This will be my first contest on this blog. The prizes are quite simple:
- The winner gets a 1 year free of domain name (your choice of .com/.net/.org) and a 1 year web hosting Standard plan from think411.com.
- *UPDATE* Another winner gets a 1 year free of domain name (your choice of .com/.net/.org) and a 1 year web hosting U.S based Starter Plan from HightekHosting.com.au.
- *UPDATE* Another winner gets a 1 year web hosting Basic Plan from Lunarpages.com (and a domain name of .com/.net/.org). Refer to my latest update about the contest post here.
- The 4th winner will get a 2 week of free advertising on my sponsors area (125×125 ad).
So what do you need to do to get the prizes?
I’m not going to use a point system on this contest (where you get points on doing certain tasks which will increase your chance in winning).
However, to be eligible for this contest, you have to:
- Subscribe to both my RSS feed and Email subscription.
- Help spread the word about this contest on any social networking site of your choice (Digg, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Twitter, etc)
- Comment on this post that you’ve done above.
- Simply be noticeable on my blog throughout the contest!
- That’s it!
The winner won’t be random, but I’ll select people that I notice the most during the contest period!
The contest will end sometime in August and the winners will be reported on my post 
FAQs:
Q: How can I be noticeable?
A: Many things! Good quality and frequent comments on my posts, by writing a post about this contest, by bringing referring traffic to this post, and many more – be creative!
Q: Why do I have to subscribe both your RSS and Email feeds?
A: RSS – so I can keep track of the subscriber numbers easily through the counter. Email – to make sure that you are not just subscribing to an RSS feed reader that you’ve never opened/read!
Q: Why aren’t you telling us when the contest will end?
A: This is to make sure that you’ve been reading my posts throughout the contest. I’ve found a few favorite blogs because I’ve been forced to read their posts through their email feeds before. I hope by reading my posts throughout the contest, my blog can be one of your favorite too!
If you’ve been loyally reading my posts throughout the contest, then you’ll know when the contest is going to an end
That’s it! Good luck!
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Michael, you forgot to update the prizes list here! People will think I’m lying if I tell them now you’re featuring THREE free domain names!
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Feabionsu, you really know some useful things to promote a website, I haven’t even heard about the things you use, next week I launch my new blog, maybe you can do some advertising there too, if you have some freetime
So today I stayed with old Yahoo Answers, and since the contest is almost over, I thought I send people to other areas of the site that I found useful.
And I liked Mike’s entrecard guide, so I made some suggestions to those who wanted to increase their blog traffic. Since the quesions are almost the same, I gave the same answer except some modifications here and there.
By the way, I really don’t understand these people. They rather make a question than search and choose from the hundreds of other best answers from the previous same exact questions. omg, omg, omg! But it’s none of my business. I’m happy I could help them
So here are the links in case you would like to check them:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtNQqFYss2IkWNv.uD3qbWIjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080814153140AAvuN3l
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApN_gkW3WRX6HOkD_LdpbKUjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080820235549AAiAr23
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao2qO0SCvFmE31AVh7uzCtIjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080822001946AAuokVd
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au.wmhRDEu1wg4E8VpkSKmYjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080818213403AAZYSRc
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080822032838AAdMTCN
I saw some post about 3 domains above, but first I wanted to post this, now, I’m off checking if the news are true
Thanks Rjani! I guess I do… though I knew about BlurtIt a long time ago, when I was trying to find a similar Yahoo Answers,but without registering a Yahoo Account. I’ve given up on it – simply because I don’t like spending all my time answering people’s questions just to get more “karma points”. I’d rather simply check Yahoo Answers to see if anybody answered my question before – like you recommended – cause somebody probably has!
But I’m not gong to do free advertising for you – I /don’t/ have the time, you see! Well, I might help you out – but only if there’s another free domain name contest in store for me!
By the way, sending people to other areas of Michael’s blog is a great idea! (I’ll send my own scoop, for yesterday and today, this evening Michael – I was too busy yesterday to post it then. Sorry!)
