One idea that I had for a contest type of thing would be to have an essay/article writing competition where people could write and submit essays on their favorite topic, and the winner would receive some sort of cash prize (probably a relatively small amount like $10 or $20). If there are enough entries, prizes could also be given to second, third, etc. place winners if their articles are reasonably well-written.

The big advantage of this is that any acceptable submissions could be published as new articles on my site (with appropriate credit given to the authors, of course), which would save me a considerable amount of time in having to write new posts, at least until the submitted material is exhausted. In addition to the possibility of winning the cash prizes, participants would have another incentive – I could allow them to have at least one free link back to their websites in the article text.

The main drawback to this is that there may not be enough people who would actually write articles, and for SEO reasons I would not want to accept duplicate content. Still, it might be interesting just to see what kinds of things people would write about and want to have published.

When will the next round or competition be hosted – I hope I don’t have to wait 4 years!!!!