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TechTreak.com Contest & Review

Narendra S.V, the author of TechTreak.com, is having his first major contest after bagging $2500 from BlogCatalog.com. Congrats! To celebrate his win, Narendra will be giving away an eye-catching $700 worth of prizes to bloggers who do a review of his website. Check out the list of prizes below:

First-place prize:
$180 worth one year free Category listing in http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/arts as a Featured Link from BlogCatalog.com (Alexa Rank: 1,499)
$111 usd via paypal from TechTreak.com
$25 worth of one image adspot with 100×100px @ dt.yogtec.com

Second-place prize:
$155 worth of Pro Adsense SEO Guide E-book form RishiRaj.info (Alexa Rank: 99,327)
$50 worth 468×60px image adspot for one month in RishiRaj.info

Third-place prize:
$60 worth of one image adspot with 120×120px for one month in BestOfIndya.com
$50 worth Pro Web Designing ebook from TheNetGuruz.com

Fourth-place prize:
1 year free hosting from RishiRaj.info
$25 worth image adspot of 100×100px @ dt.yogtec.com

Additional prizes:
$25 worth of Google Adwords Coupon (for one lucky winner)
$50 worth of Text-Link-Ads in TechTreak.com for 5 lucky drawn winner (one for each)

The rules for the contest, which he has modified to make it easier to enter, are as follows:

Rules and Regulations:
The contest starts from October 8th 2007 & ends on November 24th 2007 and the winners are announced on November 28th 2007.
1) All blogs are allowed to participate except Porn and warez blogs.
2) The review must be 250 - 300 word post on any category.
3) Also let your readers know about the author of TechTreak.com is narendra.s.v and link to this contest page.
4) To participate, please comment at the contest post along with your post’s permanent link!
5) The prize’s image ad spots formats allowed are PNG, GIF, JPG only!
6) Your review must stay as long as your blog lives!
7) All sponsors, team and family members of TechTreak.com are NOT allowed to participate.
8) Your review must be submitted @ Bestofindya.com.
9) You must add the coded links found on the contest post @ the bottom of your review without any modification.

Please check out the contest post for full details and the latest rules (in case he has made any further amendments).

On to the review, TechTreak.com is a website on technology, gadgets, Web 2.0 and much more – it covers quite a sizeable range of topics, including one of my favorite topics on making money and even topics related to health! With the breadth of topics, you’ll probably be able to find something down there which interests you. It is commendable that there is a relatively high frequency of postings on a myriad range of topics. A caveat is that the broad range of topics may come across as not very focused and may also make it difficult for the author of the site to build depth for each category.

The website has a nice, “designy” kind of look and is very well monetized with its three-column layout and lots of ads. One note of caution here, not everyone likes a site full of ads so one thing I could suggest for improvement is to reduce the clutter somewhat to avoid what I call “visual overload” on the part of visitors.

Of course, the making money section is one which greatly interests me. Narendra has created an interesting wordpress plugin called the Customized Random Top Ads Plugin which you can use to keep 6 different google products or other referral links at the top of your blog and these are rotated randomly when the page is loaded or when the visitor clicks on the “Next Tip” link at the top. He’s also got an article with some good tips on how to improve the link popularity of your site. Again, to be brutally honest, while I enjoyed the posts in this category, the section is crying out for more articles and in order to become a “sticky” website for me, I think there needs to be a reduction in scope while improving the depth of certain categories.

Thanks Narendra for submitting your contest to me! Go give him some support!

Supported By: Blogcatalog.com, Blogging and Money Making Tips, BestOfIndya.com, TheNetGuruz.com and Yogtec’s Digital Technology

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Choose Your Prize - iPod Video Nano Or $100?

Another fantastic contest is under way. Good to start the month on this note! Browie is sharing some of his proceeds from his Problogger win by holding this contest on his personal blog. All you need to do for 1 entry is to post a comment in his contest article. Get another 2 entries into the contest by blogging about his blog and contest with a link to his blog using the anchor text “Personal Blog” and one link to the contest article using whatever phrase you want. Then drop him an email to let him know that you've entered and you're all set. What's more, he is giving the winner the choice of either a 4GB iPod Video Nano or $100 via Paypal! Check out his contest article for full details!

Contest ends 15th November 2007 and Browie will pick the winner on video. So what's stopping you?

Latest updates: Browie has made some amendments to his contest. The iPod prize will only be available to entrants from US, Canada and UK. Other international entrants, though, will be able to win the $100 Paypal prize.

P.S. Do check out his cute little bundle of joy, Isabelle while you're there!