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Feabionsu,promoting my site was just a joke of course
But I’m glad to see you take it so seriously
Well, I don’t have any money for such a contest, but I’m sure there will be other ones, and why do you need another domain anyway?
By the way, I like to do my promotion, so don’t worrry
And looking forward to see what you’re going to do with your site
(oops, so many smileys, this must be a happy day for me)
And although I think it’s a very good idea to promote the site through such contests, it’s kinda sad that Michael offers 3 domain names+hosting now, and there are so few contestants, but the most surprising for me is there are only 18 diggs so far on the post…
Exactly – that’s barely worth anything on Digg! And the only two active contestants I see right now is me and you, Rjani! (Unless there’s people who just secretly email Michael what they did, cause they don’t want to share their techniques!)
I /did/ take it as a joke – I’m just bad at letting people know I understand their jokes… so everybody usually thinks I’m the last to catch on, though that’s not true!
Why do I need /another/ domain name? I never said I even had a first one!
Well, if you count the seekersfan.webs.com thing – but that’s not a real domain name, just a fan website! And like I said, I’m pretty quits with that website, so it’ll be one domain after all! As to why I need it – to build a website I’m passionate working on of course! Something that’ll be updated regularly, and that’ll keep my visitors coming back every time!
Yep, I got ideas, that’s for sure! But you’ll have to wait to find out – it’s going to be a surprise. To you, to Michael, to everyone!
And yes, that is a bit too much smileys! 
Though I shouldn’t talking really…
Back to the tiny number of Diggs though – really, Digg isn’t important to me, as much as before, anyways. I used to value it for the number of visitors it could bring to my site, but since Yahoo Buzz recently launched, I found much more advantages in it, than Digg.
For one thing, more people have a Yahoo account than a Digg one, no matter how popular a social networking site Digg might be. Secondly, I saw a buzz submission in the Top Content (basically on the front page of Yahoo Buzz) and it only had 9 buzzes! Would Digg ever feature something with 9 diggs on their home page? I don’t think so!
And then of course, if getting your content on the front page of Yahoo Buzz isn’t good enough, then there’s the huge possibility that, with enough buzzes, your blog/website might be featured on the front page of Yahoo.com, simply because many people buzzed it!
And yet, there’s even less buzzes than there of Digg’s about this contest – so it /is/ a bit disappointing, I agree Rjani…
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I’m so sad that I’ll miss the last few days of the contest, but I have to go to this high-school-camp-thing tomorrow(Monday) and I come back only on Saturday, so I did a little homework tonight. Call it my last breath
So I answered some questions on Yahoo again linking to various posts, and left 2 comments on Problogger on posts where are still active readers/commenters, so it should give you some traffic too. Here are the links, if you would like to check them:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080820184659AA2keP1
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080819183347AAwaXYf
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080823131613AAxrHFw
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080821204823AAjwpaS
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080821013228AArK0OM
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080824053649AA0PnoF
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080823113249AAcDC5o
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080824022328AA8m0OP
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080823040059AAfablW
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080822174519AAjd5VC
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/03/27/how-much-should-i-charge-for-my-advertising-space/
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/07/09/10-ways-to-optimize-a-popular-post-on-your-blog/
Hope this should help till Saturday, see you then guys!
Hehe and some funny stuff at the end: one of my free domain+hosting answers was chosen the best answer at yahoo!
So it will be seen by other searchers for a long time
Oh, and Feabionsu ! I understood that you had understood that was a joke, it’s just your comment had some serious tone or something, so I said that as a joke, uhhh, it’s difficult
, I think we’re in the same boat.
And about the domain, I meant : why do you need a second one after you win one here.:)
And thanks for opening my eyes, I didn’t give much attention to Buzz, and I didn’t know that I only need only a Yahoo account to use it, so I’m going now Buzz this post, then on my way to the highschool-camp! See you soon!
I almost forgot to mention: I saw that even subscribers’ numbers decreased by 22 or so, I can’t imagine why :S
I could understand if the contest was already over, but why now?
