A few more blog contest for your summer…Check them out!

$50 in eBay Gift Certificates

Find the worst misspelled eBay auction with Typo Buddy and you could win an eBay gift certificate. First is $30 and second is $25. Entry is easy, just leave a comment with your misspelling on the contest post and you are in. Another contest launches on Tuesday!
Ends Tomorrow! Hurry Up!

$100 Cash

Ez DIY Electricity is going to have new contest each month. For June the giveaway is $100 Cash (by paypal). You only have to subscribe to their RSS feed by email.
Ends on 30th June.

Market Leverage Contest

Jonathan Volk is running a contest generously sponsored by MarketLeverage. These are the prizes: $200 Amex Gift Card + a Flip Video Camera, an Ipod Touch and an USB Flash Drive Pen. You have many options to enter: join Market Leverage, subscribe to his RSS feed by email, comment on the blog, link JonathanVolk.com and MarketLeverage.com from your Blogroll or on your homepage.
Ends on 30th June.

If you’re looking for blog contests, if you want to promote your own competition, don’t forget to visit About Blog Contests!

UPDATE: Okay I wasn’t really serious about not wanting you guys to join the contest. Thanks to Matthew for pointing out that I forgot to link to the doggone thing. 🙂 It’s being held at KeithJamesLock.com. The contest post is here.

I was struggling to decide if I should post about this contest. I’m normally a person who likes to share when it comes to telling people about things I find on the Net. But this time it’s different because if I tell you about it, then that means more people will enter, lessening my chances of winning.

Oh, what the heck! 🙂

One person will win a grand prize list of items worth $1,900. Check out this hot list of goodies:

• $83.88 Value – 1 year GoDaddy Linux Deluxe Hosting Plan that allows you to host unlimited web sites.
• $1.99 Value – 1 domain name registration for 1 year. Choose between .com, .org, .net or .info
• $29.97 Value – 3 domain name registrations for 1 year. Choose between .com, .org, .net or .info
• $270.00 Value – 1 Traditional Blog setup, 1 Review Site setup, 1 BANS (Build A Niche Store) site setup
• $97.00 Value – 1 BANS license
• $39.00 Value – 1 custom landing page and unique article for any niche from LPCreations.com.
• $29.95 Value – 1 RoboForm password manager/form filler license.
• $20.00 Value – 1 T-Shirt from GroovyTs t-shirts.
• $30.00 Value – 1 All-Access-Pass for 1 year from Animoto.com.
• $689.00 Value – 1 BANS theme AND matching WordPress theme and upgrade of BANS site to BANS/Wordpress blog combination from TheNicheStoreBuilder.com.
• $30.00 Value – 6 keywords from TheSocialMillionaire.com.
• $497.00 Value – 1 copy of SpeedPPC – PPC Marketing Campaign Builder Pro Version.
• $37.00 Value – 3 premium BANS templates from IanFernando.com.
• $50.00 Value – 1 hour consulting with the author of TheUniversityKid.com – Young Entrepreneur Blog
• $35.00 Value – 1 BANS template (theme) and 1 custom header image from DesignerNiches.com who offers affordable Build A Niche Store templates.

So maybe if we just keep this between you and me, we’ll have a good shot at winning. 😉

Now that we’ve resolved our little Adult image problem, I’ve been back to work. After you check out our Comment Friday, make sure to check out It’s All Free Online’s Giftcard Giveaway.

If this is your first Comment Friday we give one lucky person a free weekly blogroll spot as our “blog of the week“. Along with that we are also giving that winner 250 entrecard credits.

After our hosting problem I was wondering which hosting you use? Is the hosting the same as the domain registar? Let us know!

When dealing with the hosting of your website, make sure you know the rules. Many webhosts don’t allow adult images. My host, Hostmonster, has very particular rules. What you may think is okay, they may consider adult.

What is Adult?

Hostmonster has very strict rules when it comes to what is adult or not. There can be no nudity (including photography and art) as well as escort services, adult toy sites, and other adult materials.

What Happens?

Today I spent my entire morning working with my host. I was trying to get all 9 of my websites that is hosted at Hostmonster restored. My entire account had been suspended for hosting an adult blog on their service. Instead of shutting down that particular site, my entire network was suspended.

