I wanted to title this post “ContestBlogger cheating the cheated”. But i didn’t want to be that rude.

Phil from ContestBlogger.com is planning a link-bait on the people who have been cheated by Ashwin Khanna. Ashwin’s contest was a total scam, though it earned him a ton of backlinks and his Technorati rank soared to about 7700. A lot of people were outraged by what Ashwin did and Phil is one among them. He wrote a post telling that Ashwin was “full of crap”. And, now he is running a contest that is a worser link bait than Ashwin’s. He calls it the “Ashwin Khanna Revenge Contest”.
(url : contestblogger.com/win-100-in-the-ashwin-khanna-revenge-contest/).
He wants you to remove the link you gave to Ashwin for his contest and change it to Contest Blogger’s homepage. And, he is giving a small $100 for it.

Let’s put his Technorati rank back where it belongs!
But if we work fast, we might be able to take back all of those links that Ashwin stole and put his Technorati rank back at 10,000,000 where it belongs. That’s why I’m making the entry requirements for this contest simple: if you were a blog that was tricked into linking to Ashwin Khanna, just go change that link to direct to the Contest Blogger homepage.

I had a lot of respect on Phil and i love his blog very much. But, I’ve lost it completely after reading about this contest. This is worser crap than Ashwin’s. I guess Phil has become greedy seeing what this many backlinks could do for a blog.

And because I don’t want Ashwin’s dishonesty to sour all of you on blog contests, I’m going to give that $100 to one of the bloggers who entered Ashwin’s bogus contest.

Phil, If you really care so much about those who have been tricked and want to bring Ashwin’s Technorati rank to “where it belongs to”, you could have very well run a contest that asks the cheated bloggers to remove Ashwin’s link. Or ask them to write a post titled “Ashwin is full of crap”. But, you want them to change the links to you. This implies that you are greedy.

Phil has even gone to the extent of sending a Trackback each and every blog that entered Ashwin’s contest, to achieve the Technorati rank for himself. I don’t know how the blogosphere would react to this contest. But, this “con job really ticks me off“. After all, he is not going to cheat you directly as Ashwin did. He would give away the $100 that he promises. But still, this huge link bait is a cheat. I would suggest bloggers not to fall for it.

Note : Phil, you say “Backlinks are valuable. Be careful who you give them to“. I wanted to follow it. I planned, not to give you any backlinks. But your “Ashwin is full of crap” was very nice that i couldn’t resist.

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