Blogging Idol Is Live!
Update: The first edition of the Blogging Idol is over. You can see the winner here.
Show time! All the competitors have until the July 31 (midnight) to prove their blogging skills and to improve their RSS subscriber base.
As you can see on this page you will be able to follow the evolution of the feed count of each competitor, day by day. I will post a link here to all the future Blogging Idol posts as well, including to the weekly roundups with a description of the strategy used by each competitor, so you can just bookmark this and come here to check for updates.
Update: The three weekly updates have already been published, you can read them by clicking on the links below:
The Sponsors
There will be only one winner, and he will take the grand prize of $3000. The prize comes courtesy of these people:
- KeywordCountry.com: The best keyword tool for making money online.
- Yoast.com: The blog of Joost de Valk on SEO and WordPress.
- NotSoBoringLife.com - A blog with hobbies for everyone.
- BidVertiser.com - Make more money from your blog or website.
- SponsoredReviews.com - Make money with your blog by writing reviews.
The Rules
- All participants must activate the Feedburner feed count at the beginning of the competition.
- Participants will need to send a short email weekly (100-200 words), describing their strategies to gain RSS subscribes, and what they are doing on their blogs.
- I will group all those emails and publish them on a single post every week, so that readers can follow and understand how participants are competing.
- Blackhat methods will not be allowed, so you can’t fake stats, try to damage the blog of competitors and so on.
- Paid promotion will not be allowed, else it would become a “who can spend more” contest. Any method where you need to spend money is not allowed therefore.
- All other strategies and techniques are allowed (guest articles, contests where you don’t spend money, give-aways, controversial articles, free eBooks), so you are free to get creative
- The winner will be the blogger that manages to increase his RSS subscriber base by the largest number (final count minus initial count).
The Score Board
Daniel Scocco on July 1, 2008
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Sweeeet! Good luck to everyone participating, and you are all invited to come by my blog, and subscribe.
Missy.
Nice one Daniel, looking forward to seeing how this pans out, I submitted it to Sphinn.
Just out of interest, how do sometimes have different current feed subscribers when this has just gone live?
Sorry, that should be “some sites” not “sometimes”
wow got to see me in 58
All The Best guys! seems to be this is the hardest challage 
Sir….
I had also submitted my blog.Please visit http://technotip.org and see, I have even activated the feedburner feed.
Please accept me.I am waiting for this contest from many days.Please don’t disappoint me.
It is great to see “Blogging Idol” go live.
Best of Luck to all participants (that includes me). :o)
HELL YEA! I’m tied for the 9th lowest on here!
Good luck to everyone… I know a bunch of you guys in this contest already (you guys probably know me from DatMoney.com)… I’ll probably unsubscribe to you guys’ RSS Feeds for this month lol… just joking!
Jay
Is it too late to enter? I only set my blog up yesterday but I’d love to have extra motivation to post daily.
Can you publish an opml file of all the competitors?
I wanted to add to my above comment, that i am looking to add green and vegetarian blogs to my RSS feed. So do send me an email, or leave a comment on my blog, if you want me to add you.
Green bloggers and veggie bloggers especially wanted! Thanxs!
Matter of fact, I’m going to take the time to go through this list and subscribe to all of those whose blogs I like… so that way I can help everyone else out too!
And Daniel, thanks for this friendly competition with great incentives!
Jay
@Glen, that is my fault, fixing it :).
@Satish, adding you now, I missed your submission in the middle of the dozens we had. Sorry.
I had also submitted TechnoDiary.com for the competition, not seeing in the list though.
I was entered into the contest and my blog is not above.
You even email me about it.
http://www.ruethedayblog.com
Please enter me!
I see a few sites and people I know…good luck to you all!
Daniel,
Are we surpose to posting all the contestants on our blog?? I don’t see anything mentioned.
How did the vote go??
@TechnoDiary, added it, sorry.
@CarolBEE, up to you, I decided to let each one decide on his own.
Good luck everyone - just activated my feedcount and hope to see my name up on that list in a bit.
I’ll blog about it today. Looking good!
My current count is ok but initial count is wrong.
Also, there should be a column which would read the Subscribers Gain. That’ll be quite handy for all of us.
