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This is a guest post for MonkeyBlogger by Breakaway from Link Building Bible, an ever-growing list of one way link building tips.

If you have a website or a blog, then there are two things that you should be concerned with:

1) Getting traffic
2) Getting to the top of search engines (for more traffic)

There are many ways to get traffic and backlinks to your site in order to increase your search engine rankings position. One of those ways is to sponsor someone’s contest.

There are always tons of contests going on throughout the many different blogs that there are online (and there are many!) Each of these contests needs prizes to be given away. Many times the owner of the blog that I hosting the contest is not rich enough (or is cheap) and doesn’t want to spend their own money to sponsor the blog, and if I was a blog owner, I probably wouldn’t want to spend thousands for a massive contest either. So, the blog owner looks to other people to donate prizes!

Here is where your opportunity comes. Why not sponsor a prize for the contest. You’ll get listed as a prize contributor with a backlink to your site, which can be one more backlink in your arsenal in the search engine rankings wars.

But, how many people constantly browse over the prizes list for a contest they are hoping to win! They see that you donated a cool prize, and they follow the link that is listed, and it brings them to your site. What a fantastic way to get people to your site. This is also a great way to promote an ebook that is related to the contest blog’s content. Many people will follow the link, want to win your ebook if it looks appealing, and then go on to buy it if they don’t win.

You don’t have to host your own contest (even though this is an even better way to get traffic and backlinks) but if you aren’t ready to start your own contest, then why not sponsor prizes on other people’s contests and get some great backlinks and most importantly traffic from all of the people viewing the prizes.

If you want to sponsor a contest right now, then head on over to MonkeyBlogger’s contact page and send them a note telling them what you’d like to sponsor!

Well it’s time for Part Three of this series. I’m thinking that this might be the last one. I am going to be moving on to a few other interesting topics

I apologize that Part Two was not the best post you’ll see, but I felt it was something that should be brought out, as it was an interesting thing that helped me out when I first started out.

This Part Three of the Series “Networking with Digital Point” is going to cover using Digital Point as a way to learn.

Forums can be a great resource for much information, and Digital Point is no exception.

I have to agree Digital Point does have many scammers and useless threads, but it still holds much vital information.

Being as large as it is, it is inevitable that you will have those who do not contribute, but many still do, and that’s really the key. Looking past the garbage scattered across the forums there, and finding the great content you came for.

I can’t even count how many times I had a question or concern regarding webmastering or freelancing, or legal issues of running an online business, and it was already posted on the forum. And if it hadn’t been, it was as easy as posting a new thread asking my question, and within an hour, I’ve already got an answer from someone who knows the answer. At a lot of places, you can ask a question and maybe get an answer, but it’s not the one you want or need.

That’s the difference between Digital Point and other resources or forums.

The internet is ever changing, and so are the standards for websites, forums, e-commerce and business professionals alike.

Many forums or other resources may give you information, but it could be two, three or more years old!

Digital Point is always up to date, as the people who run it and contribute to it are all changing with the internet, and are on top of all the new things, be it html being turned into xhtml, wordpress 2.3 now being 2.5, and any other changes.

When I first went to Digital Point, I was still using old school html to code my sites. That got bashed out of me real quick, and I’m glad it was, as it helped me to progress and learn new things like xhtml, css, and now even PHP.

You can even ask for xhtml/css/php help on Digital point.

It really is a great resource even despite it’s many problems, and I’m glad to be a member there.

Well, that concludes this Three Part series “Networking with Digital Point”, and I hope you enjoyed it.

My next series will be on Digital Point, but taken from a completely different perspective, and a totally different subject. I hope you’ll be around to see it, so Subscribe to the Feed and stay updated!