Prize: $25 via Paypal, weekly. Plus any additional prizes donated by people.

How to Enter:

1. Write a post on your blog about this blog and this contest.
2. Leave a comment below with the link to your post.
3. Read my blog! I recommend subscribing through RSS or getting my blog posts by email.

Rules: You can only win once per month, other than that you can win as many times as you want. Your blog post must be at least 250 words. They’d also apperciate it if you linked to their blog with any of the following anchor texts:

1. Make Money Blogging
2. Blog Marketing
3. Increase Website Traffic

End date: No start/end date, $25 will be given each week. If the contest does end, at least 4 weeks notice will be given.

Competition submitted by: W. Ryall (Admin)

Prize: 1 X $100 via Paypal

How to Enter:

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• 10 Entries - Blog about Mr. Opportunist Community forums, the adsense revenue sharing system, and your thoughts of it. Be honest on the your thoughts portion, this is how you feel about it, not what I want to hear.
• 10 Entries - Blog about this contest linking back to this entry.
• 8 Entries - Join the Forum and post an introduction in the “Initiation” Forum.
• 5 Entries - Subscribe to the Mr. Opportunist RSS Feed
• 5 Entries - Add this blog to Technorati Favorites
• 3 Entries - Stumble this post
• 3 Entries - Digg this post
• 3 Entries - Stumble any other post on this site
• 3 Entries - Digg any other post on this site
• 2 Entries - Leave a comment on any post other than this one
• 1 Entry - Leave a comment on this post (Seeing you must do this, everyone gets atleast 1 entry )

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Rules: “You must post a comment here after you have performed any of the above actions notifying me of which options you have performed. This is the only way for me to keep track of what you have performed and how many entries you have earned.”

End date: February 1st, 2008

Competition submitted by: W. Ryall (Admin)

Prize: 1GB Class 2 SD Memory Card

How to Enter:

• Write a post (150 words minimum) on your blog about this contest and link back to the site and to the contest post
• Leave a comment with the link to your post
• Subscribe to his RSS feeds by mail with the same email you left with the comment.

Rules: 10 entries must be submitted or the contest will not go through

End date: End of January 2008

Competition submitted by: W. Ryall (Admin)

Enter here

Prize: $25 via Paypal

How to Enter: “Make a post on your blog telling your readers about our contest. Link to this post + the homepage of our blog. If your blog sends us a trackback, you’ll be automatically entered. Otherwise, just comment on here with the url of your post.”

Rules: We reserve the right to deny any entry from a blog that contains adult material, illegal material, or is spammy in nature.

End date: Febuary 1st, 2008

Competition submitted by: W. Ryall (Admin)

Prize:

One Wordpress Hoodie (See photos below)

How to Enter:

“To win this contest, all you have to do is blog about this entry and write about it in a comment on this post. The most creative entry will win this hoody so this is not a lucky draw :).”

Rules: Entries must be creative.

End date: February 5, 2008

Competition submitted by: W. Ryall (Admin)

I’m also using this post as my entry, so here is my attempt at being creative.

I know what you’re thinking, there is no way I can compete with that. You’re probably right, but just in case I don’t win why don’t you enter. Even if I lose this competition, I think I might still buy a hoody, they look pretty awesome.

Prize: 5 X 1000 Entrecard Credits

How to Enter:

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1. Leave a comment on this post (one comment per person). Include the word ‘Entrecard’ in the comment to help stop them getting caught up in my spam filter.
2. Leave a recommendation for ProBlogger on Entrecard - the link to leave a recommendation is at the top right hand side of my profile page (one recommendation per person).

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Rules: You must have an entrecard account so that the credits can be given to you.

End date: 25th of January

Competition submitted by: W. Ryall (Admin)

Prize: 1st place : Canon Powershot SD950IS

2nd - 6th : “either a copy of Scott Kelby’s new Digital Photography Book Volume 2 OR a Sanyo Eneloop Battery Charging Kit with 4 Rechargeable Batteries.” (You get to choose which you’d prefer)

How to Enter: “You simply need to be active on our forum between now and 14 February. By active I mean you need to be a member and be posting. Between now and the end of the competition every post that you make will be an ‘entry’ into the competition. If you post 10 times, that’s 10 entries, if you post 100 times then that’s 100 entries.” Click here to sign up to the forums.

Rules: “Your posts do need to be genuine (spammy posts that are obviously just to get your number of entries up will be deleted and will get you banned from the competition). Stay on topic and you’ll be fine.”