~Sahil
WOW..
This is great
Can I get into this at this time??.Are the entries still open??
Blogging Idol has finally started
I hope I win. lol That would be hard! I am just happy to be in the contest. Good luck to everyone!
Best of luck to everyone taking part
@Sahil, how do you suggest we do that? I sure won’t update it manually every day
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Daniel, So we need to stop all google adsense campaigns and stumbleupon too? I haven’t done that yet.
@Jill, I could not find the Feedburner link on your site.
@Winning Startups, yes.
@Rohit, entries are closed. You need to wait for the 2nd edition now
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@Daniel, You can automate the process very well. There are scripts which can fetch the counts and display them in text. A quick search like “how to show feedburner subscriber count as number (or text)” takes me to http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/h.....t-in-text/
You can save the initial and current value in a database table, and update the current values once a day using thise script in a cron job.
~Sahil
Hey - I commented a long time ago to enter and you told me I was entered and I don’t see my name. . .please fix asap - thank you.
We can also sort the Subscriber Gains, and show the current rank along side. That’ll make it more interesting.
And you can also create badges showcasing the rank, which bloggers could put on their sidebars. This will help spreading the word and will also keep reminding the bloggers that they are in a competition.
Sorry for multiple comments. Ideas are raining.
~Sahil
@Sahil, you are assuming I know the feedburner ID of all competitors?
I love your ideas, but still don’t see how to implement them.
Ahh.. let me search some more.
Thanks Daniel for putting this together and for responding to my email so quickly.
I’m looking forward to meeting some new bloggers and having fun in this contest! Good luck everyone!
Daniel - thanks sooooo much for fixing this so quickly - I totally appreciate it!!
Daniel - thank you a ton for taking care of my submission!!
http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2.....count.html
It only requires FeedId which is freely available on feed pages. Like your feedid is 556178 as seen on http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailyBlogTips
A good php coder can automate the fetching of feed-ids as you already have a list of feeds.
~Sahil
This is ace thanks Daniel and good luck to everyone :):)
Julie, cool blog you have there.
Guys, if you’re into freebies (and who isnt) check out the blog of (Julie listed above), its all about freebies on your birthday.
Julie, count me as #3.
Good luck to everyone. My blog aside, I would love to see someone in the lower 50 pull off the win. I’m also looking forward to discovering some new blogger talents.
@Sahil, OK we can try. Would you know how to do this? My PHP skills are not that good
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I appear to be missing!
@Daniel, I would have loved doing this, but won’t be able to invest the time. I know it can be done in 3-4 hours but still I am preoccupied with things.
Even a novice PHP’er can do this. Don’t forget, you have heaps of contacts.
~Sahil
thats nice, toady start the legend, waiting for tips to increase RSS.
Hehehe…
Good luck all!
I’ll win
Great! Looking forward to competing with all of you in this competition. Best of luck to you all!
Good luck everyone! If our blog wins, we will donate all of the winnings to the Susan G. Komen foundation.
Good luck to everyone participating - this should be fun!
Good Luck for everybody…
I was checking some of the blogs and start adding it to my google reader… but damn there are sooo many… so I’ll wait for the resume in this site
Hi Daniel!
Is this only for English Blog?
Posted about it.
Just before we begin, I’d like everyone to know that I hope you guys fail
Just playing, good luck all!
Joining Sahil conversation,
Daniel,
It isn’t hard at all to get the feedburner count number. I could throw together some php if you wanted me too and send it to you via an email.
@Dan Cole, this would be nice.
@Dan Cole, Thanks, much appreciated!!
I’m with Vishal - I’d love some tips on increasing RSS! And to Missy - thank you so much! I’ll be working on finding some freebies for you Groovy Vegetarians out there!
@Daniel - just wanted to let you know I’m on there twice…#90….
Daniel, Are we allowed permission to use your Blogginng Idol drawing on our websites to promote it?
Hi!
I don’t see http://thewmblog.com on the list.
I may have gotten my feedburner up a little late. I was out of town.
And yes, may the best blog win, but I hope it is mine!
@Winning Startus, sure.
It’s finally time! Now to go and carry out my master plan!
By the way, nice job on rounding up all the links and feedburner widgets!
