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An Ultimate Guide to Increase your Website Traffic in 2015

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What do you think that you'll publish a post on your blog and the comments and shares will start rolling in? No, you're wrong. Increasing website traffic has always been a major problem for Bloggers. Writing quality content is not enough. You've to spread the word all over the world. Without readers, a website is nothing. No matter how good and informative post you've published on your blog, if it isn't seen by readers. And the only way to get our posts read by people is to promote it everywhere you can. Recently, we shared some articles on increasing your website traffic and we got good response from our readers, so today again, we're going to share some proven strategies for increasing your website traffic. Here's An Ultimate Guide to Increase your Website Traffic in 2015.
An Ultimate Guide to Increase your Website Traffic in 2015

Be Social - Promote your Each Blog Post on Social Media

The Social Media Usage is increasing every year. Social media usage has increased in 2014, as compared to 2013 . People are using social media for both business and personal usage. Let's take an example of Facebook there are billions of active users on Facebook. So, if you share your website posts on Facebook, I think it would be great for you. Uh! I know what you're thinking now, that How is it possible to reach all those billions of people? It's impossible, I know. But there are hundreds of Facebook group having millions of members. So, just join those groups and share your posts on daily basis. You can get those groups by using Google.

Related: 8 Effective Ways to Generate Massive Traffic from Facebook

But remember, social media isn’t all about posting content, it’s more about engagement.  So, do post your content, Post Questions, Ask opinions, Do surveys and take the full benefit of social media.

Share More than Once a Day

Many of us have the mentality of sharing once and done. But that's not the right way. You publish a post, and share it just once, so what about those people who missed your post? Some people log in to their account daily, some people after 1-2 days, while some people on a weekly basis. So what about those people? That's why you should post more than once a day.

Okay consider you Publish one post on your website daily. After sharing that post on your social accounts, share your previous post after 5-6 hours and keep sharing your posts after a certain interval. Here's a simple Time Table for you:

You Published a Post Today! Share it --> Share it again after 2 days >> Share it again after a week and then share the same post after a Month.

But remember, don't get crazy about sharing. Yes, that's right! Don't behave like lazy people by sharing 15-20 times a day. The best way is to share 3-5 times a day and keep your followers busy. Enough said!

Extra Tip:
Share the same post more than once with different Unique and Catchy headlines. Share it with a quote, its title or write an interesting headline.

Participate in Communities Related to you Niche

Here's another killer tip to boost your traffic. Engaging with other bloggers is a great way to boost your traffic. Its a proven strategy and it helped me a lot in increasing my website traffic.

Also Read: Top 6 Blogging Communities to Promote your Blog

Lets take an example, you're a designer and imagine what would happen if hundreds of designers meet at one place? Obviously they will share their ideas and bla bla bla. Same in the case of blogging, if you join a blogging community, you'll meet other bloggers and all of you share your posts. In this way they'll visit your blog and its impossible that you wouldn't find some interesting posts written by other blogger.

Also Read: Boost your Blog Traffic and Authority with ViralContentBuzz

In this way, you can boost your traffic and engage with other bloggers. And thankfully, you don't need to spend a dime to figure out where a large portion of your audience can be found on the web. So participate in communities related yo your niche, engage with other bloggers and increase your website traffic.

Guest Posting

What is Guest Posting? Simply, guest posting is to write an article and submit it to a website that accept guest posts. If your post gets accepted, they'll publish your article on their website and in return you'll a backlink to your blog. Simple. Right!

Also Read: 7 Ways to Increase your Blog Traffic

Guest posting is one of the best ways for increasing your website traffic. Guest posting doesn't only help you in increasing your website traffic, it also sends you external links from those sites, and the more links your site gets, the better it will appear in search engine results.

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There are thousands of ways for increasing your website traffic. We just shared some important and effective ways in this post. A part of all above methods, focus on your content, write quality content and don't forget SEO.

What you think about the above methods? Let us know in the comments.

