Sohaib Thiab – The Story of an Internet Entrepreneur

Ok, so the blog contest is over and its time to announce the winners of the 4 prizes, but before I do that, lets the effect of the blog contest on my blog traffic and RSS subscribers.

Before starting the contest, I had exactly 3 RSS subscribers and I currently have 44 RSS subscribers, thats 41 new RSS readers, not bad I guess, I was hoping for a bit more, I am still way behind my yearly goal of reaching 2000 RSS readers.

The blog contest post received 45 comments, and 36 contestants, some have blogged about the contest as well. This has plaid a big role in increasing the traffic on my blog, below is a screen show of last month’s traffic stats.

Not all of this growth can be attributed to the contest alone, I did place some banners on two blogs to jump start the contest as well.

Ok, now its time to reveal the winners, I took some images while preparing for the selection of the winners.

Names of the contestants written on paper

All the names in a bole

The 4 winners!

And here they are:

Winner 1 ($50): I heart contest

Winner 2 (Theme forest): Mhaye

Winner 3 (6 months free hosting): Marshal Prince

Winner 4 (Links): Manan Saini

I will be contacting the winners by email to arrange for the prizes, if you dont get an email from me today please do contact me.