sorry i didnt knew it was not allowed ;((( I have removed the sitewide listing now, Also please let me know if i do have any more mistakes in my entry. Amit I didnt knew about that as i did find some directories which gave their directory title as the contest keyword too. Edit: From what i read here it says we should not link from a sitewide link from the same directory, does this also include that i should not link to the entry page from any of my other sites? Please explain me this point.
Mike said that it's okay if you link from other sites but not atleast from your directory which is participating in contest.. Saad
Thanks dude for tha update, you guys made my BP go up Here is my view : You can link from any site of yours to the contest entry page , reason this is a contest and thats what any contest needs thats called link building, and in this contest i can see many contestants doing that. I Didnt knew about the sitewide link in the same dir, and i have removed that link though iam sure that helps a maximum of 1%, but still if thats the rule i dont want to break it. If you think you cannot outrank a directory because they do link building and you cannot do that then i guess any contest is lame(Mike your idea is cool) Another Contest Idea can be > You need to make a secret or underground submission of a website to all the top100 directories you know and see which directory ranks well without the directory owners to know that they are already into the contest. This can get you the real serps and you can know the value of the directory easily.Thought the contest staff need to invest some high money in the beginning but they can expect great and natural results from that, as the directory owners dont have any idea that they are already into a contest. At the end you can see that the best directory wins thing, and the winner who wins has a real quality directory. Sorry, but these are my views regarding a contest, and i hope someone will understand them and let me know if iam doing any more mistakes iwth my entry. Amit
LOL thats a REALLY FUNNY rule !!... Mike i suggest you to rethink on the TOC's of the contest... If any one can give an external sitewide link to the contest entry page then why not a sitewide from the same directory ?? Doesnot make any sense to me ... please correct me if i am wrong in my opinion.
Whether 'mistakenly' said to be done or not, breaking the rules deserves disqualification. hey, I murdered somebody by mistake. cool, since it was a mistake i don't have to goto jail. maybe in someone elses reality, but not in the real world. those aren't ideas, those aren't views, those are facts.
so, you mean what i said above is all wrong, and everyopne knows that the Best link building in a contest wins, and thats the fact, or else run a contest in the way i said. Amit
That is an anology geared towards rule breaking that is factual. Not 'viewed' nor 'suggested'. reread the post.
why not they will submit any of their best website / directory and promote it. Once the contest ends they can make money back by selling links too
You'd like that, wouldn't you? The truth is, that the rules have always been very clear. Just a few people are trying to cheat. I remember you trying to jump on the bandwagon by trying to trash this contest. Where are you in the results? Good luck with your directory, bro
Hmm, let me ask you this: I have been way lenient with the tactics used to rank. But when you use the keyterm directorycontest.com all over your own directory, whether it is in sitewide links or not, then you are giving Google the impression that this is what your site is about. That is clearly cheating. I am not really against sitewides, I am just against turning a directory contest into an seo contest farce. If you can't tell the difference, then you are definitorily in the wrong business.
I said it was a mess, period. I tried to offer my advice before the contest launched to try to explain things like this would happen and you didn't listen. I never jumped on any bandwagon, I offered sincere advice and you blew it off. Where am I in the results? I'm not participating. Nice try at a cheap shot. Don't call me out because of your frustration, especially when people tried to warn you of contest problems.
Your advice was worthless. Sorry to say that, but instead of trying to promote yourself by saying something negative, try coming up with something on your own
Ok Well I have been reading the thread since past time now, and well Blogmaster I just saw that amitpatel_3001 doesnt seem to have abide any of the rules. Means I dont see any Rules and Regulation here and besides I saw many direstories and one of them is sufidirectory.com which is ranking #4 at moment. And he was having the keyword directorycontest.com in the title of the website itself. So, doesnt that break rules???
I guess my opinion on the contest is this: Mike stated from DAY #1 that this is a contest to see what directories BENEFIT the listings within it the best. Soon afterwards, people tried to misconstrue the rules to make it an SEO contest. It seems to me that a great many people either have absolutely NO common sense, or they just want to see how far they can bend the rules. Why in the world would ANYONE think it should be ok to put a sitewide listing on their directory that points to the contest listing? That makes no sense at all. If it was something they did for EVERY listing in the directory, then it would be ok, but doing it for the sole purpose of winning the contest is CLEARLY not proving how their directory benefits normal listings within it. The point is that people are doing whatever they can to improve their rank for the contest listing. By doing so, they are disqualifying themselves, because they are doing things that benefit ONLY the contest listing, and not showing how they benefit normal listings in their directory. COME ON PEOPLE. How how do you plan to prove the quality of your directory, if you are doing SEO only on the contest listing.
Yes, sufidirectory should be dissqualified.Even i pmed owner of sufidirectory to fix it...but he said No, other directories are doing it... Saad