Another SEO Contest: I couldn't resist

[jadibones]

Originally Posted by Wit

At least this one won't be competing for the same phrase, will it? Erm jadibones?

John, I bet you can turn the Webguerrilla stir-up into a good thing. After all, this was (partly) about publicity....

No. It will be a real word phrase with as close to 0 results in google as I can find.

[JohnScott]

Originally Posted by skitzzo

Hey, I was meaning to ask, I looked on your site but I couldnt find any rules etc for the competition. Are there any?

Just the ones stated in the first post of the SEO contest thread.

[JohnScott]

Originally Posted by jadibones

No. It will be a real word phrase with as close to 0 results in google as I can find.

Wondering why you require the contestant to use a newly registered domain?

Just curious.

And good luck with the contest

[toddieg]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Wondering why you require the contestant to use a newly registered domain?

i don't know either.. but if that was the requirement, i'd bet it would be a lot more difficult

[skitzzo]

That was actually something that Jadi and I discussed. This will make the contest more about your SEO ability. If nothing else, its an interesting twist that can seperate this contest from others...

[jadibones]

Originally Posted by skitzzo

That was actually something that Jadi and I discussed. This will make the contest more about your SEO ability. If nothing else, its an interesting twist that can seperate this contest from others...

Yeah skitzzo. Thanks for the input. It was a big help.

I know this may make less people enter, but I think that this is the only way that it can be fair.

I think it will a good way to learn more about how the sandbox works.

I mean for example. Matt cutts site is ranking higher than my own site (http://www.seologs.com/about.html) for a search for my name.

I know my site isn't optimized for my name, but his is no more optimized than mine is.

It also happens with [fake pagerank]. searchenginewatch.com , and several other sites that mention and link to seologs.com rank higher than seologs.

[Wit]

Heh ok,

I got up at 5:45 this morning* to set things up and I think I've got all the basics covered for now. Hmmm, now how to get loads of links....

* (thanks for that brilliant timing BTW jadibones nothing beats getting out of bed at 5:45am on New Years Day grrr.)

[jadibones]

You guys are going to have your work cut out... the .com of the contest keyword is already registered. It actually surprised me.

[Wit]

Duh.... got that at 0.01AM

[skitzzo]

i got the .org