How To Run Subscriber-Only Competitions on Your Blog

2010-06-08 0 min read Linux

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A Guest Post by David Cleland from TotalApps.

In 2006 I proudly started my first blog, DigMo! It was <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000003ac3a" title="Technology" rel="wikinvest" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/industry/Technology">technology, it was creativity, it was music and it was <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000000141ab" title="Education" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education">education. Despite it being a bit of blog soup I was pleased at how quick the site grew but within a few years it reached a critical point beyond which I really couldn’t get the traffic to grow. The site was frankly far too general to appeal to a specific community.