Update: I am starting to setup the Blogging Idol page, and I am noticing that a large number of participants still has not activated their Feedburner feed count (you find it under the Feedburner “Publicize” tab). You need to do this before July 1st to enter the competition, and must also put a link to your Feedburner feed on your blog, else I won’t be able to find it.
Yesterday I signed up for a monthly subscription over at Keyword Country. I have a new project coming up where I will need to mine a lot of data, and this looked like a good solution because it offers more information than what the standard keyword tools do.
Long story short, while exchanging some emails with the company to get some pre-sales information, I came to know their CEO. The guy is simply outstanding, and we immediately started talking about blogging and online marketing. He started reading some articles on Daily Blog Tips, liked them, and decided to sponsor the contest!
The cool thing is that he offered a life-time access to Keyword Country. The monthly subscription costs $49, so I set the value of a life-time deal at $1500. Combined with the previous prizes of $1500 it now will give the winner of blogging idol $3000.
Even if you are expecting to win the contest I encourage you to take a look at this tool. In the past I have used both WordTracker and WordZe, and Keyword Country just tops them, especially if you are trying to make money via AdSense. The tool basically lets you know the average PPC for each keyword, how many sponsors are bidding on it, the average number of monthly clicks and so on. The info they provide are also useful for SEO and AdWords purposes (e.g. you could use it to discover semantic terms related to your main keyword).
As for the blogging idol contest, we are already over 100 contestants. You still have 2 days to apply if you want to get involved. It will start on this next Tuesday, July 1st.
Yesterday I signed up for a monthly subscription over at Keyword Country. I have a new project coming up where I will need to mine a lot of data, and this looked like a good solution because it offers more information than what the standard keyword tools do.
Long story short, while exchanging some emails with the company to get some pre-sales information, I came to know their CEO. The guy is simply outstanding, and we immediately started talking about blogging and online marketing. He started reading some articles on Daily Blog Tips, liked them, and decided to sponsor the contest!
The cool thing is that he offered a life-time access to Keyword Country. The monthly subscription costs $49, so I set the value of a life-time deal at $1500. Combined with the previous prizes of $1500 it now will give the winner of blogging idol $3000.
Even if you are expecting to win the contest I encourage you to take a look at this tool. In the past I have used both WordTracker and WordZe, and Keyword Country just tops them, especially if you are trying to make money via AdSense. The tool basically lets you know the average PPC for each keyword, how many sponsors are bidding on it, the average number of monthly clicks and so on. The info they provide are also useful for SEO and AdWords purposes (e.g. you could use it to discover semantic terms related to your main keyword).
As for the blogging idol contest, we are already over 100 contestants. You still have 2 days to apply if you want to get involved. It will start on this next Tuesday, July 1st.
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