It has been a crazy week here! Today, I was working on getting the results from our Judging team, and we’ve finally got all the results from 6 independent judges (they are not part of sponsoring or organizing the traffic generation blogging contest), and before we pronounce the winners, we would like to mention the Judging Team.
The Judges have told me they found interesting traffic generation resources in the contest entries. Two of them actually shared these interesting articles on their blogs, along with their views and thoughts about it. Alex Whalley published The Jury’s Still Out on Traffic Generation, and Ingrid Abboud published her Traffic Generation Showdown. It was really nice of them to share their thoughts about the entries.
Who are the Judges?
Alex Whalley
@buildrankprofit
Alex Whalley is the owner and founder of Build | Rank | Profit: The no. 1 Resource for anyone looking to build a fulltime income with niche sites and affiliate marketing. He is also the Principle SEO Consultant at BuRP! Consulting, a Search Engine Marketing Company offering link building packages from as little as $170 a month! Connect with Alex at the official Build Rank Profit Blog and learn EXACTLY how to make money with Affiliate niche sites today!
Mark Bell
@markbell10
Mark is a research engineer by profession, with a passion for helping people succeed. He is a self-taught web developer. At his personal website, Mark blogs openly about his efforts to realize the “internet lifestyle”.
Ingrid Abboud
@nittyGriddyBlog
Ingrid Abboud aka ‘Griddy’ is a whole lot of things with a ridiculous number of interests. For one, she’s a Social Media enthusiast with a tremendous passion for writing and blogging. She’s also a pretty cool copywriter but a more serious MarCom Consultant. Most of all, She’s also the proud owner and driving force behind nittyGriddy.com – A Kinda Social Media Journal with Net News & more.
Marlee Ward
@MARLdblE
Marlee Ward is an online business and marketing strategist on a mission to help you unlock the entrepreneur within. Covering topics like online entrepreneurship, marketing, and personal development, Marlee helps new entrepreneurs create online businesses based on their “sweet spot” at Metamorphoself.
Jerry Thor
@jerrythor
Jerry speaks on topics such as social media in higher education, community outreach, developing personal brands, leading productivity practices, and much more. While he earns a living online, Jerry also has experience consulting with Fortune 100 and government agencies on commanding attention and creating engagement with college students. With College Mentor, Jerry seeks to empower student leaders to make the most of their college years.
Benjamin Lang
@entrepreneurpro – Facebook
17 year old founder of EpicLaunch.com and co-founder of MySchoolHelp.com. His entrepreneurial journey began at age 14, when he started his own eBay business which immediately received media attention and was featured on Channel 12.
I really would like to show my appreciation to the team for their time and effort, I know this wasn’t an easy job! Many thanks to everyone!
We will pronounce the winners in the coming 24 hours, probably we will publish it at comluv.com, so stay tuned everybody, and good luck!
Mark July 10, 2011 at 6:34 am
Hesham,
Do you have a link to the results for this contest handy?
I have looked around for them and apparently overlooked it.
Also, please do more of these in the future as I would like to enter one of these at some point.
Thanks,
Mark
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Fran Aslam the Onlinewriter May 4, 2011 at 10:22 am
Hi Hesham
It is great to know the judges. This will help us know new people in our world of Internet Marketing that are doing an outstanding job.
And the wait is becoming longer, my eyes are hooked to see the results.
Fran A
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Michele Welch May 3, 2011 at 9:56 am
Hi Hesham,
Thanks for putting faces to the judges. I had no idea who was judging until now. Just wanted to say a special thanks to you, the sponsors and of course the lovely judges!
Everyone’s time and commitment to seeing this contest run smoothly was awesome. It really is quite amazing the impact a small group of people can have on a large community.
Your generosity is overwhelming and most appreciated.
All the best.
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Alex May 2, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Thanks for the shout out Hesham.
It was honestly a pleasure, and I am sure I speak for all of the judges when I say that it was good to read so many incredible posts. I learnt a lot actually , so everyone won regardless!
Good luck to all
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Ingrid Abboud May 2, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Hey Hesham,
Great of you to have featured the judges here. Very thoughtful. Being one of them I know the hard work and time that went into rating each post fairly and so I say thanks to my fellow judges and another thanks to you for the opportunity to take part in this.
There are 2 new faces here so I look forward to getting to know them and their work.
This was a great experience and I know I learned a lot of new things on traffic generation from all the posts that were written.
May the best blogger(s) win.
Cheers Hesham for all that you do. Ishta!
Marlee May 3, 2011 at 6:19 am
I second Griddy!
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lisa May 2, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Can’t wait hesham!
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Ben Lang May 2, 2011 at 11:46 am
Happy to help!
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Hesham May 2, 2011 at 2:56 pm
You are awesome Ben!
Andreas from Online Advertising May 2, 2011 at 11:01 am
Many high profile bloggers and lots of experience there in the jury, it should be an interesting blogging contest.
Hesham May 2, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Getting the final results ready, I hope to pronounce the winners today!
Ileane May 2, 2011 at 10:33 am
Hi Hesham, I’m glad you have picked these awesome judges. I’m sure they will do a wonderful job and judge this contest fairly based on their high level of expertise. Congratulations to all!
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Steve May 2, 2011 at 10:04 am
Hesham,
Thanks for running what looks to be a pretty awesome contest. I certainly am looking forward to the results. I also notice some “new: faces among the judges so I will be checking them out. Take it easy
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Hesham May 2, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Many thanks Steve, we are working to get the results ready today hopefully!
Lisa May 2, 2011 at 9:59 am
Awesome panel of judges. Highly regarded and well worth the weight to find out! Best of luck to everyone!!
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Angelica May 2, 2011 at 9:21 am
Coming from a team of pretty interesting judges, Been following this contest for a while. Would love to see if my predictions are correct
Bryan May 2, 2011 at 9:17 am
Gosh! Can’t wait to find out about the results though
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Atulperx May 2, 2011 at 9:07 am
Well whenever I read about young leaders in competition then I start thinking about my past . At the age of 14 I was playing mario , cricket and others games on my pc … and my dad was earning for me lol..
John from Web Design Melbourne May 2, 2011 at 7:59 am
Hi Hesham,
great team of judges for Traffic Generation Contest, love to follow them
thank for sharing details of Judges
John
James Pruitt May 2, 2011 at 4:56 am
I want to personally add my thanks to the judges too. you guys do a lot of really hard work, and make some tough decisions usually without getting nearly enough credit. Thanks for sharing this Hesham. Once again you had an amazing contest, and even without winning anything it is always worth entering.
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Brankica May 2, 2011 at 4:45 am
Hey Hesham, I love that you featured the judges here. Just wanna say that I see three “new” faces here, people I haven’t seen before so I am going to add them to my Google Reader now. After reading Kristi’s new post few hours ago, I got totally addicted to the reader, lol.
Anyway, nice to see them all here and glad to see this blog back on track again (I hope you resolved server problems).
Hope everyone have a great week!
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Hesham May 2, 2011 at 4:51 am
Hey Brankica, it’s the least I can do!
We’ve solved a few problems and server is stable now, hopefully we will not face down time again, I actually had a magnificent weekend behind my laptop, the last place I planned to be
See you around tomorrow