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Actually we have three winners! Surprisingly enough, two of them are tied on the first place, and one is taking the third place.

The Sponsors

First of all let’s thank our sponsors and make a recap of the prizes.

• A lifetime subscription to Keyword Country (worth $2,000)
• An annual subscription to the Trackur corporate edition (worth $1,000)
• $300 courtesy of Sponsored Reviews
• $300 courtesy of BidVertiser
• $300 courtesy of TNX
• $100 from Daily Blog Tips
• $300 in text links from Text-Link-Ads
• A 3-month subscription to the SEO Book Training Program (worth $300)

The Winners

The three winners and their respective scores are:

1. http://www.happyschoolsblog.com with 3 points (wins because of tie breaker)
2. http://www.suzannefranco.com with 3 points
3. http://www.tofugu.com with 1 point

So congratulations to Raghu from HappySchoolsBlog, he is the Blogging Idol!

Happyschoolsblog.com got 1 point for the biggest RSS increase, 1 point on the voting poll, and 1 point from one of the judges. Suzannefranco.com got 1 point on the poll and 2 points from the judges. Tofugu.com got 1 point on the poll.

Jarrod and I voted for Suzanne Franco because we thought she was the most energetic and creative competitor. She tried a wide range of strategies to gain subscribers, and most of them worked well. Her methods were very creative too (i.e. creating videos to pitch Internet marketing gurus to support her on the competition), and her percentage increase was the largest one in the competition with almost 1000% of gain in RSS subscribers.

Ricky voted for Raghu from Happy Schools Blog because he thought that Raghu was the most experienced and analytical competitor. His strategies were carefully crafted to yield the largest RSS subscriber gain, and in absolute terms he accomplished it with a total gain of 1224 subscribers in 4 weeks of competition.

The tie breaker parameter was the largest increase in RSS subscribers (you can check the rules here).

Thanks Everyone

I would like to extend a thank you to all the competitors, readers and people that supported the competition. I hope that you had fun on this month of RSS gain extravaganza, and I will see you all on Blogging Idol 3!

Blogging Idol 2: We Have A Winner