Hi everyone and welcome to our fourth guest blogging contest of 2012. So far in 2012 we have given away $1750 USD to our guest bloggers and as you know the contests are getting more frequent and the chances to win cold hard cash continue to increase. Right now Blog Engage is hosting a Guest Blogging Contest giving away $500 USD every 45 days.
Please Note: We are still in need of 1 sponsor. If interested pls contact us for info. We will update the article with your website information.
The contest runs from June 15th, 2012 to July 31st 2012. Articles will only be accepted until July 15th 2012 and no later. Contestants will then be given to July 31st 2012 to market and promote their articles. The winners will be announced on July 31st 2012.
Special Note:
Blog Engage will be giving away $1000 USD at the end of 2012. This years winner for 2011 was Kira. If you want a chance to win this $1000 USD all you have to do is enter one of our guest blogging contests. Come the end of the year I will take the best guest articles everyone has written and create one big final contest to award someone with $1000 USD cash.
Start Date
June 15th, 2012
End Date
July 15th 2012
Winners Announced
July 31st 2012
Prizes
First Place – $250 USD
Second Place – $150 USD
Third Place – $100 USD
The Rules
First let’s discuss some of the rules. It’s very important you read and follow these rules as it will determine if your going to be included into the contest or not. In order to enter you have to write an article about the contest including our sponsor links on your blog. You can find the sponsor link code below. Please if you are entering our Guest Blogging Contest make sure to write about our contest and link to our sponsors prior to posting your guest article here on our blog.
Who can participate?
All Blog Engage members can write for us and have the opportunity to win any prize offered in this contest. We only ask that you have a valid paypal account to accept your winnings and prizes. If you are not a member please purchase an account ($19.99 USD) and or sign up to one of our RSS and Marketing Package Subscriptions.
Post Guidelines
- Guest posts must be at least 900 words, not to exceed 2000 words.
- You may have as many links as you wish in the body of the content. However, please limit links to your projects or websites to your bio. Absolutely no affiliate links allowed.
- Your bio must have a Gravatar. Please use a picture of yourself and not a logo.
- Keep your post relevant to the overall theme of this blog. You can write about any of the following topics Making Money Online, Blogging Tips, Traffic, Design, Social Networking, SEO, Marketing, Technology and other industry or niche specific topics you think blog engage members would be interested in reading.
- All images must be picked and sent to me from Free Digital Images Please e-mail me the link directly to the image and the code needed to link back to the photographer.
How To Win
- You must be a member of the blog engage community
- You must write about the contest including the contest sponsors links When done e-mail me the link
- Register for an account here and fill out your bio info Also please get a gravatar if you don’t have one.
- Contact me admin (@) blogengage dot com letting me know your username
- We will review your account and upgrade it so you can write for the blog
- Write your post, save it and it will be reviewed and published
- A high value is placed on the number of and quality of comments received on your guest post. Also, be sure to interact with and respond to your commentators. This will help you win! Ambiguous and/or spammy comments will not help you.
- Spread the word about your post through all your social media channels: Twitter, Facebook, Sphinn, etc. A high value will be placed on number of Tweets and overall social media promotion.
The Points System
I will give max points for quality comments that are engaging not simple one liner comments. If you purchase tweets, votes or buy anything to influence wining this contest you will be disqualified. The final decision is not made from total points but the quality of the blog article. All decisions are made by me and once announced will be final. You can offer innovative ideas to encourage voting and engaging but it has to be indirectly and not with cash money. Example: You cannot purchase Facebook likes, Tweets, or any other votes.
It’s also important to understand what is allowed and what’s not allowed. You are 100% allowed to ask for tweets, shares, likes or whatever else you need to do in order to win. You can private message users on any social platform etc but do this at your own risk as many members my get offended and upset.
- Tweets, 20 points per tweet up to a max of 8000 points
- Pins, 20 points per tweet up to a max of 8000 points
- Bizsugar’s, 20 points per tweet up to a max of 8000 points
- Linked In Votes, 20 points per tweet up to a max of 8000 points
- Facebook Likes, 20 points per tweet up to a max of 8000 points
- Google Plus, 20 points per tweet up to a max of 8000 points
- Engages at Blog Engage, 100 points per Engage (vote) Unlimited points
- Comments on Blog Engage Guest Article that provide value, 30 points per comment Unlimited Points
- Comments on Blog Engage Story Page that provide value, 40 points per comment Unlimited Points
The Current Best of the Guest Blogger Sponsors
Retargeting
Guest Blog It
SERPd
Newbiz Advertising Blog
Shannon Evans Marketing
Free Twitter Chat Custom Branding
Easy and Reliable Online CRM system
Free SEO Analysis by SEO Pal
EasyRetweet.com
Yawoop Blog Community
Please take a minute to visit our Contest and Sponsors Page. The sponsors code is listed below for your qualifying contest article. When you write your article on your blog about our contest include this code. Visit each of their sites and see if the services they offer can help you grow as a blogger.
