Birhtday Contest: Additional Prize and Minor Changes

To all the followers of the contest "Simply The Best Birthday Gift", I have added a new prize for the most number of referred entries to this contest. A 7 day Ad Gift Card from Adgitize will also be given away. So to all those who haven't tried being an advertiser at Adgitize, you may now experience it. If you are not yet a member of Adgitize, then register here.

Last one sponsor for the major sponsors and it will be closed. I have also changed the minimum words in blog/site review from 200 to atleast 100 words.

So what are you waiting for? Start referring to get the sure win prize. Again I wish to thank the current sponsors.

Helping Others Gain PR

On my journey to find how you can gain PR or PageRank, I found an article that is really helpful. It seems being friendly and helping others increase their PR can help you increase PR as well. How? Gaining friends with high PR or not and them linking to your site will gain popularity to your site. Of course you still have to work on your site/blog's content - it will still rely on the quality of the contents of your site.

One thing for sure is that the people you help, mostly will help you as well. A fellow blogger told me (she wishes to be anonymous since in her site she is also anonymous) that her blog started gaining popularity as soon as she started helping others gain their PRs by joining their contests, being a sponsor, making blog reviews for other sites as prizes, etc... In return most of them will return this favor as well.

Now, I am glad I am doing this contest. I found some new contests and I'll probably join them as sponsor as well. But in the meantime, I'll concentrate on my contest.

Tomorrow, I'll be adding a new prize for my contest and probably close the major sponsors. I don't want to make it more harder for the contests entrants by making so many blog/site reviews.

How to Generate an RSS from Label

Do you have a certain topic or label in your blog that you want your users to have an information? This method is very useful specially if your blog is a mixed of articles with different categories. Let's say you want your users to be informed in case a new update has been made on their chosen category like new programs you have joined or new windows tips, new freebie application, new wallpapers, etc...

It is actually very easy.

First, here is what my normal RSS looks like:

http://xleontips.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Now, choose a topic that you like to use. NOTE: It should only be one word, if it is two words, then you have to edit all those labels and make them one word. In my case, I used payment-proofs:

http://xleontips.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/payment-proof?alt=rss

Now you go and try my link - HERE.

More Sponsors for the Contest

I would like to thank all the new sponsors that came to support us on this contest. From the looks of the prizes even I want to join this now (lol). So here is the updated prizes and list of sponsors:

1st Prize (Cash - $25)
$20 Paypal + 3000 EC + Ad Space for 2 months + Blog / Site Review - XLEONTIPS
$5 PayPal + 5000 EC + Ad Space for 1 month - Pinay Mom
3000 EC + Ad Sponsor 1 month - Blog de Manila
3000 EC + Ad Sponsor 1 month - World Travel and Vacation 

2000 EC + Ad Space for 2 months - Online Mommy's Corner
Ad Space for 2 months - Obstacles and Glories

2nd Prize (Cash $15)
$10 Paypal + 1000 EC (XLEONTIPS: Ad Space for 2 months + Blog / Site Review )

$5 Paypal + Ad Space for 1 month - Stay at Home Blessings 
3000 EC + Ad Space for 1 month - Kaya mo Pinoy 

3rd Prize (Cash $5)
$5 PayPal + 500 EC (XLEONTIPS: Ad Space for 2 weeks + Blog / Site Review )
3000 EC + Ad Space for 1 month - Philipine USANA


Special Award for Top EC dropper
500 EC + (XLEONTIPS: Ad Space for 1 month)

Major Sponsors:

• Baul ni Noel (XLEONTIPS' sister site)
• Stay at Home Blessings ($5 + Ad Space)
• Pinay Mom ($5 + 5000 EC + Ad Space) 

List of other Sponsors:

• Obstacles and Glories (Ad Space)
• Kaya Mo Pinoy (sister site Blog de Manila)
• World Travel and Vacation (sister site Blog de Manila)
• Philippine USANA (sister site Blog de Manila)

I would also like to remind all the entrants of this contest not to forget about the last requirement of this contest which is making a review of the major sponsor's website/blog. Make atleast a 200 words review for them. Thank you very much. Click HERE to see details of the contest

We are still open for sponsors to all those who want to promote their sites as well.