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So it has finally been one month, and my MarketLeverage Contest has finally come to a close. Today I am happy to announce the winners of all the great prizes that MarketLeverage has sponsored.

The ten 2GB USB flash drive pens go to the following entries:

1. Melvin for his MarketLeverage guest review
2. http://contestaffiliate.blogspot.com
3. http://www.contesthub.net/
4. MarketLeverage Affiliate CD10040
5. http://www.biblemoneymatters.com/
6. http://www.weswyatt.com/blog/
7. http://blog.makemoneyonline-x.com/
8. http://www.dailydollarreport.com/
9. MarketLeverage affiliate CD9123
10. http://www.homebiz.bukiki.com/

The four $25 visa giftcards are awarded to the following entries:

1. Andy Crofford for his marketleverage guest review.
2. http://www.anothermmoblog.com/
3. http://aceblogging.wordpress.com/

Every day I see a ton of blog posts and articles about complex techniques on what people think are great website marketing strategies. I see dozens of people selling (as well as dozens of people buying) useless ebooks about techniques that do not work, or even worse are the ebooks or people telling others about techniques that may have worked last year, but can actually be bad for your websites now.

This guest blogging post was submitted by Sharon Hurley Hall from Piggy Bank Pie.

Who doesn’t like to get something for nothing? If you own a blog or website, the idea of free traffic is tremendously appealing, and many of us are willing to do whatever it takes to get a few more visitors to our websites. If it’s as easy as putting a widget on your blog, so much the better. It doesn’t take a lot of effort and you stand to gain a lot in return, or do you? I’ve tried a few of these widgets - TheGoodBlogs, BlogRush, Entrecard and others, and I’m beginning to wonder if they are really worth it.

There is a new software being sold around that offers to have 200 bots stumble your link in return for some cash. To acquire new clients, they offer “3 free stumbles” out to test their software. Well, with a little knowledge of how Google works, we can easily cheat the system.

There are currently about 3-4 sites that run this software, and all of them offer the “3 freebie stumbles.” With a simple google query, you can search the entire web for all the sites currently running the Stumblematic script and then find the free stumbles pages to build up a one time burst of traffic in return for 30 seconds of your time.

This post is a little satirical, please do not use it as solid advice. It is more of an accidental case study that happened to me and I wanted to share it with my readers.

Back on March 15th, I made a simple one paragraph post mentioning that I bought an iPhone. For those of you who didn’t know, the iPhone was one of 2007’s most hyped online product launches, and nearly every technology blog in the world was keeping tabs on iPhone news. This also means that since it was being searched for a lot, there were a lot of blackhat search engine spammers trying to steal their piece of the pie by their use of content theft. They scrape blogs around the world that mention the word iPhone and then post a piece of that blog post on their blog hoping it will rank for long-tail keywords.

I would like to personally welcome everyone who has visited my blog for the first time due to Mashable featuring a few of my easter eggs on their Mashable Easter Egg Wrap-Up post.

If you are one of the 150,000 daily readers of Mashable, I want to personally introduce myself. My name is Collin LaHay and I am an 18 year old internet marketer who makes my entire income on the internet.  My blog is about teaching everyone how to better market their blogs/websites, how to build links to raise your search engine rankings, and how to effectively make money from your blogs/websites.  If that sounds like something you are interested in, I recommend subscribing to my RSS feed.

 *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.