I was going over my email this morning when I received a community message from Search Engine Journal. The message was all about the Guest Blogging Competition that Loren has organized for everyone. Over $9,000 worth of online marketing services are at stake in the SEJ’s Guest Blogging Competition.

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Here’s a list of the fabulous prizes waiting for you:

  1. $1000 in blog reviews and links from SponsoredReviews.com.
  2. $500 worth of advertising with Text-Link-Ads.com.
  3. 6-month subscription to Adapt.com’s paid search management software. ($1,194 value)
  4. One year subscription to KeywordDiscover.com. ($599 value)
  5. 12 months of Google Shopping Product Feed Management from SingleFeed.com.
  6. SEO Audit & Site Makeover from Search Engine Journal Services (a $5000+ value)
  7. Submittals of up to 4 sites to Aviva Directory Network. (a $400+ value)
  8. Various 2nd and 3rd prizes.

Loren might be adding more prizes to the list soon, so make sure you check the contest post.

Who Can Join?

Since the contest is a writing contest, this is open to anyone who can write articles, tutorials, timely search marketing news and other relevant contents. Entries don’t have to be about search engine marketing or seach engine optimization but should be relevant to SEJ’s content. You can submit your entries from April 8 – 15, 2008.

How To Join?

Here’s how you can participate in the competition and get a chance to these fantastic prizes.

  1. Submit your original tutorial, guest post or article via emailing it to lorenmichaelbaker[at]gmail[dot]com. The contest allows you to submit multiple posts, which can help improve your chances of winning.
  2. Include a 75×75 image of yourself. You can also send a link to any of your social network accounts that has your photo.
  3. Search Engine Journal staffs will review your articles, edit them (if necessary), then post them on the blog over a 2-week period.
  4. Judging of the articles will be a multi-tier process looking at social media voting, reader voting, traffic of the individual posts and links to the posts. The voting will be measured 2 weeks after the initial publishing date.

Grand Prize will be assigned to the post with the highest final tally as voted upon by SEJ’s readers. The final tally is obtained from the total:

  • SEJ user voting at post level
  • Stumbles
  • Comments
  • Sphinns
  • Diggs
  • Unique Users
  • Page Views (Google Analytics)
  • Mixx Votes
  • Incoming Links (as measured by Yahoo)

The winners will be announced on May 19, 2008.

Other Than The Fabulous Prizes, Why Should You Join?

Actually, joining and getting your entries posted at Search Engine Journal is already rewarding. Here’s a list of what you get from it.

  1. Exposure of your expertise to the Search Marketing industry.
  2. Exposure of your company : Search Engine Journal will add a bi-line ad link to your company at the bottom of your post.
  3. Long term benefit as these posts will be indexed in search engines and housed on our authority site.
  4. Exposure to our RSS subscriber base of 15,000+
  5. All Entrants Will Receive a $100 VIP Coupon for SponsoredReviews.com!

What are you waiting for? Write your entries and email them to Loren now. Head over at Search Engine Journal for more information.

Thank you for your time and good luck to you! :D

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