Jun 10th, 2007 by admin 5,386 Views
This is the first contest I’m starting for this blog I probably will start one every month depending on how this one goes. You have the opportunity to earn 50$ just by writing a review about Linkrain Articles. Yes that’s right. 50 bucks for writing an article about this blog on your own blog. You’re blog does not need to be famous or have a PageRank to enter this contest, anyway there are some rules you have to follow in order to partecipate:
Contest rules
- Write a honest review about this blog (you don’t have to write “this is the best blog i’ve ever seen” if you don’t like it)
- The review can be long or short (there is no word limit)
- Your blog has to be content related to mine ( SEO, make money online, Google Adsense, Blogging tips, Social bookmarks and so on)
- Your blog must be a human edited blog
- Link to this blog with the anchor text “SEO Blog”
- Link to this article (with any anchor text) so that a “trackback” will be posted as comment and I can verify and read yor review
- PageRank of your blog does not matter
Who gets the cash prize?
After I’ve collected 50 reviews or at the end of june, I will choose wich one I consider best and send the author 50$ through Paypal.
Everybody wins!
The best review will get a 50$ cash prize, but what about the other reviews?
Everytime I collect 10 reviews I will publish a batch, linking to the blogs that have reviewed me. This blog gets nearly 500 unique visitors each day (growing) and has a PageRank of 4.
The contest will end the 30th of June or if 50 reviews are reached.
By linking to this article inside your review, a “trackback” comment will be submitted to this post so that you can see how many reviews have already been written. If only 1 review has been written until the 29th of june for example, you have a great chance to win the 50 bucks just by writing a better one before the 1st of july! (of course I hope that a lot of people will enter this contest 
)
So, what are you waiting for? Enter this contest and write a review now!
wow… 50? good luck
if it was something like 10 or 15 id definitely do it
The contest ends the 30th of june or if 50 reviews are reached. Maybe there will be only a few reviews at the end of june…maybe even less that 10 or 15.
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I’m not really eligible to enter the competition (my blog’s content isn’t directly related to yours), but I do really enjoy your articles and I just Stumbled this post. Hopefully it will help to spread the word about the competition.
I’ll also Digg the article in a few minutes.
Good luck,
–Steve
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Ok, I’ve added a review. Since I’m a newbie to wordpress so I don’t know how does the trackback work or whether I did it in the correct manner. Did I do it correctly?
@Steve: hey that’s very nice of you Steve, thank you! Anyway, what is your blog about?
@Kelvin: yes you did everything right. Comment number 5 is the trackback I recieved from your nice review
I don’t know why, but my blog didn’t leave trackback on your blog. I have linked you from www.im-blog.info.
Please, link me back! Thanks, Bujes
Hi Bujes,
I actually don’t know why there is no trackback for your review. Anyway I count you in! 3 people have partecipated yet, the chance to win 50$ is still very high. 7 more reviews are needed to publish the first batch and link to all of you
Thank you for partecipating in Linkrain’s contest.
By the way, I checked your blog and I was wondering why you don’t have any comments on your articles, so I tried to leave a comment and it’s not working! You should fix this as soon as possible.
Here is the quick comment I was going to leave on your blog:
“Actually John Chow never had this idea…he was only linking to blogs that linked to him with a certain anchor text but he never gave a dollar to those people”.
Thanks for counting me it!
About comments: I have been trying to fix the problem since I realised why I don’t get any comments(2 months ago). I tried almost everything: i reinstall my wordpress(mysql stay the same), I check all settings in my wp, check PHP code… I think trackback don’t work from same reason like comments.
About John Chow - i think about this idea about linking back. And he will give away M$ Zumo 30GB too…
like Bujes…no trackback also from me….
http://fucc.blogspot.com/2007/06/linkrain-blog.html
Thanks for partecipating fucc.
It’s a strange thing with those trackbacks…as you can se in many of my posts, I get a lot of trackbacks, so I think there is something wrong with your Wordpress settings.
Hi , Linkrain I have done Review of your website .
The Review is situated at the address
http://www.placid-mind.com/blog/?p=13
Don’t know whether its a good review or a Bad one.
Sorry the Address is
http://www.placid-mind.com/blog/2007/06/15/linkrain-spice-up-your-life/ please do look at this if the first one does not work .
Thanks for entering the contest
Nice review you wrote there!
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Count me in
Very nice review you wrote there Roberta
You should definetly check out the posts i’ve written about “make money online bloggers” and “John Chow”…than please come back and tell me if this blog is really so similar to John Chow’s blog
There are smarter ways to spend that $50
Even if I would buy 5 tickets, I would have a chance of 1/60 to win that Mac…and I’m not a lucky person
OK, the idea is a lot like John Chow’s but are you sure you want to do this? You might get in trouble with Google, you know… No matter how you look at this, you are paying for links, and you know that Matt Cutts encourages people to report paid links.
Btw: John Chow’s strategy worked for a while, but did you check the first page of google.com for “make money online” lately? Yes. He dropped. Big time. Despite his over 1000 links for this keyword phrase.
Sure, there are many factors which could have influenced the drop, but I have reasons to believe that this is the most important one.
Anyway… good luck with the contest.
I’m actually not sure I want to do this…I already did this. The contest will end in a few days. Matt Cutts even stated that Paid directories are ok. Have you read his post about paid links? How many webmaster were against it? 99%?
The whole Internet is driven by paid links and online advertising, not even Google has the power to stop paid links. and Matt Cutts knows that perfectly. What about sites like “Review me” “TLA” “Pay-per-post” (and these are only “small websites” compared to others selling links) ? What about “Yahoo directory” and “Business.com” wich is an AUTHORITY website in Google and is worth hundreds of millions of dollars? Do you really think Google would ban these sites because they are selling links?
Regarding John Chow the only reason because he dropped for “make money online” is that he got so many backlinks in a short time that it seemed to be ” Google Bomb”. This has absolutly NOTHING to do with paid links.
Here is a quick tip of mine: please read Matt Cutts blog more carefully.
Buying links?? Don’t think so. This is a way to engage readers.
This is an interesting idea for building 50 backlinks for $50
Pretty good deal for you and for the persona that wins that contest, good luck!
If I’m not wrong, I think 9 people entered the contest yet and it will end in 2 days
My first impression about this blog is not too good, but after read more and subscribe with rss . I see many good post and QA section. Good job.
Thanks. Nice to hear that you like it now
Well, if only 9 have entered, then I’m the 10th! Time for a roundup post! Sorry, no trackback, but here is the url: http://artifexus.net/seo-blog-review-linkrain-articles-22.htm
Thanks!
Nice review Artifexus! I liked the “most beautiful RSS button” lol
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Nice review Artifexus! I liked the “most beautiful RSS button
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hey brother
this contest was cool.
i too want to take part on it for a free PR4 backlink.
is thhis contest still open?