A few days ago I posed that I had won several awards. Well sadly those awards are a scam.  They are trying to get people to push traffic to the website who awarded the awards.  After noticing other bloggers who have pulled the awards from their sites I have done the same. I do not feel that having those awards on the site makes me more or less credible. Also I am not going to willingly participate in a scam to get people to go to a website where they will be sold information and by buying the information have their personal info sold to hundreds of affiliate marketers and list sales companies. If you are planning a legit award or have one I apologize for my negative words and would love to be considered for your award however in the future I am going to be more leery of where the award comes from.

As the old saying goes if its too good to be true then it most likely is.

Happy Trails.

Adam

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