The SEO Contest Winners Announcement

[stoner3221]

Congratulations to all the winners. This was a great contest that I seriously doubt will be duplicated in size for quite some time.

[John Scott]

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-05-15-n45.html <- Go, read.

[DarrenC]

Congrats! It was an interesting competition towards the end - alot of movement.

I don't think a great deal was learnt SEO wise - other than the coop is a powerful marketing tool - would be interesting to know how many of the top 5 sites used COOP

Time will tell if Google or any other search engine react negatively to this type of link building.

So what have we learnt from the competition?

[Nawigator]

Originally Posted by toms

From there impossible to catch a DC without web-marketing.pl in top ten ????

I have good luck in Google... From #5 to cosmos. A few minutes...

Congratulations to the winners! Congratulations to all!!!

[Marcus_Westberg]

Great stuff!

Congratulations to the whole top 10 ranked sites!
I know it´s not easy to rank that high!
I placed nr 5 and I am very happy with that

Thank you everyone who linked to me and helped me out!

[Eclipsis]

Nawigator, we all know that you did well on this contest (as on others), that is the most important! Congratulations!

[Sid]

Thanks John for this funny and biggest contest.

It was cool to play with cream of the seo of the world.
Congratulations to all competitors and hope that will play again soon on Google next time !

[stoner3221]

Originally Posted by DarrenC

Congrats! It was an interesting competition towards the end - alot of movement.

I don't think a great deal was learnt SEO wise - other than the coop is a powerful marketing tool - would be interesting to know how many of the top 5 sites used COOP

Time will tell if Google or any other search engine react negatively to this type of link building.

So what have we learnt from the competition?

I used the contest for several directory link value tests and gained some valuable information from it. It was a good real time test that provided some valuable information.

[sixty6]

I literally forgot about this contest, the same thing happened in the Redscowl Bluesingsky SEO Contest too!

[hulkster]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

*Winners need to PM me their PayPal addies.

As noted on the page, any winning payments to 4th pace finisher Watching paint Dry should be made directly to the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research - here is their donation page.

They unfortunately do not take PayPal (I've suggested they add this option), but online credit cards or checks are accepted. I will work directly with them and ask them to update this page to reflect $$$ received.

And a special thanx to Scott at the winning page of VE.net who graciousely said back on January 17th that he would donate half to Celiac Disease if he won, and as updated on his page, he is working that transfer of funds - thanx Scott!

I've been with family most of the day and offline until now when I have a few minutes before I get on a plane, but great contest John and all that participated.

[Marcus_Westberg]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

I have sent the 1st place winner $3,000. There are addition prizes due from other parties, but winners will need to contact those other parties directly.

Curious here! where do we find these pages/people?

[John Scott]

http://www.v7n.com/forums/239718-post1.html

[paidhosting]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Damn, what a difference a few minutes make

Well guys dont you think thats its unfair that the result displayed is for May 14th and not May15th ? Anyone ever though of that date?

I am talking about this :

Originally Posted by Google

V7ndotcom Elursrebmem news, reviews comparisons and v7ndotcom ...
Things you should know about v7ndotcom elursrebmem, v7ndotcom have launched an SEO competition based on the keyword v7ndotcom elursrebmem.
www.v7ndotcomelursrebmem.net/ - 15k - 14 May 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

V7NDOTCOM ELURSREBMEM
V7ndotcom Elursrebmem for Celiac Charity , V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Contest.
http://www.watching-paint-dry.com/v7...m-elursrebmem/ - 40k - 14 May 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
This is a white hat V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Contest page, ... V7ndotcom Elursrebmem is a term used for a SEO contest started by John Scott from v7n ...
www.jimwestergren.com/v7ndotcom-elursrebmem/ - 129k - 14 May 2006 -

Notice the 14th may 2006. I think it would be fair if the date displayed was 15th may 2006 instead of 14th, but thats just my opinion.

Kudos to jim, now i can charge him more for hosting J/K

And congrats marcus hmm should charge him more too LOL. Good to know that my small time hosting serves 2 top seo Professionals ,maybe they can help this noob out in getting my site in top rankings too.

Congrats to all winners too.

[Eclipsis]

Originally Posted by paidhosting

Well guys dont you think thats its unfair that the result displayed is for May 14th and not May15th ? Anyone ever though of that date?

[...]

Notice the 14th may 2006. I think it would be fair if the date displayed was 15th may 2006 instead of 14th, but thats just my opinion.

Results cannot be given for a specific "cache" date, only a snapshot of Google results at a D-date. Don't you think?
Anyway, Google doesn't refresh all website's cache version each day, so it would be endless...

It's a good thing that rules didn't change that way, during the contest.

[wrmineo]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Damn, what a difference a few minutes make

I was getting ready to say the same thing! Way different results three different times today ... damn good show by all; kudos to Jim, Alek and all of the players who faired very well on good, ethical and even spirited campaigns!

[netsearch]

Congrats!

To everyone who made the first page this was a very hard contest to win I kept getting tossed into the penilty box every time I tried to make it to the first page. I think google has tightend up the penilty filters

[JakeCop]

7th??? Bum fluff.

Can we get some sort of official placement badges to sport with pride? 7th may not be in the prize money, but it's still something I'd like to shout about.

[John Scott]

Originally Posted by JakeCop

7th??? Bum fluff.

Can we get some sort of official placement badges to sport with pride? 7th may not be in the prize money, but it's still something I'd like to shout about.

I can have my graphic designer come up with some

[JuggoPop]

Here try these out.

120 x 60 badges:

[JuggoPop]

and one for people like me: