Ashwin Kanna sucks and why
You know what they say, if it sounds like it’s too good to be true, then it probably is…?
ContestBlogger alerted me recently to this “full of crap contest” scam. I love the title of this post, “I told you so Ashwin Kanna is full of crap”:
The reason this makes me so angry is because of the way he did it: by hosting a total sham blog contest and promising bloggers that he would give one lucky winner $2,500 if they would link to his pukebag blog.
Well, check out what happened over at Ashwin Kanna’s blog. No, I am not linking to this fool. Please type in the URL yourself if you wish to see what kind of disgrace he has pulled on the unsuspecting internet public.
Some of the blogosphere were sucked in by this nonsense. Thankfully, I was not part of the bloggers that gave this guy a link back. His blog has literally jumped in popularity from no-nothing status to up in the top 10k.
Evil, you say? Yes, it sure is. It’s also wrong.
He awarded a winner alright. Some blog called bloggerslogger that is hosted on wordpress.com. This “lucky” blogger only had one post as of the drawing date of the contest. Suspicious indeed.
If you’ve done a review of Ashwin’s blog, then I’d urge you now to delete the post that links to his site. He doesn’t deserve your linklove or your loyalty. And they say that there’s no such thing as bad publicity? If you don’t want to delete your link, please feel free to update the anchor text to “crappy blog” or something similar.
To say that someone needs to review a lesson in blogging ethics should go without saying.
Here’s what another blogger has to say about the contest sham:
AshwinKhanna.com is a disgrace to the hustle. Please remove all links to his site if you have any in your blogroll or posts, and spread the news so he cannot start another one.
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19 Responses to “Ashwin Kanna sucks and why”
By Chee Kui on Aug 23, 2007 | Reply
So he won his own contest? Hmm.. something really interesting.
By Melissa R. Garrett on Aug 23, 2007 | Reply
Okay, I have to admit I got sucked in. I think I was more curious than anything and was wondering how (and why??) anyone would just give away $2500. But I deleted that link a LONG time ago. Sneaky, indeed.
By cooliojones on Aug 23, 2007 | Reply
I hope this will serve as a lesson to anyone who tries to defraud their readers: we will unite and stop you!
By J.T Dabbagian on Aug 23, 2007 | Reply
Don’t forget to report that sorry-ass wordpress.com blog to WP. I’m sure they’d love to know what happened with Ashwin, not to mention that HP article is plagiarized from the NY Times!
By cooliojones on Aug 23, 2007 | Reply
Whoa JT! That’s some good info! I never even realized that, oh yeah, he might have woven a web he can’t get out of!
By Malin on Aug 23, 2007 | Reply
Geez, what a jerk!
By Blogging Tips on Aug 24, 2007 | Reply
what really bothers me is that he basically cheated to his technorati score, which many of us worked hard for ours
By MB Web Design on Aug 24, 2007 | Reply
I was kicking myself for not getting round to it, and now I’m glad I didn’t!
By Carl Coddington on Aug 25, 2007 | Reply
I’m wondering if these articles are giving him more popularity. I had never heard of him before this week. Now I am curious to know who he is.
By vargas on Aug 25, 2007 | Reply
He actually got away with it? Huh.
By Roberta on Aug 25, 2007 | Reply
Carl, that’s the main reason I didn’t link to him. He’s gaining popularity like that. He doesn’t deserve the link love or the traffic. He really took the trust of the blogosphere and messed it up. He’ll need a lot of luck to recover from that. Especially with such a tight knit group of people.
By Rose on Aug 26, 2007 | Reply
Well this is just all wrong. Thank you for the heads up.
By Christina on Aug 26, 2007 | Reply
how could he have got away with that? Sounds fishy to me.
By blog-nog on Aug 27, 2007 | Reply
The most unfortunate thing is that all these “complaint” blogs are just giving him more exposure and more “name-recognition” for the Google bots to move him up the search list on Google. He is very clever indeed - this scam continues to reap it’s rewards for him. Who says crime doesn’t pay ?? I suggest you all remove these blogs and any reference to his name - notify technorati, WP and Google they will completely wipe him off the face of the earth- that’s it that’s all. Do not reprint his name.
By ONwebCHECK on Aug 31, 2007 | Reply
jup, blog-nog is abolutly right!