Would a search engine penalize a site for hosting a SEO Contest that requires the competing sites to link to the host site? I thought it was an intriguing idea that I could potentially put into action, but I wondered if I would get in trouble with the search engines (particularly Google). Any input is appreciated. Thanks.
I thought Google will penalize them, or not? Because I have being seen until now that there is not single contest during this second semester of 2010 Promojunkie lists 2 contests that has ended: stationary bikes and eiknujomorp Anyone could tell me which SEO contests are running now?
There are no real SEO secrets Google has secrets. It won’t tell you its exact ranking formula because otherwise Bing and Yahoo could quickly catch up. On the other hand SEO secrets are really rare. Most SEO knowledge is readily available. Google itself offers basic SEO advice and lots of free SEO tools that are enough for most average webmasters. You just have to research a little more to find out about advanced SEO techniques. There are no real SEO secrets. Even black hat SEOs share their insights on blogs and forums.
I have never heard of any SEO contest taking place and I don't think that such things exist. If however it is true then it would be really something to look forward to don't you think?