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Blogging Idol, the competition that challenges bloggers to see how much they can raise their subscriber count in the space of one month officially began yesterday.

ProTycoon.com is in the running, although Daniel did forget to add me to the competition page, hopefully by the time you are reading this I have been added.

There are over 100 bloggers battling it out to become the blogging idol and only one chance to win the $3000 prize.

The level of bloggers in the competition varies, there are a lot of blogs at a similar level to this one, but there are also some brand new blogs, as well as some very established ones with over 900 subscribers already.

There is an RSS Limit of 1000 subscribers so that the competition can focus on the smaller blogs and stop the blogs who already have a big influence stealing the prize.

Here are the rules for the competition:

1. All participants must activate the Feedburner feed count at the beginning of the competition.
2. Participants will need to send a short email weekly (100-200 words), describing their strategies to gain RSS subscribes, and what they are doing on their blogs.
3. I will group all those emails and publish them on a single post every week, so that readers can follow and understand how participants are competing.
4. Black hat methods will not be allowed, so you can’t fake stats, try to damage the blog of competitors and so on.
5. Paid promotion will not be allowed, else it would become a “who can spend more” contest.
6. All other strategies and techniques are allowed (guest articles, contests, give-aways, controversial articles, free eBooks), so you are free to get creative
7. The winner will be the blogger that manages to increase his RSS subscriber base by the largest number (final count minus initial count).

As you have no doubt guessed I am now going to ask you to subscribe to my blog and become an official supporter of ProTycoon.com throughout July. What are the benefits of supporting ProTycoon? Well if I do win I will give the $700 complete SEO consulting from Joost the Valk, to the blogger who does the most to promote ProTycoon.com during July.

You can promote my RSS Feed or the blog itself. Please make sure you notify me of any promotion work that you do, so that I know to consider you at the end of the month.

Your first step however is to SUBSCRIBE TO MY RSS FEED!

Feel free to Stumble and Digg my posts as a way of promoting the site, you can use the icons below each post.