I’m very happy to announce last months contest giving away 5 free Blog Engage accounts was a huge hit! We have 5 lucky winners I have have sent them all an e-mail requesting their desired username and account E-Mail.

But wait the fun doesn’t stop there. We will be giving away 10 free accounts this month and two of the lucky winners will receive 3 months free of our Business Membership Services.

I bet your asking what’s included in the Business Membership Services?

Giveaways

The Business PLUS Membership comes with Free Blog Engage Accounts (up to 5) (29.99 Value Each, 150 USD Value Total). (Great for Contest Giveaways , Multi Author Blogs, or SEO Companies with Blog Clients). (Contest Example) You also get 1 Giveaway where we allow you to offer one free year subscription of our gold service to any member by hosting a contest on your blog. We will also help you market and promote this contest driving traffic and new readers.

Marketing and Promoting

Every month your blog will be spotlighted on our community blog and featured on the Blog Engage home page and upcoming pages. This is where we get the highest volume of traffic. These features can be about your blog, contests you’re in or throwing or events you need help marketing and promoting. Let us help build your online brand.

SEO and Backlinks

With our services we will automatically syndicate your blogs newest content into the Blog Engage community and our portfolio of social media websites such as,

Blog Engage (PR5), Blog Serp (PR3), Top Blogged (PR3), RSS Leak (PR2), Blogger Ink (PR3), Tag Serp (PR2), and Blogger Tag (PR2)

1. Free Blog Engage Accounts (up to 5) (29.99 Value Each, 150 USD Value)(For Giveaways and Contests)
2. Featured Spotlights about your blog, contests your in or throwing or events you need help marketing and promoting
3. Giveaways (1 Free Year Gold Membership Value 59.88)
4. Add up to Five unique blog feeds
5. Your articles will be syndicated into the Blog Engage community and our portfolio of social media websites
6. 100% Adsense Revenue Sharing
7. Free e-book

What do you need to do to win?

Simply do as much as you can in the rafflecopter contest below to gain entries!

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That’s right, here at SEOMKT we will be giving away 5 free Blog Engage accounts every month. At the end of each month we will announce a winner and create them a free Blog Engage account valued at $29.99.

Wait we have more, 1 of the 5 lucky winners will also be given a free year of the Blog Engage RSS Gold Services. This means Blog Engage will automatically syndicate your blog content into their community for free, for an entire year.

How can you win?

It’s so easy to win it’s crazy! We have many ways you can earn entries to win your free account and or gold membership. At the end of the month will will announce the 5 winners of the Blog Engage account and 1 lucky winner of the Blog Engage RSS Gold Services. I will draw the winners from random.org each month and contact them for Blog Engage account details.

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This weeks Blog Engage challenge is all about guest blogging and sharing your thoughts on why it’s beneficial as a blogger to guest post.

I’ve been blogging now for three years and I must admit this is one area I haven’t done much work in. I’ve guest posted on famous Bloggers and a few other places but nothing that is to be considered a marketing ploy.

I do however fully understand the benefits of guest blogging and always try to promote guest blogging at blog engage to our members. I think it’s an amazing way to build your followers and create a strong online brand for yourself.

Exposure for your blog

Maybe you just started your blog and your looking to get word out about it. Guest blogging is a great way to tell a larger established group of readers as your post will usually include a plug about yourself and your blog. Just be sure you are guest blogging on a blog that relates to your own blog.

Exposure for yourself

Maybe your interested in getting your freelance writing skills noticed, or your knowledge on a specific topic. Like I mentioned in your BIO you can introduce yourself and give a way for others to get in touch with you.

A link back to your own blog

It is generally acceptable to include a link back to an article you wrote previously on your blog as long as it fits in the article and offers the reader value. At the very least your plug will include a link back to your blog offering you another valuable incoming link. You can also add links into your BIO on most guest blogs.

Building Relationships

I’ve meet so many people online during my last guest blogging contest at famous bloggers. I managed to gain many new Blog Engage members, rss customers and new blog readers. This has allowed our community to continue growing and excelling.

