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Originally Posted by Rui
The idea of a blog contest sure has legs to walk, hell run
I would actually involve some webmastering (the drama!!!), though I do agree it should be on a semi-close environment (limit to number of domains, blogs, list of sponsors,etc..)
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That's the only way to keep it fair and easy to track IMHO.
Keeping the number of domains and IP's limited to 1 is a given. If we don't do that someone can just use Webair's SEO package with 236 IP's over 4 C classes and cheat without us knowing. Everyone cannot do that. This isn't a test of how much you can afford to do... it's about how much you know.
1 domain, 1 ip, 1 host...
The competition should be measured in 2 ways:
*how much traffic you get
and
*how many signups you get
Now, the sponsors is a different issue. If we use a dozen plus sponsors it stops being a controlled contest because we are then subject to the many variations of different sponsors conversion ratios. If one blogger makes more posts about the wrong sponsor they lose. It's not a scientific test it becomes more about luck.
So, to keep it fair and to be able to gage this on skill the sponsors should be limited.