I was never given a warning or anything. When I had asked if they could restore that site for another week so I could find another appropriate host, they declined. Instead I spent the next two hours trying to figure out what to do and download the needed files so I could remove it from the host.

Not only did the two hours cost me traffic, it also essentially cost me money. The website that I had to take down now is without a host and is losing traffic and money as long as it’s down.

The problem could of been resolved easily if I had only a few images that were deemed inappropriate, but that wasn’t the case. It was a little tough removing the entire site of images, which would of been near impossible.

The silly thing is though, the same thing would of happened with just ONE image. An entire suspension of the network.

Developing a website for sale can be time consuming, especially if you want to make a lot of money. I wrote a few tips about how to sell your blog. The tips included having value, determining a price, then finding a platform to sell it on.

Well what happens after you find that buyer?

This has always scared me a bit. I know basics about hosting and WordPress, I am by no means an expert. After I had a buyer for the sale of my blog, Blogging Addiction, I decided to turn to my hosting for some help.

I got some great support from Hostmonster about what I needed.

First, I needed to set up an FTP account that was just for that domain. The FTP account is needed so all of the files could be downloaded to move. This is fairly simple, just go into your hosting CPanel under FTP accounts. Make sure to include the directory that you need.

Secondly I just made another admin account for wordpress and sent the buyer the login for that. Now that they have the access to all the files, the last thing is the domain transfer.

I buy my domains at GoDaddy. Transfering a domain on Godaddy is also fairly easy. Just go to My Domains and select one. Select account change. Now you just need to know the buyers information like login name and email. After the transfer, the buyer simply needs to “accept” it. My domain transfer was over within a day.

Selling a blog can be a bit confusing and a tad scary, but it’s all experience. Now I feel confident in getting into website and domain selling.

Happy Father’s Day! Here are some new contests for you. Perfect to use your blog and good luck!

Digital Camcorder

The Flip Mino is one of the smallest and nicest camcorder. You have the chance to win it by joining the The Net Fool contest. First subscribe, then you can gain more entries if you write about it, create and submit a video on YouTube or submit one of his posts to social media networks.
Ends on June 25th.

$25 Gas Card or Cash

Win a $25 Gas Card or the equivalent amount in Cash (by Paypal) with Save Money. Rules are very simple: earn your point by subscribe to his RSS feed by mail or by writing a post about this contest linking to the site.
Ends on July 1st.

Software and cash

First contest for Volk Defense with a lot of prizes: Norton license, domain names, banner design and cash. To enter subscribe to the site, write about the giveaway and submit it to social networks.
Ends Today! Hurry up!

If you’re looking for blog contests, if you want to promote your own competition, don’t forget to visit About Blog Contests!

I’ve tried lots of ways to make money online. I’ve found some work, and some don’t. Yet I’ve never tried to sell a site… until now.

Blogs with Value

First, of course it needs to have value. The number one rule of selling a website or blog is that it’s value is how much someone will buy it for. Value comes in different things that can range from a good domain name to unique content, to money made to PR and traffic.

Determine What You Want

This is important. You don’t want put your price too high, it will scare off the buyers. You don’t want to put it too low either, you could rip yourself off.

With my sale of Blogging Addiction, I asked for a start price, with $50 reserve (minimum I would take) as well as a $200 BIN (buy it now). Of course I didn’t expect $200 and am considering lowering it. You can follow the auction at Digital Point.

Find a Platform

You need to find somewhere to sell it, for a successful sale. The options are mainly, a forum like Digital Point, Sitepoint, or Ebay.

For domain sales and cheaper website sales, I would recommend Digital Point. I’ve received a lot more bidders than I would of expected for a domain that I was almost going to flat-out drop.

Sitepoint is more for higher value domains. It does cost to list your auction.

I would suggest eBay as a last resort.

Find a Buyer

After you have the price negotiated, thats about it! You then just need to transfer your domain and files to the buyer.

I originally wanted to write this article to show how to do that. How to transfer your domain and website to the buyer, however I couldn’t find any good information. Instead I will be contacting my hosting company in order to figure out the best way to do so. Stay tuned for Part 2 of How to Sell Your Blog.