Well the counting is over and today, I’m going to disclose who the winners are, for the “Guest Blogging Gone Crazy” contest which actually went crazy.

Nearly 23 guest authors participated in this contest and contributed 40 articles for this blog. That’s really some great results in the first season of this contest.

So, Thanks to all the guest authors who participated in this contest. Also thanks to the sponsors of this contest for making these guest authors go crazy in this contest.

Well the points calculation was pretty easy. The only problem was with the retweet counts and some doubts regarding some comments in the posts. But no worries, I have tried to provide as accurate results as possible.

And the winners are…Hey! Not now again.. Keep reading…

Please read the official post to know how the points are awarded with an example.

The decisions taken at the end are final and it can’t be changed. The tweets were validated with the help of tweetmeme and topsy service and in some posts, I personally calculated the reweets as it was showing wrong counts.

And So, The Winners are…

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thanks for waiting so long…

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the guest authors wrote their best articles and today they will be awarded for it…

why did you stopped the drum roll?…please continue it, I will pay later …

The results are interesting…Very interesting…

The Winners For Guest Blogging Gone Crazy Contest ARE…

1^st Prize Winner

Author : Devesh

Devesh is a Young Entrepreneur & author of Make Money Online Blog. He is the 1^st prize winner for this contest with a total of 68.7 points. He contributed 2 posts for this contest and of which his article “SEO – 20+ Quick ways To Build Backlinks” went crazy and made him win this contest.

2^nd Prize Winner

Author : Tushar

Tushar writes at BloggersPassion, the blog for all blogging tips from the bucket of his real experiences that can make you become a better blogger. He is the 2nd prize winner for this contest with a total of 63.6 points. He contributed a whooping 8 posts for this contest and of which his article “Commenting Or Guest Blogging – What Is Your Way Of Promoting?” went crazy and made him win this contest.

3^rd Prize Winner

Author : Melissa

Melissa Tamura is a female write who recently wrote about weird scholarships for the Zen College Life directory of online degrees.She is the 3rs prize winner for this contest with a total of 58.2 points. She contributed 1 post for this contest which was “10 Ways To Get More Readers To Your Blog” and it made her win this contest.

Here is the  evaluation table of all the guest authors. Please click on the image to view an enlarged size of the image.

I hope you enjoyed participating in the contest and I also hope that the readers would have enjoyed reading these superb guest post.

I will contact the winners tomorrow on how to claim your prizes. So please wait for my email to arrive.

If you have any question then kindly mail me using the contact form.

The new season of this contest will be back again which will be more bigger and better. So keep reading SmartBloggerz :-/)

The Winners For Guest Blogging Gone Crazy Contest Are… is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

Well, I would like to notify everyone that SmartBloggerz – Guest Blogging Gone Crazy Contest now stops here. Now, no more entries will be a part of this contest. So, guest post published now onwards won’t be a part of this contest.

It has been really a great contest and I would like to thank all the guest authors for participating in this contest and making SmartBloggerz a better blog with your articles.

Now What?

Well, it’s time for all the guest authors to start collecting points for their articles and make their posts earn more social media points to create your chances of winning in this contest. Also it is time for blog readers to read out the guest posts in past and show some love to the authors by commenting, retweeting and voting on other social media sites.

Guest Authors can collect social media points till the end of 13th June IST. All the comments, retweets etc. on your post after that date won’t convert into point.

So make sure you have everything clear in your mind about how you are going to promote your guest posts.

Here is a list of all guest posts submitted during this contest. I request all the blog readers to go through these posts and share your thoughts about them. All articles are really interesting and I don’t think any post will make you feel bored.

I have properly categorized them so that it is easy for people looking to read article on a specific topic/type.

Blogging

1. 5 Reasons Why Blogging Is Best Business For Students
2. When Are You Ready For A Full-Time Blogging Career?
3. 5 Best Things About Blogging
4. Why You Should Stop Blogging About Blogging And Blogging In Popular Niches
5. Why I Must Join Your Blogging Contest!
6. How Young Bloggers Are Benefiting From Starting Out Early
7. The 4 Habits Of Highly Effective Bloggers
8. Don’t Do These Bloggers – Or You Are Dead!
9. 5 Ways To Motivate Yourself In Blogging
10. 2 Blogging Tips To Bring Success And Keep You Going
11. 5 Places To Look At For Your Next Blog Post Idea
12. When And Why Should I Turn My Blog Into An LLC?
13. Are You Missing Out The Most Important Piece In Blogging?
14. Have You Read Your Old Posts Lately? Do it Now!
15. 6 Bitter Blogging Truths That Every Blogger Have To Accept

“How To” Articles

1. How To Create A Great About Me Page For Your Blog
2. How To Make Your Blog a ‘Sticky’ to Your Readers
3. How To Create An Enticing Blog Header Image
4. How To Get More Comments On Your Blog Following 10 Simple Ways
5. How To Become A Successful Blogspot Blogger
6. How To Make A Blog Post Go Viral In StumbleUpon

Social Media (Twitter, etc.)

