Thanks, everyone, for sharing the sweeps that you find. It's great that the SA community has such terrific members!

Here are a few tips to help you out when you're wondering whether or not to post a sweep.

Is it already in the database?  Try running a Power Search to check.  There are links in many places on the site, including the home page.  Here's one:  http://www.sweepsadvantage.com/power_search.php .

On the Power Search page, there are a number of ways you can look up a sweep.  I like the URL field best, however, it works best if you just use a unique part of the URL you want to check.  (The URL is the http://www.... address).  For example -

Let's say you notice that Shakefire has added an American Gothic sweep that you think is new.  If you type "Shakefire" into a search field, you'll get every single Shakefire sweep, and there are tons of them.  In this case, the full URL might work best.  

Another option, type the most unusual word "gothic" in a search field.

Whether or not you get a match depends on how the SA sweep was logged into the database.  If you choose to search by title, you can use the regular search rather than the power search, but be careful.  It works best if you break up your words.  If you look for "Emily Strange" with a space between the words, the system will find all contests with both words in the title.  But if you put "EmilyStrange" as one word and it's in the system as two words, the search will miss the match.

Hope this helps. Anyone who has any further suggestions, let's hear 'em!

Sorry, If I posted in duplicates I do try and search for it first before I posted promise :?

sorry for the duplicate .I was typing to slow it was not posted when i started.  (kleenex instant win)

Hi Kelly,  Gosweepwin taught me a fairly reliable way of searching.  Using the powersweeps search

Use the URL field
Type only the MAIN portion of the url in the field

Here's an example

http://www.amberleaves.com/amber06sweeps.cfm?source=SweepAdvantage

If I was wanting to do a powersweeps search on this I would only input   amberleaves    into the url search field.

This works MOST of the time.  Sometimes a sweeps will have more than one entry point  or the page listed will be the site page and not the entry page or vise versa & they may have entirely different addresses & not show up in your search depending upon which one you use.  

You know, I wanted to bump this because I submitted a sweep this week and forgot to rundown the forum page and double check.  Sorry guys!  It doesn't look like any were a dup, but my bad anyways!  I will try harder next time!

Thanks Amy!  I never thought of that!  That certainly will make things easier!   :D

Bumping to remind our wonderful members who post sweeps to:

Post as much info as you can in the new sweepstakes forum:

Here is a template:

Name:
Url:
Expires:
Restrictions:

After you've done a search to make sure you aren't wasting your time posting a sweeps already listed 

And for those that wonder how to tell if a sweeps has been added to pending/listed?

We change the title of the thread, adding a + sign if we've added it/it's already listed, and a - sign  if we can't add it - like if there are no rules.

Those sweeps that haven't started yet are marked with ** with the start date and are stickied.

Thanks again for posting sweeps, we do appreciate you selfless members who share!!! 

Another tip - please do an expired search for those well-known sites - odds are one of our editors has them on their "list" and will be adding them so a forum post is not required.

If you know of a daily sweeps that hasn't been added by the 2nd week of the month, then please do post - we appreciate the help!!!