Want to know how to generate website traffic to your online business?

Running a contest to generate website traffic is one of the best fun strategies to create buzz for your site and generally a lot of traffic over the period of the contest. You will get backlinks from some of the contest sites for the duration of the contest, some longer, but the best backlinks come from visitors posting your contest in other forums, social sites, etc. to notify others of the contest.

By setting up your contest in a form of an internet scavenger hunt you’ll get more people excited about being part of the hunt because we all know that a scavenger hunt awaken the detective and adventurer within.

Hint: the better the prize you’re offering, the more beneficial running your contest is, and the more buzz you’ll have.

How an Internet Scavenger Hunt strategy can generate website traffic to your online business?

An internet scavenger hunt is a reciprocal link hunt where all blogs or sites participating will have to link back to the hunt page for the duration of the hunt. They should all put a reciprocal graphic or text link to the internet scavenger hunt page on your site.

This is how you’ll generate website traffic by implementing this strategy:

• Visitors are asked to visit the website where the Internet Scavenger Hunt is held.

• They should visit 10 sites where they’ll find an answer to one of the 10 questions…Then

• They go back to the site where the hunt is held, they fill the form with their contact information and the answers to the 10 questions.

• All participants who answers all of the 10 questions correctly qualifies to have their names entered for a big draw prizes

• Every participant will receive free ebooks, reports or videos etc.

• A random draw from all entries will be held at midnight on a specified date to determine the winners.

What’s the benefit of holding an Internet Scavenger Hunt to generate website traffic?

Visitors must visit different sites; they must read the content in every web page to find the correct answer to each question in other to win the prize.

This will lead to new visitors coming to your site. They’ll discover your voice, your valuable content and you may win a new targeted subscriber and follower that really like what you have to offer.

Four Simple Action Steps to generate website traffic to your online business using the Internet Scavenger Hunt strategy:

Step 1. Invite 5 to 10 blogs or website to participate in your hunt:

You need to have 5 to 10 sites participating in your hunt and each one should provide you with 1 question and answer that is related to your niche (target market).

Step 2. Create a form where you’ll put all the 5 to 10 questions:

Your visitors should visit 5 to 10 websites and look for the answers to 5 to 10 different questions. You have to create a form on a web page and put each question in the form with a link to a page that holds the answer.

The links will open new pages, so that your visitors can find the answers without leaving your hunt page. Your visitors will type their answers in the form as they find them. They must answer all of the questions in order to submit them.

Step 3. Don’t forget to collect their emails:

Your visitors must enter their email when submitting their internet scavenger hunt answers. You need their email address to send them their free gifts and to notify them if they are the winner of the draw.

Step 4. Ask all participants to promote the Hunt

You should promote the hunt yourself on www.twitter.com, www.contestalley.com, www.craigslist.com, facebook, and other social sites you belong too to generate website traffic to your hunt page, and also encourage each blog/website participating in your hunt to do the same. This does take some effort, but it is well worth it to generate web traffic to your contest.

Five key points to a successful Internet Scavenger Hunt Implementation and increase web traffic to your business:

1 - Ask the blog/sites participating to offer to anyone who participates in the hunt a prize or a related mini-ebook/video or report.

Remind them that, viral ebooks/report and video can spread the word about their site to people they wouldn’t otherwise reach.

2 - The participants’ sites do not have to be about the same niche as your own site, but they do need to offer a page that would be of interest to your readers/subscribers and followers. The best thing is to find complementary blogs and/or websites.

3 – Ask your participating blogs and/or websites to choose a specific page on their sites that they would most like to get visitors to. Remind them that they want visitors to come back to theirs sites, so they should choose an outstanding page that visitors will want to visit after the hunt.

4 – Your participants’ most wanted result is having visitors to remember them and their site even months after the hunt ends. So, ask participating blogs and/or websites to send you one strategic question that will result in one or two word answer (5 words max). The question should be easy (you want people to complete the hunt not to get stuck).

In other words…if visitors find the answer on your site to a question they’ve been wanting an answer to, they will remember you.

5- Don’t forget to have a page where you’ll state all the rules of your contest, and put a link to that page at the bottom of the form.

Have as much fun as you can when setting and promoting your first hunt!

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P.S. The “Internet Scavenger Hunt Strategy” can dramatically increase web traffic to your business.  So don’t miss implementing it. And when you’re done, come back to my blog and share your successful results!