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Courtney Tuttle is holding a competition to guess his income earned during the month of May. If you guess within $1, you get the money. That’s easy money, and I’m all about easy. The following is for said contest:

Rules:

• Create a post on your blog, copy these rules and paste them into the post.
• Make a guess! Link to my homepage with the text ‘make money online $1.00?, replacing the $1.00 with the amount of your guess. Example: make money online $100.56.
• Leave this link to the rules page intact.
• Use my contact page to confirm your entry by letting me know (make sure to include the URL of your post)! I will find most of them, but let me know to make sure!

Special Rule Through 5/18/2007

My guesses:

make money online $325.12, make money online $312.23, make money online $341.74

On a related note

For those who don’t know, what Courtney is doing is he’s attempting to game Google. By creating a bunch of links to his site with the text “make money online”, he’s moving his site’s position up in the rankings for a Google search of “make money online.”

I know that’s probably obvious to many of you, but I assume some don’t know. I’m just learning these search engine tips as I go, and I’m realizing how many of the weathered SEO guys don’t realize that those of learning know nothing of even the very basics of the field. I’ll try to pass on what I can as I learn and figure things out on my own.