And one last correction: the best yahoo answer might be because I voted on my answer and nobody else voted, I really don’t remember, but it succeeded anyway
Oh Michael, if these two guys are not winning anything for what they have done, they are gonna kick your ass…..:-)
Yan
PS: It was a joke.
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I don’t really like kicking asses
but you might win one hosting, cause you seem good at threatening people and pretending it was a joke 
P.S.:it was a joke
I’m going to the camp in 10 mns, but I couldn’t resist to put it here:
oops, yahoo answers is currently down, but I thought it might help if I vote on my answers there, and it seems to work, cause nobody else votes, and I’ve got another best answer linking to your blog, and I’m sure there are more yet to come!
Have a nice week!
Even though I haven’t replied to the comments, I was following them hehe
The three of you should form a group or something with me. Seems that the four of us can be great friends
Not a bad idea actually, so is this a joke or something? Pardon me for lack of humor in my DNA…:-)
Yan
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Not really following with all the joke things, but oh well…
And thanks for letting us know that you’re still following this post’s comments – cause I was kind of sad you stopped replying to any of them…. Is this like your most commented blog post of the month? I bet it is!
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At last, the HUGE scoop of three days worth – Saturday, Sunday, and today!
Sorry if I made it seem as if I was getting lazy after all – I was still working hard on advertising the contest and your blog, just didn’t have those last few minutes where I could actually write the comment and tell you about it!
I’m continuing with the number ten for each project I do, so for Saturday I decided to continue with Yahoo Buzz, plus adding Reddit and Digg to the pile! That’s three good and popular social networking services, and ten blog posts for each one of them – so thirty great back-links all leading to your blog!
First things first – Yahoo Buzz. And seeing how you have added yet another twist to your contest, I was able to buzz your contest for the third time now, with the happy news of THREE free domain names! Of course with the rest of the buzzes I had to stick with just your other interesting blog posts and hope that people will discover your blog through them – I can’t buzz your contest more than once, that’s a job for other people!
The list:
Three free domains – http://xrl.us/ooeqy
OurSwaps website – http://xrl.us/ooeq2
Realistic animation – http://xrl.us/ooeq4
Pic2Color website – http://xrl.us/ooeq6
DealExtreme website – http://xrl.us/ooeq8
Blogger to WordPress – http://xrl.us/ooera
Vista Shutdown Timer – http://xrl.us/ooetv
Re-seal Chip Bags Easily – http://xrl.us/ooetx
LunarPages Review – http://xrl.us/ooet5
Free Blue Screen Backgrounds – http://xrl.us/ooeuh
And that’s it for Yahoo Buzz! I loved all of those blog posts and thought they were pretty interesting. I’m sure other people will find your blog through these buzzes and will enjoy reading them too! Now, onto digg… same blog posts, but the links are different, so don’t think I’m just copying and pasting the above!
Three free domains – http://xrl.us/ooeva
OurSwaps website – http://xrl.us/oofbi
Realistic animation – http://xrl.us/oofbv
Pic2Color website – http://xrl.us/oofcf
DealExtreme website – http://xrl.us/oofch
Blogger to WordPress – http://xrl.us/oofcw
Vista Shutdown Timer – http://xrl.us/oofdg
Re-seal Chip Bags Easily – http://xrl.us/oofdp
LunarPages Review – http://xrl.us/oofd5
Free Blue Screen Backgrounds – http://xrl.us/oofed
And finally Reddit – some of the blog posts differ here, cause I started working with Reddit a bit before Digg and Buzz – the good thing though, is that I don’t even have to post but one link – my profile! Simply click on it and you’ll see all of them! Including a link to the contest of course… http://www.reddit.com/user/feabionsu.
It was actually a bit annoying to use Reddit, to tell you the truth – you have to wait 10 minutes between each submitted item! How stupid is that? Nevertheless, I was determined to post 10 of your blog posts, even if it means in a time period of 100 minutes!
