Hi everyone, I’m very happy to announce the winner of our $1000 USD Best of the Guest Blogger Contest for 2012. This contest has been running a full year and we have seen a lot of hard work and effort from our guest blog contestants.
I want to send a big thank you to our sponsors for all your help in supporting our contests financially. Without you none of this would be possible.
In total throughout 2012 we had over 7 contests with over 100 submitted guest blog articles. Needless to say it was an incredible year and I enjoyed engaging with all our guest bloggers here within the community.
After reviewing the final qualifying articles I have come to the conclusion of who our winner will be. It was a close race between three of our blogging members, Holly Jahangiri, Justin Germino and Abhishek Balani. Sadly as we all know we can only award one winner with the grand prize of $1000 USD.
After counting the social points, taking quality content and comments into consideration, I have come to the conclusion that the Best Guest Blogger for 2012 is Justin Germino from Dragon Blogger with his article named, Should You Give Up on Blog Commenting?
Congratulations Justin you are now the Best Guest Blogger here on our community blog as well as $1000 richer. I hope you enjoy the earnings as you have worked hard for them and truly engaged your blog audience. Thank you to all our contestants for joining and participating in our guest blog contests. Again also thank you to our sponsors as listed below.
The $1000 USD Best of the Guest Blogging Contest Sponsors
TechNerdia – Business and Life!
Guest Blogging – Guest Blog It
Go Garden Guides: Gardening Guest Blog
About
Hi There my name is Brian, I'm the owner of Blog Engage. I own a personal blog about SEO and Marketing. Make sure to follow blogengage on twitter @blogengage and like us on facebook. Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017
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Justin Germino
January 31st, 2013
Super psyched I won, many wouldn’t believe it but this is the first time I have come in 1st place on any of the Blog Engage Guest Blogging contests! It is the best one to come in 1st place on too!
bbrian017
January 31st, 2013
Hi Justin, big congratulations for winning the $1000 USD that’s a lot of money bro! I’m very excited for you. Everyone did so well but honesty no one could touch you with the social sharing and points. Holly J was close but just not enough. Again congratulations bud you deserve it.
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Abhi Balani
January 31st, 2013
Hey Justin,
Very very congratulations, man.
Seriously, it was kinda impossible to get ahead of you.
You rock buddy.
Party time.
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Justin Germino
January 31st, 2013
I think my tactic was that I spent the entire year promoting the article and having readers visit it, I didn’t wait until November/December for the annual to start, I did it from the moment the article published back in April I think it was.
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bbrian017
January 31st, 2013
Hi Abhi, you’re right about this being a difficult contest. With that said I think you still did an amazing job and should be very proud of yourself.
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abhibalani
February 2nd, 2013
Thank you for the appreciation, Brian!
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Robert
February 3rd, 2013
Congratulations man
I must say your article is worth the prize.
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Justin Germino
January 31st, 2013
Wow, that is weird, what is that odd comment with a user who has a number that looks like a duplicate of my comment, I wonder if FB comments did that?
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bbrian017
January 31st, 2013
Yeah it’s weird, with this theme who ever comments on Facebook also gets a comment on the actual blog I guess it’s a form of integration some how… But I removed the Facebook comments just now I simply dislike how they handle comments.
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Holly Jahangiri
January 31st, 2013
Congratulations, Justin.
I came very close to conceding in December, but thought that would be doing all my readers and supporters a horrible disservice. Never could close that 70K point gap, but you can’t say I didn’t try.
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Justin Germino
January 31st, 2013
I wrote in a blog post publishing tomorrow, that if quality of conversation in comments counted then you would have won. You had some of the best conversations and engagement in your comments than I have ever seen on an article, and I won by sheer numbers not by quality of comments and conversations.
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Holly Jahangiri
January 31st, 2013
Well, I had a lot of help there. An amazing number of those comments were posts in their own right. I hope those folks don’t feel like THEY’VE lost – they worked so hard.
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Justin Germino
January 31st, 2013
I think they just had a blast being part of a great philosophical piece, win or lose you can’t say you didn’t truly Engage them which is what Blog Engage is all about.
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bbrian017
January 31st, 2013
Hi Holly, I wanted to say thanks for joining and participating in the contest. Overall you did amazing on our blog during 2012 and even sponsored our contest. Thanks for everything here in the community.
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Ivin
February 1st, 2013
Congrats Justin. You deserve it. Not bad for a part time blogger eh?
