Blogging From Scratch

It’s the first week of November and I’m officially back. Two more months and it’s Christmas once more without me noticing it. As much as I wanted to stay at home for vacation, this Friday I’ll be back at my “daytime” job and I’ll be busy once more. Aww, I’m gonna miss my auntie and mom’s home cook meals.

Link Blast

Are You Setting Your Goals? by DaBlogger. Indeed I am! I have my goal this month of November but I’d rather keep it to myself first. That’s one secret I’ll never tell. xoxo. I feel like Gossip Girl. Anyway, he talked about daily goal, short term goal and long term goal. This goal thingy reminded me of my ethics teacher in college that open my eyes on how important goals are in a person’s life.

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If you can’t wait to finish reading my case study series of Increasing your Blog Statistics with Blog Contest, it is now available for download if you subscribe to Blogging From Scratch through email. The download link could be found at the bottom of the feed.

Teasers:

There are 9 chapters in the Blog to success with blog contest ebook. Chapter 8 is the Contest Workbook wherein there are 4 scenarios of where, what, how, when to organize blogs contests. It will even show you on how to find sponsors and what mechanics to outline.

Chapter 1: Setting your goal
Chapter 2: Contest Prizes
Chapter 3: Contest Mechanics
Chapter 4: Declaring the Winner
Chapter 5: Learning from Experience
Chapter 6: Contest Observations
Chapter 7: Sponsor other contest
Chapter 8: Contest Workbook
Chapter 9: Conclusion

I would be having a vacation in our hometown so this blog would be inactive for two to three weeks.

Thanks to everyone who have participated in the contest! This contest is a thanksgiving contest for my blogging anniversary and the blessings I’ve received from blogging. I’ve been blogging for about a year now and I want to give back to those who aspires to make money online.

This contest was a huge success. Many thanks to those who have joined! I thought I have learned all about contest on my first one but there are yet still more to learn. I will share all the things that I’ve learned from having blog contest by writing a post about it!

I’ve been receiving a lot of when will you announce the winners and all. It took me some time to find a free time to tally all the contest entries. So without further ado, here are the winners.

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Link Love!

I’m going to give some link love to some of the blogs that I subscribed to and regularly visits. The link love 4th edition post would just be short for I have a lot of tallying to do.

• Indocontest now have a new awesome banner for his blog.
• Bloganol gave you the 25 Coolest Firefox Wallpapers before, now he’s giving the 20 Firefox 3 Themes you must try
• It’s been 1 Year And 5 Days since the Green Flamingo blog was born. Congratulations!
• Why You Need Optimization? by ZakShow tells us what huge difference it takes if we, bloggers utilize huge traffic that comes from search engines.
• The Importance of Analytics and Stats Tracking by ThemeLib which i couldn’t agree more. How far do you want to track your site’s visitors.

Contest update

Contest is now officially close and I have so much to do. I would announce the winners in the next few days.