Cool! We’ll see how it goes. My blog wont be live for a day or two so I’ll be at a disadvantage but I have some trickery up my sleeve. Good luck, everyone
gooooooooo phatmommy.com!!! (love the domain name =)
I’m so excited, there are some great blogs on there. Question, are we allowed to use ANY method to win?
Obviously signing up ourselves is cheating (BTW, how will we know if someone does do this), but what about bribing people to sign up with money or otherwise?
Just curious.
What a cool contest! I wish I had known about it sooner!
@Yuen, no.
@Jill, any method where you don’t need to spend money is allowed.
Cheating is not allowed
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So someone cannot hold a contest for RSS subscriptions with a cash prize?
Daniel - I did indeed forget to activate my feedcount. I have done it now, and also sent you an email, so please do add me to the list.
And good luck to all contestants.
My blog is about Software testing and Quality, so I invite all of you interested in the subject to sign up and tell your friends, (and those of you who aren’t!)
Cant see my blog on there mate?
Thanks Daniel. I’m very excited.
To start the compettiion I thought I’d offer FREE custom shapes for use in photoshop. My collection icnludes: pen, pencil, notepad, *one red paperclip* and tape dispenser… enjoy!
Looking forward to checking out the competition
Good luck to everybody!
am i too late to join this contest?
I’m not on the list? I know we traded e-mails last week about the site address change, but…. I don’t see me listed. I sent you an e-mail just to make sure, and I can resend our other e-mails if need be. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional, but I’m really looking forward to participating and learning from this experience!
Hey man I was waiting for this list yesterday.. btw, i’m very excited… I thought the bloglist is nofollowed…
Hey Daniel, How about putting the contestants on your landing page so we can increase our page rank? you know, share the love?? This page of your site has PR of zero, like my blog does right now!
I’m really psyched about this contest! As long as I pull off some more subscribers I’ll be happy. I’m glad you’re sponsoring this and I can’t wait to see the results!
Let the best blog (-er) win ! Good Luck
Great going! Nice to see a huge list of competitors. This is motivating me to increase my subscribers.
Looks like stockmarketindia.net is leading as of now..
Exciting! Ok… now, … to have a plan…. I’ve never been to good at getting subscribers, but I’ma going to try it!
Gerard - it’s not the starting number that counts, but the number of additional subscribers …
Wishing good luck to all the contestants, eagerly awaiting to see the results and the techniques used to reach the #1 slot.
I vouch for universitykid. The guy is brilliant! He amazes me all the time.
Good Luck to you all.
Thanks Daniel, look forward to getting some great tips from the otherbloggers… and maybe get some more sheds shared in the bargin
Spicy contest!. But I must wait and learn from other bloggers how they raise their RSS subscribers.
Man the techtreak.com blog is killing everyone by the looks of it. It’s sad to see many people are loosing subscribers..yikes.
@Jill, correct
@Winning Startups, you mean putting this whole list on my homepage? Sorry man it would not look good.
Alright, I’m all in on this!!
I’ll start tomorrow with my ideas and campaign.
By the way Daniel, can we use your image above to serve as a logo of sort on our website? you know it helps to advertise it on our blog.. it’ll spark interest in our visitors. what do you think?
Wow i have surfed on some of these websites that have entered the competiton and most if not all except from mine is a wordpress or blogger or some other sort of theme.
You guys have it easy
I have to manually submit everything and make a new page for everything i envy your first choice in templates and design, i am contemplating changing to a wordpress theme though myself.
But i do like my uniqueness
Can we use you’re image on our blog?
One more thing,
May the best blogger win!
My URL sppears to be missing? Is this because I was late activating the feed count?
@ChiQ Montes and Ganesh, sure.
Hi Daniel, It might be the stupidest question but I would like to know how to enter the contest.
Maybe I should have entered! It seems like a good contest! I will be following along and doing the same as the contest entrants just won’t win anything!
Thanks for the link!
Looks like I have made a good start!
I don’t want to be a tattle tale, but I’ve already seen someone offering a cash prize for their RSS subscribers. It might be a good idea to point out that it’s not allowed -somewhere that everyone can read it.
Really perhaps send an email to Daniel about this?
