Comments on: “The Blog 500″ Challenge

By: Hairston

Hairston — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:26:52 +0000

Hi man! Your site is cool!
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By: Griffith

Griffith — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 12:13:03 +0000

Well, whoever put this up made a smart move. $50k in advertisement for whoever wins, in other words, you are responsible for the success or failure of your own entry, and if this manages to become a buzzword then this top 500 will be quite popular, thus, bring in a lot of revenue for who put this contest up (after the 50k are delivered). If the top 500 is never successful, then the winner will never earn the $50k.

Quite smart, but it really seems more trouble than it’s worth, and too risky to waste that amount of work for it.

By: David

David — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 18:29:37 +0000

Yeah, but then you need to pay for hosting, bandwidth and maintain it. It could be more work than income potenial, also some people are great programmers, but horrible marketers.

Also the $50,000 seems to be in advertising, not cold hard cash…sorry about that discrepency. :$

By: Kyle Posey

Kyle Posey — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:01:09 +0000

Hmm, 50k to be able to keep the project, or 10k just for the list. Sounds like the 50k is a *Much* better deal due to the possible residual income and advertising potential.

By: Jaryl

Jaryl — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:25:57 +0000

Actually, that’s a proxy script that’s on http://www.firstleft.net. What the proxy does is mirror links and images to the from the original site.

The above search result is an unfortunate result of yahoo bots crawling the web. The intention of the proxy is to bypass networks that block the forevergeek site.

By: Adam Lyttle

Adam Lyttle — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:02:15 +0000

The link you suggested seems to be a script which mirrors external links onto their own server. I assume this is done for search engine reasons.

Quite sneaky if you ask me.

By: Cellounge Admin

Cellounge Admin — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 04:43:29 +0000

I was just curious is this a url for your site. http://www.firstleft.net/cgiprxy/nph-prxy.pl/010110A/http/forevergeek.com/gadgets/freephotoipodscom_yes_theyre_at_it_again.php.

I was yahoo search and was able to pull this up. I did a search for cellounge and it is the 18th link on the list. I went to http://www.firstleft.net and they do not appear to be you.