And the winner is
I’m disappointed. Not disappointed in you. Disappointed in me. I’ve failed you. I have let you down.
No emails. No one wanted to participate in this stunt. So, why not? What was it that I did wrong? Let’s see what I can think of.
- Nobody needs inbound links. Doesn’t seem likely. Links are the lifeblood of our business. So, maybe the advanced blackhats can create their backlinks fast enough not to need something like this. That doesn’t explain the beginning bh’s not needing links though.
- The whole idea was stupid. Ya, maybe so.
- Contests are even more stupid than the idea. True. May be the prime reason.
- They went ahead and made blogs but didn’t tell you. Possible. Even probable. I hope at least some of them did.
- They don’t trust me. Also very likely. I mean, do I trust myself? Only sometimes, and certainly not my judgment on this thing.
Well, any and all of those things could be true and could be the reason no one wished to participate.
It was meant to be a learning experience. And a fun competition. Didn’t turn out that way.
Perhaps the whole thing will be remembered, someday, by those who need to get backlinks. Perhaps they’ll think back and say to themselves “hey, wasn’t that what ole Dink was talking about?” Yeah, right.
I’m terribly sorry that I let you down. It’s not my first failure and, certainly won’t be my last. However, I do learn from my follies and don’t repeat them. Often.
**the lil red demon on my right shoulder just whispered in my ear….aw quit yer snivellin and whinin, biatch. Get back to work.
Demons are always right. See you around.
~dink
Comment by emonk
There are a lot of variables involved. For me it was simply that I didn’t need a PR3 link from a site with a low (sub 100,000) Alexa rank badly enough to bother scripting a tool to build blogs on some crappy host I’d never heard of.
Too much time involved for too little return.
Don’t get discouraged though man. I read your blog every day, and I’ve found some nice nuggets here. I just wasn’t interested in this contest.
Comment by xlspecial
Should have posted about it on DP maybe. lol
Comment by vjstar
I think the idea was good but, for me atleast, the ressource to participate were limited
Comment by Dink
@ vjstar… I’ll make a post on how to do this without spending a fortune for software.
@ xls… rofl. Yeah, that might have worked. Except I don’t fit in with dp. And they would have pissed all over the whole thing.
@ emonk … Not discouraged at all. I just didn’t present the idea in the right way. I’ll do something similar another day.
I understand your point about the quality of the site and the return for time invested. As I told vj (above) I’ll work on presenting a solution for the roi. The low pr part can’t be changed by us. Only the G algo can do that.
Thanks for reading guys. Stay tuned.