101 Ways to Increase Your Website Traffic

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Creating a blog is easy, but creating a successful blog is hard. What makes a blog successful? Obviously Traffic! But the problem is how to increase your website traffic. Lack of website traffic is one of the most common problems of bloggers. Traffic is the only thing where it all starts. No traffic means Nothing. There is no huge secret in increasing your website traffic. It all comes to passion, patience, hardwork, quality content and most important, the 101 Ways that we're going to share today.
101 Ways to Increase Your Website Traffic
So, if you just created a blog or you're struggling to increase your traffic then this article is going to be a great resource for you. There are thousand of ways that you can use for generating traffic.

Don't Forget to Read:

In this article, I am going to share 101 ways for increasing your website traffic. I hope you find it useful.

Get Social

  1-  Share your Posts on Facebook
  2-  Create a Facebook Page for your Blog
  3-  Link your Blog on your Page and Share your blog posts on your Facebook page
  4-  Tweet your Posts - Tweet your posts when you publish them on your Blog
  5-  Join Facebook Groups - Join Facebook Groups related to your niche
  6-  Create your Own Facebook Group
  7-  Share your Posts on Google Plus
  8-  Share your Posts on Triberr
  9-  Join Google Plus communities and share your posts
  10-  Comment on other Blogs
  11-  Join Reddit and Share your Posts on Reddit
  12-  Submit your Blog Posts to StumbleUpon
  13-  Build an Email Subscriber List
  14-  Add Social Sharing buttons to your Blog
  15-  Let your Visitors easily share your Blog Posts
  16-  Join Blogging Communities - Top Blogging Communities
  17-  Submit your Posts to Blogging Communities and interact with other bloggers
  18-  Sign up for feedburner
  19-  Add RSS Feed button to your Blog
  20-  Reply to Comments on your Blog
  21-  Reply to all emails you receive
  22-  Join LinkedIn and link to your Blog
  23-  Share your Content on LinkedIn
  24-  Join Pinterest and Add your blog to your profile
  25-  Pin images of other websites
  26-  Interact with your Readers
  27-  Join Digg - Create a Digg account and submit your posts to Digg
  28-  Collaborate with other Bloggers

Content is King

  29-  Write interesting and catchy Headlines/Post Titles
  30-  Write Quality Content
  31-  Improve your Writing Skills
  32-  Post Consistently
  33-  Include images in your Posts
  34-  Add a Pinterest Pin button to Images
  35-  Create a Top 10 Posts List
  36-  Create a Top 100 Posts List
  37-  Use Link Building strategies to Boost your Traffic
  38-  Avoid Grammar Mistakes
  39-  Write like Professionals
  40-  Publish Guest Posts
  41-  Submit Content to Article Directories
  42-  Start Guest Blogging - Write articles and submit them on other top websites
  43-  Improve your Posts SEO
  44-  Write about trending topics
  45-  Optimize your Existing Posts

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

  46-  Make your Blog SEO Friendly
  47-  Use keywords in your Post Title
  48-  Make Use of Trackbacks
  49-  Search for Keywords using Google Keyword Planner
  50-  Use Long Tail keywords
  51-  Include Post tags
  52-  Optimize Permalinks
  53-  Optimize your Robots.txt file
  54-  Add Alt Text and Title Text to Images
  55-  Improve your Site Speed
  56-  Interlink your Blog Posts
  57-  Install SEO Plugins
  58-  Write unique Meta Descriptions
  59-  Use Headings (h1, h2, h3 h4 tags)
  60-  Submit your Blog to Google Webmasters
  61-  Submit your Blog to Bing tools
  62-  Submit your Sitemap to Google and Bing
  63-  Publish articles with Infographics - Easel.ly Infographics

Blog Design

  64-  Choose a Unique Template for your Blog
  65-  Optimize your Template
  66-  Make your Blog Navigation Easy
  67-  Add widgets like Popular Posts, Most Commented Posts etc.
  68-  Add Related Posts widget to your Blog
  69-  Add Social Sharing buttons to your Blog
  70-  Make your Template Responsive
  71-  Optimize your blog for Mobile Devices
  72-  Add a Search Box to your Blog

