Blog Actions
Blog actions reward entrants for commenting on a post, writing a post of their own, or subscribing to your RSS feed.
Blogs have readers of varying ranges of technical competence, from running thousands of contests across blogs we've found that readers really appreciate good instructions.
This will mean the difference between someone completing an action without actually leaving a comment and someone actually commenting.
Here's a good example of instructions from one of our first beta testers that gets great results from blog comments:
Ask entrants to comment on any blog post, on your blog or someone else's. You'll need a way to check the comment exists, so ask for the name they commented under.
Validation: Manual
Set the Title, choose an answer for How will you verify they commented?, and add any Instructions.
Ask entrants to write a blog post about a topic you choose. We ask them for the post's URL so you can check it before picking a winner.
Validation: Manual
Set the Title and the Question entrants answer, and add any Instructions.
Entrants have to submit the URL of a post, not just a domain. We look for at least one path after the domain (like yoursite.com/blog-post).
Ask entrants to subscribe to an RSS feed. Add your feed's URL under RSS Feed and we show a Subscribe to Feed button in the instructions. You can use one feed per action.
Validation: onClick
