UPDATE MAY 1ST: Congratulations to mjesales (Matt Ellsworth) who won the April link giveaway.

Once again we’re giving away a link for a month on PlugIM. For the entire month of April, every time you contribute to the PlugIM.com community you increase your odds of winning. Every post, comment or plug from April 1st through the 30th counts. At the end of the month, we’ll tally everyone’s points, and for each point you have, you’ll receive 1 entry in the drawing (which will be done electronically). Here are the point values:

• Every news post: 2 points
• Every vote (plug): 1 point
• Every comment: 10 points!
• Mention PlugIM in a blog post: 50 points! (Must post a link to the blog entry in the comments of this post.)

So if you make 5 comments and post 10 news stories in April you’ll have 70 entries in the drawing.

Why are comments worth so much more? Simple, the goal is to get more conversation going on the stories that are submitted. My personal request: please don’t just post every internet marketing related story you can find on the web. Don’t plug every story that’s submitted. And don’t make comments on every story such as “Wow, that’s really cool” or “Awesome info, thanks for sharing!” While these comments may in fact be true, the goal of this giveaway isn’t to encourage spamming, it’s to encourage constructive participation. I have no easy way of policing this, so I ask that everyone play responsibly.

Now for the prize details:

• 1 Month Front and Center on 8000+ Pages of PlugIM.com
• Your Choice of Anchor Text
• Direct Link – No nofollow tag – No redirects
• Google PR 4 – Alexa Rank 22,294
• $60 Value! (Current package price through Text-Link-Ads)

A few key points of interest:

• No points will be awarded for comments or stories that are deleted
• The winner’s text link will be displayed during the month of May
• Text links may not promote gambling, alcohol or tobacco, firearms, adult sites, gambling sites, etc.

If you don’t win, or don’t want to wait to get your link on PlugIM, just go to Text-Link-Ads and search for PlugIM. If you’ve never used Text-Link-Ads before, clicking on this link will get you $100 off.