$300 Reward for the Most Popular Guest Blog Post + $200 Finders Fee
Do you have a blog on the Internet? We invite you to write a guest blog post on Steemit. Promote your blog to a whole new audience on this fast-growing site. When readers upvote your post on Steemit, you get paid. Because the site is new and just getting established, some bloggers are making as much as $6,000 for one post.
But that’s not all. If your guest blog post gets the most upvotes between now and July 1, 2016, you ALSO can win this $300 contest by becoming the most upvoted guest blogger.
How do you get upvotes? Just ask some of your blog subscribers or members to try out Steemit also. The more of them upvote your content, the closer you will be to collecting this reward. Because it uses new technology, Steemit is able to pay the voters, too, so your blog members will love you for introducing them to this site!
Finders Fee: An existing Steemit user (who already has a registered account as of May 21, 2016) can claim the $200 Finders Fee by referring the winner of the $300 Most Popular Guest Blog Post contest. Referrals must comply with the guidelines below.
If no one claims the Finders Fee, a second-place finisher also will be declared and will receive $200 in the Most Popular Guest Blog Post contest. The second-place finisher is the guest blog poster whose blog post receives the second-highest vote total.
Eligibility and Guidelines for the $300 Most Popular Guest (MPG) Blog Post contest
To win the MPG Blog Post contest, you must have an existing blog on the Internet (existing as of May 21, 2016). It must be active enough that you have made a posting on it within the past 30 days and you must have a membership or subscriber base of 20 or more members. Your blog must have its own website or a page on WordPress, Blogger, or another commonly used blog platform.
To enter the MPG Blog Post Contest, first join the Steemit platform (it’s free) and make a new post. Links and references to outside material are acceptable, but only posts with at least 90% original content will be considered. That means that no more than 10% of your post can consist of quoted, paraphrased, or otherwise borrowed content. At least 90% must be in your own words, original content that is unique and fresh.
Final step to enter the MPG Post Contest: You must reply to this post. In your comment, paste the link to your post. Only upvotes to YOUR post (not this thread) will be tallied in determining the prizewinner.
Voting closes on July 1, 2016. The guest blog post with the highest vote total wins. The first-place winner will receive $300 in STEEM Dollars (which are almost always redeemable for the same amount in US Dollars, or they may be used to Power Up your Steemit account). If no one claims a Finders Fee, then a second-place winner will be declared and will win $200 in STEEM Dollars. Winner(s) will receive payments in STEEM Dollars during the week of July 4, 2016, except that if there is any postponement of Steemit’s first July 4 payout, then the payment date for the prize winnings may be postponed for the same amount of time.
Eligibility and Guidelines for Claiming the $200 Finders Fee
To be eligible for the Finders Fee, the user must possess a registered Steemit account as of May 21, 2016. This requirement exists to prevent fraudulent accounts being created by a blogger after this announcement for the purpose of claiming both the prize and a fee. For those who join Steemit after this date, do not despair, since we will have more contests in the future.
Spamming out invitations to bloggers is expressly forbidden. Such behavior could cause damage to all parties involved, including Steemit. If you communicate with bloggers to invite them to guest-post on Steemit, please do so with the utmost courtesy and professionalism. (See next section for help with this.)
If they ask questions to you about Steemit or how to get started, you may need to lead them through this process of signing up and getting started. Communicate with them only in a courteous and professional manner. If there are complaints about any Steemit user’s actions in promoting this contest, then those complaints will be deemed to be true, and that user who is the subject of a complaint will forfeit the right to collect any potential Finders Fee in this contest or any such contest in the future.
- To submit your claim for the Finders Fee, you must reply to this post before the guest blog post is posted. Include in it the registered Steemit name of the guest blogger or enough identifying information to allow his/her identity to be matched to that of the MPG Blog Post contest winner.
Help with Finding Blogs and Reaching Out to Them
Here is a sample outreach letter for blogs, written by Steemit CEO Ned Scott. Please note that this is a sample only, which you should customize. You can modify it to mention this prize announcement if you wish. Then substitute your own contact information for Ned’s; do not pretend to be him and do not use his contact info. Again, anyone doing so will forfeit the right to collect any potential Finders Fee, now or in the future.
Link to full-sized letter:
Leads to Top Blogs: Try running a Google search for “Top Blog List”, “Blogs By Subscriber”, “Most Popular Blogs”, or using a particular category such as Travel, Wine, Games, Cars, Dogs, Weddings, Weight Loss, SEO, or Astronomy (those are some examples), you could search Google for something like “Wine Blogs”. Most blog sites list their contact e-mails or have a contact form on the site. The above topics are just some ideas; pick off one or two areas you like and start there. You can find a much longer list of the most popular blog categories by subscriber in this post:
https://steemit.com/steem/@donkeypong/attracting-top-content-to-steemit-building-out-key-topics
Questions
If you have questions or find that any aspect of this contest is unclear, then please reply to this post and 
Steemit Blog Spotlight Newsletter
The $300 prize is coming from the upvote proceeds of the newsletter. The extra $200 will come from the upvotes on this and other posts by
Here is the link to our first issue of the newsletter:
https://steemit.com/blogspotlight/@donkeypong/steemit-blog-spotlight-issue-1