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!

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I had been busy in promoting my first forum (which is for guys who want to discuss issues related to females and for females who would like to help such people) for the last one week and that happens to be one more reason why I wasn’t active with this contest but not now.

In this post I will talk about Techno Life @ tothePC ( which donated one 125×125 ad spot for two months)

Are you using firefox? Then with the first look you will find tothePC to be one of those blogs who believe in ultimate simplicity! And I mean it. Check this screenshot. The reason is the sidebars have slided down? And here comes the funny part. I refreshed the site and it looks fine now.

The about me page links to the contact page plus I could see a rectangular AdSense ad in between the post. Both these were a big turn of for me.

So, is their anything useful in this blog? Yes! The content. Some hight quality articles are being regularly published and I am sure this is the only reason why the blog is still alive. After all the content is the king.

My suggestions for this blog are:

• Get a custom theme/logo. This helps a lot to pimp your blog like it helped me to take my other blog to next level.
• Organize your sidebar. That is the place which helps your readers to dive into your blog’s archives so you need to review it constantly. Once every 20 days.
• Where is your subscribe feed link (and the feedburner image) and the subscribe via email form? These two should be their on the homepage and all other pages.
• In the sidebar in Featured section I could see a G lying their. What is that?

Along with content sometimes you need good publicity and a nice book cover (the blog template) plus also a nice punch line to attract the reader. Get the idea?

I guess these mistakes are happening as their brains have been dumped by mortgage lenders.

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Will declare the results in a week or so. Thanks for your participation.

After over two weeks of hardwork finally the day has come when I am ready to launch a mouth watering contest which will surely leave you thinking. With butterflies in my stomach here are the prizes to be won.

Follow me on twitter to keep pace with contest updates.

As the name indicates this package will take your blog to the next level. Here is the list of prizes:

• Registered copy of premium theme worth $100 from Adii.
• 45 Minute Consultation for logo design from David Airey.
• Unique logo designs with one revision from FashDesigns.
• One ProBlogger Book from Sara of DigitaPrank.
• 168 Entrecard credits from Mike of Bloggin-Ads.
• 3 wiki pages from OneBuckWiki.

This one is similar to the collection of prizes in group 1.

• Registered copy of a yet-to-be-designed premium theme from Fab Flake.
• Unique logo designs with one revision from FashDesigns.
• 45 Minute Consultation From Liz of Successful Blog.
• One ProBlogger Book from Sara of DigitaPrank.
• 168 Entrecard credits from Mike of Bloggin-Ads.
• 3 wiki pages from OneBuckWiki.

This package contains some options to get you high level publicity for your blog/service.

• Fast Track submission to MakeUseOf Directory worth $50.
• One premium support email or IM session with remote support from Ask The Admin worth $75.
• $50 bid on attractive bidding directory.
• 500 Entrecard credits from Darren of 1 Man & His Blog.
• 2 wiki pages from OneBuckWiki.

Some real good advertising spots.

• 168 Entrecard credits from Mike of Bloggin-Ads.
• 6 Months Medium Web Hosting Account from HostBrains.
• 125×125 ad spot for two months from Darren of 1 Man & His Blog.
• 125×125 ad spot for two months from Techno Life.
• 125×125 ad spot for one month from Contestime.
• 125×125 ad spot for one month from GorillaSushi.
• 2 wiki pages from OneBuckWiki.

• Unique logo design from Recruit developer offshore which owes the logo company LogoAngel. The price of this logo design is $199.
• 10 wiki pages from OneBuckWiki.

And you think it was over? We won’t let you go away empty handed my friends.

• 15 consolation winners get 2 wiki pages each from OneBuckWiki.
• All the others get back links from the post which will announce results.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE?

• Subscribe to email feeds. (Compulsory for all. Remember to confirm the email which you get else your participation won’t be valid.)
Enter your email address:

And if you think you want to increase your chances of winning than here are few ways to do so. Each of these ways count as +1 entry.

• Subscribe via RSS. (You will have to leave the contest code, found in the feed footer, in the comments below as a proof.)
• Stumble this post. (leave your username in the comments below)
• Write about this post and link back to it. (+3 entries, leave the link in comments below)

CONTEST ENDS: 30th May 2008.

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I have been mailing many bloggers for donations for my upcoming contest and one characteristic which I found common amongst those who are well established and famous in the industry is their honest response to every email which they receive. Same is the case with David Airey who took barely 5 minutes after I suggested him a set of options which he could choose from from for the donation to my blog’s contest. I had the reply in my inbox and I was on cloud nine.

David has promised me a 45 minute consultation for a winner who is looking for a logo design. Believe me, having interacted with David you gonna get a clear picture as to what you need in your logo which will help you in the time to come when it comes to building your brand. He might not be the best (and who is the best?) but he is no less than the best! Judge him yourself by observing his portfolio and still if you think you aren’t satisfied than read what his clients say about him.

Click here to check the complete list of prizes which will be given away and subscribe to our feeds to keep pace with the contest updates.

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I have been working hard to collect donations for my blog contest and for the same I sent a message to Aibek of MakeUseOf. Hardly two hours had passed and I had the reply in my mail box that he was giving away a free directory submission worth $50. Now I know why he is SO famous. He is quick and he is good to everyone.

This was just a short update that I have a free directory submission worth $50 for the contest which will help the winner get listed in the MakeUseOf Directory. For this you need to have a web or mobile application that you want to promote. If it fits the directory requirements than Aibek will personally review it!

With around 1.8 million page views monthly I am sure you will get the publicity you looking for.

Check other prizes on the contest post and gear up for the contest. It will start on 21th of April.

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Donations have been flowing like they won’t stop and I have been updating the contest post regularly but these two donations are damn good and I had to write about them separately. Believe me, you gonna love them!

45 Minute Consultation On How to Optimize Your Blog

This 45 minute consultation is from the very experienced blogger Liz of Successful Blog where she will give 45 minutes from her very busy schedule to the winner. The winner can talk about his experiences and learn some really important tips from Liz.

Liz is one of those few bloggers who started from nothing and today are amongst the best in the business. Darren of ProBlogger has mentioned about her many times and similarly many other huge bloggers talk about her. Getting help from her means making friendship with her and who knows if this friendship gives you that recognition which bloggers die for. (Even I am working hard for the same.)

Two ProBlogger Books

Darren of ProBlogger recently announced that he has teamed up with his friend Chris Garrett to release a book which I think will be the gold mine for new bloggers.

Sara of DigitalPrank mailed me to inform that he was willing to give away something for my contest but was confused as to what to give. I suggested him the ProBlogger book and he willingly accepted the offer. So what we have in store are two ProBlogger books for two lucky winners.

Check the contest post for all the prizes and the updates.

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