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First Contest At Yeepage

And so the contest bandwagon goes rolling on...It's great to see so many blog contests coming up. Keep it going folks. And I'll do my part in trying to promote them! So our latest first contest holder is Simon at Yeepage. The first method of getting a shot at the prizes is to comment in his contest post. Does it get any easier than that? His contest rules are as follows:

-Any spam comments will be removed from my posts.
-For every 100 comments the prize money increase by $10.
-200 Comments I’ll PayPal $20, for 300 Comments I’ll PayPal $30, for 400 Comments I’ll PayPal $40, for 500 Comments I’ll PayPal $50 you get the idea.
-Example: On the 20th Dec 2007, I have a total of 452 comments Iwill give the prize to the person who wrote the 400th comment, likewise if Ii get 699 comments I will give the prize to the person who wrote the 600th comment. So basically the higher the comments the more I pay…. So make me broke for Christmas.
-Winner needs to do short write up with proof of payment, after contest closes with a link back to his contest page.

Bloggers who write about his contest in around 100 words and put links back to the contest post and to his homepage like what I've done get a shot at an additional $40, to be drawn randomly i.e. via a lucky draw system. Remember to email to admin@yeepage.com to inform him once you've done so. The prizes for this contest are quite good so do head down to give Simon your full support.

Contest ends 20th December 2007. Check out the contest post for full details.

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Win Up To $100 With NSpeaks

The first contest trend continues - with Navjot of NSpeaks giving away $100 to be paid by Paypal. Cool - it's good to see so many bloggers offering their own contests! And the rules to enter are quite simple as well.

All you need to do for the first contest is to blog about the contest in about 100 words and include the 2 links Navjot has given - the first is a link to his homepage and the second is a link to the contest post. The winner will get $50 via Paypal. Check out his contest post here for the full details.

In the second contest, you will need to subscribe to his RSS feed and in any of the posts between 25th and 30th November, you will see a unique text code in the feed. Email that code to him and you get your entry - the prize is another $50 via Paypal.

For both contests, winners will be drawn randomly and if you're lucky, you can even win both of them. And Navjot's also giving a free backlink even to non-winners in the post where he announces the results. So no one gets left out! Don't wait any longer. Get down there before the contest ends on 30th November, 6.30pm IST.

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$100 Contest By Making Sales Making Money

Making Sales Making Money is having another of their smashing contests with a $100 cash prize up for grabs. This time they are teaming up with Contest Blogger to do so.

What you have to do:
Link back to the Making Sales Making Money homepage using the anchor text home based business opportunities. Then link back to the Contest Blogger homepage using the anchor text sweepstakes and you’re in. You can also get another entry in the contest by subscribing to the Making Sales Making Money RSS feed. Every blogger who enters this contest will also get a free PR5 backlink from Contest Blogger when the contest ends. So check out all the full details at their contest post here.

Contest ends 3rd December. Remember to inform Contest Blogger of your entry and you may soon be the random winner of $100 via Paypal.

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Win A Sony Photo Printer

Worldiki.com is a travel blog which chronicles Pedro and Grace’s adventures as they travel the world while maintaining their businesses at the same time. You can find interesting videos and photos of all sorts of places there. What a lucky couple, I must say. Killing two birds with one stone!

And they're now giving away a cool Sony photo printer! All you need to do is to blog about Worldiki.com and include a link to it. That's all. Email the contest post to your friends and get more entries. Check out full details at their contest post.

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Win $10 With Sohan Tanna

Yet another new blog is having a contest. This time it is Sohan Tanna who will be giving away $10 via Paypal to a random winner just for writing why you like his blog plus a direct link to Sohan Tanna. So easy! Go give him some support. Check out his contest post here.

I like the Sohan Tanna blog as it's nice and easy to the eyes with the minimalistic design and blue-white theme. It's also got a stylish logo and a catchy tagline - "The future's bright". This is perfectly in line with his focus in providing some money-making tips. While it's still early days for Sohan, I think the contest augurs well and certainly if he keeps on dishing out these contests and some useful tips, the future will certainly be bright for the Sohan Tanna blog! Go give him some link love!

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Win Free Hosting From Steps And Tips

Steps and Tips is a new blog which is having a whopper of a contest at the moment. Up for grabs is 1000 mb hosting, 30,000 mb bandwidth, PHP, Mysql, 2 FTP and more with lifetime validity! All you need to do is to write a comment or a review on why you like his blog and the best comment and review will win the free hosting. Contest ends today, 31st October, 9pm IST so hurry down there!

For me, I like the simplistic design of the Steps and Tips blog. There are lots of free spaces and what sets it apart from other blogs is the absence of any ads. Good for you! Steps and Tips covers a wide range of topics and seeks to let its readers know of the latest developments on the Internet. He even has a medicine category where he shares his experience in curing himself of asthma without using an inhaler. Nice and inspirational. But what is best about this blog is the unique content it puts out. I do love the post about how to use a headphone as a microphone. Whacky! I never knew that. Putting more of these interesting posts will surely draw more people to visit his blog. Keep that going Prathik!

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The Ghillie Suit Clothing Contest

Ghillie Suit Clothing is holding a great contest where you can win a $100 gift card just by mentioning that they have great Ghillie Suits at their online store.

The winner can choose the gift card from the following stores:
-Best Buy
-Amazon.com
-Borders
-Home Depot
-Target

So check out their contest post for the full details! Contest ends 15th November.

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