In terms of community building, one of the ways to give back to the community is building the opportunity for bloggers who haven’t yet reached a particular level of readership the opportunity to tap into the readers who come to other blogs. One of the most time-proven ways to build buzz and communities is to launch a contest. This way, users will send their blogs and posts (depending on the type of contest), competing for a prize. This is a very common practice in blogs all around the world but… what about a website that’s a contest in itself? Enter Yearblook

Yearblook.com [where blogs write history] is a blog competition website aiming at finding the best blog posts of the day. At the end of the year, the 365 best posts (1 from each day) will be published in a book. Yes, a real book. You will be able to buy it at Amazon, so you can show your grandchildren when your blog post was chosen as the best of the world, at least for one day.

So, how do you enter this contest? It’s pretty simple to submit stories to Yearblook. You can paste the bookmark link below in your daily browser. When you want to submit a post to the contest, you click the bookmarklet in your browser. That’s it!

The Bookmarklet: Yearblook - Where blogs write history

Of course, you’d be wise to paste the bookmarklet onto your blog, so that people visiting your blog can submit the post themselves, if they feel the article is worth entering the contest.

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