Here is your chance to win some prizes from a great blog. Alan Johnson of TheRatingBlog is offering his readers the chance to win just over $1000 in prizes. Alan recently guest posted on JohnChow.com which was very interested to read. It also promoted his blog and his contest and will help TheRatingBlog grow. I have been subscribed to Alan’s blog for quite a while now and Alan provides great articles and answers your questions. You will learn a lot from subscribing to his blog.

The Prizes
1st Prize: $500 via PayPal
2nd Prize: a promotional Bidvertiser account with $200 in free clicks (you won’t even have to provide credit card information)
3rd Prize: a $100 Amex card offered by Copeac
Prizes 4, 5, 6: free hosting for one year offered by LunarPages (each prize is worth $95.4)

How can You Win?
Alan offers many ways of entering and these are:
Subscribe to his Newsletter and comment with the same email you subscribed with and earn 1 point.
Subscribe to his RSS Feed and provide a screenshot proving you have subscribed and earn 1 point.
Comment on TheRatingBlog, you will receive 1 point for every 5 comments.
Write about the contest on your blog and receive 5 points as a reward.

The more points you collect the more chance you have of winning.

The Closing Date and Prize Drawing
The contest finishes on the 24th February 2008 and the prize drawing will take place by members of his family choosing from a hat, which is very nice indeed. His daughter will pick the winner of the $500 cash and the $100 Amex card, his son will pick the winner of the $200 Bidvertiser account. Alan will then pick the 3 winners of the 1 year free hosting with Lunarpages.

Good Luck!

If you don’t know what Entrecard is then take a read of this post here.

I am giving away 400 Entrecard credits to a lucky person who enters the competition. Some more credits to add to your account and buy advertising for your blog!

How to Enter
To enter the contest I am running a ticket system, the more things you do the more tickets you earn which equals more chance of winning. There are many ways of winning so take a choice or you can do them all.

1. 1 Ticket - Write a blog review about Thatblogsite. Any length you want, but must contain a link back to Thatblogsite.com.
2. 1 Ticket - Subscribe via RSS (provide link to screenshot) or by email to this blog.
3. 1 Ticket - Leave a comment in this post.
4. 1 Ticket - Write a recommendation on my Entrecard details page.
4. 1 Ticket - Write a link in one of your posts to my competition.
5. 1 Ticket - Drop your Entrecard.

Contest Run-Time
I will be running the contest from today (25/01/2008) until the 10th February 2008. This will give people enough time to enter and for me to advertise the competition properly.

This is my first contest since I have opened Thatblogsite and I will be holding more Entrecard competitions in the future, so make sure you stay subscribed to be notified.

Edit: Increased the prize from 300 credits to 400 credits.

If you want the chance to win a lot of stuff, I mean like ALOT of stuff, then Bloggin-Ads is giving you the chance to! The “One Heck Of A Giveaway” Contest is being run from the 11th of January 2008 until the 30th of January 2008 so you still have plenty of time to enter. The contest has prizes totalling around $1,000, there to be won.

What does the Contest do for Bloggin-Ads?
Contests on blogs are always a great way of driving traffic and this one will not be any different. The ‘Buzz’ that has been created around the contest has helped Bloggin-Ads receive more visitors as they all want to try and get a piece of the prizes.

It has not also helped Bloggin-Ads, it has helped websites that have donated prizes as they all have a plug back to their website which will be visited by many readers that look at the post. If a blog donated 1 month’s 125×125 advertising for thousands of new page views, it is a prize worth donating.

Prizes
The prizes are divided up into 12 groups and there can be 12 winners. Each winner will receive a group which contains prizes donated by many different websites where you can win prizes like advertising spots, eBooks, blog reviews and more. Here is a list;

*Group 1*

- 1 Month blogroll and 125×125 ad spot (Blog About Your Blog)
- Detailed blog review (Yimto)
- 1 Month 125×125 ad spot (Read To Me Dad)
- License for PopUp Loser (Semmy)
- 50EC (Julianas Lair)
- 4 Hour Week Workbook (Money Relations)

*Group 2*

- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Peter Foti)
- 500EC, 1 month 125×125 ad spot (3rd World Blogger)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Contest Time)
- Blog review (Belolats)
- eBook - Wealthy eBook (University Kid)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Mixed Market Arts)

*Group 3*

- 1 125×125 logo, 125 ad spot, blow review, and 3 backlinks (A Frog To Kiss)
- 1 month 100×100 ad spot (Lankapo)
- 500EC, 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Web Blog Money)
- 100 One Buck Wiki pages (Zedomax)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Flat Water)

*Group 4*

- License for PopUp Loser (Semmy)
- 3 months 468×60 ad spot (Ryan Yockey)
- 200EC (Aims Graz)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Contest Time)
- 100 One Buck Wiki pages (Zedomax)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (To The PC)

*Group 5*

- Harmonica DVD (Blog Money Wiki)
- 1 month 300×250 ad spot, 3 month blogroll link (VolkDefense)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Scholarpreneur)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Ben Spark)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (I Make Money On Facebook)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Mixed Market Arts)

*Group 6*

- Domaining Manifesto eBook (DNXpert)
- 100 One Buck Wiki pages (Zedomax)
- 100 One Buck Wiki pages (Zedomax)
- eBook - Wealthy eBook (University Kid)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (EZ Money Online)

*Group 7*

- 250EC (Dorm Earning)
- “The Baby Jesus Butt Plug” book (Cyber Fizzle)
- License for PopUp Loser (Semmy)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Contest Time)
- 250EC, 1 month 125×125 ad spot, 1 month rotated text link (EZ DIY Electric)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (PixToo)

*Group 8*

- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (My Blog Contest)
- 1,000EC (Article Snatch)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Wired Kayaker)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (JTPratt)
- 125×125 ad spot until April 1st (1 Man And His Blog)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Mixed Market Arts)

*Group 9*

- 200EC, 1 month text link via RSS feed (Slyvisions)
- 50 EC, 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Ideas and Money)
- License for PopUp Loser (Semmy)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Sean)
- 1 month ad spot (size up to 336×250) (That Single Guy)

*Group 10*

- 1,000EC (Toast & Egg & Me)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Blogging 4 Cash)
- Blog review (Andrew Benton)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Ben Spark)
- License for PopUp Loser (Semmy)

*Group 11*

- 1 entry to Sam’s Superbowl Contest (Controversial Marketing)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Orange Inks)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Blogigs)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Singapore Entrepreneur)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Gorilla Sushi)

*Group 12*

- 500EC, 2 month 125×125 ad spot (ABC)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Contest Time)
- 1 Month 125×125 ad spot (Read To Me Dad)
- 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Rhyan)
- Blog directory submission (5 keyword phrases) (SEO News)

That is a lot of prizes and well worth entering the contest which you can do so by clicking here.