Prove Your Guest Blogging Skills and Win over $9,000

Posted by Daniel Scocco

April 8, 2008

This is one idea that I thought about several months ago, but I never ended up implementing it. A guest blogging competition!

Loren Baker from the Search Engine Journal came up with the idea as well, and he just launched it. It is looking pretty promising, considering that they have over $9,000 in prizes.

Here is how it works: you send a guest post their way (starting today until 4/15/08), they will then publish all the guest posts on the following two weeks (4/16/08 to 4/30/08), and after that they will measure the success of each post, based on parameters like page views, social media votes, backlinks and so on.

What can you write about? Here is a quote from their announcement:

This competition is open to all writers and bloggers, not only those in the search marketing field. So, you can write about anything from blogs to blogging, SEO to paid search, Twitter to RSS, your thoughts on Yahoo or Google, even Top 10 or Top 101 Lists are acceptable.

It should be fun to participate, and if I manage to find some time I will also shoot a guest article their way.

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