Paid Methods

  73-  Google Adwords
  74-  Direct Advertising
  75-  Facebook Ads
  76-  Banner Advertising
  77-  Sponsored Reviews

Other Miscellaneous Ways

  78-  Add your Blog to Alltop
  79-  Yahoo Answers - Answer questions on yahoo answers related to your niche
  80-  Quora Answers - Answer questions on Quora
  81-  Add your Blog to Technorati
  82-  Add your Blog to top directories
  83-  Ping your Website after Publishing a Post
  84-  Add a Sitemap to your Blog
  85-  Create a FAQ Page
  86-  Interview other Bloggers
  87-  Create a Series of Posts
  88-  Create a separate Contact and About Page
  89-  Write an impressive About Us page
  90-  Increase conversion rates
  91-  Decrease your Bounce rate by creating a special Landing Page
  92-  Run Giveaways
  93-  Organize Competitions
  94-  Join Online Forums
  95-  Create a Forum on your Website
  96-  Install Google Analytics and keep an eye on your Traffic
  97-  Link to your Blog in your email signature
  98-  Use Bookmarking Websites like Delicious
  99-  Tell your Friends about your Blog
  100-  Ask your Friends to Promote your Posts
  101- Ask your Friends to Share your blog link on their Profiles

Final Words

There are thousands of methods for increasing your Blog traffic. We just shared some of them. Remember, If you want to achieve something then you've to do hardwork. Same is the case with blogging, to make your blog successful, do hardwork, be passionate and determined, write killer content, share it everywhere you can, focus on your blog SEO and don't give up.

If you’ve got your own tips for increasing traffic, I’d love to hear them.
What’s your favorite technique for increasing traffic? Let us know in the comments section below.

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5 Reasons You'll Quit Blogging Within 3 Months

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In a recent study about 80-90% bloggers quit blogging in first 2-4 months. Now a days starting a blog is child's play. You can start your blog with just few clicks but taking it to the next level is not easy. 90% of bloggers start their blog for money, thinking that the blogging is the easiest way of making money.
5 Reasons You'll Quit Blogging Within 3 Months
People get motivated by reading others success stories that they are getting thousand of dollars monthly from their blogs. After reading their stories people think that blogging is the easiest way of making money. But they don't know that Blogging is not a simple job. Actually blogging is a form of art. If you want to start a successful career in blogging then its important that first you learn its basics.

So, today in this article we'll discuss 5 reasons, why you'll quit blogging within 3 months.

1- Looking for Quick Money

About 80% people start blogging for money and 60% of them are students. You think that blogging is the easiest way for making money but that's not true. You are only motivated by money. I don't say that it's impossible to make money blogging but you have to work very hard.

However, just like any other Business, blogging also requires a lot of hard work and time, which most bloggers don’t understand. They get motivated by reading others success stories. After writing content for 2-3 months, they get disappointed that they're not getting money and they Quit Blogging.

Tip:  Getting money from blogging is not easy and its also not impossible. So if you want to become a successful blogger then work hard and never give up.

2- Passionless

It needs passion to do every work. You started blogging for money and you're not passionate. You're writing on topics in which you're interested. If you're writing on topics in which you're not interested then I guarantee that you'll quit within the first 3 months of blogging.

So, don't be passionless, write on those topics in which you're interested, do hardwork and once again never give up.

"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in" - Louise Brown
 

3- Lack of Knowledge

Most of the people think that there is no knowledge required for blogging. They think that starting a blog is easy, yes it is: You can start a blog with just a few clicks, but taking it to the next level and getting traffic isn't easy.

Without knowledge, nothing is possible and without knowing the hurdles associated with blogging, making a blog successful is impossible. Most of the bloggers start their blogging career without any real knowledge about it and they end up doing nothing.

Tip: So if you want to start a successful career in blogging then first of all learn its basics >> start your blog and share what you've learned in your own style.

4- Wrong Niche

Mostly, people choose a blogging niche associated with lots of money instead of their interest or hobby. They don't have enough knowledge about that niche. They think they would somehow be able to add lots of quality content to their blog, but they're wrong. Due to lack of knowledge they start copying and rewriting articles from other blogs. When they realize that they're in wrong niche, they quit.