<center> <h1>The Current Best of the Guest Blogger Sponsors</h1> <a href="http://www.blogengage.com/rss-syndication.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogengage.com/blogger/wp-content/themes/blog-engage/images/logo.png" alt="Blog Engage RSS and Marketing Services"></a><br/> <a href="http://adretargeting.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogengage.com/blogger/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/adretargeting-logo.jpg" alt="" title="adretargeting logo" width="180" height="40" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22832" /></a><br/> <a href="http://adretargeting.com">Retargeting</a><br/> <a href="http://www.guestblogit.com" title="Guest Blogging">Guest Blog It</a><br/> <a href="http://www.serpd.com/" title="seo news">SERPd</a><br/> <a href="http://newbizshop.com/" title="affiliate marketing, make money, advertising blog">Newbiz Advertising Blog</a><br/> <a href="http://shannonevanssm.com/" title="Shannon Evans Marketing">Shannon Evans Marketing</a><br/> <a href="http://www.socialwebcafe.com/free-twitter-chat-custom-branding/" title="Free Twitter Chat Custom Branding">Free Twitter Chat Custom Branding</a><br/> <a href="http://www.webcrm.com/uk/" title="Easy and Reliable Online CRM system">Easy and Reliable Online CRM system</a><br/> <a href="http://www.seopalbg.com/services-view/free-seo-analysis/" title="Free SEO Analysis by SEO Pal">Free SEO Analysis by SEO Pal</a><br/> <a href="http://easyretweet.com" title="twitter retweet">EasyRetweet.com</a><br/> <a href="http://yawoop.com/" title="Yawoop">Yawoop Blog Community</a><br/> </center> |
Get Bonus Points
I award bonus points for contestants that add the blog engage contest images. If you add one do it right away and e-mail me so I know you have added it. It’s very important as someone with our banner for 15 days will get less points them someone who ads it for a full month. Must be in the top sidebar for full bonus points and site wide.
Want to become a Sponsor
If you’re interested in sponsoring our $500 USD Guest Blogging Contest please Contact Us for pricing and details. I’m also open to non cash awards and prizes so Contact Us.
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June 15th, 2012
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shenoyjoseph
June 15th, 2012
seems that a new kind of system is added to this guest blogging contest. now users can earn point easily by tweeting, pin, google plus votes and facebook likes.
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bbrian017
June 16th, 2012
Yes, the more they use the buttons the more points they get! It’s a challenge of being the best overall guest blogger.
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Suraj
June 15th, 2012
people are very cautious to do guest blogging on other blogs, but this is a generous contest. Blog engage loves organizing events like this, and we as webmasters can seek smart information from great articles.
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abhibalani
June 16th, 2012
Hey Suraj,
That’s right. The contest ends with lots of awesome article to learn from.
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bbrian017
June 16th, 2012
Hi Suraj, you are right, this is a great time to keep an eye our for amazing content. The bloggers are producing some of the best stuff just so they can take first place and win the cash.
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Jeet Dholakia
June 16th, 2012
This is awesome, I missed the last one and I was so disappointed for that but this time I will not. Surely going to contribute to this guest blogging contest and try my luck to win it.
Thank you for arranging this contest.
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bbrian017
June 16th, 2012
Hi Jeet this is great news I look forward to reading your article! Best of luck in the competition. If you need help log into Blog Engage and send me a chat message.
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Enstine Muki
June 16th, 2012
Another awesome contest by Blog Engage and I’m glad to be part of it. To make it sweeter, I’ll be giving 1000 EasyRetweet Credits to each of the first 5 contestants. They’ll use these credits to promote their entries and increase their chances to win
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bbrian017
June 16th, 2012
Enstine if your going to offer something like this I will have to ask you offer it to all the contestants and not just the first five. Thanks so much I hope you understand but it has to be some hat fair.
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Enstine Muki
June 17th, 2012
Perfect, Brian
Let it be so. 1000 free credits to each contestant to promote his/her entry. They’ll have to get in contact with you for more details on how to grab the credits.
Kuldeep
June 19th, 2012
I am quite disappointed by the new system. You mean to say that points don’t play a big part now and the article you like will be the winner. Weird!
Then why have the points system is there???
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bbrian017
June 19th, 2012
I will never explain how I calculate the points. They are still the determining factor I just have ways to judge if ti’s full points or partial points. It’s never entirely based on the article or points it’s a combo of both.
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Kuldeep
June 19th, 2012
I would like to know what exactly will be the criteria to select the winner? Since you have mentioned that ”The final decision is not made from total points but the quality of the blog article.’ which means that Points aren’t a bigger part. And you will be judging the quality of the article, so certainly the article you like will be announced as the winning contest entry. Another thing is I had a doubt regarding the new way of deciding the winner and I asked the same. Being a member of a community, am I not free to ask any doubts if I have?
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bbrian017
June 19th, 2012
The points are outlined in the article above, the only time a user won’t get full points is when the comment does not add value to the conversation or it’s a running conversation that has 5 or 6 comment replies that aren’t needed. The article should be great content but the points are also a huge factor. I’ve always decided the winner no matter what the points said. For example an article with 25 comments and 800 Facebook likes is no good. The 800 likes are worthless in my opinion, if you get 800 likes and 25 comments that’s an issue.
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June 19th, 2012
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Gautam
June 20th, 2012
thanks for notifying bbrian, i think i want to participant in this contest. i also want to get bonus points.
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bbrian017
June 20th, 2012
Hey Gautam that would be great! Man I would love to see you participating and engaing with the community more here on the blog.
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Ivin
June 28th, 2012
I think I might just enter this time… Oh, I need to write more huh? Let’s see, how can I make this a high value comment?
…
I saw soemthing in there that says post quality counts more than votes. Did anyone see that. Good on BE. That’s what I think counts more than hustling votes, unless social media influence it what it’s about…
I’m off to write my post.
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bbrian017
June 28th, 2012
Ivin that’s great! I hope to see you joining we always love to have as many contestants joining as possible. It’s a great way to engage with bloggers and gain value experience.
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Geo Jolly
July 3rd, 2012
Kira is one of my best friends and he used speak about the contests at blog engage, Thanks a lot for the new contest,, (thumps up)
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Ehsan Ullah
July 9th, 2012
Hey Brian,
Is it necessary to purchase an account for $19 in order to join the contest?
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bbrian017
July 9th, 2012
Hi Ehsan yes, but right now we have a special deal on, check out my comment luv for your chance to enter and receive a free blog engage account.
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