member especially if you are new. That where contest play an important role. Below is few type of contest that you can host for your forum.

• Referral contest
• Posting contest

Referral contest need a special built-in feature embedded in your forum. The idea is to award people who refer the most new member to your forum. Normally new member need to activate their account before they can be counted as a registered member.

There is another type of forum contest where winner is decided based on number of post that had been made within the forum. The goal is achieve quality posting and encouraging discussion among your forum members.

Submit Your Contest to eMenang Contest Blog

At this moment, we are charging RM25 per contest that is successfully published on our blog. You can also order a paid review of your site from us. You will receive a personal review with multiple links back to your site and any images you want included. A paid contest review cost RM50 per contest.

Normal Publish - Contest will be published on eMenang Contest Blog Section
Charge: RM25

Paid Review (Featured Contest) - Contest will be published on eMenang Contest Blog Section + Written review with multiple link back to site that is published on eMenang Main Page for 1 day + 30 days of link for your contest under Featured Contest section at middle column of eMenang.com for better visibility and exposure.
Charge: RM50

You can either email us the complete details of your contest or kindly send us the link(s) to the official contest web page. Contest details must contain below information:

• Contest Title
• Prize For Winner(s)
• Contest Deadline
• Contest Official Website/Url (Optional)
• Description (Brief Description Of Contest)

eMenang also is currently offering exclusive sponsorship ad units, served on the top, left & right sidebar. For more info on our attractive advertising package, please send an email to sha[at]emenang.com .

If you’re interested in securing a sponsorship ad or contest publishing, kindly send an email to Sha, admin[at]emenang.com. All payment for banner advertisement & contest publishing fee can be made using below options:

1. Maybank - Account No: 164258325448 (Account Holder: Noor Azlin Shah)
2. Paypal - Send your payment to Sha, admin[at]emenang.com

Feel free to contact us should you need further information.

Cheers!
Sha