As we do not want cheats in the competition, or people that do not read things properly.
@Leon, contest is closed for applications.
@Jill, this is clearly stated on the rules.
I submitted my blog http://www.stockmarketguide.in/
But it is not in the list. I have activated feed and count. Where is the problem?
Oh, I missed it:(
Can we do giveaways if the prizes were donated?
I love this contest.It gives a chance to everyone to be more motiveted to post more quality post and promote their blog more.I will visit all the blogs and suscribe to hte ones I like.I hope the best blogger win and I would really looking forward on the tips how to raise rss suscribes.
@Daniel,may I write about this contest on my blog and use the image.Thanks.
@Winning Startups, sure.
wow how can i join this? hehehe
And two extra subscribers already, keep’ em coming
Daniel,
Please check the below mentioned URL.
http://www.FeedCompare.com/?fe.....p;months=3
Can see that these three blogs (dsplogdotcom is mine) somehow got caught in a feedburner RSS count sneeze
Thanks,
Krishna
Good luck everybody.
I’m number 47 by the way.
@ Krishna, as per URL http://www.feedcompare.com/?fe.....p;months=3 - The feedburner starting count should be taken from 29th June instead of 30th June. It will be fair competition here then.
All the best to all participants!
@Daniel .. you should ask for blogger volunteers to be watchdogs for this competition.. they could discuss things they have observed privately with you.
Or maybe you are doing it.. you know watching us out (a loooooot of worrrk)
sure we know the rules.. but it would help if the ones crossing the line will be determined right away.. just to keep it fair.
Just so you know, #43 and #56 are the same blog …!
@ ChiQ, this is a good idea, and Daniel - I don’t mind volunteering for being in group of watchdogs. I already shared couple of concerns with you.
@Daniel
I need a clarification on the weekly email. You mean what tactics we used the week that has passed and not the coming week, right?
@Krhishna, yeah I think I will make the initial count for those blogs as per 29 of June.
@Stock Market Informer, ok you are in charge now of watching the tactics being used now
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@Anders, that is correct.
Well, I have done a quick analysis for you all guys. Statistics is my favorite subject and dailyblogtips is my favorite blog. So I would keep on updating you about the contest toppers:
Top 8 Competitors:
Blog | Increase | (%age) | [with stats of 29June, 30June, 1July, 2July, 3July]
(1) gauravonomics - 64 -> 216 = 152 (237.5%) [207, 64, 205, 218, 216]
(2) techtreak - 134 -> 221 = 87 (64.9%) [196, 134, 223, 221, 221]
(3) economicshelp - 82 -> 158 = 76 (92.7%) [141, 82, 155, 156, 158]
(4) romeuy - 759 -> 835 = 76 (10%) [46, 759, 797, 816, 835] - Before 46, it was 713 - looks like feedburner sneeze.
(5) dsplog - 41 -> 98 = 57 (139%) [84, 41, 98, 93, 98]
(6) stockmarketindia - 953 -> 1002 = 49 (5.1%) [944, 953, 956, 979, 1002]
(7) dev102 - 394 -> 434 = 40 (10.1%) [329, 394, 415, 437, 434]
(8) umarsiddiqi - 69 -> 105 = 36 (52.2%) [79, 69, 88, 91, 105]
First three blogs and dsplog did not impress me much because of the deep on 30th June [It might be because of feedburner sneeze, in that case there initial count shall be considered from 29th June].
Romeuy, stockmarketindia, dev102 and umarsiddiqi are in linear progress without hiccups.
Guys, I might miss some of the high flying blogs so help me update the list with any missing blogs. I had missed to add dsplog in the list a while back.
All the best to all participants!
Thank you so much Lifeiscolourful!
Life is colourful - Something is a bit weird about 3 of the tops 8’s stats. They seemed to have a massive and I mean massive, dip in feed subscribers on the day of the start of blogging idol and then they were back to normal the next day :S
I think to be fair all our starts should start from the day earlier or later to accomodate for this…
@Tom and Life is Colorful, yes I will consider the 29 of June as starting point for those bloggers that presented the dip.
@Daniel : Thanks, I am fine with the June29th start date. It ensures it ensures a fair competition.
