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:

  1. Ed Lau
  2. John Chow
  3. Stephen Fung
  4. Nick (Romandock)
  5. Chris Bibey

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!