UKWW Forums were promoting his event since long and finally we can see some actions now. I am writing this post on day six after initial observation of seocontest2008 proceedings. Basically these contests hold lot of fun, energy, and demonstration of skills by the contestants, but these contest are also controversial because:
It often leads to massive amounts of link spamming as participants try to boost the rankings of their pages by any means available. However UKWW have clearly indicated that any one using such techniques will not qualify for the contest.
UK webmaster world forums have announced the targeted keywords on 31st January midnight to kick-off this event. Within few minutes, as expected all the domains containing term “seocontest2008” becomes unavailable.
Since this contest will last for 2 months only, keyword rich domain gives a real head start. SE’s will not give any site an “authority status” in just 2 months, so keyword rich domains, URL are good to start with. Today Google is showing over 10,000 results and these domains are popping between top 20.
In short this contest will attract lots of buzz around web and it will end as most successful event. I wish Good Luck to all its organizers and participants.
**A Disclaimer: This post is not at all a seocontest2008 entry page neither this site is participating in contest, I am simply blogging about this important event.
For those like to know what SEO Contests are, I suggest you to read these resources:
1. Wikipedia Says: An SEO contest is an activity awarding prizes that challenges search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners to rank themselves among the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN using certain keyword(s). The organizing body of an SEO competition may hold the activity without promotion of a product or service in mind; or they may organize a contest in order to market something on the Internet… Read more at Wikipedia.
2. Anil Dash, winner of the first ever SEO contest says: “I’ve always had a pretty low opinion of the Search Engine Optimization industry. Though there are of course legitimate experts in the field, it seems chock full of people who are barely above spammers, and they taint the image of the whole group.” Learn more about Anil at Dashes!
You may also like to learn more about seocontest2008, Please refer to the following resources.:
1. After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. Says, Seocontest2008, an interesting site listing all about SEOcontest2008 rules, banners, news and followup’s.
2. Here is a link to organizers of this event, UK Webmaster World SEO Contest
If you like to participate or like to followup with contest, you may register to the UKWW Forums and enjoy the fun with SEO Contest 2008.
Enjoy!