Creating Authority

Guest blogging can help you build authority in the blogosphere and help you gain respect from your fellow bloggers. This is how you can start making a name for yourself. Don’t miss out on these amazing marketing opportunities.

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This weeks Blog Engage challenge is all about uncommon ways to monetize your blog. The important thing to remember is the challenge requires you to think out side of the box and come up with ways others may not have thought of to generate a revenue from their blog.

I’ll be the first to admit this is not easy and will require some thinking on my part. From the post rules we can’t use the traditional methods such as Google Adsense, Kontera or 125 ad sales for your sidebar.

To provide value to my readers and perhaps search engine visits in the future I’m going to list many methods as opposed to simply one or two. Some you may be familiar with and hopefully others will be new and will help you make money in non traditional methods.

1. Spotlight other Bloggers

Assuming your blog has a high volume of traffic you can spotlight bloggers on your blog for a fee. This is a great way to build on relationships with other blogger while at the same time generating extra income. I strongly suggest only spotlighting bloggers that are in your niche and woudl be an interest to your readers. Simply visit the bloggers blog, use the contact form and pitch the idea of a spotlight for a fee averaging from 5 usd to 11 usd per spotlight.

2. Offer Blogging Services

Offer your own services to your readers. You can write for them, or let them write on your blog for a fee. Traditionally you would let them write for free but if your blog is popular and there is a demand you can simply charge them per post.

3. Offer WordPress Installation Services

Personally I have tons of experience and if I wanted I could offer my expertise with installing, managing and hosting my readers word press sites. I could charge a fee for our services such as SEO, installation and more. Sometimes we take what we know for granted when there’s tons of people out there’s till wondering who they can start blogging.

I’ll be honest this was a very difficult challenge. I hope some of my ideas work out for you and help generate more income on your blogs.

If your looking for some more traditional ways to monetize your blog make sure to check out this amazing article I found 28 Ways to Make Money with Your Website.

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Want to be in the Spotlight? Click Here!

On this job board you will see our customer list and the amount of USD we are willing to pay you via paypal to spotlight them on your blog.

A spotlight is just like a commercial and when completed properly I pay you cash. Pick any of the customers we have below, research them and write about their blog, products or services on your blog sharing this info with all your readers.

Blog Specifications

Your blog must be do follow
Your blog must be older then 6 months and have new content on it

Spotlight Specifications

1. The spotlight content must be unique
2. The spotlight must contain Social Media Profiles, facebook, twitter and other
3. The links must be do follow on your blog
4. Features and benefits of visiting the blog and becoming a reader
5. Market and promote the blogger in your spotlight
6. Spotlight must be at minimum 400 words including a website screenshot

Once your done writing the spotlight e-mail me admin (@) blogengage dot com with a link to your spotlight and your paypal information. I will review the spotlight and if approved I will send the payment to your paypal.

Business Spotlights

We will pay up to a max of 4 USD per approved Business Spotlight you write for us.

Please do not write 15 spotlights and send me 15 links all at once. When you complete each spotlight e-mail me admin (@) blogengage dot com with a link to your spotlight and your paypal information. I will review the spotlight and if approved we will send the payment to your paypal.

If you decide to stop blogging and are going to drop your blog please to contact us and sell us your blog at cost. We want to maintain the spotlights online and if this means taking over your domain name we are most interested in doing so. Let me clarify that I’m not offering to buy your blog at profit I am willing to take over payments and ownership if you decide to stop blogging.

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To my surprise Raw Food simply means to eat food in it’s natural state. So no adding sugar, cooking down with other fats etc. In fact it’s a healthy way of life that many people have started practicing.

Interesting enough it’s not only for humans it’s also something people have been doing and practicing for their loved pets. This is for dog or cat food. the idea is rather refreshing compared to some of the other options of processed foods for pets.

If your interested in learning more about Raw Food and healthier life style make sure to follow raw food on both Twitter and Facebook.

