Blogging Idol has begun! I did not join myself, I think I should talk about it. I have a few things to say, and a list of a few people I want you to help.
Blogging Idol is a contest set up by Daniel from Daily Blog Tips. The contest officially began yesterday, and it is to see who can gain the most RSS subscribers within one month. It is not one of those contests where you “do a blog post” or subscrie to join and such. It is a contest of ultimate competition, and I was actually thinking about doing something similar to this only I had no good prizes to give. A contest will arrive at Green Flamingo soon, I can assure you of that. I do regret not joining now, for it would be fun to participate in this and even have a chance at the prize. In a way I am competing, though I will not recieve a prize if I win.
Since I have no fear of other people getting more RSS subscribers in July than me, I have thought of a few people it may be valuable to subscribe to and if you can I would like you to subscribe to them, to promote them. These are the people I actually know who are in the contest.
That is all I think, and I think it would be nice if you visited them and maybe subscribed.
As I said, I am trying to gain subsribers too, and I would appreciate if you subscribed to Green Flamingo. If you are currently subscribed, I would give you a mention, but there is something I need from you too. I need you to unsubsribe, and then resubscribe, for I changed the feed address. Thanks!
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This is one of the greatest contests I have ever seen. Most have things like ads, entrecredits, reviews, a bit of money like $50-100, but this contest has things actually useful. I will first show you the awesome prize list.
So there you have it. I could leave it at that for the day, just be lazy and show you what I copied and pasted (it would take me a long time to type that up, especially with links, so thanks Jason). I am going to tell you more though so you can join this awesome contest.
That first place prize looks good right? To bad this guy that joined yesterday or day before has hogged it because he spam posts (all the new people are doing that to get points, I encourage you not to). He also has like 5 websites, so posts about the contest on all of them.
So, if you would like to join this amazing contest yourself and see the original thread, here it is.
Join Blog Premiere here and navigate your way around. Note: the registration box does not work, use the nav bar at top to register.
This won’t count as 2 posts today, pretend it is only one. Or I should actually say, ” Don’t expect two posts a day, I’d love to do that, but it is almost impossible.” Sorry I am throwing you off balance into some inconsistent land. But, there is something I am announcing I have been wanting to announce for about a month…
Some of you may already have heard and participated in this wonderful contest, but I would love to announce it for those of you who haven’t!
This contest has over $2000 worth of prizes!
I better get down to telling you what’s going on and how to enter. First, as a little advertising fun, I have prepared a video. The video is NOT perfect. There were things I could have done but I don’t feel like doing it over.
The video, the voice at the end sounds bad. I don’t really sound like that.
12 months of HostGator’s Swamp plan valued at ($180) : This package includes 1,000gb of disk space. Unlimited monthly bandwidth. Unlimited domains. It a fully loaded nothing left out deal. This is their ultimate package. Thanks again to http://www.hostgator.com for donating this for our contest.
12 months of James Germana’s Ultimate hosting plan. Valued at $500. This package includes 1,000gb of disk space. Unlimited monthly bandwidth. Unlimited domains. It also is a fully loaded nothing left out deal. This is James Germana’s Ultimate package. Also the lucky contestant who wins this prize will also get 3 hours of business consultation from James Germana. This alone is worth $500. That brings the total value of this prize to $1000. A Huge thanks goes out to James Germana for making this prize possible!
2 copies of the list building system from BigBenPatton.com ($50)
Those are the glorious prizes, and I did copy the prize list, otherwise it would have taken a really long time to put all those in, add the inks especially, and keep going back and forth. Thank you Ben!
Now, you should know how to enter this contest extravaganza too. There are a few ways, and you still have time left.
Subscribe to RSS feed - (required) - 10 entries - Of course, this is how you get into the contest, targeting the RSS feed. Go for it!
Commenting on a post - 2 entries - this is an easy one. Just add a valuable comment to one of his posts. Some of you may still have problems with commenting, or maybe it is me that discourages comments, but commenting with something valuable and more than just an I agree, you can earn good entries by that. Be sure to use the same email address for commenting as in the RSS feed.
Blog about the contest - 20 entries - this is simple too. Just what I am doing. I may be over doing it a bit, one’s post should be about 100 words, and mine will end up like 1000. Be sure to link back to the original contest post.
Podcast about the contest - 50 entries - You a podcaster? Here is your chance to earn some real points. It should be 30 seconds or longer, and have some words too in which you link to the original post.
Vlog about it - 100 entries - Vlogging = video blogging = make a video. Not too hard. I did it. Now it is your turn. I call you lucky if you have a mac, I don’t think you even need a camera! It should be 30-60 seconds.