1. 15 Practical Strategies For Twitter Marketing
2. Social Media Marketing – A Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Can Go A Long Way!
3. 10 Places To Visit Before You Die – As A Webmaster
4. Top 7 Mistakes Made On Twitter By Bloggers And Internet Marketers

Search Engine Optimization – SEO

1. SEO – 20+ Quick Ways To Build Backlinks
2. 9 Keys For Succesful On-Page SEO
3. Why Your Blog Sucks At SEO

Blog Promotion

1. 10 Ways To Get More Readers To Your Blog
2. Commenting Or Guest Blogging – What Is Your Way Of Promoting?
3. How Social Is Your Blog?
4. The REAL Reason Guest Blogging Seems To Work So Well
5. The Effectiveness Of Contest To Promote Your Blog

Internet Marketing (Make Money Online, Make Money Blogging, Affiliate Marketing etc.)

1. 3 Biggest Mistakes That Newbie Affiliate Marketers Make
2. Online List Building: IMMEDIATE Download Or 7-Day E-Course?
3. 3 Ways To Make Handsome Money Online Without Your Own Blog
4. 3 Reasons Why You Should Join A New Forum
5. How To Make Money Online With YouTube
6. Blog Monetization: 10 Easy But Effective Ways To Monetize Your Blog
7. 3 Helpful Niche Analysis Tools Reviewed

Did I miss any post? I don’t think so but if I did miss your post then please contact me or comment below.

Also, as a note; I have not arranged the guest posts in any special order so just dump any of your guesses if you are making it. I have arranged most of them according to their date of posting (most probably).

If you have any question regarding contest then don’t hesitate to ask it using the comment form below..If the question is related to some specific post then it would be good if you contact me using the contact form.

Now, there won’t be any post after this regarding contest except the “contest winners” post. The results will be declared before 20^th June. So keep checking SmartBloggerz as there are many more interesting articles and changes coming up.

(Note: Due to some capacity problems in Twitter in past few days, there has been some problem in counting retweets for the posts. I hope that it comes back to normal state soon or I will see if there is some other possibility to count retweets.)

Guest Blogging Gone Crazy – It ENDS Here | Now Start Voting is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

After taking in some suggestions from the blog readers, I’m reversing back that decision and making some changes to it.

Now, you must submit your guest post for review before 26^th May IST, if you want to be a part of this contest. Guest Posts submitted after or on that date won’t be a part of this contest.

The articles will get published on this blog by June 10^th and till June 13^th, late entries and even the old ones can try to increase their social media points for winning this contest.

Another Update To Guest Blogging Gone Crazy Contest is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

But it does not mean that “It’s Over”. SmartBloggerz “Guest Blogging Gone Crazy Contest” is still running and there are lots of guest post waiting to be published and that’s why I have thought to make a little update to this contest.

Well, the update is that the contest end date which was 26^th May earlier has now been shifted forward to 10^th June. This has been done to avoid any kind of mess as we approach to the end of the contest since there are many guest post waiting which I don’t think could properly accommodate during the remaining days.

So now, all the guest post published till 10^th June will be a part of this contest. Also, Making it a fair chance for late entries I’m giving extra 3 days i.e. till 13^th June for all guest authors to collect as many social media points as possible to increase your chances of winning Guest Blogging Gone Crazy Contest.

The results will be declared within a week time.

I hope there aren’t any kind of doubts in your mind. But if you have then don’t hesitate to ask me by commenting below or contacting me.

NEW UPDATE HERE

An Update To Guest Blogging Gone Crazy Contest is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

First of all, I would like to Thank All The Sponsors who have made this contest possible plus a BIG Thanks to Ann Smarty who owns MyBlogGuest. MyBlogGuest is a friendly community of guest bloggers where people can search for blogs to guest post, search for guest author for their blogs and also engage in the other community talks. It’s the only website/forum dedicated to guest blogging. They are the official media promoter for this guest blogging contest.

Who Are The Sponsors?

