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If you haven’t signed up for the contests (subscribe to RSS here to enter) you have a couple days yet to get your name into the hat for all sorts of prizes including 10 Beer Stocks. Also on the contest page you’ll see a countdown to a free for all Entrecredit give-a-way that you wont want to miss.

P.S. Don’t forget about Blogtomic’s Contest here.

As all bloggers know, having a good Technorati ranking is key for establishing your credibility. But when you are starting out as a blogger, what is the easiest way to increase your rank?

Your Technorati authority is the number of blogs that have linked to your site within the last six months. For more information about Technorati and Technorati ranking, go here. Your number one goal is to increase this number of links pointing to your blog. Unfortunately, if one site links to your blog more than once, only one is counted. So the key question to ask yourself is how to get your link on as many different blogs as possible in the shortest amount of time. The answer: Contests.

People love winning things for very little effort. In the last month, I can count about 6 contests I would deem legitimate and worth more than $2,000. Some of you may have heard about the Sense to Save contest or the Winning the Web contest. Contests like these are a great way to drive traffic to your blog and are a lot of fun to talk about. The downsides are the effort involved in executing them and not everyone is willing to put forth the time and energy to properly run one.

To increase your Technorati authority by using contests, find upcoming contests through forums, Google Alerts, search engines or word of mouth (right now Ty over as Tysblog.com is collecting contributors). When you find a contest you can participate in, try offering something to be donated for the prize. The idea is to offer the contest either a service or products. For example, I found a contest and donated Entrecard credits to it. Entrecredits are cheap and work great for this. Because of my donation, my link was visible under the list of contest prizes, which everyone involved saw. In most cases, the hosting blog is willing to take on most prizes in order to sweeten the pot and make more buzz for his or her site.

The best part about donating to Internet contests is the publicity they can offer you. This is because one way to be chosen as a contest winner is to promote it and give some “link love” back to the hosting site. If you have donated to this contest, this will help drive a little traffic to your site, boost your Technorati authority and establish your presence in the blogging community.

I donated to one contest and gained over 14 backlinks to my blog from it. The cost of those 14 backlinks was the 1,000 Entrecredits I originally donated to the contest prize. Everyone would agree that 1,000 Entrecard credits go for about $4-5 dollars or about an hour of time. That is a great trade-off for gaining links. Imagine if you hunted down 5-10 different contests and donated just Entrecard credits. That could be enough to double your Technorati rank in most cases. Plus, all those contests you decide to donate to will enjoy the boost in prizes to give away. This is a classic win-win situation.

This is a screen shot of my Technorati authority. In one month, www.joshwhitford.com went from 0-54 authority.

The truth is, you will probably never run out of contests that are worth donating a prize to, along with gaining some traffic and Technorati authority for your blog. The number one way to grow your site and market yourself is to participate in the blogging community. Growing your network and community is the foundation to your blog. Trust, traffic and authority aren’t given to a blog, they are earned. Your mission is to establish yourself in your niche community.  

Hello all and yet another week has passed on the Unconventional Marketing Blog. There are a few things to touch on. I have a new contest running on the Contest page called “guess my next alexa ranking.” It is really simple. All you have to do is guess and be the closest to the next updated number to win.I will also be a guest post on the Entrecard blog. I will primarily be focusing on Entrecard contests and innovations. So if you are running any kind of contest and feel like telling me, I would love to help spread the word. On a side note, I will not spam the Entrecard blog with contests that are not genuine or realistic.

I am half way to my goal of 100 RSS subscribers thanks to the last contest. I am planning on running another contest this week probably involving more Entrecredits. If you are interested, you should subscribe now so you don’ t forget. If you already are subscribed, I thank you and will continue to include all subscribing members in upcoming contests.

This week I would like to have a guest poster talk about Unconventional Marketing. If you would like to do that send me an email to: josh@joshwhitford.com Of course all guest posts will have a link and plug for their blog.

Stats for JoshWhitford.com:

• Day:18 of blogging
• Posts : 30
• Comments: 116
• Alexa: 579,143
• Technorati Favs: 14
• Technorati Authority: 22
• RSS subscribers: 51
• Visitors: 10,761
• Page Views: 24,201

It is not easy to say yet if I am going to pass the 30,000 visitor goal for the month of March with the first week pulling in roughly 5,000 unique visitors.

P.S. It’s still winter in Fargo, ND which entails below 0 weather and snow, spring is coming soon I can feel it.

I have posted a new contest in the forums and figured I would share with the rest of you who are just passing by. If you are interested in winning 2,000 Entrecard credits this Friday, just subscribe to my rss feed by email. Here is the link. I will be drawing the winner and announcing them on this blog. This is as easy as it gets for getting free credits. If you have already subscribed by email don’t worry you will be automatically entered into the drawing.

If you are not sure what Entrecard is or why you would want these free credits, go discover why at www.entrecard.com I will accept entries for the competition until noon this Friday. I will announce the winner at 5 p.m. CST.