@Life is Colourful : Thanks for the nice stat summary.
Any idea about the reason behind this RSS count sneeze? I have been blogging for almost an year and have not experienced such big fall-jum back till date.
Thanks,
Krishna
Thanks everyone for appreciating my efforts!
@ Krishna, the feedburner sneeze is not regular but appears quite often on your count graph. You would probably find it on most of the feedburner stats graph for any blog if you check for last 6 months. It’s a technical glitch that sets your count to some low number and come back to normal next day.
I have seen it quite a few times by now and can analyze the feedburner data with some online tools available.
I am happy that due to this contest motivation - my feed subscriber count crossed 1000 milestone.
Whether I would win this contest or no, I am happy if I could add 200-400 new subscribers like April-May months.
Hi Daniel,
I sent you an e-mail but maybe you didn’t get it yet. You approved my blog but I hadn’t activated the feedburner yet. I did that a few days ago when I didn’t see my site, http://theserendipityeffect.com listed. I haven’t publicized my site yet since I didn’t see it listed. Can you confirm it to me. I’ve lost my internet…ugh! so I have to do this piecemeal right now. What a challenge.
Thank you for the cool contest. Diana
Stock market informer, hah it’s rather easier to add over 200 subscribers when quantity of your subscribers is over 1000. It’s more difficult, when you’ve 0 subscribers
@Life is Colourful: great work dude
@daniel: is it possible to have a third column in the list to see current standings?
Here is the new list guys, I considered Daniel’s decision to consider 29th June as start date for blogs with a dip on 30th June.
Top 7 today:
(Past rank->Current rank) Blog | Increase | (%age)
(1 From 4) romeuy - 759 -> 934 = 175 (23%)
Wow, 99 Subscribers increased in last 2 days [2 days back it was 835] is hard to believe. But it’s just an awesome lead taken. I tried to dig out if any promotion done on the blog, but I did not find any. It must be either offline promotion [which I would certainly like to know] or I don’t know :).
(2 From 6) stockmarketindia - 953 -> 1028 = 75 (7.8%)
Seems like the email subscription box right in front on homepage is going steady. But in %age, it’s still too small.
(3 From
umarsiddiqi - 69 -> 124 = 55 (79.7%)
Steady increase for Umar from Dubai.
Looks like Umar is rocking with highest %age increase.
(4 New) standoutblogger - 30 -> 67 = 37 (123.33%)
Nice enter into Top list, %age increase has left even Umar behind. Have to work on number increase now.
(5 New) melvinblog - 16 -> 34 = 18 (112.5%)
Small numbers will grow big soon
(6 From 1) gauravonomics - 207 (Dip on 30th June considered or it was 64) -> 223 = 16 (7.7%)
(7 New) phatmommy - 126 -> 142 = 16 (12.7%)
Blogs from Past Toppers’ List:
economicshelp - 141 [Dip on 30th June considered or it was 82] -> 147 = 6 (4.2%) [141, 82, 155, 156, 158]
techtreak - 196 [Dip on 30th June considered or it was 134] -> 196 = 0 (0%) [196, 134, 223, 221, 221]
dsplog - 84 -> 87 [Dip on 30th June considered or it was 41] = 3 (3.5%) [84, 41, 98, 93, 98]
dev102 - 394 -> 337 = -57 (-14.5%) [329, 394, 415, 437, 434]
Seems like dev102 is experiencing Feedburner sneeze, and I hope to see this blog back in action.
Thank you again Life is Colofourful. I checked this post more than 10 times today for your update
btw my feed count has been increasing that way since I started the blog about 2 months ago
In two months I was able to get 700+ to subscribe. It’s not offine promotion but it is search engine promotion. High trend low density is the key.
I did have a couple of my offline friends subscribe to my feed
@ Rome, thanks for awaiting for my analysis today. With this speed, you would win this contest by 10th July… LOL!
@Life is Colourful
Your updates here are very helpful.
nah. I really think some of the other competitors still has a lot of ideas on their mind. I on the other hand have nothing else. lol Will have to do more research now.
