Today the winners have been announced in my free advertising giveaway that celebrated my blog’s first birthday. For those of you that might have missed it I ran a short contest for some free advertising on this blog that you could win by posting about the contest, subscribing to my RSS feed via email or stumbling some of my blog posts.

Without further ado here are the random winners (thanks Randomizer.org):

Winner of the 468 x 60 banner ad is:

Hyder who blogged about the contest. You may remember him as the designer of this blog! Some may think this looks a little shady, but there were hardly any people that linked to this blog contest and that was the only way to win the 468 x 60 banner.

5 Winners of the 125 x 125 ads are:

contact [at] thatblogsite.com
enews [at] dennisedell.com
gndoro [at] gmail.com
rajgaurav [at] msn.com
Phil Benwell who blogged about the contest

Overall I viewed this contest as a small success. I’m glad that I was able to give away the free advertising to so many RSS readers but it would have been nice to get more people that linked to the contest. I’m going to write a follow up post about running the contest and provide my ideas for improving my future blog contests as I already have thought of a lot of things I could have done differently.

Anyway, you have until April 12th to contact me via chris [at] chrisguthrie.net with your blog ad that you’d like to run.

Also something to keep in mind is that some of the RSS readers that won have been subscribed to my RSS email feed for several months now, so you should sign up for my RSS feed now if you’re interested in winning future prizes. As long as you’re a verified email RSS subscriber you’ll be eligible for all future contests that involve RSS subscription.

Click here to sign up for RSS subscription via email