“The Blog 500″ Challenge

Wednesday, Aug. 3 2005 | Author: Dave

Basically Weblogs Inc is putting up $10,000 for someone willing to create a Top 100 (actually 500) Bloggers list for Weblogs Inc. that is better than the Technorati Top 100. They are willing to put up $50,000 for the first developer that really gets it going and wants to continue to manage and run it.

If I was running a blog search engine, the first thing I would do is a 500 list that kicked butt. However, I dont own a blog search engine.

I need this 500 list so bad that Ill give an incentive: Ill give $50,000 in advertising to the first person to come up with a better 100 list based on the feedback Ive outline above (i.e. 500 folks, by links, based on the trailing 12 months, up and comer list, etc).

**Or** if some programmer out there wants to build this for Weblogs, Inc. Ill pay you $10,000 in cash for a proper list straight up.

Let the games begin!

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7 Responses for "“The Blog 500″ Challenge"

Cellounge Admin

August 3rd, 2005 at 11:43 pm
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I was just curious is this a url for your site. http://www.firstleft.net/cgiprxy/nph-prxy.pl/010110A/http/forevergeek.com/gadgets/freephotoipodscom_yes_theyre_at_it_again.php.

I was yahoo search and was able to pull this up. I did a search for cellounge and it is the 18th link on the list. I went to http://www.firstleft.net and they do not appear to be you.
Adam Lyttle

August 4th, 2005 at 5:02 am
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The link you suggested seems to be a script which mirrors external links onto their own server. I assume this is done for search engine reasons.

Quite sneaky if you ask me.
Jaryl

August 4th, 2005 at 5:25 am
3

Actually, that’s a proxy script that’s on http://www.firstleft.net. What the proxy does is mirror links and images to the from the original site.

The above search result is an unfortunate result of yahoo bots crawling the web. The intention of the proxy is to bypass networks that block the forevergeek site.
Kyle Posey

August 4th, 2005 at 11:01 am
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Hmm, 50k to be able to keep the project, or 10k just for the list. Sounds like the 50k is a *Much* better deal due to the possible residual income and advertising potential.
David

August 4th, 2005 at 1:29 pm
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Yeah, but then you need to pay for hosting, bandwidth and maintain it. It could be more work than income potenial, also some people are great programmers, but horrible marketers.

Also the $50,000 seems to be in advertising, not cold hard cash…sorry about that discrepency. :$
Griffith

August 6th, 2005 at 7:13 am
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Well, whoever put this up made a smart move. $50k in advertisement for whoever wins, in other words, you are responsible for the success or failure of your own entry, and if this manages to become a buzzword then this top 500 will be quite popular, thus, bring in a lot of revenue for who put this contest up (after the 50k are delivered). If the top 500 is never successful, then the winner will never earn the $50k.

Quite smart, but it really seems more trouble than it’s worth, and too risky to waste that amount of work for it.
Hairston

December 18th, 2006 at 8:26 am
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Hi man! Your site is cool!
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