Tip: Choose a niche in which you're interested and you've knowledge about it. If you've knowledge about your niche, only then you'll be able to write quality content.

5- Giving Up Too Quickly

This is the biggest reason why bloggers quit blogging. Most of the bloggers are too much fed up in the first 2 months that they finally come to a point that I Quit. They write 40-50 posts in the first 1-2 months and when they see that their traffic is not increasing they Quit.

Its impossible to get thousands of daily visitors in just one month. You can't make a blog successful by just writing 1 or 4 posts daily, but you also have to promote them to different networks like Facebook, Google Plus, Reddit etc.

At last I would say that never give up. Do hardwork, write quality content, from your first day of blogging write like professionals and improve your writing skills.

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18 Reasons Why Newbie Bloggers Quit Blogging

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Thousands of blogs are created everyday but only a few succeed and the rest fails. Have you ever wondered that why most of the bloggers fails at blogging. About 90% of bloggers quit blogging in the first 6 months.

Why does this happen? Why do newbie bloggers fail in taking their blog to the next level? Mostly newbies start blogging for making money. They think that blogging is the easiest way of making money, but they're wrong.
18 Reasons Why Newbie Bloggers Quit Blogging
Starting a blog is easy, with services like Blogger, Wordpress etc. you can start your own blog within 3-4 minutes but getting traffic/visitors to your blog and taking it to success requires lots of hardwork, writing skills and a great deal of time. Another major problem of newbies is that they want to make thousands of dollars within 2-3 months. Newbies get motivated by reading others success stories and they start blogging without knowing the fact that how much time and effort it takes to make a blog successful.

Why Newbies fails and quit blogging within a span of 3-6 months? Here are some of the most common reasons why newbies fail:

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18 Reasons Why Newbie Bloggers Quit Blogging

1- Impatience - Blogging takes time and patience. Its not possible to get 1,000,000 traffic in just 2 months.

2- Lack of Motivation - You're not motivated.

3- Lack of Interest - People think that blogging is a kids play but they're wrong. You can start a blog with just a few clicks but getting traffic is the worst part.

4- Passionless - It needs passion to do every work. Newbies do blogging just for money, they're not passionate. And when they are unable to get success they quit Blogging.

5- Wrong Niche - Many newbies fail because they choose a niche which is associated with lots of money, instead of their interests or hobby. They don't have enough knowledge about their niche, which leads them to failure.

6- Running too many Blogs - Mostly, newbies create too many blogs, tech blog, design blog, personal blog bla bla bla. Running too many blogs once is really hard and requires a great deal of time, so they get bored of it and quit blogging.

7- Looking for Quick Money - Newbies think that blogging is the easiest way for making money. They get motivated by reading others success stories. Newbies don't understand that blogging is not a kids play, like all other business, blogging also requires time, experience and hardwork.

8- Not having Good Topics - While starting a blog people think that writing and publishing posts is easy, and they would somehow be able to add lots of quality content to their blog. They do research for finding content but after 3-4 months they become frustrated and at last BYE BYE BLOGGING :(

9- Blog Promotion - Newbies only focus on publishing posts on daily basis, not on promoting their posts. Without promotion getting traffic is impossible.

10- Lack of Time - Blogging requires a great deal of time, but newbies are unaware, they think that they can write unique and quality content in just 10-20 minutes. As a result --> They write Poor Content >> Zero Traffic >> Okay I Quit.

11 - Lack of Writing Skills - Newbies just write articles and publish them daily but they never pay attention to their writing skills. After a few months they realize it and quit blogging thinking that only writers can do blogging.

12- I'm the King - Thinking that blogging is just about publishing content, newbies only focus on publishing articles. They think that learning is a waste of time so they use the Copy-Paste formula and lost their traffic.

13- Giving Up Too Quickly - The biggest reason why newbies fail is that they give up quickly within a span of 2-4 months.

14- Giving more Attention to Stats - Instead of focusing on their goals newbies pay more attention to their pageviews and worry about it.

15- No Keyword Research - Newbies do a big mistake of writing posts without keyword research. Writing posts without proper keyword research, decreases the chances of your blog appearance in the search results.

16- SEO Problem - SEO is important for getting higher ranking in search results but newbies don't pay attention to it.

18- Terrible Blog Design - Design is another issue, newbies design their blog poorly. Imagine if you land on a poorly designed blog, would you like to surf it? Probably not. So, if your blog is poorly designed then other people will do the same.

Conclusion 

My advice to new bloggers is that, do hardwork and never give up. If you want to become a professional blogger then you should avoid these mistakes. Blogging is not easy, it requires lots of time, hardwork, passion and skills too. Choose the topic in which you're interested. Before you start your career in blogging, learn its basics. From your first day of blogging write like professionals and improve your writing skills.

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How to Optimize Images for Higher Search Engine Rankings

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Just like all other blog optimizations, optimizing your blog images is also important. You may not realize, but images can generate massive traffic to your blog. Images can generate massive traffic to your blog through search engines. About 70% bloggers optimize their blogs, not their images, but believe me optimizing your blog images is really handy. Millions of people use search engines for searching images, so if your images are optimized correctly then its obvious that the images will drive traffic to your blog. Poor image SEO can lead to poor indexing and Google search engine rankings. Search engines uses crawlers or internet spiders, by optimizing your images correctly you give them ability to understand your image and if your image is not optimized then the crawlers may move on. Your site is full of images so, don't miss out easy SEO opportunities and optimize your images. Today in this article we'll show you that How to Optimize Images for Higher Search Engine Rankings.
How to Optimize Images for Higher Search Engine Rankings

Optimize your Alt Text/Tags

Simply an Alt Tag is an HTML attribute which is used to define an image. Alt tag plays an important role in your Images SEO. Search engines use robots for searching images but these robots can't read images. Therefore by adding an alt tag to an image we give them ability to understand the image. Alt tag will help robots to understand that image and in result you image will be visible in search engines results. So an alt tag is important for making an image searchable.

File/Image Name

File/Image name is the second important factor which depends on your image SEO. Including alt tag, search engines also crawl your image name. So, your image name should be descriptive and should contain all important keywords. If you want to see this in action, then do a sample search and click an image from the top. You will see that the image name have almost all the keywords you searched. For example, if your image/file name is blackcar.jpg, but it would be much better if your change its name with its all other details like black-lamborghini-aventador.jpg. This simple tip will help your website and images rank highly.

Reduce Image Size

Yes, the size of image matters. You know that the page load time matters for SEO. This is possible by using the correct file format. Don't use GIF file format, use PNG instead of it because PNG is about 25% smaller than the same GIF file, or can also use JPEG format. But remember, while optimizing an image you want the image dimensions as big as possible and its size as small as possible. By using programs like Skitch and Image Optimizer you can easily adjust the dimensions while keeping the file size small. So, always keep an eye on your image size while uploading it.

Wrap Content

Another way for optimizing an image is to wrap content around it. When you add an image, wrap content around it, at the top of the image or at the bottom. The more text related to image around it the better it is for you. Not only keywords are important but make sure that it makes sense.

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Optimizing an image hardly takes 2-3 minutes but it's really handy. If you spend hours and hours writing a perfect post, then don't miss out the chance to optimize your image for higher seacrh engine rankings. Use these simple SEO techniques and you'll see a great improvement in your ranking. Share this article with your friends and don't forget to subscribe us!

Important SEO Elements for Your Blog Posts

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Due to Google algorithm updates and some other factors, it becomes necessary to keep an eye on your blog/website SEO. SEO(Search Engine Optimization) is a process on the basis of which your blog/website appears in search results. The earlier, and more frequently a site appears in the search results, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users, and all this depends on SEO. So, if you want your blog/website on the first page of search results then its important that you keep an eye on your posts SEO. Here's  some important SEO factors to keep an eye on while optimizing your blog posts.

