June 2007 Competition Winners

Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on June 22, 2007

First of all, thanks to everyone who took part in the June 2007 competition. You can view full details of the competitions and prizes here.

So without further ado, here are the winners of the June 2007 competition at Blogging Tips/

Prize 1 : 3 hosting package winners

The top 3 results for the search term “Win a year’s worth of hosting at BloggingTips.com” are :

Roseate (Result 3 and 4 were posted by Roseate as well b ut just linked to the first post so counts as 1 entry)
Mystic Pandemonium
Blog About Your Blog

Congrats to all of the above bloggers. Please contact me about your years hosting at downtownhost and your free domain name at 815 Domains

Prize 2 : Win ZuneZag.com

There was a lot of entries to win Zune Zag but the closest guess was from The SEO Blogger with a guess of 1150 (he stated page views but he clearly referred to the entry as his guess for zunezag).

As you can see from the screenshot below, the actual number of unique visits to BloggingTips.com on 20th June via Webalizer was 1094.

Congratluations - i hope you can do something with your new blog

Drop me an email and we can sort the transfer out

Prize 3 : Win $100 via Paypal

To win the $100 you had to post your entry in the Blogging Tips Forums in this thread.

The figure on 20th was :

(Number of page views) / (Number of Total forum posts)
= 2919/91
=32.08 rounded to 2dp

The closest guess to this was 24.61 by tterminal (1600 / 65)

Congratulations - email me with your paypal email address and ill send the cash as soon as i can

Next months Competition

I’m not keen on using a link competition again so i need to get my thinking cap on for next months competition. Also, i was a bit dissapointed with the response to this months competition so i may reduce the competitions here to random/periodic postings instead of the monthly competition i originally had in mind. I do want to keep rewarding members but i have to be smart with my money too - this comp was worth over $500 in prizes and got a very very low response in my opinion. I need to compare this with other methods of promoting BloggingTips.

Let me know what you think.

Again, congrats to everyone who won a prize

Kevin

Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on June 22, 2007 | Filed Under Competitions

13 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

Tom O'Leary | June 22nd, 2007 at 5:00 am #

Hi

I am usually right up for competitions, but I’m sorry, I didn’t enter yours this time around. My reasons were that I prefer competitions that test me out in some way as a blogger. The first contest seemed to be all about page rank, which keeps so many of us out of contention. The second two were simply educated guesses. I’m sure my reasoning isn’t the same as a lot of bloggers, but I like to enter competitions that let me perform. Maybe something like: “Post an article about the best thing you have learnt from bloggingtips in the last year”. That way the competition is still fun but we’re all testing out our blogging skills.

I’d love to hear what sort of competitions other bloggers like.
Thanks
Tom
shypys | June 22nd, 2007 at 6:29 am #

Shrewdly done Roseate! Congrats
They posted the link on Craigslist, and in a forum - obviously both are very well favored by Google.

Now only if Kevin had another link competition - i think i can uncrack it this time around.
Roseate - Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities | June 22nd, 2007 at 8:15 am #

Wow!…I finally did it

I knew that and on the top that’s just great!

Thanks Kevin…I shall contact you soon
Roseate - Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities | June 22nd, 2007 at 8:33 am #

and thanks shypys,

I also hope that kevin or other bloggers will do such link competitions It is just easy
Kevin | June 22nd, 2007 at 5:22 pm #

congrats Roseate

Tom O’Leary - i completely agree with what you say and im actually thinking along the same lines. hopefully i can get something that will engage readers a bit more
Kevin | June 22nd, 2007 at 6:31 pm #

to the winners - if you already have hosting and would just prefer the cash equivalent via paypal please let me know No skin off my nose!!
Jonathan Street | June 23rd, 2007 at 7:20 am #

When I first read the instructions for the competition my thoughts were along the line of - “Decent comp, something I definitely want to enter. I’ll come back later when I have a little extra time.”

When you posted the reminder - “It’s not actually as complex as I thought. I can at least enter the guess the numbers comps”

I think the problem with this competition was that there was so much going on. I suspect, though I’m no expert, you would have had more success with just one competition. Choices open the door for procrastination.

In the end I didn’t even offer a guess on the numbers competition. I think for similar reasons as Tom. To me it seemed too much like a lottery meaning I had no comparative advantage to leverage. Silly, given the cost of entry, the potential reward and the level of competition but those were my thoughts.
Kevin | June 23rd, 2007 at 11:16 pm #

i appreciate your feedback Johnathan. The July competition is gonna be a little different
Roseate - Internet Business Promotion And Opportunities | June 27th, 2007 at 8:15 am #

Hi Kevin…I have sent you am email, hope you got it.
Kevin | June 27th, 2007 at 10:36 am #

replied roseate.

just need Mystic Pandemonium an tterminal to get back to me to claim their prize
Mystery | June 27th, 2007 at 5:45 pm #

Hi,

Yeppiee! Mystery wins again!

I’d like to thank you for the great competition… looking forward to win more competitions from you!

Will contact you to claim my prize…

Mystery…
Kevin | June 28th, 2007 at 2:32 am #

replied to your email mystery