Comparing Sweepstakes Advantage to other similar sweepstakes directories or Blogs can be a big job. In this article we'll go over how SA compares. We'll also talk about some features that may not be well known. This is all in an effort for you to make an informed decision when starting a sweepstakes entry hobby.
Comparing Sweepstakes Advantage by Age
Sweepstakes Advantage is over 25 years old. The website was really started back in 1997 as a personal home page in the infancy of the internet. Back then there were a handful of websites around that listed sweepstakes. Most if not all are no longer online or have changed ownership multiple times. A few of these were Huronline, RagstoRiches & Loopynet. Anyone remember these? This makes Sweepstakes Advantage the longest running sweepstakes directory.
Comparing Sweepstakes Advantage by Total Sweepstakes Listed
Listings sweepstakes for a directory is a huge job. It takes know-how that comes from being involved with databases and editorial. You also have to know the sweepstakes terminology and some legal terms. Taking all of this into account, getting listings from discovery to production can be a lengthy process.
Sweepstakes Advantage averages over 200 sweepstakes, contests & giveaways listed per day, 7 days per week. During the holiday season the number can easily double due to the number of seasonal promotions increasing. Doing a comparison of the top 5 sweepstakes directories online this is almost doubles the 2nd closest directory by daily total. Amongst the top 5 directories, total sweepstakes listed over the weekend differed greatly.
Comparing Sweepstakes Advantage by Offering or Price
For this article we used readily available public info to discern price or options. This info is subject to change. Sweepstakes Advantage has a free and paid subscription offering. The paid website is called Sweepstakes Plus. Subscribers pay $60 per year for access to no-banner ad version of the free website which also allows full access to all sweepstakes categories/lists and tools.
Of the 5 websites compared only one to had a premium membership that costs $50 per year. There were many other websites to consider for this comparison but many of these were really in a blog reading format. For this reason they were not considered. We also took into consideration the age of other websites or blogs when comparing Sweepstakes Advantage. Some were too new or had technical issues that exempted the the comparison.
We also ran into some other websites or blogs who's owners or administrators were taking part in the same sweepstakes they were listing. The sweepstakes listed on Sweepstakes Advantage are to help our visitors win and are not meant to give an advantage to anyone except the visitors.
Comparing SA by Features
Sweepstakes Advantage has had a very long history of being the first to add features such as SweepsCheck. Then in other cases the only directory to have Custom My Sweepstakes or Personal Sweepstakes features. The 5 websites compared seemed to have some sort of basic my sweepstakes feature but lacked other features such as Expired My Sweepstakes, Sweeps Pop & Private Notes.
Conclusion of Comparison
If you want to be successful in winning sweepstakes prizes online it is beneficial to have access to as many sweepstakes as possible. It is also very beneficial to have access to custom tools to help you manage your lists and tools like SweepsPop to speed up the process of entry. For these reasons we feel Sweepstakes Advantage is the clear winner of this comparison.