Contest UpDate
By Vic on May 15, 2008 in Blogger Unleashed
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It is important you folks do the requirements as soon as possible as I will need to take time to read each contest request and once approved get some info from you to setup your blogs. I will also requestOk I would have though that more people would have wanted a FREE PR4 Blog. I can not Believe that after looking at the traffic this site has received the last four days only 228 people have subscribe to myThis can not be more simple. The ones that receive this email you are already in for the free blogs. I will be giving two Blogs one niche and the other is a "How To Blog" why two because IOne of my hopes for this site is that it becomes a beacon for the truth and hope. As most of you already know I am a very passionate about blogging and what it can do for a person life.I am so sorry for being such a dumb ass. Last night I was so into writing the bait and switch article that I did not publish my saved Rules for the Contest. Not to give excuses as I am
Many people dream of blogging for money, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic grasp of blogging technology. However, very few people manage to reapOk Folks we are almost ready to launch the contest. In order to make sure all the blogs are ready I need you to please make sure you watch this video.
Important that you verify your blog and it is complete,If you've been spending the past few weeks keeping up with trends, there's one thing you've probably picked up on. Trends will show you the current top 100 terms but really doesn't help when it comes to showing whether aWell folks as you all have seen the new Page Rank update just happen. Now normally I would not even waste my time writing about this since most noobs will spend the next week writing about this shit and at
Thanks for the update Vic. No need to apologize, my friend! You’ve been working damn hard on this and I know everyone is very appreciated. Looking forward to the contest!
We love you, too, Vic and don’t worry about made-up deadlines. We will all work really hard. We are ready to kick up some dust! I know I am! I appreciate everything you are doing to teach us to provide for our families and still have time to be with our families. Bless you, Vic.
Vic man, don’t keep apologizing. We’re all honered that your taking your personal time to teach us and we’ve got shitloads of stuff to do in the meantime. The contest can start whenever, don’t beat yourself up over it..
Vic,
WOW! Look at the opportunity that you have created for yourself to grow and learn. You now have knowledge that many of us may never know just because of this experience.
It may not feel like a blessing when you are in the middle of growth and sometimes it is painful, but you always come out better for it.
You are trying to teach us but in the mean time you have become the student.
Be proud of your accomplishment.
Hi Vic,
Thanks again for all the hard work you are doing to get this contest kick started. I just wanted to ping you really quick to let you know that I never received a response from you on my contest app. I emailed you immediately after the bloggerunleashed.tv session the other night as you requested. I don’t mind waiting, I just want to make sure I will be able to participate. I’m really excited about the contest and I look forward to being an active participant.
Thanks in advance!
GeradT - Techs4Less
Vic, I agree with Laughing Gaz man. There’s really no need to keep apologizing.. Things happen for a reason. I can’t speak for anyone else but I know I’d rather you take your time and get it together without being too stressed rather than rushing to meet some deadline and burn yourself completely out in the process.
We are all here to learn, we all understand this is a big sacrifice you are making to share your knowledge for free while taking time away from your own business to do so. I can wait for as long as it takes man and with you as the teacher we’re all going to kick a@# once the contest gets going.
Just know that you are loved, admired and respected by a great many people!
Queen
Hey Vic,
While killing time waiting around for this contest to start I’m doing a few little things like:
Buying more domains
BMD like crazy (but not overkilling any account)
Fixing up Logos and Store pages
Creating blogs tied to BANS sites
commenting
Directory Listing
Article listing and writing
Blog post writing (trying your method for my .info index issue)
helping others at BU.tv
links links links everywhere
oh…and running my Bookstore…I think you get the idea. those of us using BANS have plenty of things to do, take your time and set it up the way you want it - we’ll still be here, anxious to learn. Thanks for all the work!
Like the others are saying, Vic take your time and no apologies needed buddy. It is like many things in life: You know when you should start but don’t know when it will end either. It’s a bigger task than you expected.
You could even make the contest start Monday if you needed too. We all wait and not complain.
Btw, I did not received any email like GeradT but I know it will be done eventually.
Besides, we have BANS/blogs to keep us busy.
Plus, this could be a series of post for you to do: How to start a blog contest: Pitfalls to avoid.
Some may want to do a similar “contest” to pay it forward with another group of newbies.
Like they said -looking forward to the comp but so busy with the BANS setup and promotion thing I am learning heaps anyway. And the BU channel is a fantastic tutorial room even when your’re not there - Dave and vinny and lots of others are just so helpful with the stupid questions! But there’re not as rude as you so come back when you have the time
Take as much time as you need Vic, we will wait. We appreciate all the time you are putting into this contest, we all owe you big time.
Rhonda
Thanks for the update - I didn’t want to email your already overloaded inbox asking “when are we going to start - did I miss something??”
I was just listening to the last .tv video as I was doing my morning exercises (it was long). The conversation got real interesting - it was like standing at the water-cooler and not being able to participate. Fun way to start the morning - a big THANK YOU for all your efforts.
Love you too Vic!
I know everyone says that you dont have to apologise for anything….which you dont, but while I always like to see you laugh and swear, it’s nice to know you have a humble side too.
Keep up the great work.
Hey Vic, thanks for the update on everything. I have a local niche website that I set up exactly like our contest blogs. I put an ad in my posts that shows adsense to search traffic and flycell to general traffic. I used to show 10 post on my homepage but now I can’t because then I will have 10 adsense’s on my homepage. SO now I only show 1 post per page but the downfall is my search engine ranking has taken a plunge. This may or may not be related, but I have a feeling that it might has something to do with it. On our contest blogs, are we going to have 1 post per page or more? and what do you suggest I do with my blog, 1 post per page, or 10 or 3 or what?
There are a few ways you could solve this issue.
You can change the number on your home page. Griz suggest 1 post per page on his blog I believe.
You can use a different template file for your home page and show post excepts. Then set up the home page to show ads in specific places.
There are a variety of plugins for wordpress that turn on and off ads based off different criteria. I’d check them out and play around with them.
As for search rankings taking a dive. It happens. When a site is new, it gets a bonus for being “fresh”. Eventually this bonus fades and it falls back on the other factors that control rankings. The site will then take a dive in rankings. Also, some believe monetization of a site can affect rankings. Many online marketers suggests waiting a bit before putting ads up on a site.
And it could always be a sandbox effect. It just happens some times and there is nothing that can really be done.
I’d just ignore the stats for a bit and just link build. It’ll take a while for Google to start counting links. It should go back up in rankings. If it was sandboxed, it may take a few months before it ranks properly.
If you link build for a while and see no results. Ignore it and move on to your next project if you can. Get it started and link build it. Hopefully by them you’ll see some action on the first domain.
btw, Vic thank you so much for helping me learn how to do everything the correct way.
Hey Vic, I’m late to the party as usual LMAO
I just finished a big writing assignment that kept me away from everything including this place, so I just saw all this. For some weird reason I can’t watch your vids all of a sudden - I crank them up and my system crashes. Always something ain’t it?
I’m guessing from the comments that you’re buried in shit so don’t sweat the competition - hey if it can’t be done for this year there is always another fucking year follows straight on after LMAO
Anyway, I’m so behind with everything because of the writing gig that I have to catch up too. I only just got my reseller account set up and now that’s going to take time moving 60+ sites each into their own account. I’m still buying more domains and building my link farm as well as getting those links FUN FUN FUN!!!
Catch you later when the storm dies down a bit… before the next one brews up hehehe)
Terry