Calling all wannabe (or professional) poets!!
This one closes out at noon (EST – New York, USA) on Friday, October 5.
Prizes at stake:
- iPod Nano (8GB) – Back in Skinny Jeans – won by Deb – Mom of 3 Girls
- iPod Touch (8GB) – Help Desk Geek – won by Tanner Christensen –
- iPod Shuffle (1GB) – I Hate Bad Service – won by Federico Bertolini
- iPod Nano (8GB) – It’s Write Now – won by Mike
- iPod Extreme Makeover (new LCD, front plate, rear plate & battery for iPod Nano or Video) – iPod Repair of Memphis – won by Kabitzin
How to Enter:
It’s “Ode to ProBlogger” time! All you have to do to have a qualifying entry to win one of the above 5 prizes is to leave a comment below with a poem about ProBlogger. It doesn’t have to be a “love poem” or written in any particular style (though yes, rhyming would be nice). You don’t have to link to anything or write anything on your own blog – you simply have to write a poem about ProBlogger the website or Darren, the man behind the site, right there in the comments section (of course if you really want to share your Ode with your readers you can post it on your blog – but we’d also ask you to share it here in comments so we’ve got them all in the one place).
Please include the word problogger or Darren in your Ode to help us catch all of these comments in Akismet.
There will be no judging, so please feel free to write BAD poetry!
The random number generator will choose 5 winners who will be notified by email.
Here comes the rub: If you have already won something, we’re sorry but you’re not eligible. If you win one of the iPods, you will then not be eligible to win anything else. Entering is not a guarantee of winning anything, and this whole thing is just for fun so if you think you’re a bad poet, write something anyway that somewhat resembles poetry. We seriously don’t care if it’s good or not!
Check out the full prize list (now updated to show which prizes have already been awarded or are in progress!) and if you’re not subscribed to the RSS feed by now, you’ve likely missed your chances to win a whole bunch of cool stuff already!
PS: If you’re looking for a little ‘inspiration’ – here’s an Ode that ProPoet Robert Bruce did for ProBlogger a while back:
Sorry, had to remove the video because it was acting all wonky… if you like, you can view it here.
Update
This giveaway is closed, and all winners have been selected and notified. Thanks for all the really fantastic stuff (yes, even the “bad” stuff) – You all amazed both Darren and myself with your creativity!
put that last cup of nescafe
a brief nap
little left to say;
document the world in words & posts
some good news is anticipated on probloggger
to help pay
for my next six dollar cup of coffee
If you want to make a buck,
Do your blogging like a duck:
Cross the water all day long,
Until you see you got it wrong.
But if you want to make it strong,
Just read Problogger all night long,
Then focus better on your niches,
To get access to all those riches,
Which make a generation’s dream,
And redirect our blogging stream,
To route those fortunes our way.
Hey, Darren dear, what you’d say?
Chitka, AdSense, Text Link Ads,
We treated all like they were gods.
We’ve put them all above the fold,
Hoping one day our blog be sold,
So we could live a life of fun,
With chicks and laying in the sun,
Free from all worries, with no trouble,
As all we touch is turning double.
I’ll post this poem on my site,
Hoping sincerely that you might
Consider digging it at once,
So I can see my traffic bounce.
Poem #1:
Ipods are red
Ipods are blue
I love making money
Problogger does too!
Poem #2:
Twas birthday time at Problogger
and all thru the Net
Not a blogger was sleeping
Cause they all had a bet
That someone would win
Some of Darren’s great games
They’d get Ipods, cash money
And we’d all know their names.
Poems, ProBlogger does not teach,
not even for writing them on the beach.
But if you want to be a successful blogger,
all time wasted here won’t bother.
And the worst poem goes to….
There was was a Problogger named Darren
Whose body was shaped like a pear and
While he wasn’t sure how,
He’s still hotter than John Chow.
It might be the snappy clothes he is wearin’.
I would love to blog,
And listen to an Ipod,
And Derren made me stop my system,
Just to write this poem.
Ode to ProBlogger
They said blogging is easy,
So it is, yeah…
In writing a poem, I’m just… um, sleazy?
