Another blog, Etienne, is offering a contest with lots of prizes!  Subscribing to her blog by email will get you one entry and blogging about it will get you another entry.  Here is what you could win: 

1. 1 x Premium Theme License - Adii Wordpress Rockstar
2. 1 x Single User Revolution Theme License - Brian Gardner
3. 1 x Premium Theme License - WordpressThemeMarket
4. $399/year Free lifelong membership with ABC - AmericasBestCompanies
5. $250 Cash from PepperJamNetwork - PepperJamNetwork (Signup as affiliate To win)
6. $200 advertising on Bidvertiser - Bidvertiser (Signup as an advertiser to win)
7. 100 x One Buck Wiki ($2000 value)- One Buck Wiki
8. 1 Year Subscription to our new Speedy Plan - Top Hosting Center
9. 1 Year Shared Hosting Plan - TVG Hosting
10. $100 worth of Flash Components - FlashLoaded
11. 1 x License of FruitfulTime TaskManager - Fruitfultime
12. 2 x Atomic Blogging Package - Alvin Phang Atomic Blogging
13. 1 x Pack of 80 photoshop brushes - Justcreativedesign
14. 5 x Banner Design - Datmoney
15. 5 x DIY Ebook - Eggmarketingpr
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19. 1000 Entrecard credits - DatMoney
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25. $100 cash via Paypal - Ryan Shamus
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28. 1 x Blog Review - Michael
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30. 1 x Blog Review - Charles Lau
31. 1 x Seo Review - Darin
32. 1 x Video Review - Charles Lau
33. 1 x Blog Consultation - Charles Lau
34. One Month text link ad - Michael
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37. 1 x Two Months 153 x 124 Banner - Crenk
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General Marketing Blog is having a contest. There are various ways to enter and you could win some very cool prizes including a video iPod. The contest ends on March 31st, so get over there now! Here is a list of all the prizes that you could win:

General Marketing Blog
1 x Video Ipod
Revolution Theme
1500 Entrecard Credits
3 x 125×125 banner ads
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The www Blog
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Mr Javo Dot Com
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GoStats
2 Yrs subscription to Gostats Pro

Internet Marketing Blog
1 x 125×125 banner ad for 1 month

Pro Blogging
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100 Entrecard credits

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2000 hits from webhitsrus.com
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One Buck Wiki
500 Wiki pages valued at $20 each

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Blog Money Wiki
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My Blog Contest
1000 Entrecard credits

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1 x 468×60 banner ad for 1 month
1 x 125×125 banner ad for 1 month

1 Million in 365 Days
500 Entrecard credtis

My PPC Advertising
200 Entrecard credits
5 x Txt links for 1 month

Making Myself Extra Money
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Ez Money Online
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Detector
1 x Txt link for 1 month

Scribble & Words
1 x 125×125 banner ad for 1 month
500 Entrecard credits

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Now that you have a list of keywords for your site (see Part One and Part Two in this series), it is time to put those keywords to good use. You should put together a list of keywords that describe your site and you should also think about keywords when you write an individual post.

Back in the day, bloggers and website coders found that using the meta keyword tag was an easy way to let search engines now what your blog or website was about. Not so anymore. There are very few search engines that rely on the meta keyword tag. Too many devious webmasters found that stuffing their meta keyword tags with every available keyword would be beneficial. However, it was soon discovered that the keywords being used did not even slightly relate to their website.

Search engines now rely much more heavily on keyword density. There are two tools that I use to check keyword density. The first one is Word Counter. Word Counter allows you to copy and paste text into a box and will show you the frequency of words used in your post. I copied my first post in this series and found that “keyword” is the most frequently used word with 14. The next word is “post” with 7. This counter will give you some idea if you are overusing any words or if you need to beef up the count of your chosen keywords.

The second tool I use is Keyword Frequency Counter. This tools allows you to type in the address of your post or webpage. I again used the first post in this series and found that keywords is used 15 times and the frequency is 4.17% compared to the entire post. Frequency is ideal when kept between 3 and 10%. Anything higher might flag your post as “spammy.”

I also used this tool to check the entire blog. I typed http://www.blogzenith.com and here are the results:

I guess I use your and that a lot. Some of the keywords are good. Other keywords that I would have liked to appear don’t make a showing so I need to work on that a bit.

This is a good exercise for your blog and your posts. Before you commit to a post, try Word Counter to see if you are getting the frequency of keywords that you are hoping for. Periodically check your entire blog. Do your chosen keywords show up on the list? If not, try writing an article that utilize those keywords.

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I am so far behind on posting, but I thought I would quickly tell you about a contest I came across at WinningTheWeb.com.  Gyutae Park has put together a package of prizes worth over $7,000!  There are so many prizes that I can’t mention them all, but the categories include cash, conference passes, SEO memberships, training, banner designs, web hosting, advertising and consulting.

It is really easy to enter, you just need to sign up for the Winning the Web mailing list and then earn points (see post for details).

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Are you always looking for the perfect picture to add to your blog to enhance your post? Do you search Google images and hope that you find an image that is not copyrighted? I do!

Now there is a new plugin that will do all the work for you - Photo Dropper. Photo Dropper is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add Flickr photos to your posts. Follow these simple steps to install Photo Dropper on your WordPress blog:

1. Download and unzip the plugin. This will create a directory - /photo_dropper
2. FTP the the folder to your /wp-content/plugins directory for your blog.
3. In your WordPress admin panel, click on Plugins and Activate the Photo Dropper plugin.
4. Next, click on Options at the top of your WordPress admin panel and then click on Photo Dropper.
5. Set your blog preferences. Note: If you have a commercial blog you must check “Show only photos that can be used commercially” in the preferences.
6. When you start to write a new post, you will notice a new section under the editor entitled “Photo Dropper Browse Photos”.
7. Type in a keyword and click on “Search”. Photo Dropper will bring up related pictures for your blog.
8. Click on the size (S, M or L) under the photo that you want to display and the photo is automatically inserted in your blog.
9. Credits are automatically added to the photo.

I decided that I would try and see if I could add photos that I had uploaded to Flickr. Your photos will only show up if you have a Pro account and if you choose the right Creative Commons license. I choose the license: Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons. This means that the photo can be shared and remixed, only if the owner is given credit even if the image is altered.

If you are planning to use your own photos, make sure you give them at least three tags and use those tags for your keyword search. Here is the photo I took with the proper credit:

photo credit: cmpryor

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