UPDATE : Few lines have been stroke out in the below text. These rules were present before this post was written and Narendra has updated them now.
Narendra, who won $2500 from BlogCatalog is now giving away $700 worth prizes in his blog TechTreak.com. This one of the very few negative posts that i am making about a contest. First of all i’d like to say that Narendra has not spent $700 for the prizes. If he had had $700, he could have very well gone for better prizes. The sponsors Rishiraj.info, dt.yogtec.com, BestofIndya.com etc.. are either his own websites or his friends’. And he is just giving away some ad spots and other stuff on these sites. In my opinion, all the prizes except the $111 cash are almost worthless. He is also giving away some SEO-related book and claims to be worth $155. But, he could have easily given away the best SEO Book, which is just $79.
Thats with the prizes. Now let us come to the “Entering the contest” part. All reviews must be 400-500 lines, which is really worthless. He wants you to tell about the different categories on TechTreak. You should link to him using “Blogging, Money Making and Gadgets”. You SHOULD submit your post to BestofIndya.com. You should add this code to your post :
<U><B>Supported By:</B></U> <A href="http://wwww.blogcatalog.com" target="_blank">Blogcatalog.com</A>, <A href="http://rishiraj.info" target="_blank">Blogging and Money Making Tips</A>, <A href="http://www.bestofindya" target="_blank">BestOfIndya.com</A>, <A href="http://www.thenetguruz.com" target="_blank">TheNetGuruz.com</A> and <A href="http://dt.yogtec.com" target="_blank">Yogtec’s Digital Technology</A>
This sucks. And also, as a Tip, he asks you to use his banner on your website.
After doing all these, if your blog is small, you are not going to win the prize because “winners are based on the quality, quantity, digg, technorati, pagerank, submissions, bookmarks etc…“. So, he can easily neglect any blog based on “quality”, since it is solely decided by him.
To Bloggers : Do not Waste your time with this contest. There are lots better out there and this is not the only one giving $700(definitely not worth $700).
To Narendra : When you have won $2500, you could have easily given away just $100 of it for a lot of Buzz. Now, you are trying to get $700 worth Buzz for $0. This is unfair. This is gaining you only Bad Reputation. And the last condition (digg, technorati etc. condition) really sucks. I wish that no one falls for your bait.
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