Daily Beam Blog

Let’s be honest, people who come to website to enter contests aren’t generally looking at the rest of the site – which is why this isn’t the best way to increase online traffic.

If you occasionally have contests and prizes, this isn’t a bad thing, but realize that your website is supposed to keep people on the site long enough to buy something – not just put their name into a drawing.

Sure it never hurts to collect email addresses, but it won’t do much to really increase online traffic. At least, not nearly as much as other strategies, like getting one-way and reciprocal links.