[Blaine Moore]

Well, it's been about a month, and the contest coincided with a nice spike in traffic. About a week before I began the contest, my traffic started going up anyway, and I was pretty active promoting the site during that time. I manage to about double my daily average traffic, and most of that has stuck around despite not being overly active for 2 or 3 weeks due to the inevitable responsibilities outside of the internet world.

Not too bad, though. The person who won the contest wound up being an underclassmen on my old college team, so he wrote on his site that he thought it was fixed. Little did he know that I was very fair with my awarding the book, and that I'd actually been rooting for the woman that is going to officiate at my wedding to win the copy of the book. Heh.

Not a lot of actual submissions, but a lot of people looking at the post. It was worth the $20 or so I spent on it, I'd say. My site is not very well monetized right now so I didn't come close to getting that back from it, but I'm still getting between 50% and 100% of the traffic on top of what I had coming two months ago.

I need to find a contest I can run that will cost a bit less. Like somebody offering to give books away through my site with me just brokering the winners to the producer. That'd be nice.