If you are a blogger who regularly uses MyBlogLog, you may have noticed a posting on their blog and site about a contest they recently started called, the MyBlogLog Problogger Contest. Their blog also featured a post about the contest which, in my opinion, does a better job explaining the details of the contest than the page on MBL. The MBL contest is for the bloggers who grow their communities on MBL the most from November 8th to the 30th, meaning the blogs with the most new community members will complete for the top prizes. Some of the prizes include a One Year Pro MyBlogLog Subscription and a $500.00 Yahoo Search Marketing Credit, among others.

We can’t promise that you’ll become a problogger, but we can get you started on the right path. Enter our ‘Become a Problogger Contest’ for a chance to win a prize package that will give you the TOOLS to help get you on the way to success. Good luck!

How MBL’s Contest Works:

Of course, there are official rules, so if you have any specific questions that aren’t answered here, you may want to check those out too. Also, here’s the page where MBL will display the most current contest standings so you can always see who the top 100 contestants are at any given time.

MBL is looking for communities that stand out, are vibrant and rapid-growing. Such communities benefit both the bloggers who post and also MBL. As such, in the contest, blog community owners will have a chance to compete against each other to see who can grow their community the most and the fastest between November 8th and 30th. The winner of the contest will be announced from the floor of PUBCon 2007 in Las Vegas on December 5th, and will also be announced on MBL’s blog.

Some of the most important official contest terms include…

1. The promotion is open to U.S. residents who are 16 or older, and is void where prohibited by law. You can register any time during the period that the contest is open. If you register after the contest starts, your growth will still be measured from the first day of the contest to the last day.
2. The full eligibility requirements are in the Official Rules. In particular, though, no sponsors or employees of sponsors, including Yahoo!, are eligible to win. If you’re ineligible, you’re welcome to participate for fun (i.e. to see how your community ranks against others in the contest).
3. Only valid joins will be counted. If any entrant is found creating multiple accounts in order to inflate their sign-ups, or in any way attempting to game the system, that entrant will be disqualified from the contest.

MBL Contest Prizes:

• One Year Pro MyBlogLog Subscription
• $500 Yahoo! Search Marketing Credit
• A 1-year membership to SEOmoz Premium Membership
• 1 Complete Blog Redesign
• One Year Subscription To Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind
• A Featured Community for the month of December at MyBlogLog
• An invitation to the invite-only blog gathering, SOBCon 2008, in Chicago

Current eCommerce Optimization MBL Stats:

• Family, Friends and Contacts = 357 contacts
• Community Memebers = 45 members
• Profile Viewed = 1506 times
• My Admirers = 8 admirers
• My Communities = 8 communities

How To Help Us Win & Win Yourself:

It’s simple, we are splitting the prizes with members who join, it could be you!!

Ok, so the title of this article pretty much says it all, obviously we would like you to help us win the contest, but not without winning yourself at the same time and possibly even helping out another fellow blogger in need. Let me explain.

Right now we have 45 community members on board. I have taken a tally of all the members currently on our community list. Any new members that join our MBL community from today on will automatically get put into a drawing we will have on the 30th of November for a split of the grand prizes the winner receives (posted again below). Yes, we will actually be sharing the grand prizes with some of the folks who joined our community and help us to win the contest. See who gets what below.

Proposed Prize Split & Even One For Charity:

Again, here are the prizes… and this is all dependent on the official rules or contest terms…

• One Year Pro MyBlogLog Subscription
• $500 Yahoo! Search Marketing Credit
• A 1-year membership to SEOmoz Premium Membership
• 1 Complete Blog Redesign
• One Year Subscription To Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind
• A Featured Community for the month of December at MyBlogLog
• An invitation to the invite-only blog gathering, SOBCon 2008, in Chicago

I am pretty set on using the SOBCon invite, the Pro MBL subscription as well as the featured community prize for December, but hey, I am willing to split the rest with loyal readers, fans and other bloggers who join our community from now until November 30th. That means, out of all the new users who join, we will be doing 4 drawings to divvy out the rest of the prizes offered. You could win a 1yr SEOmoz premium membership, a 1yr subscription to Yaro’s Blog Mastermind and even $500.00 to play around with on Yahoo Search Marketing.

For the complete blog redesign, I was thinking about helping out someone in need, so what I plan to do with that prize is not conduct a drawing, but rather nominate non-profit blogs and other deserving bloggers who could actually use the redesign and would appreciate it more than anyone else.

There you have it. A prize split and even one for a charitable cause (non-profit anyways). So all you need to do to be included in our drawing is to join our MBL community, if you haven’t already, by clicking the green ‘join my community’ banner on the right sidebar of every page on this blog (except the main page). You will need a Yahoo ID to login and you should be a blog author yourself, but not necessarily, as long as you have a MBL account.

We really appreciate your continued support and readership, I certainly think all of our readers are more deserving of all the prizes than us, but hey there’s a few we can’t give away, they’re just too good. So, as a compromise, we will just have to split the prizes and give one away to another deserving blogger.