This is a friendly reminder that the Search Engine Journal Guest Blogging Competition is still running and SingleFeed, the shopping search feed optimization company, has upped their sponsorship offering to a 6 month free subscription for SingleFeed’s Data Feed Management and Optimization service; a $1,074 value!!
SingleFeed’s enhanced sponsorship puts the final prize tally at over $10,000 :
- $1,000 in Blog Reviews &; Links from SponsoredReviews.com
- 6 month free subscription for SingleFeed’s Data Feed Management and Optimization service : $1,074 value
- $500 in free advertising from Text Link Ads
- 6 Month Free Subscription for Adapt Paid Search Management Software (a $1,194 value)
- One Year Subscription to Keyword Discovery (a $599 value)
- $500 from Pepperjam Search
- 3 months free at SEOBook (a $300 value)
- SEO Audit & Site Makeover from Search Engine Journal Services (a $5000+ value)
- Submittals of up to 4 sites to Aviva Directory Network (a $400+ value)
All contributors will benefit from this competition via :
- Exposure of your expertise to the Search Marketing industry
- Exposure of your company : We will add a bi-line an link to your company at the bottom of your post.
- Long term benefit as these posts will be indexed in search engines and housed on our authority site.
- Exposure to our RSS subscriber base of 15,000+
- All Entrants Will Receive a $100 VIP Coupon for SponsoredReviews.com!
- And so much more.
If you are a webmaster, SEO, or online marketing manager; motivate yourself and your staff to enter this competition with a guest post on a search marketing related subject.
How to Enter the SEJ Guest Blog Post Competition
1. Submit your original tutorial, guest post or article via emailing it to lorenmichaelbaker@gmail.com (yes, you can submit multiple posts)
2. Include a 75×75 image of the author (or send a link to your Facebook or another profile with a pic)
3. SEJ staff will review these articles, edit them (if needed), then post them on the blog over a 2 week
period.
4. Judging of the articles will be a multi-tier process looking at social media voting, reader voting, traffic of the individual posts and links to the posts. The voting will be measured 2 weeks after the initial publishing date.
So, we essentially give the responsibility of the voting to the readers :
SEJ user voting at post level + Stumbles + Comments + Sphinns + Diggs + Unique Users + Page Views (Google Analytics) + Mixx Votes + Incoming Links (as measured by Yahoo) = Final Tally
We do not encourage contributors to game the social media voting systems, please let the users of those systems vote for the stories. You can of course promote your posts to friends using IM, Twitter, Facebook, your own blog … etc.
5. Grand Prize will be assigned to the post with the highest final tally as voted upon. We will be transparent about reporting these votes and will rank all of the guest blog posts when we make our final announcement. The Grand Prize will be announced on 5/19/08.
More information on the SEJ Guest Blogging Competition and How to Enter.
This is the absolute WORST thing you could have done
Just saying you do not ‘encourage’ people to game the system, will have absolutely NO effect (duh)
Traffic should NOT be a consideration – only quality.
People WILL game the system because of the publicity they will receive from being a winner and well as the backlinks!
They may buy votes using those new services designed to promote a submission on social networks….
They may even solicit top members to advocate for them…
They will buy backlinks and use other gray hat tactics….
What started off as a good idea with tons of potential, will now be ruined due to ambition
Sounds like a decent contest – love the prize ideas but the last commenter DOES have some good points. It may just be one big popularity contest in the end.
I agree with the first commenter in that the system is likely to be gamed. I recently ran a pretty big contest at WinningtheWeb.com with over $14,000 in prizes and I discovered that people will go to great lengths when real incentives are involved.
I’m not saying that this contest will be a major flop – in fact, I will probably enter myself. However, there is a big risk that the voting system will be gamed, a winner will be selected “unfairly”, and a big uproar stirred up here on SEJ. Not an impossible situation since the rules are a bit ambiguous.
Nevertheless, great idea. Good luck!
Perhaps a panel of judges to complement the voting would be a good idea?
I’ll look into this and add a human touch to the overall judging.
Do we need to submit the article in a particular format? Simple text? Doc? HTML?
Thanks!
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Traffic should NOT be a consideration – only quality.