UPDATE: This week’s winner has been selected and will receive a 2 month FREE PRO account at SEMRush valued at $100!

Thanks to everyone who participated and check back soon for the next contest!

I am excited to announce my first contest here on BigManta!

As we passed the 30-day milestone just a few days ago, I started thinking that it would be fun to run a contest for the readers of the site (and we all know contests are an excellent way to spread the word).  I am going to start doing a different contest each Friday and give away something that will help you become successful (or more successful) online.

This week’s prize – A free 2-month PRO account to SEMRush ($100 value)

Earlier this week I was given a sneak peek on how SEMRush works and what it does, and they have generously donated a 2-month PRO account for this contest!  If you have never heard of this program before, you really need to go check it out.  Whether you’re involved with pay-per-click (PPC) marketing, interested in SEO, or want to perform analysis on your competitors, this tool allows you to delve into those areas.  With SEMRush, you can:

• See which terms are driving the most traffic to websites
• View your competitors AdWords ads, cost per click, and keywords
• See organic search engine ranking results
• Export your findings
• Track competition, trends, volume of keywords
• Analyze individual domain names

To be honest, I had not really seen SEMRush before this week.  However, after using it for a while I have to say that I’m extremely impressed and would recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about their own (or their competitor’s) sites.  I played around with it quite a bit and would honestly recommend it to anyone trying to boost their SEO or pay per click, or see what other sites in their niche are doing.

Click here to find out more about SEMRush

How can you enter to win?

To enter this contest, you have several options:

• Sign up for my newsletter
• Subscribe to my RSS (by email so I know you subscribed)
• Mention this contest on your own blog

You can do any or all of the methods above – but if you do all 3, then you will get 3 entries in the drawing!

As an added bonus, anyone who has already subscribed or mentioned my blog in a post is automatically entered in the contest!

Contest Deadline

The contest will end next Thursday October 22, 2009 at midnight, so be sure to have your entries submitted by then! I’ll announce the winners Friday morning here on this post.  Good luck to everyone!

Spread the word

It would be appreciated if you would pass this along (email, Twitter, etc) to anyone you think might be interested.  Thanks for following along so far, and I wish everyone the best of luck!