Don’t touch my stuff.

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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Hello again, my friends…

I just wanted to give everyone an update on the contest that I’ve got going on that ends today. I’ll be closing off the entries for the contest at 4pm EST and drawing a name out of a hat for the winner at 5pm. Get your entries in now so that you can get this is in the mail asap. It’s a great CD and your chances are really good.

Enter here by leaving a comment on that post. Good luck to all who enter!

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Just now, on Earsucker, I announced my first contest! If you’re a Suzanne Vega fan, and wish to have a copy of her new cd, Beauty & Crime, before it’s release date on July 17th, then leave me a comment on that post!

I wanted to keep it simple, but the comment has to be genuine! So check it out!

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I was meandering around the internet today and found that LiveLearnInvest is running a contest. There are no reviews to do or anything like that. The best part is that in putting up a sentence or two, you have entered yourself in a contest to win an iPod shuffle!

All you have to do is link to the contest and toss up a link to http://www.onboardcircuits.com with the anchor text Printed Circuit Boards.

That’s it, you’re done! Entries into this cool contest also get a free backlink. Count me in!

Are you in?

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