Well, following November’s successful competition here at Blogging Web 2.0 it’s time to announce the competition for December!

As I won Monika’s competition at her Writer’s Manifesto Blog for last month, I decided to recycle the prize money and put it up here – in stages. I’m a great believer in giving back what I take out, so it seemed a really useful way of using the money rather than simply spending it on myself (ok, that’s also a nice thing to do with money…).

As the success of this blog is more important to me than a few case-loads of beers (aw, I like beer!) I talked it over with Monika and we decided that the best way to go would be to keep the competition the same for this month and keep attracting new guest bloggers to participate by posting as many (relevant and original) articles here as they can and the one who posts the most by midnight GMT 31st December 2007 will win the money. Simple!

How much money?

Well my first impulse was to put up the whole hundred, but then thought it would be better to split it over two months. That’s because Monika has put up the prize money for the first two months here and its well and truly my turn to do the same.

But…

This blog is still young and isn’t paying for itself yet. While it has done phenomenally well in it’s first two months of existence, it still needs more readers and contributors to push it along. It’s only by increasing our traffic stats sufficiently will we warrant touting for some advertising revenue to start making it pay. That will come soon enough as long as we keep working it as hard as we are and promoting it to the outside world as we’re doing.

So we decided it would be best to spin the money out over 3 months with December and January prizes at $30 and February at $40.

In three months we aim to be generating sufficient income from this blog so that further competitions will be sponsored from it’s own earning rather than from our own pockets – the way a business should be run!

So we ask all our current guest bloggers and friends to join in and post away as before and tell your blogging friend about us so more will join in the fun!

Remember, each post you publish here gets you a one-way back-link to your site. We’re already PR2 and the way we are going that will increase with the next round of Google page rank reshuffles so your existing as well as future links will grow in value as this site does. Plus as our traffic grows, more people will see your work and some to your blogs to see more, so everyone benefits from this.

So please get posting and anyone reading this who hasn’t already joined in, feel free to jump on board!

Monika and myself look forward to you joining us!

Terry Didcott
Blogging Web 2.o

Hello, if you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Filed under: Internet Marketing