Making money online by participating blog contest doesn’t require any internet marketing strategies and techniques, you just need to own a blog, your blog can be hosted in free blog platform such as blogger.com or wordpress.com, or self hosted in wordpress.org. In fact, I’ve just won a cash prize of $42 from The42ndState, it was the easiest contest which was organized by Adam on 26th March ’09, the participants just have to comment in the post, and qualified in the contest. I’ve just received an email from Adam yesterday morning, he was telling me that I’ve won the contest and he’ll be sending $42 to me via Paypal! I’d received the paypal fund few minutes after provided him my paypal address. This was the first time I won cash in blog contest. Here you go with the screenshot :
How To Look For Blog Contest?
1) Bookmark Contest Announcement Blog
Weeks ago, I found a blog in search engine. It’s a blog that announces blog contests which organized by various blog in blogosphere, I’ve bookmarked it and visited it very often to check for new blog contest in blogosphere. The thing I love this blog because they updated very frequent (Almost in daily basis), so that I could have the chances to grab any interested blog contest. So far I’ve bookmarked 1 contest blog, if you’ve more, please comment below and I’ll add it into the list and give you a credit/link.
List of Contest Annoucement Blog :
a) About Blog Contest
b) You add it…
2) Follow Established Blogger
There are tonnes of established bloggers in the blogosphere, such as Darren Rowse, JohnChow, Daniel Scocco, DoshDosh and etc. Sometimes they’ll organize blog contest in their blog and giveaway great prizes or cash. So, that’s the advantages if you subscribed their newsletter and you won’t miss out any blog contest.
Recently, John Chow started a new blog contest to give away up to $4,000 in cash. He is not only teaching you how to make money online, but giving out cash through blog contest too. There is another wild radio contest in his blog right now, the contest is sponsored by OnlineRadioStations.com. That’s an online radio streaming site with several radio station, you can enjoy listening radio online now. Simply join the contest now!
List Of Established Blogger :
a) Problogger
b) JohnChow
c) Daniel Scocco
d) Dosh Dosh
e) You add it…
3) Blog Hopping
I love blog hopping everyday when I got nothing to do with my blogs, so I’ll read some interesting articles and contribute useful comments. Sometimes you could found that actually the blog is running a blog contest, so you can join if you interested too. I was blog hopping today and found another blog contest in CoolSiteOfTheDay too, it’s another simple contest if you have a twitter account. Simply follow the blog owner and tweet the message, you’re qualified in the contest. If you blog about the contest too, you can stand the the chance to win another $100 cash too. The contest is running for 5 weeks, so you could win several prizes every week from the 5 weeks. I’ve missed out the first week, so you should join the contest in his blog now!
4) Participating Forums
If you have joined any forums, try to be active and hang around in the forums, you could actually found some forumers announce their blog contest in the forums. This was happened weeks ago, I’m quite active in Lowyat Forum and a forumer announced a contest in RankingContest, I’ve joined the contest too because they’ve actually giveaway attractive $200+ prizes to the winner. If you’ve yet to join the contest, you’re not late and still able to join now!
So, forum is not only a community where you can get new friends and share your experiences and knownledge, you could be able to discover some opportunities of making money online offer or blog contest as well. Be sure that you’re not bull shitting in the forums, else people will ignore you all the ways. Be smart and kind.
5) Searching In Social Networking Site
Bloggers like to submit their post to social networking site after they’ve updated their blog, such as Digg, StumbleUpon, and etc. Simply do a simple search in social networking sites for recent blog contest, I’m sure you’ll get dozens of results about blog contest.
Contribute and Get One-Way Link
In the end of this post, needless to say that blog contest can actually brings you some side incomes, it can’t makes you rich but at least you could able to buy something else with the penny. Feel free to continue the list in the points and get a one-way link as a credit for your effort.
About Lee Ka Hoong
Great! I think I should have a try on those contest. USD42 is a lot for student like me. Bro, do share with me any special thing can earn money ya, I stop doing payperpost, really afraid of losing my PR. The day I put the link into my , PR cut into 2. Now I removed.
Btw, I have been following your blog in RSS email lol so less commenting here. Nuffnang not as good as last time. But i still wonder how Jayce can earn by using it? Exciting. :D
Congratulations! And many thanks for the link!
@Mike,
Haha yea, you should have a try, it’s fun and surprisingly. I was surprise when I received an email with title “Congratulation! You’ve won $42!”. No worry bro, definitely you will get back your PR on next updates. :)
Thanks bro for following me, I thought you’re busying something else this few days.
Now Jayce have to accumulate 2 months earning only can cashout once if I’m not mistaken. Btw, I’m not interested with NN already, I just like their simple Analytics and Innit. :D
@gLd,
Thanks dude! No problem! Do you mind to add me in your sidebar under blogroll too? :P
Great tips; thanks for all the information.
Question. I have a giveaway on my blog now so where do I submit it; any suggestions. I haven’t really found that many submission sites?
nice sharing…..
Nice reminder that these contests are out there. Contest can be a nice way to make a little extra cash but what is even better with contests is when you run them yourself. Paying out $42 to get 10, 50, 100 or more blogs linking to your site is a sweet deal. Contest have long been a great way of building links to your sites and if you have a site that needs more links (don’t they all??) then having a contest is a valuable way to go.
/Mikael
@Peg,
Thanks for commenting Peg!
Regarding your question, you can actually post your giveaway contest in forums that you’re active in, ask your friends which has similar audiences whether they’re comfortable to help you write a post about it in their blogs, submit to social networking sites, you can insert a link that point to your contest after the comments and just tell them about your contest while commenting on others’ blogs but make sure the comment is relevant and useful.
Hope these help. Come again Peg! :)
@johnny,
Hey thanks Johnny for coming back! You have a nice contest site! :D
@Michael Rieck,
Yes, I’m definitely agree with you! In order to request the participants to write a blog post about your contest, you’ve to make sure your prizes are attractive, says Cash? haha! Btw, I’m going to organize a contest in this blog soon! I hope you’ll be one of the participants. :P
You’ve a nice blog over there Michael, keep it up! See you again. :)