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I feel bad for not posting any new tips articles lately and for not conducting the drawing for this contest when it was supposed to be done, but I have had to take care of a slew of unexpected personal and business issues. I don’t like to talk about excuses, so that’s all I’ll say about that. Lets get into the contest details.

Because of the recent actions by Google (penalizing sites for “selling” text links) and due to administration reasons (I don’t have time to contact 50 people, place 50 text links, and remove 50 text links a month later) I am going to make some changes to the contest. I have chosen 10 winners rather than 50, and the prize text links will contain nofollow.

The drawing was performed by making a list of every single entry (as defined by the terms of the contest) and then mixing up that list. I then used the random integer generator from random.org to give me a list of numbers and simply matched those numbers to the list of entries. I was not allowing the same person to win twice, but surprisingly, that never happened anyways.

And The Winners Are

In addition to the link/ping above, I will also send an email to each of the winners to let them know they have won. Your prize ads will be effective until December 1st at 12:00 AM EST, so the faster you contact me, the longer they will be in place ;-)

I originally planned to let the winners choose what ad spots they wanted, but that would take too long because I would have to wait for a response from each winner before I could move on to the next. Instead, I will choose based on estimated value. So here are the prizes:

  • 1st Place: 468×60 banner, 125×125 sidebar button, sidebar text link, post-level text ad, RSS feed text ad
  • 2nd Place: 125×125 sidebar button, sidebar text link, post-level text ad, RSS feed text ad
  • 3rd Place: 125×125 sidebar button, sidebar text link, RSS feed text ad
  • 4th Place: 125×125 sidebar button, sidebar text link
  • 5th Place: sidebar text link
  • 6th-10th Place: one text ad on a post of your choice

What’s Going On With These Ad Spots Next Month

This contest did not get as much response as I had hoped, so next month I will simply be selling the ad spots. DerekBeau.com has been online for almost 5 months now and has experienced some great growth, so I think advertisers will be interested and will get plenty of bang for their buck.

I will start the prices pretty low and increase them based on demand. The revenue will most likely go towards promotion and more conventional contests. If you are interested in purchasing an ad on DerekBeau.com for December, please contact me.

Also, now that the personal and business issues mentioned above have been sorted out, you can be expecting a more normal posting schedule once again :-)