Hey Life is Colorful - thanks for doing the stats! That is great - but I think I actually might be on the list (I guess I’m just kinda excited because I really didn’t think I’d be able to keep up with anyone on this list because I’m a Mommy Blog. . .) because looking at who is on your list I was at 17 and now I’m at 38 - so I have grown by 21 members. Anyways - no biggie, you don’t have to redo or put me on your list - I guess I just needed to toot my own horn!
Or - maybe you did look and somehow I’m not understanding my stats and I shouldn’t be on your list. . .that is a possibility too!
@ Mommy, you are right. Your stats were overlooked by me - apologize. And you pretty much stand at 5th position in the list. I don’t enter all data in my excel sheet, but believe on my eyes and added 20 odd blogs that are running ahead in the competition.
Please keep on helping me to update my list to get you the exciting analysis periodically.
Hope you guys are enjoying it!
When are our strategy reports due for the week?
@Winning Startups i think the reports are due in today (sounds like homework :P) i have emailed Daniel mine.
4th :D… lets see if I can stay in the top 10!
I forgot about the strategy. Do we have a guideline for these? or a word limit? I will have to start working on mine.
again, great job @Life is Colorful!!
there should be a separate post or something with latest standings…
200 words is the word limit mate.
Daniel has stated above that it should be 100-200 words in length and just briefly go over the strategies you have or are going to be using.
@ 122. Peter, Yup I am aware of this fact. My comment was to tell more on the side of this contest that would help me to increase my feedreaders as I have part of focus is towards working on popularizing the feedreadership equal to other efforts on the blog
@ 136. Stock Market Informer, I’m working on popularizing feedreadership too
I’ve some subscrisers with my 6 posts on my blog 
Now the main task for me - make a blog more famous - and, so, subscribers’ll come with the popularity I think 
Is anyone else concerned that they are losing readers? I notice it is not just me.
@Evel
Many people notice a dip over weekends!
It’s just a dip in the numbers. It will be back in a day or two
Evel: I see what you mean - if I counted correctly 27 people have actually lost readers from this contest.
This is fantastic!!! I am getting IN… Competition, fasten your seat belts…
Hi Daniel,
My blog was accepted too but isn’t in this list? My husband has been ill which is why i haven’t mentioned it sooner, am I too late to participate. There were 94 participants when I was accepted on 24th June.
Here is the new list guys, there is an observation which I would like to share with you.
Top two are tough contenders and both of them offer something free to their readers. Such enormous kind of increase in readership is possible with such blogs with little bit of promotion.
Well here are Top 7 today
(Past rank->Current rank) Blog | Increase
(1 From 1) romeuy - 759 -> 1000 = 241
Man, Rome is burning!!
(2 From 2) stockmarketindia - 953 -> 1120 = 167
Stready increase! These both blogs are standing out from the crowd.
(3 From 3) umarsiddiqi - 69 -> 145 = 76
Bravo Umar!
(4 From 4) standoutblogger - 30 -> 77 = 47
(5 New) stockmarketguide - 559 -> 595 = 36
New Entry!
(6 New) roshanbh - 317 -> 346 = 29
One more new entry!
(7 New) solidsmack - 780 -> 809 = 29
One more one more new entry!!
There are 3-4 blogs very close to last couple of blogs, but I decided to limit my list to Top 7.
By the way, my excel sheet shows many new entries in Top 12.
Wow. Thanks again Life is Colourful.
btw, How did you see my feed count? The counter I had on my blog displays 49 subscribers lol
My subscriber count drops every 5 or 6 days
I don’t know why that happens but a lot of people also has that problem so I just didn’t mind it.
Do you think I need to contact feedburner about this ?
oh its now back to the correct number. Sorry
Is it too late to enter? I don’t think I have a chance but it would be fun.
Is there a place we can keep up todate with the Bloggers Idol stats? I mean without following the comments?
@Chrs, I am working on that.
@Mandy, you missed one of the requirements, the feed count activated.
This is one of the finest blogging contest till date, and that too for corporate blogs. This clearly marks the era that corporates have increasingly started appreciating & accepting blogs as the next generation IT tool.
Bloggers – we have come a long way!! CLICK on http://technology-nuggets.blog.....wards.html to VOTE for your favourite corporate blog…
Till Daniel brings up some solution as he is working on it, here is the list today -
Here are Top 7, interestingly there is a new entrant, at 6th position that shows initial count “0″.