My English is not enough, damn…
I would write you in my own language, Turkish
Then I would write an awesome poem
But then people would think I’m being a kissarse to win
OK I also lost the rhymes now.
Since there is no judging here is my piece of crap from “Without Me”!
There are million other blogs on the run
But it will feel so empty without Darren!
Hurrah! I love this :)
Darren and his job board,
Got me a gig,
My first adsense check,
And friends that I dig.
A way to make friends,
Earn money and more,
Problogger rules,
In a way I adore!
I NEED an iPod! Seriously, am I the last person to own one? Thanks!
(comment not poetry)
These poems are horrendous. Have mercy. Please have mercy. Think of the children.
I read problogger reagulary,
i like him very much.
I write of him in my diary
and i really want that ipod touch.
It can be a nano too,
just don’t leave me empty handed.
It doesn’t matter to you,
but would leave me stranded.
Let’s get some more limericks posted!
There is a blogmaster named Darren
Without him, ProBlogger would be barren
By publishing tool
He keeps the site lookin’ cool
With the tips and insights he keeps sharin’
Contest haiku
blogging doesn’t pay
ProBlogger to the rescue
prizes for Bloggers
Good Luck Everyone! I left a welcome poem on my site for any new visitors. Cheers, Emma
Darren is a man with a vision
And being a blogger is his mission
Writing posts every day
Even when he’s away
The problogger is top of his division
Bald man with glasses
is the king of pro blogging
his keyboard is strong
Problogger makes me a better blogger
Darren makes Problogger a better blog
Problogger and Darren make my day!
ProBlogger’s the guy that we read
When blogging ideas we need
Especially when money
Sweeter than honey
Is the thing that we really want (and need)!
Darren helps your blog
With techniques to monetize–
He is Problogger
ProBlogger cuts through splog-infested slim jungles with machete-sharp content, gilded in golden phonetic lilt.
Clarity cuts like constellations in the East African night sky as 100 gorillas and room-filling elephants silently dance.
Give me the i POD
Problogger is GOD
Darren decided to give away some stuff
Quality stuff though, not a lot a fluff
Hence I find myself writing this stuff
:D
One day in the future, a blog I will write.
‘Twill be far from annoying, trivial or trite…
(the subject, however, is still up in the air–
maybe travel, or philosophy, or music, or bears?)
Monetize it I will, using Darren’s advice,
With several posts daily, compact and concise.
ProBlogger! ProBlogger! Your praises I sing!
Doesn’t “an iPod for me” have a nice ring?
Darren, Darren, he’s my man,
If he can’t teach me to blog
No one can.
The ultimate place with blogging advice,
Most of the posts are worth reading twice,
Helping you earn a huge money slice,
Problogger.net does not have a price :)
(I know it sucks)
If probogger was a girl
I would date her
If problogger were an app
I would take a nap
If problogger picks me
In heaven, I’ll be
Ohhhhh
There one was a ProBlogger from Austraila;
I asked him why my blog was a failyah; (it’s not really, but it sorta rhymes)
He replied to me twice
to just take the advice
that he’s posted online for three years now!
Blogging, it seems like such an easy thing,
Fire up Word, and come up with a word string.
It’s a hard world though,
As you never know,
Whether you’ll get any success,
Not even after all the stress.
There are ways to ease things up nonetheless,
Darren Rose, some suggest.
My tip? Don’t get bored,
And check ProBlogger for info being stored.
Not my best poem, but I hope it’ll do, the deadline is killing ;)
Darren at Problogger has all the right tools
For real bloggers to use we don’t need the other fools
They just take Darren’s tips, recycle and re-use
Like nobody would notice, but they’re all gonna lose
Cause here at Problogger we’ve got one of the best
His 33,119 RSS readers should feel so blessed
But Darren as I go I have one final request
Please give me an iPod out of your treasure chest!
By a Mozilla browser obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill spammers only,
Where an eidolon, named PROBLOGGER,
On a black throne reigns .net,
I have reached SEO land too early…
when seo meets Edgar Allan Poe
I can’t believe the things you get us to do! Heres’ my entry.
