SEO Contests as a Career
- Posted by B Jones on January 24th, 2006 - Comment on this Post »
There is now yet another SEO contest. This one is hosted by CARCasher.com and is giving away a total of $14,000 in cash and prizes. This dwarfs the other SEO contests prizes.
This contest will last almost a full year. The contest starts February 1st, 2006 and ends December 31, 2006 (good attention span needed). Not only will a prize be given at the end, but mini cash prizes will be given at the end of every month to whoever is leading at the time. 1st place is the leader in Google, 2nd place is the leader in Yahoo, and 3rd place is the leader in MSN. This sounds fair to me.
With all the SEO contests going on right now, someone could really clean up if they were to win all 3 of them. It wouldn’t quite be enough to live on, but it would definitely pay a few bills.
Related links: v7n.com contest SEOlogs SEO Contest
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January 25th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
The contest rules state the following:
“No dirty SEO techniques! (read Google Webmaster Guidelines)
SEO’s caught using any of the following: doorway pages, spam, hidden links, etc. WILL NOT qualify for the prize, and the prize will go to the next best SEO.”
Give me a break… one man’s spam is another man’s technique. I don’t mean to sound negative… but while there are many things that 99%-100% would consider spam… and there are many things that 99%-100% would consider NOT spam…
…unfortunately, there is a HUGE gray area in between.
I think they’ve created a nightmare scenario… and I’d be reluctant to enter for fear that either:
(1) I’d lose for playing it too safe, while others trumped me with slightly-spamming, gray-hat techniques
..OR..
(2) I’d lose for not playing it safe enough… and getting disqualified over something minor.
…and BTW… I do agree with all of your previous posts that these contests really should require a newly registered domain.
–Rob McEwen
January 25th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Just to clarify… doorway pages, hidden links, hidden text… THAT stuff is almost always B&W… it is the external, incoming links that I’m referring to.
–Rob McEwen
January 25th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
pvsys - I totally agree. I think they just are setting up a case to not pay out. I have a feeling the white hat site that wins will be there own. What a great idea!
January 25th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
You can easily knock out the competition. Make a spammy site with there E-Mail address and report it on the last day of the month. If you’re in second place, you get the cash!!!
January 30th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Cool idea Nintendo. Luckily that won’t work with our own little (!) contest right here….
January 31st, 2006 at 4:06 am
So many contest, so little time. I have created a “view” (dashboard, newsmaster, prism, whatever) for tracking the various and multiplying seo contests here http://www.seodata.com/SEO-Contest/re-default.aspx
Thanks,
Mark.