It’s been quite some time since I held my last online contest.  Those sepcifically for the Perfect World beta was quite successful, if I say so myself. Though I previously posted some tips on how to hold your own blog contest, it’s time to put the words into action (yet, again).

This weekend, I’ll be musing over a group writing project which will be open for bloggers. The goal of this project cum contest is to help each other promote our individual blogs, our hobby and the industry as a whole. Basically, it will work this way: each week, I’ll be posting a theme that we can all write about. It will specifically focus on gaming, online and MMORPG experiences. Then, those who wish to participate can simply post back their entries with a linkback to the contest’s home page and then submit it to me.

Every week (hopefully Fridays) I will compiling a list of all those who submitted and be keeping track of those who submitted more than one entry per week. I’ll be posting it here as updates.

NEXT: Prizes

I still don’t have the final list of prizes. But some things racing through my mind would be “donations” from my various Brand Managers. These could be in-game items, special merchandise (limited RWC jacket, anyone?) and maybe even Level Up top-up cards and other things that I could get my hands on. The contest will be running for 6 or 8 weeks and before then, I will be able to update the growing list of prizes at stake. Another prize that we could give is banner space for your blog here and possibly at Waukster.com or even Codamon’s blog. But that’s still in the planning stage.

Note that the prizes won’t be uber-big but the project will hopefully bring back the “link-love” to your blogs and increase your rankings and page hits at the same time. Plus, a group writing project is fun to do and exercises you on writing.

That’s it for now. Like I said, I’ll be finalizing the mechanics and will be posting the official announcement and start of the group writing project next week at the soonest (Monday, Aug 13).

I’d be more than happy to hear any comments, suggestions or recommendations you would have on the matter to make this even better.

Thanks,

GM T