Comments on: Will you fix your contest for me to win?

By: jess

jess — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:20:44 +0000

i once worked for a company full of mom bloggers awhile back, they were actually taking the giveaway items. when the giveaway ended, they would just e-mail the company participating in the giveaway and use a fake name with their real address to send prizes too. it’s ridiculous.

By: Shanda

Shanda — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:33:08 +0000

I was part of another website and one of the other bloggers would do that on our site and on another site. I couldn’t stand it..so I left. She would also email companies once she found out what they were sending each of us 4 mommies to review and ask them to send her the most expensive item. SHAMEFUL! I am glad there are honest bloggers out there. Shanda

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:21:21 +0000

Gosh. You have a bit of a family crisis and miss so much! Some people just LOVE the drama. *rolls eyes*.

By: karissa

karissa — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:15:55 +0000

but trisha isn’t your PEN NAME Catherine?

lol

and that was a joke everyone, since you can’t seem to get the facts straight to begin with I felt i needed to point out the obvious!

By: trisha

trisha — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:55:33 +0000

@ karissa:
ah! Well, i didnt write that article…do people not realize that momdot is actually a COMMUNITY contributed website by LOTS of submitting bloggers? I dont write the articles there… (as it does say CATHERINE on the author..)

Regardless, I dont see 2 people a day as “traffic”. LOL!

By: karissa

karissa — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:57:46 +0000

I think the @firefly was regarding contest sluts.

LOL.

By: Trisha-admin

Trisha-admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:34:32 +0000

@ Christy:
I think she @firefly on it? But it was kinda confusing cause it was so long.

By: Christy

Christy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:26:55 +0000

@ Christine Hoogwerf:
Do you bother READING anything before you jump to conclusions? In YOUR quote it says the post you’re talking about was “Written by Catherine on Tuesday, 07 July 2009 02:36″, yet you’re saying Trisha said she didn’t give a crap about OLS. Um… hello READ what you wrote!

By: Trisha-admin

Trisha-admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:14:06 +0000

@ Christine Hoogwerf:
I know your not directing that at me, since I didnt write that article. We publish 100s of articles written around the web by other bloggers.

And i haven’t called anyone a “contest slut”, lol!

The majority of our traffic is not actually contest traffic, as we don’t really run that many as it is, nor are we (as in alicia, bridgette, kim and I collectively) review bloggers.

When we ran contests, we maybe received 20-30 a day on average from contest sites, but since we see over 3000 people a day on our site, as you can tell, its not mainly from contests, its due to content and SEO.

We actually recently moved all contests over to the forums so only active members can win, which works better for our site.

I am not speaking for any other blogger that submits content and am not speaking for any other blogger.

Sincerely,

~Trisha

PS 134 entries in 9 weeks isnt a lot of traffic, thats TWO people a day…just saying.

By: Christine Hoogwerf

Christine Hoogwerf — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:44:14 +0000

@ Firefly:
Kinda funny you are on OLS bashing us as contest sluts and you don’t need our traffic….as stated in these posts you left on OLS.

http://forums.online-sweepstakes.com…&postcount=139
http://forums.online-sweepstakes.com…&postcount=141
http://forums.online-sweepstakes.com…&postcount=147
http://forums.online-sweepstakes.com…&postcount=151
http://forums.online-sweepstakes.com…&postcount=154
http://forums.online-sweepstakes.com…&postcount=156
http://forums.online-sweepstakes.com…&postcount=174

but then you tell other bloggers where they can post their contests to get the most traffic and OLS is the top listed place where you got most of your entries.

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From MomDot:

http://www.momdot.com/resources/17-b…your-giveaways

Best Places to Promote your Giveaways
Written by Catherine on Tuesday, 07 July 2009 02:36

The majority of my giveaway entries come from being promoted on Twitter, my loyal followers or from my Facebook Frugal Freebies fan page. (Thanks!)But I also have been posting the giveaways on other sites that offer to help promote giveaways. I decided to create a Giveaway spreadsheet [click picture to enlarge], to get an idea where most of my giveaway entries were coming from – since there are so-o many places you could promote a giveaway, and only so much time in a day!

Then I made one of the ways to enter – to tell me where they heard about the giveaway. After nine weeks of keeping score, here are the top twelve best places to promote your giveaway:

#1 – 134 entries from Online Sweepstakes

#2 – 44 entries from Contest Girl

#3 – 40 entries from Prizey.net

#4 – 25 entries from Sweepstakes Advantage

#5 – 20 entries from Mom Giveaways

#6 – 15 entries from Ultimate Blog Carnival

#7 – 14 entries from Sweetie’s Sweeps

#8 – 15 entries from Big List of Giveaways

#9 – 13 entries from Mom Advice/Mother Load

#10 – 10 entries from Deal Seeking Mom

#11 – 10 entries from PRIZE-A-TRON

#12 – 8 entries from Cancontests

Ironic you say in your ols posts that ‘contesters’ aren’t your main traffic, yet most of the places on this list ARE contest pages. So you USED ols to promote your blog, then get pissed when people enter.

that makes NO sense. You are TWO FACED go ahead and blacklist me.
I will NOT enter contests when you basically USE us and we don’t even have a chance to win (again as stated in YOUR posts on OLS)
So let me get this straight, the site is good enough to garner traffic to your site, but JUST that, you don’t really want ‘contest sluts’ entering.
TWO FACED