Blogger’s Choice Awards is a PPP scam.
I was just cruising the blog over at Pay-Per-Post and what did I see? I saw that the whole Blogger's Choice Awards is a Pay-Per-Post scam!
The thing to understand about Blogging "Awards" is that all of the benefit goes to the award giver and not the award getter. Why is this you ask?
See, when you post the graphic and link on your site you are providing a back link to the site that "gives" you the award. This was very popular in the late 90's when everyone won an award for something. All you had to do was nominate yourself and you were practically guaranteed to win an award.
By getting all of these back links the site that gave out the awards would gain tons of search juice and importance on the web.
I have decided to combat this practice by adding rel="nofollow" to these links.
I am tempted to pull down my earlier Blogger's Choice Awards article but instead I'm going to stick with the nofollow tag. Or I could just remove the links...
You should walk a mile in my shoes. This has been the bane of my existence since it started. Why do I do it? No benefit to me other than seeing some unknown blogs finally get their due.
Jim
http://www.thebestofblogs.com
nofollow is good. 8)
With so many “link baiting” articles floating around, everyone is starting a Blog Award or a group writing project! :-)
Ya just had to rain on my parade.. I personally think it is your secret hobby, complete with “secret lair” and “maniacal laugh” :-P
Secret lair lol. I just registered over there and though I like some of the design of the site, I noticed something was a little fishy about it. Like the fact that it almost begs you to nominate yourself without actually saying it.
Thanks for cluing me in to the sneakiness.
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