Comments on: 5 Reasons Why No One is Entering Your Giveaways

By: Becca

Becca

I like this post a lot though. I have to admit that I care a lot less about blog design though than clarity in entering. If I don't get what to do or the English is too bad, I can't get away quickly enough!

By: Eve

Eve

Great list!
here are mine

1) your site takes forever to load
2)a difficult or time consuming mandatory entry
3) annoying captchas

****also this is the opposite of what you posted but I tend to stay away from entering giveaways on blogs with too many entrants. You know the ones that will get 800 comments for a cereal giveaway. Unless the prize is REALLY good, I don't bother.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten

Ha, this is great, I love it! So true!
I'd like to add 1 more:
They don't know if they can. Drives me nuts when they don't say if it's US only, US and Canada, etc. As a Canadian, I know many aren't open to me, but it's even more frustrating to not know. And if I don't find it on the giveaway post, I always go looking for general giveaway rules somewhere on the blog, so it's not that I'm not looking hard enough. I don't mind having to go looking for it either as long as there is something to look for :)

By: ohkeeka

ohkeeka

Ha! I love this. I've just started my blog (kicked it off with a $50 Amazon giveaway, natch), so I'm definitely not an expert, but hideous blogs are a pet peeve of mine. So many are completely over-designed and they take for-freaking-ever to load (especially when the busy background, images, fonts are combined with massive amounts of buttons and ads–yikes!). And the "comment 10 times if you do an Alexa review, 20 times if Tweet a picture of yourself doing a handstand in your kitchen" type entries really bother me too–and they always seem to be on those blogs that take 10 minutes to load. I would rather swim through a pool of rusty butterknives than comment 20 times to enter a contest for something I could buy for $5!

Oops, sorry for ranting. I guess you touched a nerve. 🙂 Love your blog, BTW.

By: Cindy

Cindy

#3 and #5, especially. What on earth is with the four thousand font colors and pages that take a year and a half to load? There are some blogs I won't even go near. I don't care how awesome the prize is. I'm entering giveaways for fun, and strained eyeballs are not fun! I also don't want to do a dozen things to win a prize. Keep it simple!