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SEO Contest 2008

By admin ⋅ March 8, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Wikipedia describe an SEO contest is an activity awarding prizes that challenges search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners to rank themselves among the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN using certain keyword(s). This type of contest is controversial because it often leads to massive amounts of link spamming as participants try to boost the rankings of their pages by any means available.

The organizing body of an SEO competition may hold the activity without promotion of a product or service in mind; or they may organize a contest in order to market something on the Internet. Participants can showcase their skills and potentially discover and share new techniques for promoting websites.

Some webmasters resort to spam, while others use white-hat optimization techniques, like providing good content covering the competition, or optimizing page titles. Most SEO contests expect people to optimize a single web page for a non-existent phrase of two silly words. The main reason for this is to keep existing web sites from getting a head start. But at the same time it makes sure that regular internet searchers won’t be bombarded with “spammy” results when searching the web for “regular” information.

Rules and limitations can make it harder to benefit from the ranking algorithm, including quirks, of the targeted search engine. For example, the January 2006 Redscowl Bluesingsky contest issued by seologs.com was open for new domains only. That meant that the contestants couldn’t benefit from the ranking advantage old web sites are thought to have over new ones. An example of that is the age advantage Anil Dash’ blog page had over the well-received but brand new Nigritude Ultramarine FAQ - respectively ended 1st and 6th in the Nigritude Ultramarine challenge. It was expected that the Redscowl Bluesingsky game would be won by a domain of the style “redscowl-bluesingsky.tld” - bound to attract natural links and to benefit from the fact that the URL is made up entirely of the search words.

BUSBY Web Solution is going to invite SEO specialists, guru’s, masters, authorities, hot shots and aces (and anyone else who thinks they may have a shot at the pot) to take part in our Busby Web Solutions Search Engine Optimisation Challenge that will be held on 1st May 2008, 12:00midday, Perth, Western Australia until 31st July 2008, 12:00 midday, Perth, Western Australia. The prize for this challenge is A$5,000 for 1st winner, A$2,000 for 2nd winner, and A$500 for 3rd winner.

The UK Webmaster World Community launch an international seo contest and the winner will receive $1000 and each 3 runners up will get $100. This competition start from 31st January 2008 to 1st of April 2008. The selected keyphrase to optimize is seocontest2008. The rules for this competition is :

• You may use a domain, folder, or sub domain as your optimised page with one criterion. The page must be brand new, no backlins no cached version
• Every optimisation techniques are allowed except cloaking, and hiding text. We will periodically compare the optimised pages with their cached version in order to discover the cloackers, hence we kindly ask you to avoid using any kind of noarchive meta tag
• No multiple entries are allowed - ONE URL per forum member
• Participants are allowed to change URL but with the same requirements - at the moment of registration new url can not have any cashed version or incoming links. Old URL will be removed from database and no longer allowed to be used.

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