The rules are simple. Help us get noticed, and we’ll enter you into the drawing.

Grand Prize: One (1) lucky winner will win $100 credit in our directory AND his/her choice of the following: Sony Playstation 3 or a Microsoft Xbox 360 or $500 Amazon.com gift certificate.
2nd Place: One (1) second place runner-up will win $100 credit in our directory.
3rd Place: One (1) third place runner-up will win $50 credit in our directory.
4th through 10th Place: Seven (7) runners up will win $25 credit in our directory.

Here’s how you can enter our contest. Each point is worth one entry in our drawing.

METHOD 1: Blog Posts
TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS: 10 points (per blog)
Write about Lifetimetextlink.com. The context of the blog post must be related to SEO, directories, online marketing, or building links. You may include upto 5 links in each post. You get 2 points when you link to our homepage (here), 2 points if you link to our “Contest” page (here), and 2 points for each additional “subpage” that you link to in your blog post (see below)

Example URLS to link to:
http://www.lifetimetextlink.com
http://www.lifetimetextlink.com/blog/contest/
http://www.lifetimetextlink.com/blog/
http://www.lifetimetextlink.com/buy_link/
http://www.lifetimetextlink.com/a/
http://www.lifetimetextlink.com/z/
http://www.lifetimetextlink.com/details/26/

To be qualified, your blog must have a pagerank of 1 or higher OR be older than six months as verified by Archive.org. Your blog must also be over 50% English in its entirety, and must not contain pornographic material, warez, hate crimes, indecent content or illegal information.

You may write in one or more blogs for additional points as long as the blog posts are different context and contain different links (exceptions: each post can have one link to the homepage for 2 points).

METHOD 2: Add us to del.icio.us.
TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS: 10 pts
Simply add our homepage and up to 9 additional pages from our site to del.icio.us. 1 point per unique page submitted.

Only one del.icio.us account per user may be submitted.

METHOD 3: Stumbleupon
TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS: 5 pts
Using StumbleUpon.com’s toolbar, go to www.lifetimetextlink.com and click “I like it” to add it and up to 4 other sub pages (any page) of our site as your favorites. 1 point per stumble.

Only one stumbleupon account per user may be submitted.

METHOD 4: MySpace
TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS: 10 pts
Visit our MySpace page! Add us as a friend to your myspace page for 3 points. Add a text link in your profile for another 2 points.

Place any one of of these images in any area of your profile for another 5 points.

<a href=”http://www.lifetimetextlink.com”><img src=”http://www.lifetimetextlink.com/images/textlink-logo.jpg” alt=”Lifetime Textlinks” border=”0″ /></a>

<a href=”http://lifetimetextlink.com/blog/contest/”><img src=”http://www.lifetimetextlink.com/images/contest-banner.jpg” alt=”Lifetime Textlinks Uber Giveaway!” border=”0″ /></a>

<a href=”http://lifetimetextlink.com/blog/contest/”><img src=”http://www.lifetimetextlink.com/images/contest.gif” alt=”Lifetime Textlinks Uber Giveaway!” border=”0″ /></a>

METHOD 5: MyBlogLog
TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS: 5 pts

Visit our MyBlogLog community. Join the community for 5 points.

METHOD 6: By A Lifetime Textlink
Just Kidding! While you get a ton of value from our links, and they do last a lifetime, there is no purchase necessary to participate in this contest. Please see the rules below.

There is no need to register for this contest. Using a combination of search engine metric tools that are available to the public, and our own analytics, we will automatically be detecting any entries that are made. But, should you prefer to make sure we know about your entries, please feel free to contact us at anytime with the following information:

1. Where your blog review with its links are.
2. Your del.icio.us username.
3. Your StumbleUpon username.
4. Your MyBlogLog.com username.
5. Your MySpace page.

Please also include the best way for us to contact you should you be the winner.

Official Rules of this contest are:

1. No purchase necessary. Purchasing a link in our directory is not a requirement to participate in this drawing. Chances of winning are dependent on amount of entries recieved. Current estimations are Grand Price, Second Price and Third Prize (1:2000), and Fourth through 10th Prize (1:200);
2. Participants must be located in a country where the both the PS3 and Xbox 360 are being sold in retail stores in order for us to be compliant with customs and shipping.
3. All entries must be made in English. All points must be acquired from English speaking sites and social profiles.
4. Users must be over the age of 13 to participate.
5. Points and point accrual are not true indicators of winning chance percentages. Each point will be submitted into a drawing and the winners will be drawn at random. You can win whether you have 1 point or 100 points.
6. Winners will be contacted and given 3 days (72 hours) to respond. Should a winner not respond in the given time period, a final warning will be sent and the winner will have another 24 hours to respond. If after 24 hours we still haven’t heard from the winner, we will contact runners-up(s) and award the prizes.
7. We reserve the right to modify rules and terms to be compliant with regulatory boards. We will only make such modifications if we are required by a governing body to do so. We will not modify these rules otherwise.
8. We reserve the right to decline entries and applications based content, fraud, cheating, spam abuse, or any other reason we deem necessary.
9. For a list of winners (we plan on listing them on our blog) please contact us through our contact form.

The drawing dates are still to be determined. Rather than having to constantly update the date, we will announce the date of the drawing on the blog once we have finished the upgrades to the site and the prize fund has been filled by our directory advertisers. To get instant updates, please subscribe to the blog RSS feed.

Thanks and good luck!