This contest has grabbed support from many big sponsors who will be giving away very useful stuffs which will improve your blogging experience. Here is a list of those sponsors:

1. SmartBloggerz : “Guest Blogging Gone Crazy” contest is being hosted by SmartBloggerz that provides useful blogging tips, make money online tips and seo tips to bloggers.
2. WooThemes : WooThemes is a commercial theme shop largely developing cutting-edge WordPress themes, both paid and free, for a large community of Woo Users, but also experimenting with themes for Tumblr, Drupal and ExpressionEngine. WooThemes prides itself on friendly, fast customer service and top notch support. They are offering membership to their site.
3. LogoNerds : LogoNerds offers best logo designing for your website. Have a Nerd design your logo for under $50. Custom logo design service at a price anyone can afford. These Nerds will be offerinf logo designing for this contest.
4. MaxBlogPress : MaxBlogPress is having some of the great products in their ownership. They are offering Ninja Affiliate plugin which converts all the keywords on your blog post into affiliate link automatically. It lets you manage all your affiliate link from one location. It can also prevent affiliate theft by cloaking your affiliate link.
5. WP Shopping Pages : Lunatic Studios is offering one of their newest launch – WP Shopping Pages. WP Shopping Pages is a new and powerful WordPress affiliate plugin. The content-rich Shopping Pages filled with Amazon products and eBay auctions related to any topic the plugin creates are a great addition to every weblog. And best of all – adding pages with WP Shopping Pages is a breeze: Within minutes you can turn your weblogs into a powerful affiliate store.
6. CarlOcab : Carl Ocab is a well known young blogger also known as “kid blogger” as he ranked his blog for the keyword “make money online” at the age of just 13. He is offering license to his ultimate blogging theme.
7. Blogussion : The blogger behind this blog, Alex Fraiser is offering his Blogussion Inspired Thesis Theme. The Blogussion Theme for Thesis is a gorgeous and easily customizable theme for the Thesis framework. With a lot of extra admin options, such as a color switcher, navigation, ad management, and more – this theme works perfectly alongside the many options that comes with Thesis already.
8. DennisEdell : Dennis Edell gives Personal Coaching; Direct Sales Marketing Strategies for Your e-Commerce Websites & Blogs and for this contest he is offering cash prize.
9. PV Reymond : PV Reymond is offering Internet Business Coaching and has provided consultation to many people from past 4 yrs. He provides specific tips and strategies for the person’s actual situation. If the person applies the strategies that he’ll teach, the results can be great.
10. MyBlog2Day : How to blog and make money online from blogging is not a myth anymore. Lee from MyBlog2Day teaches you how to blog with success and he will be offering cash prize in this contest.
11. NickThrolson : Nick is offering copies of his product – LP Jumper which helps in landing page rotation. LP Jumper is a fast and simple way to split test multiple landing pages with just a mouse click. LP Jumper uses the current themes within your WordPress CMS platform and rotates them all via a percentage base. The simple user interface will get you up and running in under 5 minutes.
12. JohnPaul : John is a great blogger who teaches people how to make money online. He will be offering copies of his ebook – Twitter Dummy. This will teach you his Twitter Marketing Secrets that he uses daily for building his brand. You can get free targeted traffic to your blog after implementing these strategies.
13. WeBlogBetter : We blog better, a blog that delivers blogging tips and Tricks to help you blog better, will be releasing a new ebook – A Step-by-step Guide to a Better Blog ~ Take your blog from set-up to the next level. Be the first to get a copy of this comprehensive guide to blogging by participating in this contest. Follow on Twitter and subscribe to WeBlogBetter’s feed.
14. TechnoZeast : TechnoZeast is blog on WordPress, Blogging, Technology, Make Money Online and provides various services which includes Thesis Customization, Custom Plugin, Custom Theme, SEO checkout the big list of services. They are giving away Thesis Customization and Basic SEO to the winners of the contest.
15. BuildACouponSite : It’s script with which you can build a coupon site that helps people finding  discount coupons while you can earn from affiliate commissions.

The Prize List

1^st Position | Cash: $125 Other:$732.98 Total = $857.98

• $125 Cash via PayPal from SmartBloggerz
• Developer Package at WooThemes = $150
• 1 Copy of my ebook “How To Get Free FaceBook Advertising Coupons” = $14.99
• Character Mascot Design package by LogoNerds = $97
• 1 Unlimited Blog License of Ultimate Blogging Theme by CarlOcab = $97
• 1 License of Ninja Affiliate Plugin from MaxBlogPress = $97
• 1 License of WP Shopping Pages from Lunatic Studios = $69
• 60 Minute of one-on-one Internet Business consultation with PV Reymond = $147
• 1 Copy Of Twitter Dummy eBook = $24
• 1 copy of LP Jumper = $27
• 1 Copy of “A Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Blog” eBook = $9.99

