SEO Contest suggest your own rules

[seorulz]

Another thought, why can the competition not be linked to say, Yahoo and MSN search also? As in, a site recieves bonus points for high postions there possibly.
OR, maybe Im just bonkers

[Resonate]

Originally Posted by seorulz

Another thought, why can the competition not be linked to say, Yahoo and MSN search also? As in, a site recieves bonus points for high postions there possibly.
OR, maybe Im just bonkers

It is been considered however a script to pull results for Google, Yahoo & MSN is a bit of a **** to get hold of.

[temi]

I think putting Yahoo and MSN result will be brilliant, I will see if we can find a way to pull the three results together to determine the winner, if we can find a way of working it out, we will use all three search engines to determine the winner in the next concept.

[Resonate]

We could do it based on a points system for the first 10 places in each search engine:

• 1st = 10pt
• 2nd = 9pt
• 3rd = 8pt
• 4th = 7pt
• 5th = 6pt
• 6th = 5pt
• 7th = 4pt
• 8th = 3pt
• 9th = 2pt
• 10th = 1pt

At the end of the contest positions arte taken from all three search engines & points are added depending on the members entry so if i got

1st in Google = 10pt
7th in Yahoo! = 3pt
2nd in msn = 9pt

So i would total of 22pts for my entry.

If we cant get a script, we could possibly do it manually from the given search string at the time, screenshot the top 10 results on the search engines

[temi]

I quite agree with this concept, if anyone can develop and application that will monitor, comput and execute the algorith below please let me know
Thanks

Originally Posted by Resonate

We could do it based on a points system for the first 10 places in each search engine:

• 1st = 10pt
• 2nd = 9pt
• 3rd = 8pt
• 4th = 7pt
• 5th = 6pt
• 6th = 5pt
• 7th = 4pt
• 8th = 3pt
• 9th = 2pt
• 10th = 1pt

At the end of the contest positions arte taken from all three search engines & points are added depending on the members entry so if i got

1st in Google = 10pt
7th in Yahoo! = 3pt
2nd in msn = 9pt

So i would total of 22pts for my entry.

If we cant get a script, we could possibly do it manually from the given search string at the time, screenshot the top 10 results on the search engines

[ced]

I took part in several seo contests, and I please the staff to choose easy rules :
- Google (others engines are capricious, and it's difficult to juge at the end of the contest)
- all kind of domains (young contestants don't like to buy a domain for that, and this contest prove we can win with a new domain, it's not so important).
- 3 or 4 months to let us the time to build a site and a strategy.
- As well, Make the announce of the contest sooner as possible.
- Autorise 301, black hat... and all that, because it is really hard to judge what's right and what's not ! Let google make his job, and it does ! Let us protect our site against attack !

So really thank for this contest, it was a pleasure and hoping you will hold a new contest next year !

[MES]

To be counted from Google, Yahoo, and MSN SERP... ? Hmm, I think it looks like globalwarming seocontest2007. It's better if we have something new and unique SEO contest.

Btw, I agree with all points from Resonate. I just want to add a sentence:
"You must do your SEO contest by yourself, without Team Support".

I think it is possible for each contestant to optimize their blogs without Team support. I don't say that having a team like Sphere Team or Phinoy Team is bad, but in my opinion I think it's better and more fair if we can fight alone as SEOer. That's my opinion. Thank you.

[temi]

MES,
I can see you point, perhaps there should be a team contest separately and individual contest separately.

Originally Posted by MES

Btw, I agree with all points from Resonate. I just want to add a sentence:
"You must do your SEO contest by yourself, without Team Support".

[MES]

Yes Temi, that's what I mean.

Thank you.

[Resonate]

Great idea but impossible to put into effect!

Who can tell if one entry is run by one or three people, i had no idea that sphere entry had 30 ppl in it. Theres just no way of telling.