End date: 14th February AEDT time (Australian eastern daylight time)

Competition submitted by: W. Ryall (Admin)

Prize:

Two football shirts for any international team in any size delivered anywhere in the World.

How to Enter:

“Predict new England manager Fabio Capello’s starting eleven for the friendly match against Switzerland on Feb 6th, 2008.

Just post your predicted starting eleven as a comment on this thread.“Rules: A winner will be chosen at random from the profile names of all those who correctly guess the starting eleven at 20:15 GMT February 6th (presuming at 20:00 kick-off).

End date: 23:59 GMT February 4th, 2008

Additional details: When we announce the winner, we will post an email address they can contact to claim their prize. So remember to bookmark the post if you plan to enter so you can check back to see if you’re a winner.

Competition submitted by: W. Ryall (Admin)

Prize: An Angus McBride print

How to Enter: To enter you need to caption the following picture: (Click to enlarge)

To enter simply click here and post a comment.

Rules: The caption must be family friendly, no bad language or anything inapporiate. You may enter as many times as you like.

End date: 28th of February

Competition submitted by: W. Ryall (Admin)

After much procrastination, blogetition has finally launched to much fanfare. (It’ll come, honest.) Blogetition is a concept I came up with after winning $500 from Scott Wainner’s $1,000 cash giveaway for your suggestions contest. I realized that the only reason I won is because not a lot of people entered. I certainly didn’t complain about the lack of entries (my entry basically suggested he was more liberal with his use of the no follow link attribute) but it got me thinking to what a pain it is to not only hold a blog contest, but to actively promote it.

I know there are plenty of people out there that would enter more blog competitions if only they knew about them (myself included); I know that the blog owners themselves would love the additional entrants. So I decided to create this site in the hopes of connecting contest lovers and contest holders. In my eyes it’s a win-win for everybody involved.

That being said, this site will either live or die based on how you decide to use it. If everybody submits blog contests/competitions when they see them, our community will thrive. If nobody submits competitions then this site will rely totally on my own submissions, and while I like to think that I am super human, I’m not.

Matthew Walker summed it up beautifully in the fable ‘The Four Oxen and the Lion’ with the words “United we stand, divided we fall“. So I encourage all of you reading this to submit any blog contests/competitions you stumble across, tell your friends and family about the site and hopefully together we can build something which is not only functional but also fun.

To start things off, I thought what better way than to hold our very own competition. My father always used to say - a good competition is an easy competition. So I’ve tried to make this as easy as possible to follow. This is how things will work:

• For every unique competition/contest you submit to this site you’ll receive one point (only the first person to submit the competition will be credited)
• At the end of each day (AEDT, Australian eastern daylight time) I’ll tally up the points and update the leader board which can be found on the left sidebar. The top ten will be shown only, if you want to know how many points you have, please use the contact form found in the submit section.
• Each of the ten people on the leader board will get a link back to their blog/a site of their choosing with the anchor text of their choosing. (Family friendly sites only, no Viagra sites. Sorry guys.)
• At the end of February the top ten contributors will be rewarded with monetary incentive. The prizes are as follows:
  1. $10
  2. $5
  3. $4
  4. $3
  5. $2
  6. - 10. $1
• At the end of February a post will be made thanking everybody who submitted a contest/competition to blogetition.

Now that the concept is out there - we’ll move onto the rules.

• Please do not submit fake competitions, I’d hate for people to waste their precious time entering a contest that isn’t real.
• Submit contests that the majority of people can enter, for example logo designing contests are a no no, contests which require people to write a comment/subscribe to a rss feed are a yes yes, (It’s ok if it requires a little skill, just don’t over do it).
• Submit contests that you’d want to enter yourself, if the prize is $1 and they want you to write a 40,000 word essay, then you could probably do without submitting it.
• If in doubt, submit. If you’re ever unsure of whether or not to submit the contest, just submit it. I’d rather my inbox was filled with iffy contests than no contests at all.
• Have fun. Submitting contests might sound boring, but just remember that you’re helping out the community and karma has a way of helping out those that do good things by others.

I’m not to sure how this site is going to go, but life left wondering is life lost. If you have any suggestions/comments/ideas please don’t hesitate to contact me via the contact form on the submit page.

On final note, if you’re unsure how to run a successful blog competition, I highly recommend you read Darren Rowse’s guide on How to Run a Successful Competition on Your Blog.