This is a guest blogging contest and hence you will need to write a guest post on one of the following topics (the list is not all) in order to enter the contest.
Blogging Tips (general), SEO, Link Building, List Building, Blog Traffic Generation, Social Media, Blog Promotion, Article Marketing, Copywriting, etc.
You need to register at Problogging Success and then submit your contest post. More details on submitting your contest entry can be found at this page.
Guidelines (Important, please read all points):
- The post should be 500 words minimum in length.
- The content should be original, which means it should not have been published already anywhere, not even on your blog. After your post gets published here at Problogging Success, it cannot be published anywhere else, even after the contest gets over.
- You can add up to two links in your contest post, not more than that. No affiliate links or links to any questionable sites. If in doubt, please ask.
- You cannot write reviews of any products. The posts should not be promotional in nature. The post should deliver value.
- All other guidelines mentioned here apply.
- You must have a blog.
- Once you submit your contest post, you should write a post on your blog about the contest (asking for your readers to support your contest entry :)) with the sponsor codes in it. This step qualifies you for the contest and is very important!
- 8. Please note that your contest entry will be published at Problogging Success. The post you write on your blog about the contest is different from this!
- 9. You can start submitting your contest entry anytime from now until January 31st, 2012 which is the last date for submissions.
- 10. Once your post is published you can promote your contest post (social promotion) and start earning points. The social promotional period ends on February 15th, 2012.
- On February 15th social scores will be locked (which means any social promotion after Feb. 15th won’t be counted). But until February 28th you can still earn points by building backlinks to your guest post (25 points per backlink) and by writing sponsor reviews.
- Points will be completely locked on Feb. 28th, 2012 and results will be announced sometimes between March 5th and 10th, 2012.
How to win?
Please check the contest prizes page for the prizes you’ll get upon winning the contest.
The winners will be chosen on a point based system. So you can earn points and move up the ladder when you do stuff that gives you points -
- Google +1 Vote - 5 points
- Comment / Reply - 10 points
- 1 backlink to your contest post in the form of commentluv link, or backlinks in any post on your blog or a guest post; no spamming – 25 points - The participants need to email me a list of page urls where the backlink is present, urls they commented on or better yet, the comment urls!
- Tweet - 3 points
- Facebook share/like - 4 points
- Blog Engage Vote - 4 points
- Blokube Vote - 4 points
- Sponsor reviews - Platinum: 200 points, Elite: 175 points, Gold: 150 points, Silver: 100 points
A note on sponsor reviews
A review post should be about one sponsor only. You cannot write a combined review since points vary between sponsors. You can write more than one reviews about the same sponsor. Please visit the sponsors list page before writing a review. Some sponsors have specific requirements for a review.
You can publish the reviews anywhere - it can be your blog, or other blog or Hubpages, Triond, Tumblr etc. But make sure that each review contains at least 2 do-follow links to the sponsor, and a last line saying (paste in HTML mode)-
For the Problogging Success’s <a href=”http://www.
A note on backlinks
Backlinks can be either
(i) commentluv links - you leave a comment on some site with your contest post as the commentluv link. Please note that comments that are not published (those under moderation) do not count.
and/or
(ii) links to your contest post from within any blog post. Just note that the “about the contest post” won’t count for backlinks; since making that post is an essential step to enter the contest; not to increase points. And sponsor reviews won’t count for backlinks as well, since you already get the “review” points for that post, you won’t get another type of point for the same post.
I drew this point system based on certain concepts involved with blogging success - you need to write great posts, you should be able to promote them on social media to gain exposure, you should be able to interact and engage with people, you should appreciate your neighbors.
Does this make sense?
Have a question?
Have I missed something? Or do you have a question. Sure, just hit the contact form and ask me. I’ll be happy to answer your questions.