Those are the only ways, but be alert! The video is worth double now! 200 entries!
Get out there and go for it! Earn some prizes! Don’t hold back!
Today I have been very busy. I have been trying to sign up with adsense, but of course there is a problem. I have to find out exactly what it does and what it is, and since the site is so * * stupid, as all the other sites that try to explain it but don’t tell the right things, I am extremely pissed off. It is so complicated just to do that one little thing, just as it should not be.
Besides trying to get through that impossible stupidness I have been doing other worth while things. One of them, as you may have noticed, is to put in comment luv and display top commentators. In a few months I may have a prize for the top commentator, or better even to have a contest with PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES. That would be cool. I have a few contest ideas, one is the normal one, having people get points by commenting, blogging about the contest, or subscribing. The other idea is to have a star wars contest, where the one who is best at star wars trivia will win. If I could or can I would or will do both.
I have been trying to create a new website, though I have run into many walls, and my help browser failed come through. If you guys have any tips, I would be more than happy(extremely happy) to except them. It would be phenomenal if one of you that has good tips had access to a chat program, such as AIM or Google chat. That is only if you want or need, because it wold cut into your time, and I could probably take a few hours to find the hard-to-find-information myself.
One more thing I would like to say, I might start writing posts about circus type things, instructions to some skills and tricks. They will first be completely free, but if I have a lot of information about one topic I may try to write an ebook on it, which I will sell.
Later, or actually really soon, I will become unavailable, because I will be going to a festival type thing and then a movie/party with my dad, and I do not know how soon I will be back. I wish you and me good luck! I am still working working working, and I hope to see you again soon. I have some or I did have some posts in mind, which I will hopefully present later. Wish me luck! (Does luck exist? Is it possible to have luck? What is it? It was just talked about when this Realtor type person came over to put a sign in our window saying the house is for sale, and a phrase is said, “wish them luck.” Have these questions float through your mind and have all your knowledge come to me, haha! Anyway bye!) :p
Yes. There is a contest. Hooray! It is at robinhaney.com, called make money online, and most blogs are or are close to that, and though it is about making money online, maybe the title should be called something else, and the tagline can be what it is or make money online. That’s enough with the site design though. Before anything else I should tell you how it works.
The readers earn points. The ways to earn points will be explained.
The winner is randomly picked from everybody. Now the more points you have, the higher chance of winning you have. For the most part. The ways to earn points are:
Subscribe to the RSS feed of the blog.(20 points) This will earn you an automatic 20 points right after you sign up.
Write about this contest on your blog.(50 points) All you have to do is write a short little thing about the contest. The minimum word length for the post is 50 words. Be sure to linkback to that post so he can see that your traceback.
Leave a comment.(2.5 points) An easy way to get points for the contest, though not at a super fast rate, it’ll help your point count and your way towards victory. Note:no spam comments, they will be deleted, so I advise you to put at least 10 second of thought making it a valuable comment.
The prize for the contest is half of the blogger’s earnings. This could be good. The contest ends in the beginning of May. Precisely, May 1st. Great start for me, I have about 80 points. I hope you guys earn some. Good luck!
I am so busy reading only my 6 or 7 blogs that I hardly have time to write on my own. I have found time though. All weekend I have been anticipating this post, or something that is or was going to be like it, called “I need leeches, or wine, too.” This comes off of the two posts on lionandmagicboy.com that talk about perils of scarlet fever. One is called “quick! send leeches!” and the other is ” the leeches didn’t work; send wine.” It turns out I have or had scarlet fever too, and as described there, I describe it in pain.
I thought my illness to be over after I recovered Tuesday, but I must have been wrong. On Friday morning, I woke up with a painful sore throat that was squeezing tighter and tighter… I still went to school. There at school, not long after the very beginning of the day, we had a study hall, not normal of course but because of band stuff blah blah, I started shivering. I was very cold. I knew that I was sick. I endured the painful 45 minutes, suffering through an uncontrollable shaking, not knowing when it was coming. After that I could not bear this longer so I went to the nurse. There I suffered the same harsh shivering and uncontrolled shaking, and the nurse said I should go home. Then napped for two hours, and after that the rest of my weekend will be explained later or never explained. It was pain though!
There ws my hopefully interesting story on the sickness of scarlet fever. I don’t think I have captured all the suffering and pain s it should be. You must exaggerate it, stretch it, make them read on! Whatever. Anyway, I have some new ideas for this blog, the main one is to write more. One of the next posts hopefully coming, about a contest! (Not mine. The post will help m towards this contest though)