Ode to the Problogger (with apologies to the bard)
Shall I compare thee to a celebrity great?
Thou art more helpful and more practical
Rough winds do shake the darling blogs of fame
And technorati’s lease hath all too short a date
Sometimes too hot the eyes of diggers shine
And often is the blogging mojo dimmed
And every blog from favour some time declines
By chance, or social media’s changing course, untrimmed
But thy eternal summer will not fade
Nor lose possession of that pro you are
Nor shall google brag thou wandrest in his shade
When in eternal links thou growst
So long as bloggers blog or eyes can see
So long lives Problogger and this gives blog life to me.
Problogger is here!
for more then a year,
Thanks for the advice
but now gimme a prize!
I didn’t know I’m that good. :-)
I sit and write this silly prose,
About ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse
Teacher, mentor, professional blogger –
Helping make those blogs last longer.
There once was a Blogger named Darren
Who thought up tips he liked sharin’
And wound up with lots of people starin’
At his web pages with affliates blarin’
There’s lots to show that he’s carin’
And I bet you thought his last line would rhyme.
This Problogging site is new to me
There is so much to read and see
I clicked over here from Back In Skinny Jeans
Since I don’t currently have the financial means
To buy a new Ipod of my very own
Even though I’m older and grown
So if my name happens to randomly be drawn
I’ll be so happy from dusk to dawn.
Here is to Darren who lived on a hill.
He taught us all that blogging is a skill.
Soon on ProBlogger,
The fun will be no longer,
Because win this competition, I will.
This Problogging site is new to me
There is so much to read and see
I clicked over here from Back In Skinny Jeans
Since I don’t currently have the financial means
To buy a new Ipod of my very own
Even though I’m old and grown
So if my name happens to randomly be drawn
I’ll be so happy from dusk to dawn.
Problogger loves blogging
Daren loves sharing
And I love taking
I used to play Frogger,
Till I found Problogger.
Now all I want to do,
is earn money like the rest of you!
To some they are about cats and depression
other see them as a way to vent
Darren in his quest sees a unique creation
Problogger is the mindset to us he has set.
Problogger´s poem Day.
what a idea.
you´ve nothing to do?
leave a comment here.
When you think, you can’t make money
Problogger is the blog to read!
When you don’t find any opportunity
Problogger is the blog to visit!
When you feel, life is miserable
Read the story of Darren!
When you think Internet Money is scam
Visit problogger to see the facts!
When you have hard time to write
Visit problogger to find your guide!
When you make a lot of Dollars
Visit problogger to thanks the problogger!
I love ProBlogger like I love my DP,
I consume it and it consumes me.
Darren is good, Darren is wise
don’t bother with those other guys.
my poem is lame, yes I know,
but I want an IPOD to take on the road.
When in doubt,
I searched about.
And came across this blog.
It had all types of tips,
no evil tricks.
Enough to feed a hog.
The site is Problogger,
that made my problems no longer.
It has all the information I need.
There’s videos he’s made,
and many ideas to trade.
This blog is simply a must read!
view this site,
read all Darren has to say.
Know everything will be alright,
this blog will help lighten your day!
If SEO, ads, affiliate
Darren’s blog will link the bait
if anything is new or vicious
here you burn it, digg it or del.icio.us
how to blog and how to live
how to connect and to survive
how to write and to promote
problogger’ll spread the news around the globe
Problogger is the place to be
And Darren is THE MAN indeed
I ain’t a poet
I hope that’ll do it ;)
Jacky ;)
To make $ online, I find Darren
Whose fine, witty advice is not barren
of any good,
but if I could …
My paypal totals would grow despite my starin’
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
If Darren can Become a Problogger
So Can You
Darren, O Darren, he’s no baron
But he’s an amazing giver
His prizes can make one shiver
Problogger’s the best
Far ahead of the rest
So please give me an ipod
Cos my name is Big Bob
Darren
Great blog contest! and great 5 iPods giving away!
http://myblogcontest.com/5-ipods-give-away-contest/
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