June 2007 Competition
With the dust just settling on last months competition i thought it would be good to announce the next one at BloggingTips.
Before i go into specifics about the rules and guidelines, ill let you know what exactly you can win 
The Prizes
The prizes are a little different this month - i hope you like them
Win a years worth of hosting and a domain name
I know that we have a lot of readers who are still using wordpress.com, blogger and other hosting blogging services. Therefore i am offering 3 lucky winners a year’s worth of hosting at DownTownHost plus a free domain name from 815 Domains.
The blog package is worth $71.40 per year ($5.95 per month) and includes :
- 1000 MB Disk Space
- 50 GB Bandwidth
- 999 Addon Domains - Multiple Domain Hosting
- 999 Email Accounts
Full details of the package can be found here.
I will do my best to offer support to the winners who are migrating from a free hosting service to their own domain name etc through the BloggingTips Forums.
Remember, there are 3 hosting packages worth $70+ each up for grabs!!!
Win a blog
I bought a cheap blog a few months ago called Zune Zag which focused on the microsoft zune mp3 player. In the start, i posted some news stories i found on the web and posted links to it. Clearly this isn’t the formula for a successful blog but i was waiting for my zune to be delivered from the USA. When my Zune arrived a few weeks later i found that i just didn’t have time to run the blog because of the time i was spending on other sites i owned and had started.
Therefore, I am putting this blog up for grabs. The winner will receive full rights of the site and domain name etc and can leave it hosted on my server for a month or so until they get the blog transferred over to their host. The blog isnt worth too much as the traffic is low and it has no pagerank etc but im sure someone will be keen on snapping it up If you enter this competition and do not currently have hosting somewhere on the web, please make sure you make plans to sort this out if you do win - i can give you advice on this but i just cant gurantee i can be there all the time to walk someone through it all
here is a screen print of the average traffic the last few months
$100 Cash
Prize number 3 is $100 cold hard cash via paypal
How to win a Prize
DylanKingsberry gave a great suggestion in last months competition for readers to submit videos about 3 topics i specify. I am gonna iron out the details for this in the next month or so but in the meantime i am gonna use the same competition rules as last month for the hosting prizes as it seemed to go down well.
Win free hosting for a year - Rules & Guidelines
Similar to last month, to enter the hosting competition you need to link to this page using
‘Win a year’s worth of hosting at BloggingTips.com‘
To make things even easier for you, here is the code you need to enter to add the link :
<a href="http://www.bloggingtips.com/2007/06/01/june-2007-competition/" target="_blank">Win a year’s worth of hosting at BloggingTips.com</a>
Just like last month, on June 22nd 2007 i will check google for the phrase “Win a year’s worth of hosting at BloggingTips.com” (enough time for everyone to take part and get their pages indexed). Pay attention to the parentheses around the search term. This ensures that google only searches for that exact sentence which means that the only websites that will be listed in the search will be this one and anyone who is linking here through the competition. I strongly encourage you all to NOT create a new post to link to me. All i’m looking for is the link to this page. My suggestion is to include a small reference at the end of a post but you could instead add a link to the competition in your footer or somewhere out of the way.
Rules, Notes & Guidelines :
- 3 weeks from today is June 22nd 2007. The results will be taken from the .com version of google that day (which is the international one).
- You may not link to a page on your site using the search term in this blogging tips post - eg the comments section
- For more details please have a look at last month’s competition
Win ZuneZag.com
This competition is a lot easier to enter. All i want BloggingTips readers to do is guess the number of unique visits BloggingTips will get on June 20th 2007 using Webalizer. Thats it! I was thinking about giving you an idea of the traffic i get just now but it will be a lot more fun if i let everyone guess - haha!
The rules are very simple :
- Only one guess per reader and only those given in the comment area of this post are valid
- You may not edit your entry and your entry must not have been given before in the post (if you incorrectly make a guess that has been given before you may make another guess)
- If no one guesses the exact number of visits correctly the closest guess will be declared the winner. In the event of two entries being the same distance to the exact number of visits the person who posted their guess first will be declared the winner eg. if ‘Blogger A’ posts first with a guess of 50 and ‘Blogger B’ guesses second with 52 visits per day then ‘Blogger A’ would be the winner of the exact number of visits is 51 uniques.
Good luck
Win $100 cash via Paypal
Quite a lot of readers are still unaware of the Blogging Tips Forums. Therefore i thought it would be good to run a small competition to highlight the forums more and get the place going.
So i propose a slightly more complicated number guessing game which will take place in the forums. I will be using the forums in the next Blogging Tips competition as well but this month, i wanted to keep this one fun
What i want is people to guess the number of page views BloggingTips will have on Webalizer on June 20th 2007 divided by the total number of posts the forums has at the end of the 20th .