You have the power to change your life and become more healthy. Raw foods is simply a way to help you better understand your options and how to accomplish it successfully.

Degrees Online has an amazing high quality directory of all your online education needs. The listing inside the directory are all professional and well recognized universities.

So if your looking at learning online, want a change in career I suggest looking in their directory and see if it’s something you can realistically accomplish.

One of the greatest advantages of using Degrees Online is they have a integrated blog where they continue to update with good quality content about the online education industry keeping you informed and up to date with the lasted and great information.

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If your looking for a unique way to increase your profits in ways you may have never thought of Nicole is ready to help you meet these goals. Nicole looks at your financials and let’s you know where you can be generating more income immediately and suggests sophisticated ways for this to happen.

There’s a few ways you can get into contact with Nicole, She is very active on Twitter and Facebook. You can also join the small business forum she has created for her customers.

So again if you are a small business and need help or advice on how to generate more profits please make sure to go check out Nicole from small business finance forum.

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When trying to market your company blog you have to look for a community with real members that would be interested in your products or services. You have to look for a marketing strategy that will give you a good return on investment and generate your blog traffic.

The traffic generated to your blog should be coming from two directions and that’s Search Engines and Direct Traffic. One community that can solve your needs when it comes to marketing your company blog and that’s Blog Engage. Blog Engage offers a unique opportunity for you to market with your blog to thousands of other bloggers while at the same time increasing your search engine ranking positioning.

Building Backlinks

You might be asking how Blog Engage would help increase both your direct traffic an search engine traffic? Blog Engage actually syndicates your blogging contest into their portfolio of social networks such as Blog Engage, Blog Serp, Top Blogged, RSS Leak, Blogger Ink and Blogger Tag.

All of these websites are DO Follow meaning they pass their page rank juice right to your article and over time Google ranks your target keywords and articles higher because you have increased the amount of backlinks that are linking to your blog articles.

Contest Sponsorship

All Business, Platinum and Gold Membership Customers are included as a “Sponsor” in all of Blog Engages Guest Blogging Contests. As their contests grow so do the contestants entering and participating. This year in 2011 Blog Engage will be giving away a total of 3000 USD.

Sponsored Reviews

Their contestants are given bonus points for writing individualized sponsor reviews, these would be reviews of you the RSS Customers. As the contestants battle for first place writing the sponsored review is very important to becoming a winner. Therefor this will increase the amount of blacklinks to your website and again will increase your search engine ranking positioning for target keywords.

Twitter and Facebook

The Blog Engage RSS Service also automatically tweets your published articles to all of @bbrian017′s 2500 followers. Your Published content will also be shared with our facebook fan group Blog Engage with over 450 friends.

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Before I get into my new brilliant idea I want to send a thank you to everyone here on my personal blog that supported me in the famous bloggers contest. We landed over 500 comments and the experience has been eye opening for me and has helped me better set up my own contests.

After the contest I had a lot of stuff to do. First I had to announce the winners of our first 500 USD blogging contest and then launch the new second 500 USD guest blogging contest So needless to say this weekend for me wasn’t much of a weekend at all lol.

What I decided to do for this contest was to include all the bloggers who have helped me and commented on my famous bloggers article. Thank you we got over 500 comments. All the bloggers are now officially sponsors in our current 500 USD guest blogging contest at Blog Engage

A new addition to our guest blogging contest is the points system. The main purpose for this was to encourage members to start being more active and productive in the contests themselves. This is going to be done by social networking, article sharing and contest sponsor reviews.

Points Breakdown

Tweets, 1 point up to a max of 250 points
Linked In Votes, 1 point, up to a max of 500 points
Facebook Likes, 1 point, up to a max of 500 points
Engages at Blog Engage, 2 points, Unlimited points
Comments on the blog article that provide value, 2 points Unlimited Points
Comments on blog engage story page, 1 point Unlimited Points
Sponsor Reviews, 10 points per review. max points based on unique content

So what do you think? Was it a good idea about the contest sponsors? Do you think this form of marking will pay off and bring more users into the blog engage community?

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