2^nd Position | Cash: $75 Other:$531.99 Total = $606.99

• $50 Cash via PayPal from SmartBloggerz
• $25 Cash via PayPal from Dennis Edell
• Thesis Theme Customization + Basic SEO by TechnoZeast = $325
• Professional Business Logo Package by LogoNerds = $47
• License of Build A Coupon Site Script = $99
• 1 copy of LP Jumper = $27
• 1 Copy of Twitter Dummy eBook = $24
• 1 Copy of “A Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Blog” eBook = $9.99

3^rd Position | Cash: $50 Other:$195.94 Total = $245.94

• $30 Cash via PayPal from SmartBloggerz
• $20 Cash via PayPal from MyBlog2Day
• 1 License of Blogussion Thesis Theme = $45.95
• Crystal Clear Focus Program by PV Reymond = $47
• License of WP Shopping Pages from Lunatic Studios = $69
• 1 Copy of Twitter Dummy eBook = $24
• 1 Copy of “A Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Blog” eBook = $9.99

Total Worth Of Prizes = $1710.91

How To Win This Contest?

Winning this contest is simple. You just have to publish a well written guest post and collect as many points as possible. Every guest post published during the contest period will be a part of this contest so you don’t have go into any formalities of telling me that I wanna take part and blah blah..The guest author who collects the most points wins the prizes listed above according to their position in the chart.

The Points System

For becoming the winner of this contest, you will have to collect points and the author having highest points at the end of the contest will win the prizes.

1. For your every guest post that gets published on SmartBloggerz, you will get 2 points. You can submit any amount of guest post for review.
2. 10 Retweets of your guest post = 1 point
3. 5 BlogEngage Votes = 1 point
4. Every unique commentator in your guest post excluding author replies = 1 point
5. 5 Digg Votes = 1 Point

[From 2-5 in the above list, I will call it as "social media points"]

That’s it! Collect points and win this contest. But do note here one important thing: the social media points will be rewarded only for one guest post which makes the best in total.

An Example For The Explanation Of Points System

I think most of you have understood the points system for this contest and how you will be earning them. But still, those who are still confused with it, here is an example for an easy explanation.

Suppose a guest author – Mr. SB registers for a contributor account at SmartBloggerz for participating in this contest. He submits 2 articles which gets published, titled as:

1. How to Blog
2. Importance Of Blog

Now, for these guest posts which then gets published, gives him a total: 2 x 2=4 Points

Now consider that article – “How to Blog” gets ~ 25 re-tweets, 12 unique comments, 10 blog engage votes and 15 digg votes. So on calculating, the total social media points will be: 25/10 x 1 + 12 x 1 + 10/5 x 1 + 15/5 x 1 = 19.5 Points

Again, the article – “Importance Of Blog” gets ~ 20 re-tweets, 10 unique comments, 10 blog engage votes and 10 digg votes. So on calculating, the total social media points will be: 20/10 x 1 + 10 x 1 + 10/5 x 1 + 10/5 x 1 = 16 points

Clearly, the article “How to Blog“ is getting more social media points, thus only those points will be added to points generated by the submission of guest post i.e the overall total of guest author – Mr. SB for this contest: 4 + 19.5 = 23.5 points.

Now I hope that you have understood properly how the points will be distributed. But still!! if you haven’t understood it then forget everything as you don’t have to worry about it. You just have to submit articles for review and everything will be handled by me.

Some Simple Rules

The rules for this contest are very simple but should be obeyed properly…

• For earning “social media points” you can’t bribe or purchase something that would increase your chances of winning. But you can obviously ask your friends, take help from your blog readers for helping you in winning this contest but that should be without any kind of bribe like “I will give you some part of the prizes on winning” etc…
• The Guest articles should be clear in language and must obey the guest posting guidelines.
• Maximum 3* articles will be published in a day on this blog, so priority over publishing will be given to those guest posts which were submitted earlier for review.
• Please avoid submission of such articles which are very basic in nature and whose quality suits only the “Article Directories”. Please try giving your articles a catchy title (if possible and relevant). Use images, heading tags and make it creative.

* most probably one or two per day | Max. 3 only if high volume of submission is noticed.

Tips For Winning This Contest

For winning this contest you can take help of these tips:

• SmartBloggerz blog is suitable for articles related to blogging tips, make money online and seo. So submitting articles related to it could result in better chances over winning the contest.
• You can also publish some interesting guide or tutorials or tricks which are very beneficial for other people. For example: How To Speed Up WordPress Blog In 3 Simple Steps or My 3 Killer Methods To Build Massive Backlinks etc.
• For gaining more re-tweets you can submit an article related to “Twitter”. Similarly, submitting articles related to digg or blogengage will get you more votes on those sites thus increasing your social media points.

