Too Lijit to quit – a contest for bloggers

O.K. all you bloggers gather around because I’m having a contest and giving away 32 prizes to publicize the Lijit Search Wijit, a wonderful blog search tool that gives your readers the opportunity to actively search through your posts, bookmarks, and blogroll so they receive the most relevant search results from a source they trust – YOU.

Why am I holding this at a food and diet blog? Well if you’re like Kalyn at Kayln’s Kitchen or Elise at Simply Recipes, you have an index of your recipes. Or if your like me you don’t (oops – bad food blogger!) and have no way of finding your recipes. Thanks to Lijit, when I need to find that recipe for eggless chocolate cake, I type it into the Lijit Search Wijit and a search page comes up with my answer. Not only that, but once a week via email, Lijit sends me detailed search statistics of what my readers are interested in. (I can also go to their site and get stats any time I want.)

The Contest Rules

It’s easy to enter:

1. Go to the Lijit site, sign up and install the widget on your blog.
2. Come back here and leave a comment letting me know it’s up by leaving your name, email address and your website URL. If it’s not in a sidebar, let me know exactly where it is on your blog, too.
3. You have until Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at midnight MT to enter.
4. You can install the widget on as many blogs as you own – one entry per blog. So if you own five blogs and install the widget on all of them, you’ll have five entries in the contest. Please leave one comment listing all the blogs (and their URLs).
5. You can win more than one prize. (See below for a list of prizes.) For example, if you put the widget on four of your blogs, you have four entries into the contest. If I pick two of those entries, you win two prizes.
6. I will pick the entries randomly out of a hat (well, a bag) to determine who wins.
7. Winners will be announced on Friday, March 7, 2008. I will then mail out the prizes the following week via U.S. Mail.

But there are rules:

1. Do not enter if you don’t want to give me your full name and mailing address. I will not share your personal info with the public. Instead, I will just link to your blog when I announce the winners.
2. You don’t have to be a food or diet blogger. I don’t care what your blog’s subject matter is as long as it meets the ACCEPTABLE USE AND CONDUCT rules at Lijit. (See section 3.1 for specifics.) So no porn, no spam, no racist crap, etc.
3. I will be checking everyone’s blog to make sure it’s installed. Also, I will be checking with Lijit to confim that you signed up as part of this contest. To make sure that you sign up correctly, click here or any of the other Lijit links in this post.
4. If you already have the Lijit widget on your blog, you can’t enter the contest.
5. No, you can’t request what prize you want. Sorry, but that’ll make things way too complicated. Everything will be given out randomly. Heck, if you don’t like what you got, give it to someone else or donate it to charity.
6. The contest is only open to bloggers in the continental U.S.
7. Email me at thewritespotblogs at gmail dot com if you have any questions.

(Full disclosure: I’m doing this contest to help out my friend, Jim Turner at One by One Media. After I volunteered, Lijit was nice enough to offer to send me an Amazon gift card for an undetermined amount depending on how many of you folks install the widget. I doubt this will cover my mailing expenses, but what the heck. Mama needs books, so sign up and enter!)

The Prizes

Besides some linky love from me and possibly the folks at Lijit, you have a chance to win one or more of these prizes. I also have a few Lijit stickers and t-shirts that I’ll give them out at random along with the prizes.

Books:

1. French Women Don’t Get Fat (Thanks to Vintage Books.)
2. Science Experiments You Can Eat: Revised Edition (great for kids)
3. Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children (for moms and dads)
4. Carpool Diem (Thanks to 5 Spot and Hachette Book Group USA.)
5. American Cookery: A Novel (Thanks to St. Martin’s Griffin.)
6. The Break-Up Diet: A Memoir (Thanks to Annette Fix for sending me a copy just for the contest. Read my review.)
7. The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution (Thanks to Broadway Books.)
8. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Thanks to Hachette Book Group USA. Note this is a review copy.)
9. 30 Easy Things to Cook and Eat (Cooking Cards) (great for kids)
10. 30 Healthy Things to Cook and Eat (Cooking Cards) (great for kids)
11. The Pampered Chef Fall/Winter 2007 Season’s Best cookbook with 24 recipes
12. Dangerous Admissions: Secrets of a Closet Sleuth (Thanks to Harper Collins Publishers.)
13. Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody (Thanks to Blog Critics.)
14. Become a Better You

Videos

1. Pilates Conditioning for Weight Loss
2. Yoga Weight-Loss Workout for Dummies (Opened but never watched.)
3. Prevention Fitness Systems – Dance Yourself Thin
4. Prevention Fitness Systems: 3-2-1 Workout
5. Beowulf (Unrated Director’s Cut) (Thanks to Click Communications. This is my review copy, so it’s been watched once. Otherwise, it’s in pristine shape.) (I reviewed it here.)
6. Golden Door (Thanks to Click Communications. My review copy, so it’s been watched once. In pristine shape.)
7. Becoming Jane (Thanks to Click Communications. Another review copy, so it’s been watched once. In pristine shape.) (I reviewed it here.)
8. Baby Einstein – Baby’s First Moves (Thanks to Disney and Mom Central Marketing. Celebrates babies’ discovery of movement.)
9. 15 Minutes Workouts – Yoga from Yourself Fitness

Miscellaneous

1. Built NY 2 Bottle BYO Wine Bag – red with gray piping
2. El Curro Flamenco Music (great to play when you’re making Spanish food!)
3. IQ Sound SC-920 256MB MP3 Digital Multimedia Player in white with earplugs and case
4. Pure Romance Body Dew and Dazzle Dust (makes you look, smell and feel sexy!)
5. Apron from (oops) wines
6. Senseo® Coffee Pod System (Thanks to Senseo and MS&L Digital.)
7. $10 gift card to Bath & Body Works
8. $5 gift card to Blockbuster
9. $5 gift card to Starbucks

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Posted on February 26, 2008 in Contests and tagged as blog, food bloggers

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