Hey HrTroy - can't wait for the results - the 1st page of google - alot of moving going on today...will, be interesting - one hour i;m in top 10, next hour not.... Once this is done- on to the next SIMILAR CONTEST - $1200 7 day deal! http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=741579 is the link...AND this time I won't start 2 days too late! seems to make the difference!
Troy! Noo!! Don't end it now!!! NoooO!!!! My site has not recouped from its robots.txt malfunction! I only said this cause I can see you're reading the thread.
I have been debating on how to move foward with this contest...... I did not have enough winners.....though all the bonuses were won except the #1 place.......it looks like google filters kicked in and deleted alot of your listing. I had alot of messages saying they wished they had more time......so I am going to give some more bonuses if anyone is still interested in trying to push theres to the top. I am extending the next check time until april 7th Any site that is in the top 10 will recieve $50 bonus This should allow enough time for the listings to settle down a little....and maybe not be as filtered I am not sending out any new details......already enough people have entered and maybe some of you who have already did the work can get the bonus without having to do anything extra. Hope this sounds fair to everyone
Awesome, Hey I threw about 12 urls on my hosting plan with my site and didn't notice google came thru and saw 12 copies of my site(new urls pointed at base directory). Punted all my pages with the -30 penalty for about 14 days now. I cleared it up and look to be ranking again. I will definitely try to boost it to #1. I am on g's 1 week bot checks so well see what happens. No filters got me just stupidity, lost more on affiliates for 14 days then I care to .
So Is this contests still on? Let me get this clear...If by April 7th you have a site and it ranks on the first page for the specific seo term, the winner(s) gets $50.00! Clarify please...Troy...
I believe he extended the contest for the original entrants, since several said they needed more then a week to rank. He also mentioned not sending out the details for the any new entrants, maybe he will reconsider.
You are exactly correct....... and the reason im not taking anymore people is......i did pay out all the first bonuses but only 4 people won in the first, but i saw google filter alot of people sites at the last moment. The listing were actually changing by the hour and google was filtering it hard. That is why I added the if you are in the top 10 on apr 7th....the $50 bounuses to give everyone who made sites a chance for google to calm down ......and since we already had enough people.....i thought it would be fair for everyone who had sites. I also might even make it another month after this one. also
there is lot of time still until april 7 two of my sites are on the top spot .. i will make another one and take it on the top page again.. its enjoying on participating in dis kind of contest and you will really learn a lot on this.. and making you to rank in only seven days.. too bad i didn't join in the first week of this contest.. but i was in another DPer's seo contest and I made 4 of my sites in the top page within seven days.. now my the DPer who made that contest offer me some SEO job and rank a site in the top page.. I hope HRtroy that you can also offer this in your participants