1- Post Title

A good post title makes your post different from others. Post titles change the density of your posts. Search Engines, RSS feed, archive pages etc. these are the places where your post title appears. The main purpose of a title is to grab attention and entice people to start reading your post. So, make sure that your title is clear, contains all important keywords and makes a perfect sense.

2- Post URL

Just like Post Title, Post URL is also an important SEO factor for your posts. Every blog post has its own URL. A perfect URL is necessary to easily get indexed by search engines for their search results. It is important that your URL's are understandable by search engines. Wordpress, blogger and other top platforms uses your post title in your URL, which is really handy.

3- Image Alt Tags

An Alt tag is actually a HTML attribute which defines an image. Without an Alt tag search engines have no idea about your image. Without an Alt tag your image will not be visible to search engines. Search engines use robots that cannot read an image/video. Therefore, by adding an alt tag we give them ability to understand that image. So its important to add alt tags to your post images. If you don't know about adding alt tags, read this article How to Add Alt Tag to Images in Blogger.

4- Headings

Just like all above factors, headings also has an important role in your posts SEO. Headings are used to represent different sections of your content and it has a great impact on both the SEO and usability of your site. So, using heading in your posts is good for SEO.

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By keeping some important SEO factors in mind while writing posts and can start a successful career in blogging. We hope this article may have helped you in learning some important SEO element for posts. Share this article with your friends and don't forget to subscribe us. Good Luck!

How to Stop Blogger Country Specific Redirection

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Blogger uses Country specific domain redirection that changes your blog URL according to your visitor country. For example, if your blog address is yourblog.blogspot.com and someone is visiting your blog from canada, he will be redirected to yourblog.blogspot.ca instead of yourblog.blogspot.com and if someone is visiting your blog from Italy then he will be redirected to yourblog.blogspot.it.
How to Stop Blogger Country Specific Redirection
Why you Should Stop Blogger Country Specific Redirection? The answer is simple, it will effect your alexa ranking and your pagerank too, due to different URL's. This redirection is called Country Specific Redirection or "country-code Top Level Domain" (ccTLD). The blogs with custom domains are not affected by this method. About 20 countries are affected by this redirection. Today in this tutorial we'll show you that How to Stop Blogger Country Specific Redirection.

How to Stop Blogger Country Specific Redirection

First for foremost go to Blogger.com and Log in to your account. Select a Blog >> Template >> Edit HTML and search for the <head> tag. Now copy(Ctrl + C) the following piece of code and paste(Ctrl + V) it just below/after <head> tag.

<script type='text/javascript'>
      var blog = document.location.hostname;
      var slug = document.location.pathname;
      var ctld = blog.substr(blog.lastIndexOf("."));
      if (ctld != ".com") {
        var ncr = "http://" + blog.substr(0, blog.indexOf("."));
        ncr += ".blogspot.com/ncr" + slug;
        window.location.replace(ncr);
      }
    </script>

Hit the Save Template button and you're done.

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Top 3 Giveaway Generators to Create and Run Giveaways

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With the passage of time, the blogosphere is getting bigger and better. Thousands of blogs are created daily with millions of competitors. People are still finding it difficult to promote their blog to increase their traffic, people use their own different techniques to promote their blog. Some of them use Blogging Communities, Commenting while some of them use Social Media. But the truth is that none of these methods could take your blog to the chasm. One of the best ways to promote your blog is to start a free contest or giveaway, through this service we can offer free gifts to our readers by doing some simple jobs like sharing our blog on social media, commenting on our blog and etc. These contests makes our readers to revisit our blog again and again. Today in this article, we are going to share some top Sites to create and run giveaways easily and for free.

1. Gleam

Gleam provides beautiful and stylish generators for your blog. Its easy to use and no coding is requires. All it takes is just 5 Minutes and your generator is ready. Embed the code and see it working live on your blog.
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2. Rafflecopter

Rafflecopter is just like gleam and easy to use. All you've to do is Create your Generator >> Embed the Code and you're done.
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3- PromoSimple

PromoSimple provides both free and premium entry forms. You can easily customize your forms and no coding or skills are required for creating a generator.
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