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In what is most likely the largest blog contest of all time, Gyutae of WinningTheWeb.com currently has $14,575 in sponsored prizes, including a $40 paid review from my blog.

The best part is, it is actual useful products and not just garbage ebooks that are sold expensively. There is even $2100 in straight up cash just for using Gyutae’s referral link to register to the different sites. In a very smart marketing move, Gyutae will not only gain a huge promotion from the blog contest, but most of the prizes are sponsored and he will gain hundreds of referrals. He will get a lot of new readers, new backlinks, and new affiliates which will earn him money all the while he is keeping his costs down.

Do you have a website for sale? If so, letting me know may turn that old forgotten domain into a wad of cash for you. I am looking into investing up to $10,000 this year in websites. If you want more information, visit the Sell Your Site page on my blog.

 *Update: Congrats to BlogBadly.com for winning the $100 cash.  Stay tuned for more contests that are coming soon.*

This is the final post from the $25 weekly giveaway contest. To mix things up, I have combined four winners into one post, and the winner of the $100 will be chosen by all of you.

I have taken all of the blogs that have entered the contest (39 total), and sorted them into a random list.

Please leave a comment with up to three votes for who you think should win the $100. One random comment voter will also win a free $29.99 license to FruitfulTime.

Startup Weekend is an awesome idea invented in 2007 by Andrew Hyde. In a nutshell, the idea is to bring a bunch of small business entrepreneurs into one room, and have everyone work together to create a company in 54 hours. With a bunch of like-minded individuals, I can only imagine how many creative ideas are bounced off each other. So far there has already been eight cities that met with success, and Andrew is planning at least 10 more. Right now they are offering a “city vote” on which city gets to be the host for the next Startup Weekend, and my local city Minneapolis is one of the cities up for vote.

The weekly winner contest is an ongoing contest that I run here on my blog. Every week, I give away $25 as well as free donated prizes to a different person inside the blog raffle. If you would like to enter for a chance to win $25 as well as a variety of free donated prizes every week, please read the official contest post about the weekly winner contest. The earlier you enter the raffle, the better your chances are at winning your free $25!

It is Sunday again, which means that the next prize winner is chosen! The sixth weekly winner is Collin De Ruyck who blogs over at Your World Gallery. You can read his entry post here. Congratulations on winning your free $25 as well as all the great bonus prizes.

Every month I make a public blog post about my online earnings for that month. Let me start off by saying that these income posts are not meant to be bragging in anyway. The purpose of them is so that I can be completely transparent and help you make money blogging. My goal is to show you that there is a lot of money to be made indirectly from your blog, whether it is from career offers, consulting jobs, marketing your other websites through your blog, or using your blog as a launch platform for your startup websites. Something I did not learn until I started blogging for awhile (but I wish I had learned far earlier), is that being an authority about a topic that you enjoy will earn you money from sources outside of your blog. Blogging has helped me network with hundreds of webmasters, and has landed me my highest paying jobs. Before I started blogging, I did lots of search engine optimization, link building, and viral marketing for my own sites, but had no idea that I could do that for other people and make a living from it. If I had not started this blog and shared my secret link building strategies with my readers, my current clients would have never known I was an authority at viral marketing/link building. All in all, lets move onto what everyone is waiting for — my online income report!

Over the last few days, I have seen many people selling the “secret location” where you can get free PR9 .edu links. The threads on the DigitalPoint forums have had tons of sales ($50 each), and with such a high price you can be sure that people searched every nook and cranny to find if it was legit. Just by using a lot of free “questions” that were brought up in the thread, I did a little research. People in the forum thread were complaining that the site was running SSL (httpS://), stopping the search engines from viewing it.

Sure enough, the location was leaked after the user was banned from DP for spamming. While the pages ARE indexed even though they are HTTPS, Google is only caching the forum topics and not the actual posts.

The weekly winner contest is an ongoing contest that I run here on my blog. Every week, I give away $25 as well as free donated prizes to a different person inside the blog raffle. If you would like to enter for a chance to win $25 as well as a variety of free donated prizes every week, please read the official contest post about the weekly winner contest. The earlier you enter the raffle, the better your chances are at winning your free $25!

It is Sunday again, which means that the next prize winner is chosen! The fifth weekly winner is ContestBytes. Congratulations on winning your free $25 as well as all the great bonus prizes. You can read ContestByte’s entry here.