Flip me a link! Win a $1200 Prize!

by Jack Humphrey on Nov 13

CONTEST CLOSED: Of course you can keep linking to FTR, but the entries for THIS contest are being tallied and winners will be announced on Monday. Thanks so much to everyone who participated! Watch for new contests coming soon!
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I realized today how grateful I am to have so many readers with the ability to do something in return for any inspiration they’ve gotten here at FTR.

But then I realized that inspiration doesn’t pay the bills! People who link to FTR should have a good chance of much more than a thank you and a pat on the behind. So let’s take it up a notch, shall we?

Link To FTR, Grab A Prize Worth $1200!

Let’s see what happens when people link freely. When I notice people linking to me, I try to do something nice for them in return. Like submit one of their excellent posts to social news sites.

This time I’m going to do a little more.

This time I’m going to give 5 lucky linkers a great big prize.

Between now and Saturday, November 22nd, I am going to be tracking every link that is pointed to this blog.

(Actually, you are going to help with that.)

Over the next 8 days, I am going to pick those links up and put them in Excel. And on the 8th day I will pick 5 Winners.

What will the winning linkers get?

1 year to the brand new BlogSuccess.com, opening December 2nd, 2008!

That’s a $97/month value or just shy of $1200.

BlogSuccess will launch as the biggest and best pro blogger training center on the web. It will warp your delicate mind to experience all the professional training from technical to content development to building and marketing the best blog you could imagine yourself owning! This will be the membership everyone will want to have. Nothing’s sweeter than getting in for free!

How to Enter the Contest

Link to Friday Traffic Report.

Link from Facebook, your blog, a remote blog on a free service, your Squidoo lens, your Hub Page, or any place else you can place a link.

Come back here and let me know where to find the link by submitting a comment to that effect.

Link Value

You get 3 entries for blogging about a particular post here on FTR.

All other links are 1entry each.

I cannot give bonus points for people who use blog marketing, make money online, jack humphrey, internet marketing, social marketing, or any of my other keywords because that would be too manipulative of Google’s trust and it would be wrong. So I’m not going to mention keywords like blogging expert, marketing expert, or social marketing expert.

I’m going to leave the place and the anchor text up to you!

But I can tell you that simple statistics 101 says you are going to have a better chance at winning the prize the more you link!

Say 100 people take me up on this contest and link. Your odds are good if everyone takes the lazy way out. They improve as you link more often. Those are pretty good odds for a $1200 prize! And remember, I’m giving away 5 of these suckers!

Recap

Link to this site (any post you’d like)
Submit a comment below telling me where to find the link(s) you sent me.
Watch Monday, November 24th, when I announce the winners here on the blog.

How freakin’ easy is that?

Notes: I reserve the right not to count an entry if it is totally lame. But then, you’d have to be so lame as to come back here and show all my readers the lame place you put a link to me and face public ridicule. So don’t enter with links from some dead zone on your site or, heaven forbid, your MySpace page.

New links dated from 11.13.08 and beyond only.

I will give a lifetime membership to anyone who gets me a link from Whitehouse.gov.

You have 8 days. Let it begin!