First, thanks to Keith Boisvert from www.outlaw-fx.com for helping me get this contest figured out with the rules and regulations. I’ve given him the official co-host badge, so he’s another go-to person if you have questions.

Also special thanks to my friend Craig Desorcy from www.WeHelpNewbies.com for helping me get the blog going and my opt-in form set up, etc. He’s a genius and I’m proud to have him as a friend.

Now, down to business.  Here’s what we’ve come up with so far and I’d like your input on what you think about it, so feel free to add comments to the blog and we can iron out the details before an official rule sheet is sent out to the participants:

The keyword phrase will be “affiliate marketing.” We chose this broad phrase for two reasons. First, we have participants on the newbie end of the spectrum and this is a topic they can easily learn about and handle.

Second, using this term ideally gives us all the opportunity to really monetize our lenses with product sales. (Always have to think like a marketer, right)? And after the 30 days, we will all have an income-producing lens to maintain.

When you create your contest lens, you MUST put it in the business section and use the primary tag as “affiliate marketing,” but your secondary tags can be whatever you want.

You will not be able to create your lens until Saturday at 12 noon Central Standard time (Texas time).  Any lenses creates or registered before that time will be disqualified. Don’t even reserve the lens on the URL because you’ll automatically begin rising in LensRank, which will not be fair.

You cannot link to your contest lens from pre-existing lenses, but you CAN create new lenses that are not your contest lens and point those to the challenge lens. You can also direct traffic from anywhere else on the web to your contest lens, including your websites, your lists, your forum signatures, etc.

The reason for this is that if someone like myself, who already has a lot of Squidoo traffic, directs visitors to my contest lens from my top existing lens, I’ll have a distinct advantage over you.

The top winner will be whichever of us has the highest LensRank by Noon on February 12^th, exactly 30 days later.  We’ll also give an honorable mention to the person who achieves highest ranking for the phrase “affiliate marketing” on Squidoo, and also for whomever gets highest in the Business category.

Sign-ups will continue until Saturday at 11 AM Texas Central time. You can sign up here. Make sure you include your email address that you want to be notified at.

If you have any additional questions, ask them so we know what the rules are asap.

Thanks! I’m looking forward to battling as long as we “hug it out” at the end.

Tiff

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