Who can join?

This contest is open for anybody who owns blog sites. It is a boon especially to those in the verge of starting online businesses. The value of prizes awarded to the winners of the contest is worth hundreds of dollars and you could save a substantial amount if you win. Even mere participation in the contest entitles you for a fabulous prize.

Contest Rules:

• How to boost your blog by holding a contest ? Post the answer for the above question as a comment on this page only.
• Post this entire contest announcement including the sponsors and the prizes list in your blog sites.
• Tweet about it at http://twitter.com/buytemplates
• Five contestants that provide best answers will be the winners.
• All the participants will receive worthy gifts.

Prize Details:
There will be prize awards for all the participants and the prizes for the top 5 winners will be as follows:

First Prize
Text link advertisement in bellthebull.com for one month, and Template Membership from buytemplates.net worth $99.

Second Prize
Text link advertising in nofullstop.com for one month and Brouchure Design from brochuremonster.com worth $79.

Third Prize
Text link advertising in xtremecelebs.net for two week and XP Style Icons package from icongalore.com worth $71.

Fourth Prize
WordPress Templates from buytemplates.net worth $88.

Fifth Prize
Custom Icon Design from icongalore.com worth $65.

NOTE: All other participants will be presented one professional logo from Professional Logos

Closing Date

The contest ends on August 31,2009. So hurry up and start participating!

There are already many in this business but rarely did few try to be innovative to attract more and more customers but one buck wiki has given its wiki pages that tinge of uniqueness which makes it different from others.

Brainchild of Five Dollar Wiki

The same brain which gave birth to Five Dollar Wiki had an idea to create something more cheaper and finally came up with One Buck Wiki. You might have guessed the pricing of per page on this wiki, but that isn’t really the case. You will pay $20 per page and each page will be yours for 15 years. So, not really one buck wiki pages but it is different from others. How? Let me explain.

For every 1000 pages that OBW sells it increases the price of each page by $10. So initially the price per page was $10 but as currently 2440 pages have been sold so now the price per page is $20. The juicy part is once the price rises you can sell your page! Thus you can always sell your pages for some profit. You don’t have to lose any money with OBW. See the image below for details of how the prices rise.

There still appears to be a nice collection of keywords which are still left to be sold out but there are a couple who are really creating a buzz over at OBW. They are given below:

OBW blew everyone off after its launch as it was featured on yahoo and was the reason why it gained the publicity on which it is cashing on these days. All that I missed in OBW was any affiliate program?

Continuing with the review of those who donated stuffs for my blog’s contest, today I have chosen a blog very close to me – Digital Prank.

Although I will be writing a couple of points here still I will request you to check this screenshot which includes more than half of the changes which I want to suggest.

The blog includes some nice articles which are very important to hold back readers which come to this blog but the theme which the blog implements has some some silly mistakes which might turn off a readers experience. I have pointed out most of them in the screenshot and will request the author to see them.

Some very serious suggestions are:

• Invest some money and get new logo. FashDesigns offers some real cheap services.
• There are many free themes available online. Find one which is throughly complete. Sometimes a touch of colors isn’t a bad idea.
• Technorati is dead. Remove the techorati fav button.

If it is so bad than why do I like this blog?

Content is the king and this blog knows the meaning of high quality content. The author believes in simplicity (the theme reflects that) and works hard to generate some quality content.

Sometimes cover of the book matters a lot and so does the theme/logo/punchline of the blog.

A couple of months back I was looking for a blog designer for my newly launched blog the Senorita and it was during this search that I stumbled on FashDesigns who were offering cheap logo design services at digital point forums. They were cheap and they were friendly so I never had to think twice before giving them the logo design job. The result is the current logo in use on my blog and forum the Senorita.

It took long late night chats and detailed email exchanges which resulted in the awesome logo which I cherish a lot. The design was so good that I asked them to design my blog and I am sure you must be loving the complete site design.

All what I had to tell them is exactly what I was looking for. Like the expected color coding, which category is the most important and which isn’t, what kind of ads I will show, how the feed will look like etc.

They took some time and came up with an awesome design and after a couple of changes here and their I got the design of a lifetime. Since then many people have got in touch with me so that I might help them design their blog in the similar fashion as theirs.

I like their work so much that I can easily go on and on praising them but that won’t help. I will suggest you to give them a shot. See if they can come up with the design you looking for and believe me you will be surprised with the results.

Finally the $1600 contest is over! I would like to thank everyone who helped me promote this contest and those who participated in it. I had promised reviews and feed ads to all those who donated stuffs for this contest.

One review has been published and the feed ads were already given for the period the contest was active. The feed ads are still their in my feed’s footer and will remain active till the results are declared.

The leftover reviews will be published in next 10 days. I was a little busy with me exams these days so won’t be able to declare the results before 10 days.

Be patient and all the promises will be fulfilled. I will use my tactical gear as soon I am free of school.