This is our official post that will include all winners of all prizes. It’s been a great year and I know as well as you this contest started late.

It will be great to get an early start in 2010. I will be looking for sponsors to prizes contact me brian (@) blogengage dot com

I would like to send a big thank you out to all sponsors for the 2009 blogengage year end contest.

All winners must sign up to our social blog feed below and e-mail me requesting their prizes. This will be the easiest way.

Send me an e-mail with your blogengage username and prize. I will arrange your winnings to be delivered asap. brian (@) blogengage dot com In case of a tie all money will be split equally between members.

In this article I will simply state the winners. To see your prize visit this following thread and fine your appropriate category. Blog Engage Year End Prize Chart

Top Engaged on the Year

1. 75 Beautiful Free Social Bookmarking Icon Sets and Blog Engage Can Make You A Better Blogger
2. The #Blog Engage Community, How Tweet It Is! | The Christian Entrepreneur
3. 5 Ways that Blogging Can Kill You Extreme John and WordPress Plugins I find useful for Blog Posting

Most Votes on the Year

1. WinWith1
2. AggieBrad
3. Hishaman

Most Comments on the Year

1. WinWith1
2. Ileane
3. AggieBrad

Most Submitted on the Year

1. Sugarbaby
2. Geoserv
3. Jennifer

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This is my first live show here on blogengage! I mentioned I would be doing this last week in this article, Blog Engage Announces a live show. If you would like to view and ask questions join the following live stream starting at 5 pm est.

Update: the live feed went awesome we had a total of 40 visitors and 9 signed in viewers.

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Hello everyone I offered to help Brian out and become more active in the Blog Engage Community by taking over the weekly word challenge posts.  I was pretty excited about this challenge once I came across them and didn’t want it to go away so after I didn’t see if for a week I made Brian an offer to pick it up post for these for awhile which he accepted.

I think is a win-win for situation for Brian and myself.  Now I get in a regular routine of guest posting on a high traffic blog and Brian gets some more time to help and promote and do other things.

So for those that are new to this here is how it works.

Friday - a post goes out that will list potential words along with links to anyone that entered the challenge for the previous week. A link will go out to a vote for the word in the forum.

Monday – A post will go out with the official word of the week. – Please make sure to comment to this post once your post is ready with link.

Some Prior Weekly Word Challenge Posts

The challenge

I challenge all the members here in our community to write an article about or regarding the weekly word. The article doesn’t have to be of any special length simply write about the topics and submit your article to the blogengage site. I also ask that you post a comment including the website url to where your article has been published.

Why participate

Because all articles submitted to the challenge will be promoted on by me here on our social linking directly to your word challenge post.  Back links from PR 4 blog also includes retweets from myself and Brian with over 3000 and 1700 followers.  Also other member will be joining us in conversations on your blog. This is a great way to find new readers and get comments and to give yourself a topic to write about.

To kick things off again and since it’s a Holiday week I am actually going to pick the word “Contest” I going with this cause this is the last week of the Blog Engage contest and figure we could get some last minute promotion post going to help the community.

I will be launching a live show for all blogengage members to see and watch. I will be answering all questions live via this ustream.

The date is Monday December 28th @ 5:00 PM EST

I hope you can all make it I think this is going to be a great opportunity to meet me, get all your questions answered and create a good buzz regarding our community.

At minimum I’m looking at spending an hour with you. I would like to start of by introducing blogengage, why I developed the community and explain in great detail how to use blogengage to your advantage as a blogger.

After the formal introduction is complete I will proceed to answer any questions that pop up in the chat.

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Hi everyone I have some great news and updates regarding the community. With only 9 days left in the year our year end content is nearly over. Our Alexa is the best it’s ever been. I think this is where traffic starts getting serious.

Check out my video!

Check out my Stats!

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I was so excited to write this post. I think the biggest question our members have is how to start earning money from our social community.

So in this article I’m going to throw out suggestions that will help you earn more clicks on your story submissions.

These are tips I simply thought about while sitting at my desk wondering how I can make our members more money. This will require a group or team effort as we are all needed for this to successfully happen.

So without further waiting her are my top idea;s on how to generate more earning from the blogengage blogging community. Feel free to share these idea’s on your blogs as well when writing about us.

Create conversations – After submitting your story make a comment on it. Create traffic to your story page and eventually you will increase your clicks. This will also generate you more traffic to your blog. Brad is a great example of how to do this.

Tweet your story page – Think of how many followers you have right now. Tweet your story page who knows your twitter friends might be interested in clicking some ads on that page. You will see every story page has a tweet option. Use it don’t be silly lets generate some clicks for you.

Re Tweet your story page – if you see members are tweeting their story pages make sure to send out a re tweet for them. It’s pretty basic and simple. If you like it re tweet it. We are a tight community of friends here and that’s what made us what we are today.

Add the blog engage word press plugin – this will send your readers directly to your story page in order to vote. More importantly they might click an add. This in return generates you more revenue sharing money.

Create Unique Content for Search Engines

Blog Engage will rank high (reply video)

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If you haven’t signed up yet you better get moving! CrowdA has offered all blogengage members an opportunity to increase your earnings by 50 USD.

Simply go to your blog engage profile, select modify and follow the CrowdA link to create your contributor profile. In the top right corner you will see a ca-number. Copy that and insert it into the crowdA section of your profile and proceed to save.

The only stipulation to get this 50 USD is to generate 50 USD in shared revenues before 6 months from your register date. If you don’t meet the 6 months deadline you keep your earnings but the bonus cannot be applied. So get to your profile, follow the link and sign up.

CrowdA is a new third party company blogengage has teamed up with in order to help our members generate online income from revenue sharing.

Benefits

• Looks and feels the same as Google ads

• Earn from many ads and not just one (Story Page)

• 50 USD bonus offer for first 6 months

• Automatic increase in share percentage to 100% (all the time for all ads)

• Dash Board management to track earnings and clicks

Member Obligations

• Article Submissions

• Community Activity such as voting and commenting

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Hey everyone Brian from Blog Engage here. I have some great news regarding our Revenue Sharing Program.

We are no longer using Google to generate earnings we have moved to a third party company named CrowdA.

In order to start earning you have to visit your blogengage profile, select modify and follow the link that links directly to the crowdA website. Sign up for a contributor account and insert the account number they give you back into the blogengage CrowdA field.

If you have any questions in the mean time simply ask them here on this blog article. The CrowdA support team will be watching this thread to answer any questions you may have.

Where has it improved for you?

From now on the story pages will have 2 ads that belong to you and not only one. You also have the freedom to click ads that interest you seeing your ads will never be displayed when you are logged in.

• Two ads for your story page

• Guaranteed income

• Opportunity to increase revenues with every story submission

This is what your story page will look like when logged out or seen by another member!

(image and text ads vary)

This is what your story page will look like when logged In or seen by yourself!

(Google image ads will be consistent)

What is CrowdA About?

CrowdA is an innovative solution tailored for community and user-generated-content (UGC) websites. Since user contribution is vital for site success, we help you compensate the users for their content. CrowdA offers two services enabling financial motivation of your site community.

Track your Earnings

Accept payments to many account types

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