Therefore i am looking for
Guess = (Number of page views) / (Number of Total forum posts)
The same rules apply as in the ZuneZag competition however the guess must be made in the forums in this thread and you must be registered in the forums to make this guess
* Submit your entry for the $100 prize in this thread *
Summary
I hope you like the prizes. I’ve tried to keep the competitions fun for the prizes so that more people can enter. If you are unsure about anything please ask in this post and i will clarify it in the post and in the comments.
Thanks,
Kevin
Brian Aldrich | June 1st, 2007 at 2:01 am #
572 Unique Visits on June 20th.
Jason S | June 1st, 2007 at 5:58 am #
That’s really a cool contest Kevin.
I am gearing up for the 22nd deadline
Cheers!!
Jason
I Blog at http://jsbi.blogspot.com
KAVITA | June 3rd, 2007 at 4:07 am #
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shypys | June 6th, 2007 at 3:36 pm #
1. I Say bloggingtips.com gets 1343(not overtly optimistic i hope) unique Visits on June 20th.
2. ZuneZags is mine….
3. K, install the smileys plugin for comments, if you might, its so much better to comment with them.
Jack Books | June 12th, 2007 at 9:51 pm #
well, for the zunezag.com, here is my guess
because this competition is great, plus you have a Links Roundup, i guess your pageviews will be blown up to 8500 pageviews.
thanks
Jack Books | June 12th, 2007 at 10:56 pm #
wow.. the pingback is truely slow.
kumiko has published her post about an hour ago. but the trackback arrive just couple minutes ago. hm.. i think, i’ll stay with blogger.
Kumiko | June 12th, 2007 at 11:54 pm #
That’s not it. I came here and checked if it had pinged but it hadn’t. Turns out that I didn’t have the pinging setting turned on. After I turned it on, it showed up here straight away.
Switch to wordpress.
Kumiko | June 13th, 2007 at 2:41 am #
I’m going to go conservative and say BloggingTips gets 250 visits on the 20th.
Roseate - Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities | June 13th, 2007 at 12:58 pm #
Hi,
Nice blog and great competitions
hope I would win…but I couldn’t find my blog in google for that tearm?!!
[...]This month BloggingTips.com “Kevin” is offering three worth of prizes that 5 lucky winners will win[...]
will I appear??
Good luck,
Roseate,
Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities
Jack Books | June 13th, 2007 at 9:11 pm #
why do they always leave signatures on their comments? it’s not a forum. are they expecting people to click on their signature? or do they think it’s an SE value? it’s not while it has nofollow attribute. oh my…
Roseate - Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities | June 14th, 2007 at 6:44 am #
Well it’s a habit!
what’s bothering you?!
Roseate,
Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities
Daniele Salatti | June 14th, 2007 at 4:00 pm #
900 Unique Visits
Roseate - Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities | June 14th, 2007 at 4:30 pm #
I will guess bloggingtips will get 1000 visits on the 20th
GoddessCarlie | June 15th, 2007 at 8:01 am #
I’m guessing 333 for the 20th.
Matthew | June 15th, 2007 at 11:41 am #
252
KAVITA | June 15th, 2007 at 11:43 am #
GUESS is 3333 by 20th
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999 by 20th
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Ramsaran | June 15th, 2007 at 12:34 pm #
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Brian Aldrich | June 15th, 2007 at 3:28 pm #
For Prize 2 my guess is: 372
For Prize 3 my guess is: 203
Roseate - Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities | June 16th, 2007 at 9:39 am #
Hi Kevin,
What do you exactly mean by:
“You may not link to a page on your site using the search term in this blogging tips post - eg the comments section”
Do you mean if there is any other page linked to with “Win a year
Kevin | June 16th, 2007 at 8:35 pm #
Roseate - last month someone put the search term as their name when making a comment in the thread. ie. instead of writing ‘Roseate - Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities’ they wrote ‘win a mascot at bloggingtips.com’ and because it was on the competition page it shot the guys entry to the top of google. the rule wont concern most people - i just wanted the competition to be fair.
Roseate - Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities | June 17th, 2007 at 6:28 pm #
Well I was asking because I made a link in my side bar with the same text
Kevin | June 17th, 2007 at 6:38 pm #
roseate - no thats fine. thats what you should be doing
Rajaram S | June 18th, 2007 at 11:25 am #
My guess for the second one is 2000.
SEO Blog | June 18th, 2007 at 12:29 pm #
1. I don’t want free hosting, so skip to number 2 =P.
2. For the ZuneZag.com (which will probably complement my other future site ‘PCComputerGuide.com’ :), my guess is you’ll have around 1150 page views.
3. For the $100, my guess is 1150PV/115Thread = 10PV per Thread (unrealistic but i like to keep it even :).
*And also, I’m wondering if you’re indirectly promoting Webalizer?
Kevin | June 19th, 2007 at 10:03 am #
promoting webalizer? mmm well its pretty much industry standard for most hosting companies so it really isnt a concern of mine. it provides some good stats so if i promote them indirectly, its all good