at the end of the contest we will check the backlinks the categories of the winning directories have, and see who the owners are.
Title "Directory Contest", "DirectoryContest.com" or "Directory Contest - DirectoryContest.com" Description can be anything. You can use http://www.directorycontest.com in it, but only once!
and what if I tell another owner to blog about it.. nobody would notice it was me,, (I am just telling al this so that u prevent it, I am not gonna do it)
Another thing, can we create a new category for this? I mean a category with the title we have to rank for.
which is exacly why initially I didn't think a rule was going to be easy to enforce. I will have to give it a little more thought on how to control it. But where I stand right now, is that getting additional links into it, is against the rules. otherwise it will be an seo contest.
No, you can create a new category, but it can't be titled the same name of our site (Good questions and suggestions!)
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I think it should be understood that this is not an seo contest. Like I said before, they want to see a directory that can just rank on it's own without the help of other links pointing to it. What that does is tell you how powerful of a page your site is on, if a page can rank without any backlinks pointing to it then without question you are listed in a very powerful directory. So again I would agree that pointing links to the page to boost up rankings would be unfair for this kind of contest. You get one link and one page to work with, if the page you place the link on is not good enough then it is not going to rank, if is good then you should be able to get to the top ten.
yes it would, which is why this kind of search should be used in order to find the winner. I'll use my own site as an example "index-it.net" -site:index-it.net what this does is only show links pointing to the site, not links that are part of the actual site.
So, I suggest you don't worry about it and just worry about the continued building and improvement of your directory.
Nice contest. So to clarify, if the listing is in Blog category, it's ok to build backlinks to it using "blog" related anchor text, but it's not allowed to use "directorycontest.com" as an anchor text. You cannot list the directorycontest.com in "Directory Contest" category. Correct? You guys really need to think through the contest again, and clarify the rules.