Which method to get to Top 10 Google- Use SEO freelancer or start a Contest?

Hi
Need to get on Top 10 Google for keyword that has 68 Million results.
Which is best method (in terms of price and results)- Use SEO freelancer or start a contest?
SEO Freelancer
Put up this project in a freelance site ( like our site www.goforfreelance.com ) and let the freelancers bid and then select.
Disadvantage with this is that you do not know what you are getting as the winner is picked before project is completed.

Contest
Was thinking of starting a contest and shortlist maybe 3 people to compete to achieve Top 10 results. The winner win $$ and bragging rights/ free promotion. This is also more viral.
In such as contest, what would be minimum prize to offer for winner?

Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers!

 

I didn't understand how are you going to do this contest thing
you have one website that you want to promote
if you will get it to the top 3
how will you know which seo did it?

 

Would buy 3 new domains and give 1 domain to each one to work on

 

that contest is a good idea,how much would you be willing to pay for someone to move you into top ten google rank? That is how you should decide

 

A contest would be the best, but you need "real money in escrow" to get the best to to play. Otherwise, you will just get the beginners.

What keyword(s) are you going to target?

 

I'd like to see you work out the details a bit more for the contest, but it's an interesting idea and worked really well for SEOMoz. You'll be targeting a lot of young SEOs that's for sure.

 

good point!

 

Hmmm.. I am a poor man so have a small budget. Was looking at total prizemoney $300 - 1st prize $200/ 2nd prize $70 / 3rd prize $30
What do you think? Keywords will be telecom or travel related for a start.
If necessary, I can put the money in escrow in freelance sites like getafreelancer.com or in our own freelance site www.goforfreelance.com

Prize money is not a lot but not looking for the top experts but the younger freelancers who want to show their abilities

 

get on Top 10 Google for keyword that has 68 Million results. - prizemoney $300 - 1st prize $200/ 2nd prize $70 / 3rd prize $30 ????


good luck with that bud

 

LOL - oh man today is funny .. im glad i came on here LOL
If you find somebody , tell them i would like top 10 on 136 million keyword for ...(drum roll) $600! dollars (puts pinky finger to corner of mouth ..like Dr Evil) ohh man ..make it stop

I'ma Borat and i say i do you webber sites for a chicken and a donkey.. make that two chickens ..and i do

 

i'm new to the game but even i know those offers are waaay to low.

 

yeah, and any SEO person is going to be able to look at what youre doing on your site, what youre selling etc. Estimating the popularity of the keyword you want , and the competition - (check visitors stats to any competition site in top 10) you will be able to see how much that top 10 is worth or should be worth to any site owner.

If youre selling african elephants plus shipping by freight. Then obviously i would assume anyway, youre not moving alot. But say t-shirts or some specific search term product, or a website that has advertisers and the traffic coming to your website is worth somethin fancy and could be guestimated with pretty decent accuracy. Seeing as how high search listing can last at least 3 to 6 months sometimes.. thats 1 african elephant at $150,000 , subtract 50% = $75,000 per month -- over estimated (might as well make it on the high side of success assumption) 6 months . Ok you pay
$450,000 and you get high search listing. Once you get traffic that comes to your site, it will forget you exist -- so you need fancy pages that keep customers like a forum on how to care for your new 4 ton pet. what kinda food, temperatures, ..should you allow your elephant to rub itself on the couch during aggressive season? lol

Oh btw.. check out your competition.. they're checking you out al lthe time. and keep in mind that if its a large site with heavy funding and they have top 10 rankings, then you can assume they probably have a large team devoted to SEO - they might get paid in the 5 and 6 figures or in chicken and donkeys ,I dont know .. but, consider your key words. Check your competition - strategize.

It aint over till the fat lady sings ! ..if you see that our targeted key word is being annihilated by supe rheavy weight multi-million dollar companies ..dont run away yet! let me do that first and you get the next boat LOL ..just kidding.
Strategize a new way. If you cant get that direct, get it another way. Can your company or the company you do work for create something? remember the beanie babies? Imagine if some company creates something like that, it takes #1 search rankings and is the sole copyright / trademark holder on the name / product . People come to find THAT-- and ends up, you ALSO provide, sell, etc the stuff your competition was selling. Everyone will want in on your craze.
and once you get them there , give the ma free African Eelephant or somethin to keep them coming back? put the shipping in fine print? lol i dont know

 

Your up against 154 million competitors buddy. A total pay of $600 an't going to cut it. I would charge you about $12,000 flat fee for that keyword, 6 months results.

 

make a contest here on dp, make it so that if you wanted to enter the contest you needed to get 100 uniquie ip links to the site, then once you have got a hundred entries you can make it a "most links wins" with a top 10 of winners, it would be hard to reffere the links but it could be interesting way.

 

Your funny invest money to get top10 in that market

If you are intrested for a quote we can discuss ....

But cheap and me don't get along
But profesional and ethical and me ar good friends

 

Ya, ezprint2008 and stevefox...it ain't african elephants or North Pole aadvarks. If they were, wouldn't need any help would I ? lol

Richuser, It also isn't very difficult premium words so with the $12,000 you quoted, can make higher returns from it than the returns from getting top 10 on these keywords. I can do it myself for half your fee lol

 

Thanks, sweetlouise! That is a good idea. Have given you rep points

 

One of your competitors has 33k backlinks, 12 years old and a PR6.

 

How much time and budget you havet o rank top 10 out of 68 ml

 

Let me give you a little little little little little tip.. navigate to the 20th page or 30th, and as you might see, most of the million results are duplicate.

There is no such thing as 68 million site competition.

Cheers!