The results of MIC competition for January:

1. Ileane (23) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 8 (3 times voted at BlogEngage + 1 retweet); Points for submission: 5 (1 digg submission);
2. ppo (20) – Points for starred comments: 20; Points for voting: 0;
3. Jordan Cooper (18) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 8 (2 times voted at BlogEngage + 2 retweets);
4. Karl Foxley (14) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 4 (2 times voted at BlogEngage);
5. Suresh Khanal (12) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 2 (1 digg);
6. Henri Junttila (12) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 2 (1 retweet);
7. chandan (10) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 0;
8. binit (10) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 0;
9. Abdul Akbar Banwa (10) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 0;
10. Justin Fiores (10) – Points for starred comments: 10; Points for voting: 0;

Several words

Thanks to everyone for good comments. It’s my great pleasure to read your thoughts and opinions.

I also bet, that some of you didn’t expect te be listed here, but you are :) I hope you don’t mind and looking forward to your future comments, votes and submissions.

Tips to Get More Points

1. Just share you thoughts and opinions in comments – this is the most right way to get your comment starred.
2. If you wish to get points for submissions or voting – just leave you profile names in the end of comments, so I could know, that those were your votes or submissions. Sometimes it’s rather hard to identify you, because your nicknames differ. Demand points – they truly belong to you! :)
3. Submission is counted only if it has unique title, unique description and the right category.
4. Sites (that I count) for submitting posts are now: Digg, BlogEngage, Sphinn and plus 1 more – Mixx; You get 5 points for the submitted post;
5. If you submit one of my posts, just let me know (through the contact form, twitter, or a comment) about the link!
6. Learn more about the MIC competition.

Winners Get…

• Ileane – #1: Gets free 125-125 banner place for a month, review of her blog, highlighted comments during February and #1 position on the home page;
• ppo – #2: Gets #2 position on the home page;
• Jordan Cooper – #3: Gets #3 position on the home page;

More details – on the MIC competition page.

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As for the prizes.. All of them will be active by tomorrow :)

When is the next MIC competition?

Actually, it has already started :). Remember, that only comments made for the latest post are counted (submissions and votes too). Good luck!

You can participate in the competition described below. All you need is to leave a good comment. “Good” doesn’t mean a long, big, huge comment or else. It only means, that your comment should be relevant and natural. You might need to read the comment policy.

How to Win?

NB! I’ve made the competition easier.

• The better comment you leave, the better chances you have to be noticed by other commenters;
• Little tip: if you reply to other comments, your chances to be noticed increase;
• You should have some nice gravatar assigned to your specified email. It, definitely, plays a role! You can get one here;
• Be natural. Like or dislike other commenters pressing the appropriate buttons (thumb up’s/thumb down’s) under each comment. Everything comes back to you like a boomerang;
• You can comment on any post published within a current month. The easier way is to check the archives;
• By the end of the competition month I make a list of those, who have at least 1 positive vote. Those three commenters, who have the biggest number of votes – win. Here’s the roundup for Jan. 2010. NB! The January roundup has the old terms of MIC competition;

What winners get?

1. All 3 of you get a “do follow” link on iWoodpecker’s home page to your blog, or website, or twitter profile etc. It may include your keywords. And it will look like this :

2. The best commenter can get a free banner, that I will make for him for free. Of course, if you wish :) Look again at the pic above or check the home page of iWoodpecker.

3. The best commenter can use 125×125 ad spot until the end of the next competition. You can send me your own banner or use the one I’ll make for you. Choose it.

4. The best commenter gets a review of his or her blog. Of course, I’ll mention why he or she is worthy being the M.I.C. See the latest review of Ileane Smith, who became MIC #1 in January.

5. The competition begins at the beginning of a month and lasts until the end of the month.

Today I’ve noticed that I have 3 new subscribers. They are, actually, all I have for this moment.

“What? You have 15!” – you say.

Not exactly. The rest are bots and crawlers except of me myself and my girlfried. We both have subscribed just to make sure, that feedburner works well. And it does.

Anyways, thank you. I have my first 15 days of hard-core publishing, and I should say, that I’m glad to see, that it all works.

For all those, who still thinks, that popularity comes fast, I’d like to say, that it doesn’t. But.. you have to know, that the most important thing is your patience. Since I’m capricorn, I have it. I also noticed, that the hardest thing in the beginning is to make it all move. And you have to remark any sign of it. It could be several new visitors or Google bot crawling your site. It could be anything. Even if you have your first spam comment, enjoy it. This will inspire you. That’s the engine for you.

What are my future plans?

1. I’m going to publish a new post 5-7 times a week.
2. I will show you more ways of getting traffic.
3. I will speak about Internet websites, that help me more than the others, where you’re able to promote your stuff as well.
4. I’m going to increase iWoodpecker’s number of categories. This will help you to navigate easier in order to find what you want. You’ll see it.
5. The videos.. I just have to start making them. And within the nearest several weeks, I’ll do it. And you’ll see how I look like :) Am I cute? Well, you decide.. :)) But I should say, that I hesitate a little, so don’t criticize me much.
6. I’m also thinking about an upgrading of the comments form. Commentluv or Disquss? My desicion depends on your opinion and some statistical details. I’ll speak about it later.

Remember one thing. iWoodpecker is speaking about website traffic and promotion.

By the way. Don’t forget to subscribe :)