
The Real Winner in the Isulong SEOPH Contest
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A comment by Alfredo at Junelle Caravana’s Isulong SEOPH Mechanics and Prizes page offers the view that the true beneficiary of the Isulong SEOPH contest is one of the prize donors.
Afterall, contestants are required to put a link to Lakesidesql.com, using various anchor text links. Lakesidesql is awarding cash prizes, yet a lot of sites (even those not among the top 10 sites listed in Google for the term isulong seoph) will be providing one-way backlinks to Lakesidesql between now and September 29, 2006.
If you check the pagerank of Lakesidesql right now, it’s still at PR0. Let’s check in September and see what happens to PR when a bunch of new and unrelated sites (domain names registered in the year 2006) throw up various backlinks to this company. Will pagerank go up or remain the same?
Since Lakesidesql.com was registered on May 31, 2006 and since it takes a site about 4 months to reach a pagerank of PR4, Oct 1st would be a good day to test Alfredo’s view.
Perhaps it would be even more successful if the contest allowed only sites centered around a particular theme. For example, the prize donor could be a veterinarian, and the contest could be open only to those sites that talk about dogs or cats. In that case, a backlink to the vet’s site along with anchor text links related to dogs, cats or pets will have a greater contributory effect to the donor’s site.

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"The Real Winner in the Isulong SEOPH Contest"
First Posted: June 12, 2006 | Filed in: General

We all knew that was going to happen coming into the contest. It is still A BONUS prize, and not really a requirement. As you mentioned, Lakesidesql is getting backlinks.. but from unrelated sites. It could probably just hurt the website in the long run.
The best SEO contest ever would be to make it to top 1 Google SERP when searching the term “Google”. What do you think?
Jozzua, you’re right… it’s just a bonus. I guess my Pinoy mind automatically treated it as a requirement.
Alfredo, I wonder how many would be willing to join that particular contest…
hala … he he he … i was just curious why this site had a link to my site… now I know… this article is for me… SIKAT NA AKO>>> YEHEY … I AM SOOO HAPPY!!! (Intiendes)
i used to rank #1 with the keywords search engine optimization and offshore search engine optimization before in google with just plain and simple directory submissins as a method of linkbuilding.
i wonder what would happen if i decided to join the Isulong SEOPH contest? Hmmmm….i smell something fishy here. “at prito pa” sa sariling mantika. wahehehehe.
[From Manuel] Hi, Sam! Why not join the “ituloy angsulong” contest and test the performance of Directory Submissions?