Welcome to the 5th annual WordCount Blogathon, which takes place May 1-31, 2012.
The WordCount Blogathon is an annual event that brings together professional writers and anyone else with a blog for the purpose of improving what they do by posting to their respective blogs every day during the month of May.
Why blog 31 days in a row?
It’s hard to blog 7 days a week, and for 11 months out of the year I don’t. Unless you’re running a hyperlocal news site or making 100 percent of your income blogging, I don’t recommend posting once or more a day 365 days a year.
But there are plenty of reasons why it pays to become obsessed with blogging for a short time:
- To gain experience to look for paid blogging work.
- To gain expertise in a subject you want to write about for paid markets.
- To build traffic.
- To establish yourself as an expert.
- As part of building a personal brand.
- To help promote a book, e-book, e-newsletter or other product or service you’re selling or hoping to sell.
- To start a blog – or a second or third.
- To improve your SEO skills.
- To make money from advertising, affiliate programs or other blog-based enterprise.
How to register
Registration for the 2012 WordCount Blogathon is now closed.
What’s next?
If you registered and made it all 31 days, your name will automatically be entered in a drawing for writing-related prizes that’s held on during the blogathon wrap up at 10 a.m. June 1 on Twitter.
If you add yourself to the 2012 WordCount Blogathon newsletter mailing list, you’ll receive announcements related to the event. You’ll also be automatically added to the WordCount Blogathon Google Group to exchange questions and answers and other information related to the event.
Sign up for the WordCount RSS feed to receive 2011 WordCount Blogathon update posts along with other WordCount posts directly to your email inbox or blog reader.
Watch your blog reader or this space for blogathon updates until the event starts on May 1.
If you have general questions, leave a comment here, email me at wordcountfreelance@gmail.com, or catch me on Twitter, @michellerafter.
You can follow the 2011 WordCount Blogathon on Twitter using the hashtag #blog2012.
Registration for the 2011 WordCount Blogathon will continue through 8 p.m. Pacific time on May 1, giving stragglers just enough time to sign up and write their first post. After that, registration will be closed. Late comers can participate unofficially but aren’t eligible for raffle prizes.
Thanks again for visiting, hope to see you in the Blogathon.
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Wotcher!
My name is Sarah and I am starting a WORLD-WIDE REVOLUTION!
I’m trying to bring the word “Wotcher” (which means “hey there”) into the American dictionary.
Anyways, I really wish I had signed up…
Guess I’m all out of time now.
Best of luck to all contestants!
Cheers,
Sarah
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