Contest End Date

The contest will end on 26^th May 13^th June completely. Any guest post submitted for review after 26^th May won’t be counted eligible for this contest.  The result will be declared around 1st June 20^th June as I will need some time for evaluating the points.

Any Doubts!

If you have any kind of doubts then please don’t hesitate in asking it by commenting below as it will only gonna improve your ability to win this contest.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTOR ACCOUNT AND START GUEST POSTING

UPDATE: There is an update available here regarding this contest.

NEW Update: New Guest Posts Won’t Be A Part Of This Contest Now…

Last Update: Winners Have Been Announced Here!

Guest Blogging Gone Crazy Contest – Win $250 Cash And Other Prizes Worth $1450 is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

No, your guesses are completely wrong! It is not another season of Commenting Idol.

Then What is it?? Well, I have decided to come up with a killer guest blogging contest for which I will need help of you as a sponsor.

The contest currently is titled as – “Guest Blogging Gone Crazy“…I hope you like it. If you have any better suggestion then let me know if by commenting or contacting me.

For this contest, I have decided to giveaway the following things:

1. $200 Cash via PayPal
2. 2 Copies of my ebook “How To Get Free Facebook Advertising Coupons” being sold here.

No ad Spots? Yes, no ad spots..For this contest, I have decided that neither I will sponsor ad spots nor will take ad spots as a sponsorship prize.

Then what can you sponsor?

Well, there are many other things you can sponsor like any ebook owned by you, any kind of product/service (consultation, themes, seo, designing, article writing, some kind of submissions etc.) that you offer, any good website membership, cash prizes and blah blah…A prize which will be good for bloggers.

But specifically this time, no ad spots and no entrecard credits or such things..Though you can offer ppc marketing accounts credited with xx amount and ready to be used without any hassle.

Prize Distribution

The prizes will be distributed under 2 categories which are:

1. People’s Choice – It will be based on point system..The guest post with highest post wins it.
2. Judges Decides – It means that all the sponsors of this contest will be asked at the end of the contest to pick up their favorite guest post.

Also, even if you are sponsoring you can easily take part in this contest.

But, if you are a sponsor then you can’t vote for yourself in the 2nd category prize.

Contest Date

The contest will begin on May 1st, 2010. If you are ready to throw in some sponsorship prize then you can send me an email through the Contact Form. You can use the contact form also to ask any kind of questions you have.

P.S. : Make sure you Contact Me before 27th April with your sponsorship prize…After that gates are closed.

[Update] : I forgot to add one important thing which DennisEdell asked in the comments. He asked about the benefit to the sponsors from this contest.

So, from this contest, sponsoring means a big exposure because I will be taking steps to promote this contest via various means for which I have prepared a special promotion budget plan of $50-$75.

A New Big Contest Is Coming – Be A Sponsor For It is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

I decided to stay with HostGator because of their Customer Support and my experience(the good one) using it when this blog was on it’s  Shared hosting plan.

This move was basically made to handle high traffic load and also to try and solve the internal server problems which many people were reporting(even I saw that). Plus, this VPS hosting will now give me the ability to work over an E-store.

I will soon start writing articles on this blog, jsut getting the blog perfectly ready. In the meantime, if you see any kind of error or strange things on this blog then just hit me mail from the contact form.

A special thanks to Shivendu Madhava of TechnoZeast for helping me during the blog move.

P.S: I’m hoping that this post arrives to your email as a full feed rather than just a summary. This was also one of the main things I wanted to get solved on moving to VPS..So keeping my fingers crossed..

SmartBloggerz Have Moved And I Am Back To Blogging is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

But the time has come to deliver my message to my readers. Just after a week my Annual Examinations will be getting started due to which it will not be possible for me to write any article or publish any guest post but the comments will be accepted.

As a result of this, the blog will not be updated with any post till 12^th March 2010.

In the meantime, if you submit any guest post then it will be scheduled for future publishing. Also, during these days, I am also deciding to move the blog onto VPS server hosting. So if you see strange things happening with my blog, don’t consider it as a hack attack. I can understand your concern but it will be the result of the shift I will be making during these days

Probably, the next post you will see on the blog will be of successful move of the blog and of my exams getting over. Till then, have fun and Enjoy the blogosphere

Attention – A Dry Season Ahead On SmartBloggerz is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips