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I’ve posted this “BlogWatch: Top 5, Top 10 and Top 12 in Blogs” to congratulate the lucky winner of Problogger’s Top 5 Contest, to congratulate Darren, his ProBlogger and Chitika for the success of the project and to share the interesting Top 10 and Top 12 blog posts I’ve stumbled upon.

The Lucky Winner of ProBlogger’s Top 5 Group Writing Project

Nancy R. Callahan is the lucky winner for her entry Baby names from Video Games. Among 893 Top 5 entries, she is the chosen one. Maybe she had read my entry “Top 5 Tips To Win Problogger’s Top 5 Group Writing Project Contest“. I’m just kidding!

Congratulations Nancy! But, where’s the party?

Read more at ProBlogger

Are You A Blog Addict?

SearchRank has listed the 10 signs thay you may be a blog addict. The signs are funny but true. Here are examples of the funny signs of being a blog addict:

1. You tell customers that you missed a project deadline because “some things” came up but in reality, you were blogging.
2. In order for your family to keep up with what’s going on in your life, they have to read your blog. Furthermore, if they want to communicate with you, they have to comment on your blog.
3. You can’t remember dates for your wedding anniversary, kids birthdays, etc., but you know what your Technorati rank is.

Read more at SearchRank

Top 10 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites

eBizMBA has posted a list of the top 10 largest social bookmarking sites in April 2007, ranked by a combination of Compete and Quantcast data. Digg.com has topped the list with a unique monthly visitors as high as 11.3 million. It is followed by Netscape, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, reddit, slashdot, BlinkList, FARK, Newsvine and furl.

To get a share the big chunks of web traffic, better to prioritize the above top 10 social bookmarking sites.

Read more at eBizMBA

12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

Directory Aviva has highlighted the 12 of the most important US laws when it comes to blogging and provide some simple and straightforward tips for safely navigating them. Here are the issues discussed:

1. Whether to Disclose Paid Posts
2. Is Deep Linking Legal
3. The Legal Use of Images and Thumbnails
4. Laws that Protect You From Stolen Content
5. Domain Name Trademark Issues
6. Handling Private Data About Your Readers
7. Who Owns User-Developed Content and Can You Delete It
8. The Duty to Monitor Your Blog Comments, and Liability
9. Basic Tax Law Issues in Blogging
10. Limited Liability Laws and Incorporating
11. Spam Laws and Which Unsolicited Emails are Legal
12. Are Bloggers Protected from Journalism Shield Laws

Read more at Directory Aviva

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Here is my Top 5 tips to help you win the ProBlogger’s Top 5 Group Writing Project Contest.

1. Post Your Best “Top 5″ in Your Blog

Write your best top 5. Keep in mind that a shining $1,001 is at stake. Search “top 5″ keyword terms in Google to give you a good idea.

Compile the great ideas from your own imagination and from your research. But never copy anyone’s Top 5. It’s theirs, not yours.

Make an intriguing title like this post. Use your imagination to surprise or amaze other participants.

Post your best top 5 in your blog or site, not in Forum or social networking sites.

Though it is not required, link back to the Group Writing Project Contest post. Who knows? Darren may change his mind and give some points on this.

2. Inform ProBlogger or Darren Rowse

Fill in the Group Writing Project Contest form.

Fill in the form accurately as the way you enter it is the way it’ll appear as Darren has no time to edit everyone’s submission.

Give your valid email address not the email you’re using for spamming, email list or free for all advertising. Don’t worry, Darren knows how to keep secret. He respects the privacy of his fans.

Don’t forget to submit the form on Thursday. It is the Thursday in your location’s local time, not in Darren’s time. So, set your alarm clock in whatever high-tech gadget you have at 12:00 am, Friday, May 11. If you hear the alarm and have not submitted your best Top 5. Don’t worry, keep calm, sleep well as surely you’re not a winner. Just wait for the next ProBlogger’s Group Writing Contest.

If luckily you have submitted your post before the alarm, then expect that you cannot have a good sleep as you will be excited to know if you win.

Be proud of your post, make a noise or buzz on the web. Submit your post to Digg.com where people are noisy and waiting for rumors or gossips to dig or to bury. Expect that your post will be buried by other participants who think you will win. If you have money, make a press release for the launching of your Top 5 post for ProBlogger contest.

3. Allow ProBlogger to Link Back

After submitting your post, Darren will link to it in 2 places, on a daily list and on a central list of all submissions. Don’t reject this offer. This is his promise to all who submitted their Top 5 posts.

Anyway, your blog or post will be benefited from his link to your post. He can bring hundreds to thousands of his readers to your blog. Be ready to receive this web traffic avalanche.

4. Love Other Top 5 Posts

On this part, you have to show that you’re energetic. Better drink Red Bull or your favorite energy drink as you are going to read other submissions, leave comments, bookmark their pages, make connections with other ProBlogger readers and enjoy reading others Top 5.

Never let others’ Top 5 posts distract you or disappoint you. There may be some posts that you may think that are better than yours. Don’t worry, Darren said that there’s no formal judging criteria and the winner will be randomly selected. Just keep on visiting and socializing with other participants. Keep a time limit for each visit to be able for you to know more participants.

Give links of love to other top 5 posts, like this:
Become Blog Worthy
My Top 5 Favourite WordPress Blogging Tools
The Top 5 Blogs at the End of 2007 will be…
The Top Five Steps to Grow Your Net Worth
The Top 5 Ways to Become a Millionaire

5. Pray To Win

This is the most important part of this Top 5 tips. If you believe in God, don’t pray that you’ll win but pray that people like Darren Rowse and organizations like Chitika be blessed more for sharing their success and blessings to other bloggers, webmasters and readers.

Pray that whoever wins this contest will share the money to the needy especially for the children thru charitable organizations like Plan-International and SaveTheChildren.

If you are non-believer, then make a scientific or other approach that will make other people share their blessings or knowledge to make a better world.

On top of this Top 5 tips, I’ll pray for you to win the ProBlogger’s Top 5 Group Writing Project Contest. But I’m sure, we are all winners here.

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Online contest is really becoming popular as a link building and blog promotion strategy for many blogs. Most of these online contests offer an attractive top prizes for the winners. Top prizes being offered include Nintendo Wii, cash prize up to $1,000 and other useful products.

Here are the some of the ongoing online contests in blogs that caught my attention:

Problogger Blog Contest

Problogger has a blog contest dubbed as Group Writing Project Day up to May 10 2007 of submitters’ local time:

Top Prize: $1,001

Contest Rules:

• Write a “top 5″ post in your blog. Be as creative as you’d like - take it in any direction you want as long as it relates to the topic. Feel free to write your post in your own first language.
• Once you’ve posted your post, fill up and submit this form.
• In the day or two after you, Darren Rowse will post a link to your “Top 5″ post in two places.
• Surf the submissions to Problogger. Leave comments, make connections with other ProBlogger readers, bookmark them and enjoy reading what others have to say.
• On Friday (May 11), Darren will randomly select the participant to win the $1001 from Chitika and will post the winner at this point.

Link to enter contest and to learn more: Win $1,001

5minutes For Mom Blog Contest

5minutes for mom has 3 blog contests until May 13 2007, tagged as Mother’s Day Giveaway with this logo:

Here are the 3 contests with common contest rules:

Contest 1

Top Prize: The Apple iPod Nano and Chocolate Gift Set Worth $200+

Link to enter contest and to learn more: Win an iPod Nano

Contest 2

Top Prize: Mei Tai (or an equivalent value gift certificate)

Link to enter contest and to learn more: Win Mei Tai or an equivalent value gift certificate

Contest 3

Top Prize: Hannah Keeley’s Total Mom Makeover (a life changing book)

Link to enter contest and to learn more: Win a Hannah Keeley’s Total Mom Makeover (a life changing book)

Common Contest Rules:

• Add a comment on the contests you want to enter. You need to comment at the individual contests.
• Either link back to this main contest post and include a Mother’s Day Giveaway button in your post or on your sidebar or link to the individual contests you choose to enter. If you post and include the button, either in your post or on your sidebar, and link back to the main contest post, you are good to go for all the contests. No more further linking required.
• Seemed to be open to US residents only. But some of the contests are open also to those residing in Canada.

Bento Box Review Blog Contest

The contest is up to May 31 2007.

Top Prize: Nintendo Wii or cash equivalent

Contest Rules:
Participant gets one entry to the draw for every point earned. Points are earned, as follows:

• 1 point for leaving comment on any post in Bento Box Review using a working email.
• 5 points for the backlinks from your blog and email the blog author about this.
• 20 points for review the blog on your site, 150 words or more. Plus 3 points if you mention the contest in your review. Then, email the author about this.

In addition to this, the blog author (Rick Uyesugi) will also send the participants some link love. He will list all of the back-linkers and reviews in his blog in order of completion.

Link to enter contest and to learn more: Win a Nintendo Wii or Cash equivalent

Uvouch.com Blog Contest

Uvouch.com has 2 blog contests, both up to June 1 2007, as follows:

Contest 1

Top Prize: Nintendo wii and Cash prizes. Cash prizes open to members from any country.

Contest Rules:
10 finalists who have the highest total of friends and referrals whose accounts have been activated. Out of those 10 finalists, whoever is the most active member is the winner.

Contest 2

Top Prize: Gift certificates or equivalent Cash prizes to members from any country.

Contest Rules

• 10 x $10 for randomly selected from those who have actively watched videos.
• $50 for the user who has commented on the most videos.
• $50 for randomly selected user who has either embedded a playlist or video roll on their blog.
• $25 for the coolest profile of the month.
• $25 for randomly selected user who has embedded a link roll on their blog.

Link to enter contest and to learn more: Win Nintendo Wii, Gift certificates and cash prizes.

This is for your info. Just in case you would want to have a chance to get the top prizes of the above contests by just following their simple rules.

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