Till Daniel brings up some solution as he is working on it, here is the list today -
Here are Top 7, interestingly there is a new entrant, at 6th position that shows initial count “0″. Umar has seen some drop in readers, but hope it’s just FB dip.
Blog Initial Current Increase
romeuy.com 759 1017 258
stockmarketindia 953 1152 199
umarsiddiqi 69 126 57
standoutblogger 30 75 45
bloggingisnotacrime 0 45 45
solidsmack.com 780 820 40
techtreak 196 232 36
yes that’s what I am hoping too…. I wonder where all the readers went! Does my blog suck that much?
I am posting to help new investors to make money in Indian Stock markets. I launched this blog in March, 2007. My blog acquired almost 600 subscribers in just 5 months. Helping investors to make money is my biggest promotional activity.
Im still just hanging on to 4th spot
I think I’m in 3rd now with a mention on PVPonline.com yesterday. I have a few more podcast tricks up my sleeve this month.
I missed to update you on last couple of days, I am looking after the participation in my recent contest on my blog’s first anniversary with $3000 worth cash and prizes. There are only 2-3 days remaining for contest to get over. Check out my blog homepage and you would find the link to contest - Have your pie of prizes!
Despite the controversy created by one of the participants, to get some attention [Though it was mentioned in the contest that this will be strictly for RSS subcription and it would be later for traffic etc as well but still people keep on discussing why not all parameters now - wait guys!]
- did not stop the top participants to go on and on.. specially the toppers.
Here is the analysis of recent changed numbers:
Well here are Top 10 today
(Past rank->Current rank) Blog | Increase
(1 From 1) #66 romeuy - 759 -> 1105 = 346
(2 From 2) #2 stockmarketindia - 953 -> 1200 = 247
(3 NEW) #8 homedesignfind - 89 -> 231 = 142
(4 NEW) #48 jobmob - 684 -> 782 = 98
(5 From 3) #24 umarsiddiqi - 69 -> 148 = 79
(6 From 4) #1 standoutblogger - 30 -> 101 = 71
(7 New) #23 everything-everywhere - 559 -> 595 = 36
There are two new entries today, homedesignfind and jobmob. Both of them shot up in last couple of days making the competition interesting.
Alright, I am back to excel sheet for my Life is Colourful blog anniversary contest.
Hey Guys,
I have made a list of the Top 10 Blogging Idol Contestants, be sure to check it out!
Once again, I would like to thank Life is Colourful for giving me the idea to make this list, thank you
how is home design find getting so many new subscribers? Their rss links are barely visible and mainly at the footer? :S
wish i knew his secret.
@LifeisColorful - hey there, I think you keep forgetting me!
Maybe because we didn’t think a Mommy Blog would be doing okay. . .:-) Anyways, by my calculations I have 56 new subscribers, so that would put me at #7, right?
@ Mommy, no meryl, I did not forget you. You are in my list. When I updated the analysis yesterday, your subscriber count was 6 less than today, you had 40 increase yesterday. And it was my bad, that I did not update it correctly though the list was correct.
The list could have been looking like this in my earlier comment done yesterday -
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(6 From 4) #1 standoutblogger - 30 -> 101 = 71
(7 New) #23 everything-everywhere - 435 -> 506 = 71
Yesterday while posting, there were six more bloggers between you and everything-everywhere with 41 to 56 subscriber count.
Please don’t think that I am ignoring because you are a mommy blogger
- I am not cruel mommy 
Thanks for the update again Life is Colourful
this contest was extremely exciting and fun!
Sorry Daniel I could have sworn it was activated for that blog already, can I still join in?
@LifeisColorful - not biggie - I’m just giving you a hard time. Thanks for doing the stats at all!! I know there is no way I will actually win - too many in between me and the top guys, but someone had to pat a mommy blog on her back for doing okay so far!
@ Rome, you gonna win this contest it seems
@ Mommy Meryl, you are always welcome to give me hard time. I would not mind it as long as you guys are getting what you want here.
You are really doing a great job with your blog, and I have seen you increased your RSS number from 17 to 63 which is too good a number in percentage.
Well, by