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
Thanks Ivin, can’t complain blogging is a blast and I enjoy doing it. I am focusing more on hosting giveaways than entering contests for this year.
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Christian
February 1st, 2013
$1000 is a good deal of money to earn online. Congrats.
I participates myself in a similar competition some time ago, the best place I managed to get was #12.
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
All contests favor those with larger social media networks and more resources, it is the nature of the beast. There are some who can defy the odds with incredible promotion, engagement but it is slanted. Abhi and Holly did an amazing job on all the previous contests winning 1st place several times.
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Govand Malhani
February 1st, 2013
Hey Justin,
Very very congratulations, man.
Seriously, it was kinda impossible to get ahead of you.
You rock buddy.
Party time.
Sulham syahid
February 1st, 2013
amazing. I was also thinking about how to make money from the internet but I think it’s very difficult.
won many contests as well I never had, maybe at another time disuatu day. greetings successful
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
Contests are not a reliable way to make money from the internet, too hard to win and this was a long shot.
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Bashir Ahmed
February 1st, 2013
Hi Justin – Congratulations for winning the $1000 USD contest!
I’ve seen your hard work you did in the contest an amazing post, comments conversation, social sharing; you deserve the big prize and you got it. Really happy for you. where is the party ?
Also I want to mention, Holly and Abhi you both did amazing job in the contest, sadly but prize was only for one winner. Best of luck next time.
Brian, Without you and your hard work none of this would be possible. Now Enjoy the weekend
Thank you!
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
Thanks Bashir, was fun and enjoyed the challenge of course I am sure like most of us contestants our readers will be glad to not have all the requests to vote/share and comment for a while
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Ehsan Ullah
February 1st, 2013
Wow Justin, A big congrats to you for winning a big guest blogging contest.
You’ve been one of the best supporter of Blog Engage from long time and suggesting newbies to join it, you deserved to be a winner of this contest.
Well, I tried my luck ones in 6th contest, but the competition was too high.
Love Drogon Blogger and love Blog Engage, hope to stay in interacted in future with you guys.
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
Thanks, there was no doubt that bloggers who entered the earliest Blog Engage Guest Blogging Contests had the oldest articles therefore had a head start and months of extra time to collect, I actually promoted my article all year long and didn’t wait for Brian to even announce the $1,000 Guest Blogging contest in November to keep collecting entries all year.
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Rafaqat
February 1st, 2013
wonderful prize for the guest bloggers,i think i may be the the guest blogger of your blog and will be in line of the winning number.
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
You should be a guest blogger, everyone should be a guest blogger on as many sites as possible it never hurts to put your writing in front of other audiences.
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Sarah Park
February 2nd, 2013
Congratulations Justin! You truly deserved it. Hope to read more of your posts.
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
Thanks Sarah, I will keep contributing an article here and there to Blog Engage, I may do one about giveaways/sweepstakes soon that is a variation of my own with new lessons learned.
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Ileane
February 2nd, 2013
Great job Justin! Congratulations.
Good contest Brian. Keep em coming!
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
Thanks Ileane, Brian and I are teaming up to do some sweepstakes in the near future too.
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Larry James from Web Design Blog
February 2nd, 2013
Congratulations on winning the contest Justin. That is a very nice prize
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
Thanks Larry, yep it was a fantastic prize and the most I have ever won from a contest, previously my record was held by winning a Dell Latitude a few years back (a $600 one).
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Derek
February 2nd, 2013
Great Job Justin!! I didn’t follow this past contest that much but went back and read some blog posts.
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
Thanks Derek, Blog Engage has been very generous with the guest blogging contests over the years. They were a fun to be part of and a sponsor of, I sponsored several of the ones I didn’t enter.
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Derek
February 4th, 2013
I’ve sponsored 2 contest as well and will do more in the future if I can remember to get in touch with Brian when he needs a sponsor.
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Blazing Minds
February 3rd, 2013
Congratulations Justin
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
Thank you Karen, was certainly a great ending to January and a good start for the year in blogging.
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Chitraparna
February 3rd, 2013
Congratulations Justin! You deserved it.
So, what are you going to do with the prize money?
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Justin Germino
February 3rd, 2013
Thanks Chitraparna, was glad to go up against some of the my most respected peer bloggers and writers.
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Maricel
February 4th, 2013
Hey, Justin, congratulations on the win. Indeed, it’s pretty unbelievable that this is the first time you ever got to first place. I’m sure you’ll win more in the future.
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