Lately, there’s been an explosion of legit and bogus SEO contests.  Bogus SEO contests can cost you your valuable low link traffic link list.  Here’s how to spot the fake ones from the legit ones.

1) How long has the site holding the contest been around?
2) Have they held non-SEO contests before?
3) Did they pay the winners of the non-SEO contests before?
4) Is there a suspicious pattern of past winners?
5) Is there 3rd party verification for the SEO contest?
6) Run search on the domain name and do a whois.  Run a search and see if the owner is involved in past fake SEO contests before.

Fake SEO contests, even if they PAY, take something very valuable from their participants–their link sources.  Be very carefuly before participating in these.

In other words:  Try not to get PIMPED.  Just like blog comment pimping and blog content comment pimping, it sucks to get PIMPED.

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