I had an excellent response to my contest with lots of people entering.
Everyone who entered made a nice post about the contest and mentioned my wordpress plugins which was excellent. I’ll post stats and geekery once Google analytics has updated it’s records to show up until Wednesdays visitors.

I did specify that the post they made needed to be at least 100 words, this was to cover the case of someone just slipping in a link within a massive post of other contests (which only happened once).

I did ask for an email from the entrant to say they entered but I think my spam monitor killed some of them (grr), but I kept a list of entrants from all the trackbacks, pingbacks, comments and emails over the past 3 weeks. If you entered but you are not listed here, sorry about that, please don’t take offense! and please let me know before the closing date!

Entrants:

Contest Beat: http://www.contestbeat.com/
The Link Bait: http://www.thelinkbait.com/
My Blog Contest: http://myblogcontest.com/
Lalla-Mira: http://www.lalla-mira.com/
http://makanon.com
Local Girl: http://islandreview.blogspot.com
Contester: http://contester.wordpress.com/
http://contestblogcat.com
http://j-ne.ws
Angela: http://www.mommybytes.com
http://www.thekingspeaks.com
Nate: http://www.avgjoeblogger.com
http://myblogcontests.com
http://adsensetrack.blogspot.com/
Johnathan Long: http://cmanscognitivecontent.blogspot.com/
Mark: http://youcube.us
Anastasia: http://mediamafia.org
http://footieblog.co.uk/
http://blogodise.blogspot.com
http://thedragonproject.blogspot.com

these are entrants that didn’t match the minimum amount of words but I let in anyway because the post they made covered everything else..

http://contest.lr2.com
LauraWilliamsMusings: LauraWilliamsMusings.blogspot.com
http://blog-contests.net
Thien Lee: http://www.Thienlee.com
http://theprizeblog.com
http://www.mrprizes.com
http://nkhan.jwmediabox.com/blog/
http://internetducttape.com

Now, to choose the winner…. I think the fairest way will be to use the UK lottery Wednesday draw to select the winner, all the entrants that qualified will get 2 numbers and the others will get 1 number from a list of 48 (2 x 20 qualified and 1 x 8 others = 48). Whoever matches the bonus ball with their number wins the prize! (you can see the lottery results at my VWD site or see them on the right toolbar on this blog)

There are only 49 numbers on the UK lottery so if the bonus happens to be number 49, we’ll use the first drawn number to determine the winner.

If anyone else enters before midnight Tuesday 9th October or I missed someone off the list then I’ll have to go with the old faithful of picking a name out of a virtual hat but, having the winner chosen by something I don’t control is fairer I think (and more exciting!)

There’s still a few hours left before the contest closes so feel free to make your entry today (and don’t worry about putting me to the trouble of making a randomizer script to choose the winner!)

I would like to extend my thanks to everyone that entered, there were some great posts made about the contest and my plugins, and it certainly upped my Technorati ranking, traffic, incoming links and plugin downloads. I smell some more contests coming but maybe with a little bit more interaction.. watch this space!

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