Web Traffic Contest

Short version: I’m trying to win a web traffic contest, and if I win, I’m giving away the $150 prize to one of the tweeters who helps me do it. If you don’t care about the explanation, you can just skip to the end of this post, where I have created a convenient 132-character tweet that you can just paste into Twitter, press enter, and you’re done. For those who want to understand why, read on.

A site called Small Biz Bee is holding a contest effective today and tomorrow. A series of hopefuls have written articles about small business. Each article has 24 hours from the time of its posting to accumulate unique pageviews. The one that has the most pageviews at the end of its period is the winner, and the author of the winning article is awarded $150.

My article went up today (12/03/09) at noon Pacific time, or 3pm Eastern time. So my article has until noon on Friday, 12/4/09, to accumulate enough pageviews to win. As I write this, that gives it about fifteen hours. Read the rest of this entry »