Vittana Blogger Challenge. Feedback is Appreciated!

[vittana_seo]

Hi all,

We're just about to push out a blogger contest. We want to win for the keyword "How to make a difference"

Search volume:

Exact match: 810

Broad Match: over 300,000

These are our contest guidelines that I plan to share with interested bloggers soon:

Subject:
Follow Up: The Vittana “Make a Difference” Contest.

Hi [FIRST NAME],

Thanks for expressing interest in the blogging contest that I mentioned a couple weeks back. We’ve finalized the contest rules and we’d love to get you on board.

We were impressed by the interest that this contest has generated. Not only do we expect this contest to help over 250 students in developing countries to complete their education, but it should also drive traffic to your site as well!

PRIZES

• $200, $100 and $50 gift certificates for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.
• Badges showing the amount of loans driven by your blog post.
• ??Another idea??

CONTEST RULES:

WRITE A SHORT BLOG POST
Write a post on your blog focused on the theme “Making a Difference.” The post length is up to you but probably should be under 500 words. Some possible topics include. These posts do not have to be related to Vittana:

• How has education made a difference in your life?
• How have you used your education to make a difference in the world?
• What are, in your opinion, the best ways to make a difference?
• What are, in your opinion, the most pressing problems in the world today? What can we do about them.
• Check out the list of countries on left-hand side of Vittana’s student list. Have you been there? What are major problems facing the country? How might they be solved?
• Tell us about someone or something that had made an impact in your life.

Again, the format can be up to you, but you can check out this document (TO BE CREATED) to help get you started.

PASTE THIS TEXT AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR POST
Please put the following text at the beginning of your blog post to mention the contest:
[Paragraphs with varying anchor text pointing to our contest page--we'll vary through mail merge]

EMAIL ME THE POST URL AND YOUR TWITTER HANDLE
In order for us to enter the contest, please send me the URL of your published blog post and your twitter handle. If you don’t have a twitter handle, we encourage you to sign up and create one for the purposes of scoring.

Important: The scoring of posts is based in part by the number of tweets that your post receives. In order for us to properly calculate your score please ensure that your username and the hashtag #makeadifference is part of the tweet.

Something like this: http://i.imgur.com/nlVij.png

In order to make this process easier, we will be sending a “tweet this!” link so that when people do share the hashtag and your twitter username is already included.

Good luck! And if you have any questions just let me know!

Kenji

[mjtaylor]

What is your question? I hope I am wrong, but I get the impression you are promoting your contest, and not really asking for help.

[vittana_seo]

We've got plenty of bloggers lined up already. I wanted to get some feedback from folks who might have done a similar blogger challenge before, how it worked out for them, and if we weren't missing any crucial details.