Marie Haynes (Marie_Haynes) via Jon Cooper (@PointBlankSEO) posted on Twitter a screen shot of a business that banked on getting links from colleges, that had to shut down that business because these colleges would no longer link to these types of web sites.

Here is the web page describing why they shut down the program:

Here is a text copy:

The rest of the page describes the program that you can win “$2,500 award for each 250 essays submitted.”

Another example of a business based on Google’s PageRank model that closed down…

Forum discussion at Twitter.