For Sunday, I thought it’d be good to focus on your contest again – these past few days, all I’ve been doing is just advertising your blog and interesting blog posts – which is good, but there’s also a time to focus on the actual contest. Seeing the “Share” button on the contest’s post, I decided it’d be cool not to just Digg, Buzz, and Stumble this contest but use all those other services too! Furl, Mixx, Pownce – there’s loads of them! And so your contest went up on…
Mixx – - – http://xrl.us/oohji
Furl – - – http://xrl.us/oohkf
Pownce – - http://xrl.us/oohkq
Delicious – http://xrl.us/oohk4
Digg – - – http://xrl.us/ooeva
Buzz – - – http://xrl.us/ooeqy
ShoutWire – http://xrl.us/ooh3s
Faves – - – http://xrl.us/ooh4a
CiteULike – http://xrl.us/ooh4n
Diigo – - – http://xrl.us/ooh4t
And that’s that for the links! It might seem small, but registering on each of those sites was no easy 1 second task! I’m proud that your contest is now on so many social networking sites and I hope more people find it now through my efforts! (I understand that some of the above, like Digg and Buzz, were done before, but still, they count nevertheless, so I thought I still ought to include them!)
And finally, today I decided was a day for forums – another blog recommended some really good do follow forums that are popular, organized and very resourceful (or so the blog said), so naturally I went ahead and posted your link on each of those forums! Plus I added a signature with a link to the contest too! I’ll post the links tomorrow however, cause it’s already really late here where I live and I really do have to get some sleep!
Till tomorrow then – for another great scoop! And so see, I /was/ working all this time! Just didn’t have time to write such a long comment as this! Hope you’re happy with all these new efforts!
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I wonder what will happen if I extend this contest for another month… *evil grin watching Feabionsu doing all the marketing work for his blog* lol just kidding, I’m not that evil
No! That WOULD be so evil! If you would, I’d probably just leave! Seriously. That’s why it’s kind of a good for me that the contest is ending pretty soon – I do work hard on those “scoops”, but it’s time I got to work on my own website, domain or not! I wouldn’t even mind even if the contest ended today! My previous “scoops” should count for something and I’ve given as much effort and work to this contest as I possibly could, at least for the time period since I joined.
Another evil idea would be that Michael just hosted this contest so people like Feabionsu advertise for him, when really, he doesn’t have any free domain names to give away and plans to pretend to give the prizes to imaginary winners! I don’t know if that’s being done before (probably has been) but that would be evil indeed for Michael.
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So, time for another little scoop! What have I been doing for these past two days? Well, there’s the forums of course that I was talking about – those required some effort. All that registering, confirming your email address, then trying to find the right category to post about your contest – well, I’ve learned that you can only post on so much forums.
Here they are:
Castanet Forums – http://xrl.us/oono6
Domain Name Forums – http://xrl.us/oono8
Warriors Wish Forums – http://xrl.us/oonpa
Warriors Forum – http://xrl.us/oonpc
Digital Point – http://xrl.us/oonpg
And then of course there has to be some buzzes, right?
Free Image Resources – http://xrl.us/oonpr
Windows Live Messenger Beta 9 – http://xrl.us/oonpt
Make Money With Empty Advertising Slots – http://xrl.us/oonpv
Only three, but I’ll do more, just didn’t have much time yesterday. And plus, I got your newest blog posts on buzz, so I can’t just make MORE new blog posts out of thin air! I did submit your WLM 9 Beta post to Digg and dugg all the other new blog posts that others have already submitted: http://xrl.us/oonp7
And of course, good old Reddit agreed to help out:
Free Image Resources – http://xrl.us/oonqj
Windows Live Messenger Beta 9 – http://xrl.us/oonuy
Make Money With Empty Advertising Slots – http://xrl.us/oonqf
And that’s it for now! I’m running out of ideas here! Tried practically all the networking social sites, answered all those Yahoo Answers and BlurtIt, went on forums – whatever next? I’ll have to come up with a genius idea, that’s what…
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Awesome post, way to go =)
Thanks for the post! Great
this contest sounds great i think i want to enter it any more info?
this sounds like a pretty interesting contest
This is the greatest way to get a free domain! thnx…
Done I dugg it… Thank you very much for this good articles..
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