We often get approached by companies that hope to get some exposure through a giveaway. We've been reluctant to do a lot of pure giveaway posts because we wanted to keep the blog on topic. More content, less commercial.

On the other hand, it does represent an opportunity for our readers to get free stuff, which is nice.

So we're thinking about how we can achieve both. For instance, perhaps we can create a separate part of the site that is dedicated to giveaways. And maybe the competitions themselves can happen in a forum thread rather than in blog comments.

What do you think? Do you like giveaways? Or does the commercial aspect put you off? If you could decide how giveaways should work on YLF, what would that look like?

Thanks.