October Giveaway Winner Week 2

Thank you to everyone for promoting and participating in last week's giveaway. The winner of the $75 prize is Anne Marie. Congratulations!

Review of 2nd giveaway:

This week I did a little experiment and did not list the giveaway on online-sweepstakes.com. The results were significantly fewer visits and page views.

(Visits) [Page views]

0. Week before any giveaways (736)  [2,194]
1. Week of first giveaway (996)  [3,295]
2. Week of second giveaway (776)  [2,416]

So there was still some growth from week 0 to week 2, but there was a definite spike in week 1 when the giveaway was listed on online-sweepstakes. In week 1's giveaway, I only gave away $25. Week 2 we gave away $75.

I think that more people helped promote the giveaway in week 2 (thanks Yakezie folk!), but it seemed like fellow Yakezie folk weren't too interested in entering. It would have been an easy prize too, since we only have 28 entries this week, versus 174 entries the first week. I think that I also did more work commenting on a wide variety of blogs the first week. The second week was very busy at work, with some late nights, so not much opportunity to attract traffic through commenting.

The third giveaway will be announced tomorrow, on Monday. We'll be giving away $75 again, thanks to some more awesome sponsors. I will be listing the giveaway on some more giveaway sites this time, since I think the added traffic affects my ratings, even if they don't stick around to become readers.

I would also like to use rafflecopter this week, since I have seen some other folks using it on their giveaways, and it looks pretty spiffy.

Related posts:

1. First anniversary giveaway results – week one
2. October Give Away Week 2
3. Giveaway – First Anniversary of Accountant By Day