Yicrosoft Directory SEO Contest

Just thought of entering the Yicrosoft Directory SEO Contest as well with a Blogspot. Anyway I am not working much on the contest as i am bit busy with few projects these days.

Yicrosoft - Great name if Microsoft buys Yahoo

Role of Domain name in SEO

"a powerful domain name reflects a strong business image, and can significantly increase the effectiveness of your marketing efforts". - Wall Street Journal

defeinetly that is true, thats why major domain names have a extraordinary price tag. Domain name brokers such as Sedo reporting five figure $ for even any combination of 3 letter .com domain names proves that the domain market is a goldmine for the investers.

For example even in this SEOContest2008 competition where seo experts from all over the world trying to beat google to rank No1 for the keyword SEOContest2008 the competitors who do compete from a major Tld such as SEOContest2008.com, SEOContest2008.org got a leading edge, as the search engines give high points for having the exact keyword in the domain name. Most of the competitors was competing to register SEOContest2008.com, .info, .org, .net soon after the keyword was annouced on first of February. That shows how SEO guru's give prominence to the keyword in the domain name when it comes to SEO.

Tracking your Visitors in SEOContest2008

With the SEO Contest getting competitive each and every day with many competing for the highest spot in google for SEOContest2008, loads of SEO (both insite and external) is done for these pages. More than the competition i am doing this as a practice to brush up my SEO knowledge which i havent used much since last April. (thats when i left my job which was mainly about online marketing).

I am finding it bit difficult to do insite optimisation with blogger (may be because i am not used to blogger). Anyway im doing better than I thought with a Blogger address.
This site was in the first page of google for SEOContest2008 in the first day. Now droped to third page for keyword SEOContest2008 as I am not doing much link building.

As the competition goes on the top competitors will end up having sites which will draw thousands of visitors a day.
But how do you know how many visitors you get? Simply use a visitor tracking script. In my opinion Google Analytics is the best and its free. And thats what i am using in SEOContest2008

Google search for SEOContest2008 shows only 10 results

Google search for "SEOContest2008" displays only 10 results. i did couple of searches though out the day. Got bit different results each time. that means Google have indexed loads of sites who compete in the contest but displays only the best ten for some reason.

SEOContest2008 major TLDs are registered

got up this morning and thought of registering either SEOcontest2008.com or .net/.info/.org
but all are registered on 1st of February 2008, just before 4 hours
i would say that person who is competing with SEOContests2008.com/.net/.org/.info got a better chance of winning. though those are considered as new domains by google it will pickup well after few weeks (if the linkbuilding is good)

luckily with Google its not that bad, and the competition is based on google rankings
if with Live.com they give a lot more preference to the keyword in domain name.

SEOContest2008 Code to put into the Competitive Page

the following code needed to be put into the competitive page.

<a href='http://www.ukwebmasterworld.com/' target='_blank' user='YOUR NAME' >UK Webmaster forum seo contest</a>
(replace "YOUR NAME" with your actual forum user name)

This is not all of it. you need to register in the UK webmaster forum seo contest. They only accept 300 submissions for the competition. so hurry up if you are not yet registered.

winner selected by Google in SEOContest2008

Unlike the 2007 SEOworldchampionship which was aimed at selecting the winner from the rankings of google, yahoo and live; this SEOContest2008 will select the winner only by google.

"How will we determine the winner?
We won't, but the Google.com. On the 1st of April at 1pm (UK time) the result table will be updated last time requesting the http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=SEOContest2008&btnG=Search string and the 1st result will be the winner of the contest." - source UKWW

UKWW Contest keyword "SEOContest2008"

UKWW SEO competition keyword was revealed today. Pretty interesting topic to begin with. Here I will be posting loads of Tips on winning a SEO contest in the coming few weeks.

We might decide to give away free links to help you win the competition. So visit us back after few days. Good Luck !!!