I happened to look at Google at the wrong moment this morning. Only 12,000 not over 500,000 entries for Nigritude Ultramarine. Ahhhhhh!!! Then the next moment there is 379,000. Still not back to over 500,000 as I write this piece. The craziness of the market leader Google that we all love and hate. Why enter this competition, yes me new mate Sarah put it very well. The thrill of the chase. I prefer to be part of the competition by helping other sites, then earning links from them, rather than going hard out creating blogs or spamming wikis. If I can befriend one person and get lotsa links from them. Then with that new friendship I have the potential for future link partnerships with any new business endeavour. There are now a number of other websites that are ranking top of the world for particular terms as a result of the advice and links I have given over the last month. I have got more contacts regarding SEO/link partnerships in the last month, than I have had in the last two years of link and PR gathering. What a better way of getting PR into a site than being part of this competition. I know I have done well with my Auckland Restaurants site, but how good am I against the whole world. Good enough to be in the top 30 so far, and we'll see what happens for the second stage of the competition. How do you get your name out there apart from living on the edge with this competition. Thanks to Blue Falcon I have got my name mentioned around the world. I could not have hoped for better publicity. So how about that for good reasons.
First half ended today at 0900 GMT - the DP/SEO/etc. team didn't fare too well (on the 2nd page of Google) ... but the second half runs until July 7th, so we'll see how that fares ... good luck Zoolie. alek
we finished #19. pretty good considering we have pr0. hopefully we pick up some pagerank more appropriately based on all the nice linkage we are getting from our supporters. the finale date is july 7. anyone who would like to help us out is invited to link to our page: 'http://www.nigritude-ultramarine.com/nigritude-ultramarine/nigritude-ultramarine.asp' use the link text: 'nigritude ultramarine' if you link to us...let me know and i will add you to our nigritude ultramarine support page. the nigritude ultramarine seo dream team will rule the second half!
Up, up and away............ --oh, that's superman.... close enough right, relax=superman in the seo (white hats)realm.
Here is Zoolie's nigritude ultramarine entry - I just reloaded Google and it's now #18 ...so maybe I hit a data center that has some updated results coming soon! ;-) alek
we keep getting more and more support linkage. thanks to everyone who has pm-ed me about links to our contest page. that is so cool! july 7 is the finale deadline. so please send those links if you can. thanks! this is the url: 'http://www.nigritude-ultramarine.com/nigritude-ultramarine/nigritude-ultramarine.asp' the link text of course is: 'nigritude ultramarine'
Relaxzoolander may be high, but the Time2Dine gourmet entry is neck and neck. Every time I press refresh the rankings are different, sometimes me ahead, other times Relaxzoolander. Remember that when you link to Time2Dine, you get links back from me, and free SEO advice on how you can get your own pages ranking higher (max 1 hour, more if PR6 site or higher).
t2dman, But when you link to: http://www.nigritude-ultramarine.com/nigritude-ultramarine/nigritude-ultramarine.asp you link to the best.
The best spammer. If I was looking for a site and it was overloaded with keywords like that I wouldn't stay on the page. I'd be gone in an instant. Good SEO is about pages that work for both bots and humans. After all, humans are the only ones with credit cards!
Hi Sarah, Even Digital Point is part of this spam. Check the footer here at Digital Point. Is Shawn a spammer? It is a good natured contest between SEO's. You should add a sig link too!
Sig and normal links are one thing, (I give 4270+) but if you want to showcase your seo skills then it's more than links. The page you're linking to has to be of value or the whole exercise is pointless. Some of the competing pages are great, inventive mockups. I just don't think yours is. As the great All Black Eric Rush would say "it's just one (wo)man's opinion".
HEY ... since we're talking about "great" pages, what about the entry from the Nigritude Ultramarine Hulk! ;-)
T2Dman and N.U Dream Team are both on the front page in my results at the moment. It is dancing around a bit though. Maybe you're right Alek - a sign of things to come?
Dancing is an understatement - when I just checked, Zoolie's entry was #9 ... but I reloaded a few minutes later and it dropped back to #18 ... then back up to #15 - checking from Colorado, USA. alek P.S. Zoolie: I still have a possible Hulk-Bomb that might help you - send me a PM when/if you are ready for it.