Comments on: Contest Update Keller Hawthorne’s best blog design contest 2009

By: Paula from Affiliate Blog Online

Paula from Affiliate Blog Online — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:14:17 +0000

Congrats on getting into the top 5. We also entered a couple of our niche blogs but didn’t make the grade, but it was fun to enter.
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By: ZXT

ZXT — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:12:58 +0000

Congrats Brian for bagging 5th place amongst very good design blogs. Looking forward to your new site.
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By: bbrian017

bbrian017 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:47:21 +0000

Either way we look at it you have won the competition fair and square and that’s all that matters. You work hard on your blog and have gained the voted from networking and no one has the right to take that away.

Perhaps now you can pick a nice theme and truly will her blog contest of 2010 if she runs one.

Congrats on the victory Will and thanks for stopping by my blog.

By: bbrian017

bbrian017 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:43:45 +0000

I’m glad you didn’t cheat. I imagine you were only joking when you said that. Personally I don’t know what I’m going to do with another blog theme I’m definitely not starting another blog.

By: Will McCulloch

Will McCulloch — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:18:05 +0000

Hi Brian,

It’s a great site you’ve got here – and really was my first choice for the contest. Head and shoulders above everything else in my opinion. My own site, as I wrote to Keller, only won because I networked more than anyone else and got people to vote for me. Which , in a way , is a travesty of justice. I mean the site certainly isn’t the “Best WordPress Design 2009″.

So – why did I enter the contest only a few weeks after starting to build my site? Well, I came across Keller – and thought she gave out great information & good ideas – especially for someone like me who is completely new to blogging and still learning the ropes. I’m also sure she’s a very nice, genuine person & that she’s going to be very succcessful with her site. Basically then, I imagined the contest would be a good kick-start to an initial awareness campaign for “What A Website” & good free publicity for the future should it be one of the 5 finalists. So I went looking for votes.

The downside of all this – again as I told Keller – is that it would have been better (for me ) if she had started her contest in November … as by then I might ( might !) have developed a site/concept worthy of such a grand sounding title … Really. I’m far from surprised that Jared doesn’t really get the concept yet. I haven’t really had much time yet to present it properly ( work in the real world etc etc) – but I hope ( and maybe expect) that things will change quite a lot over the coming months.

One of the positive changes that would be great to see, by the way, is for this site ( & Blog Engage) to be included!

Cheers

Will
P.S- I also wrote to Keller in the “follow up” that a contest title such as “Best WordPress Blogger 2009″ would have been better/more appropriate. Asking friends/contacts for votes hasn’t really got that much to do with a design contest (which you won)
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By: Jared P Little

Jared P Little — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:26:13 +0000

Good work Brian glad you won something. Yes I like Will he’s seems like a nice guy but I been to his site a couple times and I don’t get it or what he trying to do. Might be a UK thing we in the States just don’t get it.

I should have hacked the contest I could really use a better theme just didn’t feel right about cheating.
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By: bbrian017

bbrian017 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:25:48 +0000

Yeah it was a close one. I don’t think the contest actually worked. The person who won and the runner ups didn’t really have nice blogs.

The contest should had been 2009 most popular blogs and that would had suited the contest better.

By: bbrian017

bbrian017 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:23:54 +0000

Yeah I guess they do have a lot of readers. Or perhaps posted all over the net requesting votes.

Better luck next time I guess.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:40:24 +0000

Congratulations. A close call there with only 10 votes. This is the times when we should have thousands of dedicated followers.
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By: Asswass

Asswass — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:02:48 +0000

Congrats Brian. The third one sucks lol. He must have a lot of readers and friends.
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