Some say that a measure of a blog’s worth is through the number of traffic, subscribers, and how big the earnings of that blog are. Although this is somewhat true, a lot of people forget that the quality of posts are also crucial in determining a blog’s value. Covered with all the hype of money making and marketing, little importance is given on the quality of the thing that really matters: Content.

This is what The Blog Awards Challenge hopes to change. It’s a blog spearheaded by Pinoys that aims to promote high-quality write-ups from bloggers, both newbie and professional, by holding bi-weekly blog-writing competitions.

The Blog Awards Challenge is a blog competition combining literary skills, interactivity and peer polling. The Blog Awards Challenge is bi-weekly theme-based writing event for everyone in the blogosphere. A challenge is posted in the site every two weeks. Bloggers who wish to compete will write about the theme and post the entry on their respective blogs.

The winners will be selected through the combination of both reader’s votes and judges scoring and will receive recognition and badges as prizes.

I bet that there would be some who would get disappointed with the badges as a prizes, but IMO, I think it’s a really good idea. If you really want to promote “good content” then you must remove anything that could taint the image of the contest. Replace prize money with recognition badges. Show them that good writing is not always spurred by the prospect of winning money (Then again, a contest with no big of a prize would be harder to promote. I sure hope they could pull it off).

So if you are looking for a chance to showcase your writing talents and be recognized for it, this is one place you may want to hang out. Learn more about the Blog Awards Challenge by visiting their main blog. Contest rules can be found here.

Happy blogging!

PS. Kudos to Talksmart and Loudcloud for thinking up this great idea. You guys have my support, if you need any help, don’t hesitate to contact me.