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The HubLove Contest

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Contest 

My favorite writing platform Hubpages is running a contest starting from Feb 14 and will last until Mar 15. The prizes for the contest is worth nearly 5000$ and winner gets all.

Prizes

  • MacBook Pro: 15-inch, 2.2 GHz (MSRP $1999)
  • iPod Touch: 8GB (MSRP $299)
  • Digital Camcorder:Sony Handycam HDR-SR5 (40GB) (MSRP $920)
  • Digital SLR camera: Canon EOS 30D with 18mm-to-55mm lens (MSRP $1721)

    • For those of you who don’t know what Hubpages is; Hubpages is a writing platform where you can publish your own articles and thanks to Hubpages high Google ranks you can get organic traffic without any effort. Hubpages will give a clue on a topic for each day during the contest and you have to solve the clue and publish an article at least 300 words. The quality of the articles and the first one who solves the clue will be awarded points. At the end of the month the winner with highest point will get all the prizes.

    The Hublove Contest

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    Blog World Expo on It’s Way

    Friday, November 9th, 2007

    There is a blogging expo going on for two days in Las Vegas. If you are a blogger living in Las Vegas or nearby I hope you stopped by to pay a visit. I haven’t earned enough money to buy myself a Las Vegas ticket so I am watching the news online. There are lot of big guys showing up in the event and if you have been there you had the chance to see the most money making bloggers together.  (John Chow and Shoemoney)Image taken from John Chow

    If you didn’t have the chance to visit at least take a look at :

    BlogWorldExpo

    JohnChow

    geeknewscentral

    b5media-blogworldexpo

    Technorati

    Some info on blogging from BlogWorldExpo :

  • Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
  • More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
  • Over 57 million Americans read blogs.
  • 1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
  • 89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
  • 9% of internet users say they have created blogs .
  • 6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog .
  • Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs .
  • over 120 thousand blogs are created every day .
  • There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day .
  • 22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs .
  • 120,000 new blogs are created every day .
  • 37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006 .
  • 51% of blog readers shop online .
  • Blog readers average 23 hours online each week . 

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