Contest Update: Are You Winning?
November 16th, 2008 by Michael Kwan
Earlier this month, I announced that I would be hosting the Funnel Vision Contest. The grand prize in this grand contest is valued at over $200, including three great iPod accessories from Griffin and one $70 “paid” review here on Beyond the Rhetoric. Since the month is about halfway through, I figured now would be a good time to provide a brief update.
As you recall, the goal of the contest is to send as much referral traffic as possible from your site/blog to Beyond the Rhetoric. By and large, I said that you could use whatever strategy you would like. Standard things would be simply linking to me on the sidebar or in a post, but some people have been a little more creative. For example, one guy decided to provide an incentive for his site visitors to click on a link over to my site. That’s smart thinking.
In the interest of fairness, there are a few referral sources that are exempt from this contest. Search engines and social media sites cannot win, of course, but I’m also leaving out any of my freelance writing clients as well. It wouldn’t make sense for me to give the prize to Mobile Magazine or LoveToKnow, right?
So, who’s winning? At the time this article was written, the top five referring sites (according to Google Analytics) are:
I’m undecided as to whether John and Stephen should be exempt since I write for both of them. Then again, I don’t write for Stephen’s blog and I haven’t had any ReviewMe reviews on John’s blog (yet) this month. With this in mind, the top spot is still very much up for grabs. So, even if you haven’t made any major effort so far this month, you still have a great chance to win.
What are you waiting for? Get out there and win my contest!
Filed under Technology.
Hey, looks like I’m not doing too terribly bad! I would say that John should be exempt because you do write for him quite a bit and you probably will have at least one review over there before the month is over (judging from past trends anyway) and besides, does John Chow really need another review? Not only that, if he were exempt I would move up to 3rd place
You are very much in the running! It’s kind of good news and bad news on my part, since the referral traffic hasn’t been quite as substantial as I would have hoped. In this way, anyone who puts in a good push to finish the month can still easily come out on top.
Well, if it’s any consolation, the odds of winning my promotion are currently WAY higher than I thought they would be.
No fair, John Chow should be exempt from this or all your DOT COM buddies should
This is because you guys all link to each other and do it with twitter all the time! lol. NO FAIR 
It’s completely up to you though Michael, but I surely do not think the Dot Com crew needs more gadgets
However, I LOVE YOU GUYS!
-Mike
Oh yea, even though you haven’t written for any of your buddies this month, they can still send you traffic nevertheless. The posts are all archived and old links that still point to you
-Mike
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