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SEO contests are increasingly being used to test the patience of Google (the usual focus) and the skills of the internet marketing community as they try to flex muscle and prove they have what it takes to be #1.
I’m not watching all of them but v7n’s v7ndotcom elursrebmem or “v7ndotcom membersrule” has caught my attention and I’m throwing what influence I have behind Alek’s campaign to raise funds for Celiac Research through his innovative v7ndotcom elursrebmem webcam site.
Affiliations are critical, and we’re seeing link building as being a key component, more so, it seems, than traditional onpage optimisation. There is the expectation that in the final days that high ranking sites will use 301 redirects to the “group leader” which effectively combines all the sites into one. Personally I don’t see the 301 strategy as being terribly helpful to understanding how to rank well as they are only used when moving from domain to domain or merging sites - not a standard practice.
For more info on the contest, which finishes on May 15, read this forum post: Contest Keywords Announcement
You can check out some of the other players at v7ndotcom elursrebmem contestants and the Technorati tracker v7ndotcom elursrebmem
Oh, and we’ve been having some fun with mockup images too I went for a bottle of wine 
Articles:
- University of Maryland Medical Center: Search Engine Optimization Contest May Pay Off for the Center for Celiac Research and again on the main University site.
Well, it’s all over now, and the team came 4th which was a massive result. We’re looking now at the carcasherdotcom seocontest with the Celiac Charity as the benefactor.
I’ve created a new place to post about it: Fun and SEO Games
Yup. It will be very interesting to see how this goes. Good luck to you! I will head over to your directory and register my blog now.
Comment by basicus — January 16, 2006 @ 11:08 am
It seems to be very good… Good luck Sarah!
Alain
Comment by Crazy — January 16, 2006 @ 11:26 am
Yes, very interesting to see and seems to be good and funny
I have learned some hours ago from Digg.com about this contest, while I was submitting my Blog and because of Joomla update. I have laughed, because so many of them are there digging there and has now a “Spam” Comment and they are “Reportet”
I have seen now about this contest all over the Internet, Blogsearch, Google Base, Digital Point Forums, Google News……everywhere all over the Internet.
Good Luck to you and all!!!
Wally
Comment by Wally — January 16, 2006 @ 12:24 pm
v7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO contest?
Apparently there’s a contest going around on the keywords V7NDOTCOM ELURSREBMEM, which involves not only a lot of tricks on Google, but some very odd pages and domains being registered. You can read more about their contest on the v7n forums,…
Trackback by Elliott Back — January 16, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
I got asked to help some people. I guess I better learn some SEO. I mean wtf? Who’d ask for my seo help. They must have been impresed with me being number 1 for “angry cat video”.
Comment by Hodgedup — January 16, 2006 @ 1:51 pm
Shhh… do you guys want to have us all caught? If we keep quiet and not talk about “v7ndotcom elursrebmem” they just might leave us alone.
$10,000 to the first person to bring me the head of v7ndotcom elursrebmem on a platter. Not really. But is still want it head. I’ll mount it on my wall.
Comment by David Pogson — January 16, 2006 @ 2:39 pm
Whats all this V7NDOTCOM ELURSREBMEM about? Is it a form of dislexia? I have no idea, I just thought it was mumbo jumbo. Well good luck and all that!
Did someone say there is an SEO contest on? what do you do with one of those?
Comment by David aka "duenna" — January 16, 2006 @ 2:58 pm
Thanks for visiting my blog, Sarah. I came to see yours.
Maybe we can all end up winners after the experience
of the contest. We are talking together and that’s a
good thing. See you on Google!
Comment by Cheryl — January 16, 2006 @ 3:58 pm
This is starting to be fun
Thanks for posting on my blog Sarah…
Good luck
NeO
Comment by NeO — January 16, 2006 @ 5:10 pm
Yeah, this is gonna be fun! There is already more than 15 contestants in the SERPs! Good luck to both of us! PS: Sarah, how did you find my blog, I’ve seen that you posted a comment?
Comment by Nadir — January 16, 2006 @ 6:37 pm
Nadir - I’m chasing Google’s blog search tool. The main google wasn’t giving results but it was. It picks up blogspot blogs very quickly
Comment by sarahk — January 16, 2006 @ 8:07 pm
This is really funny, Google is serving up two ads when I search for v7ndotcom elursrebmem - but no results. People in America are getting results, but not us poor old Kiwis! What gives Google, our data centres don’t get the good stuff?
Atleast Yahoo is on the ball!
Comment by sarahk — January 17, 2006 @ 11:16 am
sarahk i see you everywhere, he he he Google Bombing.
Comment by sagbee — January 19, 2006 @ 11:06 pm
Good luck.
My webpage is http://planet.nana.co.il/v7ndotcom-elursrebme/
Comment by Eran — January 20, 2006 @ 3:04 am
Good luck with it Sarah. FYI: This is one of the few pages that garnered a PR6 (it’s in the top 10 pages by PR over at nichedynamics Movers & Shakers)..
I’m still trying to figure out who Sebastian Shmieg is though
Oh yeah.. regarding the badges: When they’re generated, the referrer data is checked first, then if there’s no referrer, they operate from the URL arg that’s passed.. which is why both badges are showing the same rank. The score cards operate differently and allow the URL to take precedence.
Just thought I’d better let you know in case you’re behind a firewall and not passing referrer data (in which case they would look normal to you)
Cheers,
JL
Comment by John Loch — February 22, 2006 @ 3:25 am
Woops, my mistake, looked down the page and saw the theme creator and thought it was the site owner. I’ll correct it now
Comment by sarahk — February 22, 2006 @ 7:17 am
I hope that John wins, he’s not the avergage spammer and he doesn’t abuse the charity card to get links
Comment by Mike Dammann — February 23, 2006 @ 5:40 am
Oh Mike, harsh call. Hulk’s been about for a long time and consistently working to raise awareness of the charity. I can’t see it as abuse, it’s a strategy and not one that will profit him any time soon.
Comment by sarahk — February 23, 2006 @ 5:43 am
Normally I would balk at someone using the charity angle (in this context), but a lot of people seem to forget what motivates him isn’t the competition, it’s his kids.
I’m a dad myself, and well, I just can’t fault the guy for it.
On the merits of that alone, I’d actually be quite chuffed to see him win (but don’t tell him that)
PS Mike, thanks again for the link
Cheers,
JL
Comment by John Loch — February 23, 2006 @ 7:12 am
thanks sarah..
i saw your post on my blog.. returning the favour.. btw.. my blogs now PR 4
pete
Comment by v7ndotcom elursrebmem pete — February 23, 2006 @ 10:53 pm
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The Contest is over - congratulations to all the winner!
Thanks for the Link Sarah, my Blog has PR5 now
Iam No. 30 - good
Comment by Wally — May 16, 2006 @ 11:17 am
But Wally, how can you capitalise on that PR5? After all your blog name looks kinda sad now doesn’t it?
Comment by sarahk — May 16, 2006 @ 11:23 am
True, thats exactly the point I hate
Too bad I can not change the Blogname.
But ok, maybe I can put links from my other sites on that blog - nothing more.
Have a nice Day,
Bye Wally
Comment by Wally — May 21, 2006 @ 1:04 pm